Pinch
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Pinch may refer to:
- Pinch (cooking), a very small amount of an ingredient, typically salt or a spice
- Pinch (plasma physics), the compression of a plasma filament by magnetic forces, or a device which uses this effect for magnetic fusion energy (the Z-pinch is a special case of such a device)
- The point of maximum constraint or minimum flow in various chemical engineering processes
- Pinch temperature, the key point in a process when using pinch analysis techniques to minimise energy use
- Pinch, West Virginia
- Pinched, a 1917 film starring Harold Lloyd
Pinch is also the name of several people:
- John Pinch the elder (1770–1827) and younger (1796–1849), British architects in Bath
- Trevor Pinch (born 1953), British sociologist at Cornell University
- Pinch (drummer), British musician, current drummer of punk band The Damned
- Tom Pinch and Ruth Pinch, characters in the Charles Dickens novel Martin Chuzzlewit
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