Skein

Skein may refer to:

• A flock of geese or ducks in V formation flight
• A wound ball of yarn with a center pull strand, see hank
• TV Series, used part of Variety's slanguage.
• Skein dubh, a Scottish knife
• Skein module, a mathematical concept
• Skein relation, a mathematical concept often used to give a simple definition of knot polynomials
• Skein (comics), a fictional supervillain in the Marvel Comics universe
• Skein (hash function), a candidate hash function to the NIST hash function competition from Bruce Schneier et al.

See also

• The Tangled Skein, a novel by Baroness Orczy
• With a Tangled Skein, a novel by Piers Anthony, book three of Incarnations of Immortality