title: Column (disambiguation)
text: # Column (disambiguation)
  
  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
  