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 Du ...

, 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) In shogi, the Pinwheel (風車 ''kazaguruma'') is an uncommon opening with the rook on the bottom rank 9 enabling it to switch between a Ranging Rook and Static Rook attack. The pinwheel name comes from the way the king is able to rotate around ...

, an opening in the game shogi or Japanese chess *

Pinwheel (TV channel) Nickelodeon (often shortened to Nick) is an American pay television channel which launched on April 1, 1979, as the first cable channel for children. It is run by Paramount Global through its networks division's Kids and Family Group. Its ...

, 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 ''Coenocharopa elegans'', the elegant pinwheel snail, is a species of air-breathing land snails in the family Charopidae Charopidae is a taxonomic family of small air-breathing land snails (and semi-slugs such as '' Otoconcha dimidiata'') ...

'', 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 Babel is a name used in the Hebrew Bible for the city of Babylon and may refer to: Arts and media Written works Books *Babel (book), ''Babel'' (book), by Patti Smith * Babel (2012 manga), ''Babel'' (2012 manga), by Narumi Shigematsu * Babel (20 ...

'' * 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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