Spin
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Spin may refer to:
- Rotation, rotating on an axis, spin around, spinning top, etc
- Spin (public relations), a heavily biased portrayal of an event or situation
- Spin (film), 1995 documentary film comprised of unfiltered satellite feeds, exposing politicians' behind the scenes conversations while off-air
- Spin (flight), a special and often intense case of a stall.
- SPINS, short for Special Instructions, a military term
- Spin (physics), a fundamental property of elementary particles
- Spin group, a particular double cover of the special orthogonal group SO(n)
- Spinning (textiles), the process of creating yarn from various raw fiber materials
- Metal spinning, the process of forming metal over a mandrel while spinning around a lathe
- SPIN (sales), a sales technique
- Sufi whirling, a twirling meditation
- Spin (ASIC design), when an ASIC or microprocessor is sent to be manufactured
- Spin (novel), a book by Robert Charles Wilson
- "Spin" (House episode), an episode of the television series House
In sports:
- Spin bowling, in cricket
- Spinning, a fishing technique
- Spinning (cycling), form of exercise that involves using a stationary bicycle in a classroom setting
- Poi (juggling), youth + circus skills
- Spin (breakdancing move), a dancing move
- Figure-skating spin, a skating move
In computing:
- Spinning is a technique where a process continually checks whether a condition is true
- SPIN model checker, a software tool
- Secure Peered Internet
- Single Page Inter-Networked Applications
- Spin computer language a high level programming language
- SPIN web browser for DOS
- SPIN (operating system), an OS based on Mach which allows Modula-3 code to be linked into the kernel live[1]
In music:
- Spin (album), the first solo album of Darren Hayes
- Spin (Eric Roche album), the second acoustic album by Eric Roche
- Spin (radio), a single play of a song
- Spin (band), from the Maltese Islands
- Spin (portuguese band), from Portugal
- Spin (magazine), a music magazine
- "Spinnin'", a song by Soul Asylum from their 1990 album And the Horse They Rode in On
