Trim or TRIM may refer to:

Cutting

Cutting Cutting is the separation or opening of a physical object, into two or more portions, through the application of an acutely directed force. Implements commonly used for wikt:cut, cutting are the knife and saw, or in medicine and science the scal ...

or trimming small pieces off something to remove them **

Book trimming Book trimming is the stage of the book production process in which the page edges of a book are trimmed so that all pages will stack with perfect edge alignment within the finished book jacket. The step before book trimming is the binding of th ...

, a stage of the publishing process **

Pruning Pruning is a horticultural, arboricultural, and silvicultural practice involving the selective removal of certain parts of a plant, such as branches, buds, or roots. The practice entails the ''targeted'' removal of diseased, damaged, dead, ...

, trimming as a form of pruning often used on trees

Decoration

Trim (sewing) Trim or trimming in clothing and home decorating is applied ornament, such as gimp, passementerie, ribbon, Ruffle (sewing)s, or, as a verb, to apply such ornament. Before the industrial revolution, all trim was made and applied by hand, thus ...

, ornaments applied to clothing or other textiles * Hatmaking#Types, trimmings, ornaments fastened to women's hats *

Trim package Trim levels are used by manufacturers to identify a vehicle's level of equipment or special features. The equipment/features fitted to a particular vehicle also depend on any options packages or individual options that the car was ordered with. ...

, a set of cosmetic embellishments to a car or other vehicle * Trim, a kind of decorative molding, typically around an opening

Places

Trim, County Meath Trim () is a town in County Meath, Ireland. It is situated on the River Boyne and has a population of 9,194. The town is noted for Trim Castle – the largest Norman castle in Ireland. One of the two cathedrals of the United Dioceses of Mea ...

, a town in Ireland **

Trim Castle Trim Castle ( ga, Caisleán Bhaile Átha Troim) is a castle on the south bank of the River Boyne in Trim, County Meath, Ireland, with an area of 30,000 m2. Over a period of 30 years, it was built by Hugh de Lacy and his son Walter as ...

, a castle in Ireland *

Trim Station (OC Transpo) Trim is a transitway station in the east end of Ottawa, Ontario, located near Trim Road and Regional Road 174 (former Highway 17). A Natrel factory is located near this station. Trim station once served as the eastern weekday terminus for the O ...

, a bus station in Ottawa, Canada *

Trim Road Trim Road ( Ottawa Road #57) is an arterial road in the eastern end of Orléans, Ontario, a suburb of Ottawa. It serves as the only road access to Petrie Island and its public beach in the Ottawa River. From Petrie Island, Trim runs south thro ...

, Ottawa, Canada

Science and technology

HP TRIM Records Management System Micro Focus Content Manager (formerly HP Records Manager, HP TRIM) is an electronic document and records management system (EDRMS) marketed by Micro Focus. Content Manager is an enterprise document and records management system for physical and ...

, computer software *

Trim (computing) A trim command (known as TRIM in the ATA command set, and UNMAP in the SCSI command set) allows an operating system to inform a solid-state drive (SSD) which blocks of data are no longer considered to be 'in use' and therefore can be erased i ...

, a solid-state drive erasure optimization command *

Trimming (computer programming) In computer programming, trimming (trim) or stripping (strip) is a string manipulation in which leading and trailing whitespace is removed from a string. For example, the string (enclosed by apostrophes) ' this is a test ' would be changed ...

, using a computer command to trim whitespace from the ends of text * Transport of ions in matter, a computer program *

Tripartite motif family The tripartite motif family (TRIM) is a protein family. Function Many TRIM proteins are induced by interferons, which are important component of resistance to pathogens and several TRIM proteins are known to be required for the restriction of infe ...

, a protein family * Trim, adjustment of an electronic trimmer * Transfusion-related immunomodulation, a potential adverse effect of blood transfusion

Transport

* Automobile trim - a feature of a car *

Trim tab Trim tabs are small surfaces connected to the trailing edge of a larger control surface on a boat or aircraft, used to control the trim of the controls, i.e. to counteract hydro- or aerodynamic forces and stabilise the boat or aircraft in a pa ...

, in aircraft, small surfaces part of a larger control surface * Trim, adjustment of a sail on a ship or boat * Trim (sailing ballast), adjustment of sailing ballast * Trim (ship), the variation from horizontal on the longitudinal axis * Trim, adjustment of a vessel's attitude, dynamic trimming

Entertainment

* Trim height, the height in a theatre at which a

batten A batten is most commonly a strip of solid material, historically wood but can also be of plastic, metal, or fiberglass. Battens are variously used in construction, sailing, and other fields. In the lighting industry, battens refer to linea ...

is used *"Trim" a song by Underworld from their album A Hundred Days Off * Trim (rapper) (born 1984), English grime MC from London * '' Trimmed'', a 1922 film starring Hoot Gibson

Other uses

* Corporal Trim, a fictional character in ''

The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman ''The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman'', also known as ''Tristram Shandy'', is a novel by Laurence Sterne, inspired by '' Don Quixote''. It was published in nine volumes, the first two appearing in 1759, and seven others follow ...

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Editing Editing is the process of selecting and preparing written, photographic, visual, audible, or cinematic material used by a person or an entity to convey a message or information. The editing process can involve correction, condensation, o ...

** Trimming, editing a

posting style When a message is replied to in e-mail, Internet forums, or Usenet, the original can often be included, or "quoted", in a variety of different posting styles. The main options are interleaved posting (also called inline replying, in which the di ...

in online discourse * Trim (cat), Matthew Flinders' cat, the first feline to circumnavigate Australia *

Trade Related Investment Measures The Agreement on Trade-Related Investment Measures (TRIMs) are rules that are applicable to the domestic regulations a country applies to foreign investors, often as part of an industrial policy. The agreement, concluded in 1994, was negotiated u ...

, rules of the World Trade Organization

People with the surname

* Albert Trim (1875-1954), Australian rules footballer * Andrew Trim (born 1968), Australian Olympic athlete * David Trim (born 1969), Indian historian * John Trim (cricketer) (1915-1960), West Indian cricketer * John Trim (linguist) (1924-2013), English linguist * Judith Trim (1943-2001), English studio potter * Kibwe Trim (born 1984), Trinidad and Tobago businessman and former basketball player *

Michael Trim (television producer) Michael Trim is a cinematographer, director, and producer. He is best known for his works on '' Weeds'', ''Parks and Recreation'', and ''Orange Is the New Black''. In 2010, Trim won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Cinematography for a H ...

(born 1945), American cinematographer * Mike Trim (born 1945), English artist * Ted Trim (1907-1989), Australian rules footballer