Pin
Pin is a word with multiple meanings:
- A pin is a device used for fastening objects or material together. It is usually made of steel, and is formed by drawing out a thin wire, sharpening the tip, and adding a head. Someone whose trade is making pins is called a pinner.
- Thumbtacks are a type of pin.
- a bridge pin refers to the vertical wire on the bridge of keyboard instruments such as the piano and harpsichord that is used to control the string resonances.
- a pin also means brooch, used as a decorative item fastened on apparels.
- a pin is a US name for what some others call a badge or button, a small (usually round) piece of metal or plastic with a pin attached, usually attached to clothing. See Button Badge Pin.
- In electronics a pin is an electric interconnection. For example a metal wire coming out of an Integrated circuit or Transistor.
- The term pin is used in multiple sports and strategy games:
- In bowling, pins must be knocked down by the bowling ball
- In chess, a pin refers to a scenario where if a lesser piece is under attack and moves away, it would reveal a more valuable piece
- In Sport wrestling, pinning is a way of winning a match
- In firearms, the firing pin is a nail-like device to transfer hammer energy to the primer of ammunition
- Pin, a commune of the Haute-Saône département, in France
- Operation Pin is an international policing initiative to find pedophiles using the internet to access child pornography.
- PIN is also used as an acronym for
PIN was a cable tv channel called "product Information network" airing infomercials