PIN
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A pin is a device used for fastening objects or material together.
Pin or PIN may also refer to:
- Award pin, a small piece of metal or plastic with a pin attached given as an award for some achievement
- lapel pin, a small brooch often worn on the lapel of a dress jacket
- People In Need (disambiguation) (PIN), various NGOs and charities
- PIN Group, a German courier and postal services company
- Postal Index Number, used in India, often called a PIN code
- Progressive inflammatory neuropathy, a type of neuropathy that causes acute paralysis, weakness, and numbness
- Prostatic intraepithelial neoplasia, a microscopic lesion in the prostate
Science and technology
- Personal identification number (PIN), a password used to access an automated teller machine or other secured system
- Blackberry PIN, an eight character hexadecimal identification number assigned to a BlackBerry device
- Pin, half a firkin, or 4.5 imperial gallons
- Lead (electronics), an electric interconnection, in electrical engineering
- Bridge pin, a vertical wire on the bridge of keyboard instruments such as the piano and harpsichord that is used to control the string resonances
- A pin or peg holding joints together in timber framing, particularly the mortise and tenon joint; rarely called a dowel
- PIN diode or P-I-N junction, (p-type, intrinsic, n-type diode), a type of semiconductor diode junction
- The Center pin of railroad vehicles
Computing
- Pin (computer program), a dynamic binary instrumentation tool
Entertainment
- Pin (film), a 1989 cult horror movie
- "Pin" (song), a song by the Yeah Yeah Yeahs from their debut album, Fever to Tell (2003)
- Image of Pinterest
- "Pin it": button to share these images
Places
- Pin, Haute-Saône, a commune of the Haute-Saône département in France
People
- Graham 'Pin' Pinney, guitarist from the band SikTh
- Gabriele Pin, Italian footballer
Gaming and sports
- Pin (chess), a scenario where if a lesser piece is under attack and moves away, it would reveal a more valuable piece
- Pin (amateur wrestling), the primary way of winning an amateur wrestling match
- Pin (professional wrestling), a way of winning a professional wrestling match
- Pin (bridge), a maneuver in the game of bridge to drop an opponent's lower-ranking card by leading a high one
- Bowling pins, which must be knocked down by the bowling ball
See also
- Pinning (disambiguation)
- Pan (disambiguation)
- Pincode (disambiguation)
- Bobby pin
- Clevis pin
- Collar pin
- Cotter pin
- Hairpin (disambiguation)
- Lapel pin
- Push pin
- Safety pin
- Microperforation
- Hot needle perforation
- Paper cricket