Pin
From Academic Kids
Pin is a word with multiple meanings:
- A pin is a device used for fastening objects or material together. It is usually made of steel, and is formed by drawing out a thin wire, sharpening the tip, and adding a head. Someone whose trade is making pins is called a pinner.
- Thumbtacks are a type of pin.
- a pin is the US name for a badge, as worn on a lapel
- In electronics a pin is an electric interconnection. For example a metal wire coming out of an Integrated circuit or Transistor.
- The term pin is used in multiple sports and strategy games:
- In bowling, pins must be knocked down by the bowling ball
- In chess, pin refers to preventing a piece from moving by threatening the king
- In Sport wrestling, pinning is a way of winning a match
- In firearms, the firing pin is a nail-like device to transfer hammer energy to the primer of ammunition
- Pin, a commune of the Haute-Saône département, in France
- Operation Pin is an international policing initiative to find pedophiles using the internet to access child pornography.
- PIN is also used as an acronym for
