Pinwheel
A pinwheel is a spinning children’s toy. Various other things which spin or have a similar shape have been given the name by analogy:
- Pinwheel (cryptography), a device for producing a short pseudo-random sequence of bits
- Pinwheel (shogi), an opening in the game shogi or Japanese chess
- Pinwheel (The Boys), a character in the comic series The Boys
- Pinwheel (TV channel), a channel which would later turn into Nickelodeon
- Pinwheel (TV series), a children's show on Nickelodeon that ran from 1977 to 1984
- Pinwheel calculator (part of), a type of early mechanical arithmetic machine
- Pinwheel flower, Tabernaemontana divaricata, a species of Milkwood
- Pinwheel tilings, aperiodic tilings of the plane whose tiles appear in infinitely many orientations
- Catherine wheel (firework), a form of pyrotechnic display device also known as a pinwheel
- Elegant pinwheel snail (Coenocharopa elegans), a land snail found in Queensland, Australia
- "Pinwheels", a poem by Patti Smith from her 1978 book Babel
- Pinwheel USY, part of United Synagogue Youth covering the Pacific Northwest
- Wartenberg wheel, a neurological medical device
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See also
- All pages with titles beginning with Pinwheel
- All pages with titles containing Pinwheel
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