Pinwheel
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Pinwheel may refer to:
- Pinwheel (TV series)Pinwheel (TV series)-External links:*...
, a children's show on Nickelodeon that ran from 1977-1990.- Pinwheel (TV channel), a channel which would later be the NickelodeonNickelodeon (TV channel)Nickelodeon, often simply called Nick and originally named Pinwheel, is an American children's channel owned by MTV Networks, a subsidiary of Viacom International. The channel is primarily aimed at children ages 7–17, with the exception of their weekday morning program block aimed at preschoolers...
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- Pinwheel (TV channel), a channel which would later be the Nickelodeon
- Pinwheel (origami), a type of traditional origamiOrigamiis the traditional Japanese art of paper folding, which started in the 17th century AD at the latest and was popularized outside Japan in the mid-1900s. It has since then evolved into a modern art form...
form that can be used as a toy pinwheelPinwheel (toy)A pinwheel is a simple child's toy made of a wheel of paper or plastic curls attached at its axle to a stick by a pin. It is designed to spin when blown upon by a person or by the wind. It is a predecessor to more complex whirligigs.-History:...
, as a base for more complicated models, or as a component of modular origami such as the TamatebakoTamatebakoThe is an Origami model featured in a Japanese folk tale. It is a modular cube design that can be opened from any side. If more than one face of the model is opened, the cube falls apart and cannot easily be reconstructed...
. - Pinwheel (cryptography)Pinwheel (cryptography)In cryptography, a pinwheel was a device for producing a short pseudorandom sequence of bits , as a component in a cipher machine. A pinwheel consisted of a rotating wheel with a certain number of positions on its periphery. Each position had a "pin" or "lug" which could be either "set" or "unset"...
, a device for producing a short pseudo-random sequence of bits - Pinwheel GalaxyPinwheel Galaxy (disambiguation)Pinwheel Galaxy may refer to:* Messier 101, a galaxy referred to as the Pinwheel Galaxy* Messier 83, a galaxy referred to as the Southern Pinwheel Galaxy* Triangulum Galaxy , a galaxy sometimes incorrectly referred to as the Pinwheel Galaxy...
(astronomy) - Pinwheel (toy)Pinwheel (toy)A pinwheel is a simple child's toy made of a wheel of paper or plastic curls attached at its axle to a stick by a pin. It is designed to spin when blown upon by a person or by the wind. It is a predecessor to more complex whirligigs.-History:...
, a children's toy that spins when blown - Pinwheel calculatorPinwheel calculatorA Pinwheel calculator was a class of mechanical calculator popular in the 19th and 20th century using, for its calculating engine, a set of wheels that had an adjustable number of teeth...
(part of), a type of early mechanical arithmetic machine - "Pinwheels", a poem by Patti Smith from her 1978 book BabelBabel (book)Babel is a book by Patti Smith, published in 1978, and contains Smith's poems along with her prose, lyrics, pictures and drawings.- Radio Ethiopia :# "Notice"# "Italy"# "The Tapper Extracts"# "Grant"# "Street of the Guides"# "Rimbaud Dead"# "Sohl"...
- The Wartenberg wheelWartenberg wheelA Wartenberg wheel, also called a Wartenberg pinwheel or Wartenberg neurowheel, is a medical device for neurological use. It was originally designed by Dr Robert Wartenberg to test nerve reactions as it rolled systematically across the skin. A Wartenberg wheel is generally made of stainless steel...
, a neurological medical device - The Pinwheel Region, part of United Synagogue YouthUnited Synagogue YouthUnited Synagogue Youth is the youth movement of the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism. USY operates in the United States, Canada, and Mexico. The goal of the movement is to bring Jewish teenagers closer to Judaism and Israel through learning and social interaction...
covering the Pacific Northwest - Pinwheel tilingPinwheel tilingPinwheel tilings are non-periodic tilings defined by Charles Radin and based on a construction due to John Conway.They are the first known non-periodic tilings to each have the property that their tiles appear in infinitely many orientations....
s, aperiodic tilings of the plane whose tiles appear in infinitely many orientations. - PINWHEEL, a San Francisco-based design agency