PIN
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A pin is a device used for fastening objects or material together.
Pin or PIN may also refer to:
Awards, brooches, or fasteners
- Award pin, a small piece of metal or plastic with a pin attached given as an award for some achievement
- Bobby pin (also known as a kirby grip or hair grip in the United Kingdom), small double-pronged hair pin or clip, usually of metal or plastic, used in coiffure to hold hair in place
- Clevis pin, a three-piece fastener system consisting of a clevis, clevis pin, and tang, similar to a bolt
- Collar pin (closely related to the collar bar and collar clip), a piece of men's jewelry, which holds the two ends of a dress shirt collar together and passes underneath the knot of a necktie
- Drawing pin (also called a paper cricket, push-pin, or thumbtack)
- Hairpin cotter (or R-clip)
- Lapel pin, a small brooch often worn on the lapel of a dress jacket
- Safety pin
- Split pin (or cotter pin or cotter key), a metal fastener with two tines that are bent during installation, similar to a staple or rivet
Places
- Pin, Haute-Saône, a commune of the Haute-Saône département in France
People
- Gabriele Pin, Italian footballer
- Graham 'Pin' Pinney, guitarist from the band SikTh
Art, entertainment, and media
Films
- Pin (film), a 1989 cult horror movie
Gaming and sports
- Pin (amateur wrestling), the primary way of winning an amateur wrestling match
- Pin (bridge), a maneuver in the game of bridge to drop an opponent's lower-ranking card by leading a high one
- Pin (chess), a scenario where if a lesser piece is under attack and moves away, it would reveal a more valuable piece
- Pin (professional wrestling), a way of winning a professional wrestling match
- Bowling pin, the target in various bowling games, which must be knocked down by the bowling ball
Music
- "Pin" (song), a song by the Yeah Yeah Yeahs from their debut album, Fever to Tell (2003)
Brands, enterprises, and organizations
- People In Need (disambiguation) (PIN), various NGOs and charities
- PIN Group, a German courier and postal services company
- PIN, a Dutch debit card provided by Currence
Computing and technology
- Pin (computer program), a dynamic binary instrumentation tool
- Bridge pin, a vertical wire on the bridge of keyboard instruments such as the piano and harpsichord that is used to control the string resonances
- Center pin, a part on railway vehicles
- Personal identification number (PIN), a password used to access an automated teller machine or other secured system
- Blackberry PIN, an eight character hexadecimal identification number assigned to a BlackBerry device
- PIN diode or P-I-N junction, (p-type, intrinsic, n-type diode), a type of semiconductor diode junction
- Pin (or lead (electronics)), an electric interconnection, in electrical engineering
- Pin, a pin or peg holding joints together in timber framing, particularly the mortise and tenon joint; rarely called a dowel
- Pin, an image on Pinterest
- "Pin it", a button to share these images
Government
- Police Information Notice, a notice issued by police in the UK
- Postal Index Number, used in India, often called a PIN code
Healthcare
- Progressive inflammatory neuropathy, a type of neuropathy that causes acute paralysis, weakness, and numbness
- Prostatic intraepithelial neoplasia, a microscopic lesion in the prostate
Other uses
- Pin, half a firkin, or 4.5 imperial gallons
- Pinhole, a microperforation or hot needle perforation
See also
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