Trim

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The word trim can mean:

Contents 1 People 2 Places 3 Other 4 As an acronym

• To remove part or all of something:
  • Book trimming, a part of the publishing process which involves trimming the pages of a book so they have even edges
  • Trim (programming), also called "strip", a function to remove white space from the ends of a string
  • In film editing, the process of shortening scenes by a few minutes, seconds, or even frames
  • "Trim", slang for a pubic region with trimmed pubic hair
  • In a lengthy electronic exchange (eg. Usenet), removing parts of the conversation that are no longer relevant -- see Posting style
• Adjust:
  • Adjustment of sails on a ship or boat
  • Adjustment of the angle of a ship to the water by shifting cargo or ballast.
  • Adjustment of airfoils on an aircraft
  • Adjustment of a variable resistor or capacitor
• Decorate; examples include
  • Trim a Christmas tree
  • Casing (moulding), a kind of decorative molding (Molding (decorative))
  • Trim package, a set of cosmetic (mostly non-functional) embellishments to a vehicle, such as an automobile
  • Trim (sewing) for clothing and home decorating, is applied ornament such as gimp, passementarie, ribbon, or, as a verb, to apply such ornament
• Slang term for fit (ie. healthy):
  • Trim trail, a special sort of trail that combines running with exercising
• In music and audio, the term used for sensitivity. Higher trim means that a greater magnitude of the audio waves are sampled.
• Trimming, the process of modifying parametric or polygonal surfaces in 3D computer graphics and CAD
• In stagecraft trim refers to a preset height at which a batten (theater) is used.

[edit] People

• Trim (rapper), a British grime MC

[edit] Places

• Trim, County Meath, a town and castle in Ireland
• Trim Station (OC Transpo), a bus station for OC Transpo buses in Ottawa, Canada
• Trim Road (Ottawa), a road in Ottawa

[edit] Other

• Trim (cat), the first feline to circumnavigate Australia
• Trimmed, a 1922 film starring Hoot Gibson

[edit] As an acronym

• Tidal, Residual, Inter-tidal Mudflat
• Tone Ringer Illuminated Model, a British telephone with a distinct ringing sound
• Trade-related Investment Measures, an agreement within the Uruguay Round trade negotiations
• Transfusion-related immunomodulation
• TRIM Context, a records management software product from TOWER Software
• Trim optimization, a set of techniques (algorithmic or heuristic or hybrid) to reduce the waste resulting from cutting an arbitrary set of demand rolls from a jumbo or master roll, in materials processing
• TRiM, Trauma Risk Management, is model of peer group traumatic stress management approved by the National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE) within the UK and initially used by the Royal Marines