Pinwheel may refer to: *

Pinwheel (toy) A pinwheel is a simple child's toy made of a wheel of paper or plastic curls attached at its axle to a stick by a pin. It is designed to spin when blown upon by a person or by the wind. It is a predecessor to more complex whirligigs. History D ...

, a spinning children's toy *

Pinwheel (cryptography) In cryptography, a pinwheel was a device for producing a short pseudorandom sequence of bits (determined by the machine's initial settings), as a component in a cipher machine. A pinwheel consisted of a rotating wheel with a certain number of pos ...

, a device for producing a short pseudo-random sequence of bits * Pinwheel (shogi), an opening in the game shogi or Japanese chess * Pinwheel (TV channel), a channel which would later turn into Nickelodeon * ''Pinwheel'' (TV series), a children's show on Nickelodeon that ran from 1977 to 1984 *

Pinwheel calculator A pinwheel calculator is a class of mechanical calculator described as early as 1685, and popular in the 19th and 20th century, calculating via wheels whose number of teeth were adjustable. These wheels, also called pinwheels, could be set by usin ...

(part of), a type of early mechanical arithmetic machine * ''

Tabernaemontana divaricata ''Tabernaemontana divaricata'', commonly called pinwheel flower, crape jasmine, East India rosebay, and Nero's crown, is an evergreen shrub or small tree native to South Asia, Southeast Asia and China. In zones where it is not hardy it is grown a ...

'', also known as pinwheel flower *

Pinwheel tiling In geometry, pinwheel tilings are non-periodic tilings defined by Charles Radin and based on a construction due to John Conway. They are the first known non-periodic tilings to each have the property that their tiles appear in infinitely many or ...

s, aperiodic tilings of the plane whose tiles appear in infinitely many orientations *

Catherine wheel (firework) The Catherine wheel or pinwheel is a type of firework consisting either of a powder-filled spiral tube, or an angled rocket mounted with a pin through its center. When ignited, the energy of the fireworks not only create sparks and flame, but ca ...

, a form of pyrotechnic display device also known as a pinwheel * '' Coenocharopa elegans'', also known as the elegant pinwheel snail, a land snail found in Queensland, Australia * "Pinwheels", a poem by Patti Smith from her 1978 book '' Babel'' * Pinwheel USY, part of

United Synagogue Youth United Synagogue Youth (USY) is the youth movement of the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism (USCJ). It was founded in 1951, under the auspices of the Youth Commission of what was then the United Synagogue of America. USY operates in the ...

covering the Pacific Northwest *

Wartenberg wheel A Wartenberg wheel, also called a Wartenberg pinwheel or Wartenberg neurowheel, is a medical device for neurological use. The wheel was designed to test nerve reactions ( sensitivity) as it rolled systematically across the skin. A Wartenberg whee ...

, a neurological medical device

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