Thin may refer to:
* a lean
body shape
Human body shape is a complex phenomenon with sophisticated detail and function. The general shape or figure of a person is defined mainly by the molding of skeletal structures, as well as the distribution of muscles and fat. Skeletal structure ...
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emaciation
Emaciation is defined as the state of extreme thinness from absence of body fat and muscle wasting usually resulting from malnutrition.
Characteristics
In humans, the physical appearance of emaciation includes thinned limbs, pronounced and protrud ...
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underweight
An underweight person is a person whose body weight is considered too low to be healthy. A person who is underweight is malnourished.
Assessment
The body mass index, a ratio of a person's weight to their height, has traditionally been used t ...
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''Thin'' (film), a 2006 HBO documentary about eating disorders
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Paper Thin (disambiguation), referring to multiple songs
* Thin (web server), a Ruby web-server based on
Mongrel
A mongrel, mutt or mixed-breed dog is a dog that does not belong to one officially recognized Dog breed, breed and including those that are the result of intentional Dog breeding, breeding. Although the term ''mixed-breed dog'' is sometime ...
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Thin client
In computer networking, a thin client is a simple (low-performance) computer that has been optimized for establishing a remote connection with a server-based computing environment. They are sometimes known as ''network computers'', or in th ...
, a computer in a client-server architecture network.
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Thin film
A thin film is a layer of material ranging from fractions of a nanometer (monolayer) to several micrometers in thickness. The controlled synthesis of materials as thin films (a process referred to as deposition) is a fundamental step in many ap ...
, a material layer of about 1 μm thickness.
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Thin-film deposition
A thin film is a layer of material ranging from fractions of a nanometer ( monolayer) to several micrometers in thickness. The controlled synthesis of materials as thin films (a process referred to as deposition) is a fundamental step in many a ...
, any technique for depositing a thin film of material onto a substrate or onto previously deposited layers
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Thin film memory
Thin-film memory is a high-speed alternative to core memory developed by Sperry Rand in a government-funded research project.
Instead of threading individual ferrite cores on wires, thin-film memory consisted of 4-micrometre thick dots of pe ...
, high-speed variation of core memory developed by Sperry Rand in a government-funded research project
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Thin-film optics
Thin-film optics is the branch of optics that deals with very thin structured layers of different materials. In order to exhibit thin-film optics, the thickness of the layers of material must be similar to the coherence length; for visible l ...
, the branch of optics that deals with very thin structured layers of different materials
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Thin layer chromatography
Thin-layer chromatography (TLC) is a chromatography technique used to separate non-volatile mixtures.
Thin-layer chromatography is performed on a sheet of an inert substrate such as glass, plastic, or aluminium foil, which is coated with a t ...
(TLC), a chromatography technique used in chemistry to separate chemical compounds
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Thin layers (oceanography)
Thin layers are concentrated aggregations of phytoplankton and zooplankton in coastal and offshore waters that are vertically compressed to thicknesses ranging from several centimeters up to a few meters and are horizontally extensive, sometim ...
, congregations of phytoplankton and zooplankton in the water column
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Thin lens
In optics, a thin lens is a lens with a thickness (distance along the optical axis between the two surfaces of the lens) that is negligible compared to the radii of curvature of the lens surfaces. Lenses whose thickness is not negligible are so ...
, lens with a thickness that is negligible compared to the focal length of the lens in optics
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Thin Lizzy
Thin Lizzy are an Irish hard rock band formed in Dublin in 1969. Their music reflects a wide range of influences, including blues, soul music, psychedelic rock and traditional Irish folk music, but is generally classified as hard rock or some ...
, Irish rock band formed in Dublin in 1969
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Thin Man (disambiguation) Thin Man may refer to:
* ''The Thin Man'', a 1933 mystery novel by Dashiell Hammett
** ''The Thin Man'' (film) (1934), based on the novel
***''After the Thin Man'' (1936)
***''Another Thin Man'' (1939)
***''Shadow of the Thin Man'' (1941)
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The Thin Blue Line (disambiguation)
The thin blue line is a colloquial term for police forces.
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The Thin Blue Line or Thin Blue Line may also refer to:
Films
* ''The Thin Blue Line'' (1966 film), a documentary film by William Friedkin about the police and the problems the ...
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Thin capitalisation A company is said to be thinly capitalised when the level of its debt is much greater than its equity capital, i.e. its gearing, or leverage, is very high. An entity's debt-to-equity funding is sometimes expressed as a ratio. For example, a gearin ...
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