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Meanings and definitions for PIN
What does PIN stand for? What does PIN mean?
- A pin is a device used for fastening objects or material together.
- Personal identification number (PIN), to access a secured system
PIN pad, a PIN entry device
- PIN, a Dutch debit card by currence
- An image on Pinterest
- PIN diode, a semiconductor diode
- Pin, a short lead in electronics
- Award pin, recognising an achievement
- Bobby pin or kirby grip or hair grip, a hairpin
- Clevis pin, a three-piece fastener system
- Collar pin, for a shirt collar
- Drawing pin or thumbtack
- Lapel pin, a small pin worn on clothing
- Safety pin, pin which includes a simple spring mechanism and a clasp
- Split pin or cotter pin, a fastener
- Pin (harp) a Cambodian harp
- Pin (film), 1988, Canada
- "Pin" (song), by the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, 2003
- The Pin (comedy act), on BBC Radio 4
- "The Pin", a song from the Goo Goo Dolls' album Boxes
- Bridge pin, on a keyboard musical instrument
- Pin (amateur wrestling), holding an opponent down
- Pin (professional wrestling), wrestling move
- Pin (bridge), a maneuver in the game of bridge
- Pin (chess), when a defending chess piece cannot move without exposing a more valuable defending piece
- Bowling pin, the target of the bowling ball in various bowling games
- Gabriele Pin (born 1962), Italian footballer
- Pin, Haute-Saône, Haute-Saône, France
- Police Information Notice, UK
- Postal Index Number, postal code of locations in India
- PIN Group, a German postal company
- People in Need (Czech Republic), an organization
- Paleontological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
- PIN proteins in plants
- Progressive inflammatory neuropathy, a disease
- Prostatic intraepithelial neoplasia, an abnormality of prostatic glands
- Center pin, on railway vehicles
- Dowel or dowel pin
- Pin, half a firkin in English brewery cask units
- Preferred IUPAC name, a chemical name
- PINS (band), an English all-female rock group
- PINS, or person in need of supervision, (in United States) a juvenile not currently living with a parent or guardian
- PINS, or the Planning Inspectorate for England and Wales, a United Kingdom government agency
- Les Pins, a commune in Charente, France
- Île des pins, island in New Caledonia, Pacific Ocean
- L'Île-des-Pins, a commune in New Caledonia, Pacific Ocean
- Lac des Pins (Aumond, Quebec), a lake in Canada
- Pointe aux Pins, a peninsula in Lake Erie, Canada
- Pointe Aux Pins, Michigan, an unincorporated community in Bois Blanc Township, Michigan, United States
- Jacob Pins (1917-2005), German-born Israeli artist and collector
- Odon de Pins (died 1296), Grand Master of the Knights Hospitaller
- Hairpin turn, a tight turn on a road
- Hairpin cotter, a formed wire fastener most commonly used in clevis pins
- Hairpin clip, a formed wire fastener designed for use in grooved shafts
- A hairpin loop, a pattern in DNA or RNA in biochemistry
- β-Hairpin, a secondary structure motif of proteins
- Hairpins (film), a 1920 film directed by Fred Niblo
- Hairpin, in music, the nickname for crescendo and decrescendo markings. See Dynamics (music)#Gradual changes
- The Devil's Hairpin, a 1957 American feature film about car racing
- Hairpin Arts Center, a community art center in Chicago
- Hairpin Banksia, woody shrub.
- Hairpin RNA, an artificial RNA molecule
- Hairpin lace, a lace-making technique
- Hairpin ribozyme, a small section of RNA that can act as a ribozyme
- Ramsey Hairpin, a hairpin bend on the course of the Isle of Man TT Races
- The Hairpin, a women's website
- The Human Hairpin, a nickname for the American boxer, Harry Harris
- Hairpin network address translation
- Kingpin (automotive part), the pivot in the steering mechanism
The central bolt of a skateboard axle assembly ("truck"), around which the rest of the mechanism can flex, allowing the rider to steer by shifting body weight
- The pivot or connector between a tractor and trailer in the fifth-wheel coupling of semi-trailer truck
- The pivot in a railway car bogie
- Crime boss, in organized crime
More specifically, a drug lord
- Kingpin (book), a book written by former hacker Kevin Poulsen
- Kingpin (chess magazine), a satirical chess magazine
- Kingpin (character), a fictional supervillain in the Marvel Universe
- Kingpin (1996 film), a 1996 sports comedy film by the Farrelly brothers
- Kingpin (1985 film), a 1985 New Zealand drama film by Mike Walker
- Kingpin (TV series), a 2003 crime/drama TV mini-series
- Manila Kingpin: The Asiong Salonga Story, a 2011 Philippine film
- Kingpin (band), a Swedish metal band from the mid-1980s
- The Kingpins (Canadian band), a Canadian ska band
- The Kingpins (English vocal group), an English pop group of the 1950s and 1960s
- The Kingpins, band of King Curtis which frequently backed Aretha Franklin
- The Kingpins, London band which toured with Albert Lee in 1969
- The King Pins, American R&B vocal group also known as the Kelly Brothers
- Kingpin (1996 film), soundtrack to the 1996 film of the same name
- The Kingpin (album), a 1989 album by Craig G
- Kingpin (Tinsley Ellis album), a 2000 album by Tinsley Ellis
- "Kingpin", a song from the Wilco album Being There
- Kingpin: Life of Crime, a 1999 video game
- Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Designation Act
- Kingpin Bowling, lounge bars in Australia
- Pinning, the effect of certain weapons that cause their targets to be pinned down
- Pinning ceremony (nursing), a symbolic welcoming of new graduates into the nursing profession
- Pinning force, a force acting on a pinned object from a pinning center
- Pinning (modelling), the use of pins to strengthen the joins when assembling large or heavy model kits
- Pinning points, points in a crystalline material that act to halt a dislocation's movement
- Grappling hold#Pinning hold, a hold used to control an opponent in grappling
- Flux pinning, a phenomenon that magnetic flux lines do not move despite the Lorentz force acting on them inside a current-carrying Type II superconductor
- Percutaneous pinning, a technique used by orthopedic surgeons for the stabilisation of unstable fractures
- Tree pinning, inserting spikes into trees in order to cause damage to sawmill equipment
- Zener pinning, the influence of a dispersion of fine particles on the movement of low- and high angle grain boundaries through a polycrystalline material
- HTTP Public Key Pinning, a security mechanism for HTTPS websites
- Pinhead, a person with microcephaly
- Pinhead (Hellraiser), the primary antagonist from the Hellraiser films
- Pinhead (Neighbours), a character in the Australian soap opera Neighbors
- Pinhead (Puppet Master), a character in the Puppet Master series of films
- Zip the Pinhead (c. 1857–1926), an American circus performer
- Zippy the Pinhead, a comic strip character
- Pinhead, a puppet on the American television show Foodini the Great
- "Pinhead", a song by The Ramones on their album Leave Home
- Pinheads, a group of sideshow circus characters in the stage play The Elephant Man
- Parintins airport (code), Brazil
- Personal Identification Number
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