Twin (disambiguation)
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Twin is most often used to refer to a pair of any similar objects or concepts:
- Twins are two or more siblings which gestated and were born together. Types of twins include:
- Fraternal twins
- Identical twins
- Siamese, or Conjoined twins
- Multiple births, while not necessarily twins, are sometimes referred to as "multiple twins".
- Twin can also refer to a doppelgänger or clone.
- Twin (mythology) are often a central theme in mythology.
- Twin Towers are any of a number of matching structures, most notably the former World Trade Center in New York City
- Twin city or twin town may refer to
- Twin cities: two towns or cities that are geographically close to each other, and often referred to collectively.
- The Twin Cities- most often used to describe the Minneapolis-St. Paul metro area in Minnesota, United States.
- The Twin Ports- Duluth, Minnesota and Superior, Wisconsin, United States.
- Town twinning or sister cities: two distant cities agree to partner each other, for various reasons.
- Twin cities: two towns or cities that are geographically close to each other, and often referred to collectively.
- A twin prime is a prime number that differs from another prime number by two.
- Two crystallites which share atoms at repeated intervals and have only a minor difference in orientation. These meet at a twin boundary.
- Twin (computing) the Text WINdows computer interface
Other uses twin may refer to:
- Twins (band) is a Hong Kong-based Cantopop musical group. It is also the name of their self-titled album, Twins (album).
- Twins (film) is a 1988 comedy film starring Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito.
- Twins (TV series) is a sitcom that debuted on The WB network in September 2005.
- Twins (The Matrix) are characters from The Matrix Reloaded.
- First Twin and Second Twin are the names of twin lost boys in J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan.
- Twin is a standard bed, mattress, or sheet size.
- The Twin paradox is a thought experiment in special relativity.
- The Minnesota Twins of Major League Baseball take their name from the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul.
- Twins (pornographic film) is also the name of two gay pornographic movies, one starring the O'Brien Twins, Christy twins and Karisdtadt Twins, and the other starring the Oddyssey Twins.
- Twins is also a photobook by Steven Underhill.
- "Twins," a song by Manitoba from their 2003 album Up in Flames
- See also: list of all pages beginning with "Twin", Category:Identical twins, and List of twins.
