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A column is a vertical structural element in architecture.
Column or columns may also refer to:
Art and entertainment
- Column (periodical), a recurring piece or article in a newspaper or magazine
 - "Columns" (How I Met Your Mother), a 2007 episode of How I Met Your Mother
 - Columns (video game), a puzzle video game
 
Computing, informatics and mathematics
- Column (data store), a NoSQL object
 - Column (database), a set of data values of a particular type in a relational database
 - Column(s) in a table (information), a data arrangement with rows and columns
 - Column vector, an m × 1 matrix in linear algebra
 - Miller Columns, the data tree structure visualization technique
 
Military
- Column (formation), a military formation
 - Flying column, a combined arms independent military formation of a temporary nature
 
Science
- Column (botany) or gynostemium, a part of an orchid
 - Column chromatography, a method used to purify individual chemical compounds from mixtures of compounds
 - Column-based nucleic acid purification
 - Cortical column, a group of neurons in the brain cortex
 - Fractionating column, an essential item used in distillation of liquid mixtures
 - Packed bed column, an apparatus used in column chromatography, absorption, scrubbing and distillation
 - Stalagnate (or pillar or sinter column), a limestone cave formation comprising a column from the ceiling to the floor
 - Vertebral column, a column of vertebrae situated in the dorsal aspect of the abdomen
 - Column (fluid dynamics), a vertical body of one fluid moving through another
- Eruption column, a cloud of super-heated material suspended in gases after a volcanic eruption
 
 
Other uses
- Columns (juggling), a juggling pattern
 - Column (typography), a vertical block of text positioned on a page
 - Columns of Gediminas, one of the earliest symbols of Lithuania and its historical coats of arms.
 - Fifth Column, group of people who undermine a larger group, city or nation
 
See also
- Collum (disambiguation), a neck or neck-like structure, also a surname
 - Columnar (disambiguation)
 - Column groups and row groups
 - Help:Columns
 - Template:Column
 - Template:Columns-list
 
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