Spindle may refer to:
Textiles and manufacturing
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Spindle (textiles), a straight spike to spin fibers into yarn
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Spindle (tool)
In machine tools, a spindle is a rotating axis of the machine, which often has a shaft at its heart. The shaft itself is called a spindle, but also, in shop-floor practice, the word often is used metonymically to refer to the entire rotary uni ...
, a rotating axis of a machine tool
Biology
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Common spindle
''Euonymus europaeus'', the spindle, European spindle, or common spindle, is a species of flowering plant in the family Celastraceae, native to much of Europe, where it inhabits the edges of forest, hedges and gentle slopes, tending to thrive on ...
and other species of shrubs and trees in genus ''
Euonymus
''Euonymus'' is a genus of flowering plants in the staff vine family, Celastraceae. Common names vary widely among different species and between different English-speaking countries, but include spindle (or spindle tree), burning-bush, strawb ...
'' whose hard wood was used to make spindles
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Spindle apparatus or mitotic spindle, a cellular structure in cell biology
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Muscle spindle, stretch receptors within the body of a muscle
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Spindle neuron, a specific class of neuron
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Sleep spindle
Sleep spindles are bursts of neural oscillatory activity that are generated by interplay of the thalamic reticular nucleus (TRN) and other thalamic nuclei during stage 2 NREM sleep in a frequency range of ~11 to 16 Hz (usually 12–14 Hz) ...
, bursts of neural oscillatory activity during sleep
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Spindle transfer
Mitochondrial replacement therapy (MRT), sometimes called mitochondrial donation, is the replacement of Mitochondrion, mitochondria in one or more cells to prevent or ameliorate disease. MRT originated as a special form of in vitro fertilisation i ...
, an ''in vitro'' fertilization the technique
Computing
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Spindle (hard disk drive)
A hard disk drive (HDD), hard disk, hard drive, or fixed disk is an electro-mechanical data storage device that stores and retrieves digital data using magnetic storage with one or more rigid rapidly rotating platters coated with magne ...
, the axis of a hard disk drive
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Spindle (disc packaging)
In the context of computer supplies, the word spindle or cakebox may refer to a plastic container for packaging optical discs. It typically consists of a round base with a vertical rod (which matches the center holes of the disks) and a cylindr ...
, a plastic case for bulk optical disks
Vehicles
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Spindle (automobile)
In an automobile, the wheel spindle, sometimes simply called the spindle, is a part of the suspension system that carries the hub for the wheel and attaches to the upper and lower control arms.
Spindles are carried by steering knuckles or "upr ...
, a part of a car's suspension system
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Spindle (vehicle)
SPINDLE (Sub-glacial Polar Ice Navigation, Descent, and Lake Exploration) is a 2-stage autonomous vehicle system consisting of a robotic ice-penetrating carrier vehicle ( cryobot) and an autonomous submersible HAUV (hovering autonomous underwater ...
, an autonomous ice-penetrating vehicle
Other uses
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Spindle (furniture), cylindrically symmetric shaft, usually made of wood
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''Spindle'' (sculpture), a 1989 sculpture by Dustin Shuler made from cars
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Spindle (stationery)
A spindle (or colloquially, a spike) is an upright spike used to temporarily hold papers. "Spindling" or "spiking" is the act of spearing an item onto the spike. A spindle was often used in restaurants to hold orders from the waitstaff to the ...
, an upright spike used to hold papers
* Spindle, part of a
door handle
* Spindle Rock, also called
Adrachti
Adrachti ( el, Αδράχτι) is a rock in the Meteora rock formation complex of Thessaly, Greece.
Due to its long, thin shape, it is sometimes called the "Spindle". In clockwise order, starting from the north, it is surrounded by Sourloti, Mo ...
, a rock in Meteora, Greece
See also
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Fusiform
Fusiform means having a spindle-like shape that is wide in the middle and tapers at both ends. It is similar to the lemon-shape, but often implies a focal broadening of a structure that continues from one or both ends, such as an aneurysm on a b ...
, having a spindle-like shape
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Rotation around a fixed axis
Rotation around a fixed axis is a special case of rotational motion. The fixed-axis hypothesis excludes the possibility of an axis changing its orientation and cannot describe such phenomena as wobbling or precession. According to Euler's rota ...
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Spindel Spindel is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
* Bernard Spindel (1923–1971), American surveillance expert
* David Spindel (born 1941), American photographer
* Hal Spindel (1913–2002), American baseball player
* Janis Spindel, A ...
, a surname
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Spindler Spindler or Špindler (English, German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): occupational name for a spindle maker) is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
* Amy Spindler (1963–2004), American journalist
* Angela Spindler, British businesswoma ...
, a surname
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Spindling
In computers spindling is the allocation of different files (e.g., the data files and index files of a database) on different hard disks. This practice usually reduces contention for read or write resources, thus increasing the system's performanc ...
, in computing
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The Spindles (disambiguation) The Spindles may refer to:
* The Spindles Town Square Shopping Centre, a retail complex in Oldham, England
* The Spindles, burial towers at Amrit
Amrit ( ar, عمريت), the classical Marathus ( grc-gre, Μάραθος, ''Marathos''), was a ...
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