Spindle may refer to:
Textiles and manufacturing
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Spindle (textiles)
A spindle is a straight spike usually made from wood used for spinning, twisting fibers such as wool, flax, hemp, cotton into yarn. It is often weighted at either the bottom, middle, or top, commonly by a disc or spherical object called a who ...
, a straight spike to spin fibers into yarn
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Spindle (tool), a rotating axis of a machine tool
Biology
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Common spindle 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
In cell biology, the spindle apparatus refers to the cytoskeletal structure of eukaryotic cells that forms during cell division to separate sister chromatids between daughter cells. It is referred to as the mitotic spindle during mitosis, a p ...
or mitotic spindle, a cellular structure in cell biology
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Muscle spindle
Muscle spindles are stretch receptors within the body of a skeletal muscle that primarily detect changes in the length of the muscle. They convey length information to the central nervous system via afferent nerve fibers. This information can be ...
, stretch receptors within the body of a muscle
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Spindle neuron
Von Economo neurons (VENs), also called spindle neurons, are a specific class of mammalian cortical neurons characterized by a large spindle-shaped soma (or body) gradually tapering into a single apical axon (the ramification that ''transmits ...
, a specific class of neuron
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Sleep spindle, bursts of neural oscillatory activity during sleep
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Spindle transfer, an ''in vitro'' fertilization the technique
Computing
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Spindle (hard disk drive), the axis of a hard disk drive
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Spindle (disc packaging), a plastic case for bulk optical disks
Vehicles
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Spindle (automobile), a part of a car's suspension system
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Spindle (vehicle), an autonomous ice-penetrating vehicle
Other uses
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Spindle (furniture)
A spindle, in furniture, is a cylindrically symmetric shaft, usually made of wood. A spindle is usually made of a single piece of wood and typically has decoration (also axially symmetric) fashioned by hand or with a lathe. The spindle was commo ...
, 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), an upright spike used to hold papers
* Spindle, part of a
door handle
A door handle or doorknob is a handle used to open or close a door. Door handles can be found on all types of doors including exterior doors of residential and commercial buildings, internal doors, cupboard doors and vehicle doors. There are man ...
* Spindle Rock, also called
Adrachti, a rock in Meteora, Greece
See also
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Fusiform, 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 rot ...
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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, a surname
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Spindling, in computing
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The Spindles (disambiguation)
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