# Poly

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**Poly**, from the Greek [πολύς](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%CF%80%CE%BF%CE%BB%CF%8D%CF%82) meaning "many" or "much", may refer to:

## Businesses

- [China Poly Group Corporation](/source/China_Poly_Group_Corporation), a Chinese business group, and its subsidiaries: - [Poly Property](/source/Poly_Property), a Hong Kong incorporated Chinese property developer - [Poly Real Estate](/source/Poly_Real_Estate), a Chinese real estate developer - [Poly Technologies](/source/Poly_Technologies), a defense manufacturing company
- [Poly Inc.](/source/Poly_Inc.), formerly Polycom, an American communications technology company

## People

See also: [Polly](/source/Polly)

- [Poly (footballer)](/source/Poly_(footballer)) (1906-1986), full name Policarpo Ribeiro de Oliveira, Brazilian footballer
- [Natasha Poly](/source/Natasha_Poly) (born 1985), stage name of Russian supermodel Natalya Sergeyevna Polevshchikova
- [Poly Styrene](/source/Poly_Styrene) (1957–2011), stage name of British musician Marianne Joan Elliott-Said
- [Poly Ugarte](/source/Poly_Ugarte) (born 1959), Ecuadorian politician
- [Poly Varghese](/source/Poly_Varghese) (born 1972), Indian musician

## Polytechnic

- [Hong Kong Polytechnic University](/source/Hong_Kong_Polytechnic_University), locally known as Poly
- [Polytechnic Heights, Fort Worth, Texas](/source/Polytechnic_Heights,_Fort_Worth,_Texas), neighborhood locally known as Poly
- [Polytechnic Institute of NYU](/source/Polytechnic_Institute_of_NYU) (now New York University Tandon School of Engineering), locally known as Poly
- *[The Rensselaer Polytechnic](/source/The_Rensselaer_Polytechnic)*, also known as *The Poly*, the student newspaper of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York
- [Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society](/source/Royal_Cornwall_Polytechnic_Society), a UK charity commonly known as "The Poly"
- Informal term for a [Polytechnic (United Kingdom)](/source/Polytechnic_(United_Kingdom)), type of tertiary educational institution

## Other uses

- [Poly (website)](/source/Poly_(website)), a website by Google
- [Polynesian](/source/Polynesians), often shortened to poly, as in ‘Poly people are also called “Pasifika” or “Tangata Moana” (people of the ocean)’
- [Polyamory](/source/Polyamory), often shortened to poly, as in 'poly relationship'
- [Polyethylene](/source/Polyethylene), often shortened to poly, as in 'poly gloves'
- [Polyspheric](/source/Polyspheric) or Poly, lower-cost V8 engines produced by Chrysler from 1955 to 1958
- [Storm Poly](/source/Storm_Poly), a [European windstorm](/source/European_windstorm) in 2023

## See also

- [Poly-1](/source/Poly-1), a 1980s desktop computer designed in New Zealand for educational use
- [Warren CP-1](/source/Warren_CP-1), also called Miss Poly, a 1929 aircraft built by engineering students at California Polytechnic College
- [Polly (disambiguation)](/source/Polly_(disambiguation))
- [Polygon (disambiguation)](/source/Polygon_(disambiguation))

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