Wind-up
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Wind-up or windup can refer to:
- a verb for terminating the existence of a company or other entity with a view to its liquidation and dissolution
- the windup is one of the two legal pitching positions in baseball
- Wind-up Records, a New York record label
- Wind It Up (Rewound), an album by The Prodigy.
- The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, a novel
- "Wind Up", a song from the 2001 album Full Collapse by post-hardcore band Thursday
- a noun in UK English slang meaning a prank
- a verb, meaning to conclude (see winding-up)
- a verb, meaning to excite
- a verb, meaning to tighten a mainspring powered mechanical device, such as a watch, music box or clockwork toy
- Wind Up, a song by Foo Fighters from their 1997 album The Colour and the Shape.
- Wind-Up, a song by Jethro Tull off their 1971 album Aqualung
- integral windup in a PID controller