Pinch (disambiguation)
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Pinch may refer to:
- a Pinch (cooking) is a very small amount of an ingredient, typically salt or a spice.
- a Pinch (ice hockey), is when a defenseman sneaks in closer to the opposing goal to add extra firepower deep in the offensive zone in ice hockey
- a Pinch (plasma physics) is compression of a plasma filament by magnetic forces; Pinch (magnetic fusion) is a device which uses this effect for magnetic fusion energy; the z-pinch is a special case of such a device.
- a pinch is a point of maximum constraint or minimum flow in various chemical engineering processes.
- Pinch temperature is the key point in a process when using pinch analysis techniques to minimise energy use.
Pinch is the name of:
- Pinch, West Virginia
- Tom Pinch, a character in the novel Martin Chuzzlewit, by Charles Dickens.
- Trevor Pinch, an educator at Cornell University
- Pinch (drummer), the current drummer of punk band The Damned.