Pinwheel

Pinwheel may refer to:

• Pinwheel (toy), a spinning children's toy
• Pinwheel (cryptography), a device for producing a short pseudo-random sequence of bits
• Pinwheel (shogi), an opening in the game shogi or Japanese chess
• Pinwheel (TV channel), a channel which would later turn into Nickelodeon
• Pinwheel (TV series), a children's show on Nickelodeon that ran from 1977 to 1984
• Pinwheel calculator (part of), a type of early mechanical arithmetic machine
• Pinwheel escapement, part of a mechanical clock
• Tabernaemontana divaricata, also known as pinwheel flower
• Pinwheel scheduling, problem of devising a rotating sequence of tasks with given frequencies
• Pinwheel tilings, aperiodic tilings of the plane whose tiles appear in infinitely many orientations
• Catherine wheel (firework), a form of pyrotechnic display device also known as a pinwheel
• Coenocharopa elegans, also known as the elegant pinwheel snail, a land snail found in Queensland, Australia
• "Pinwheels", a poem by Patti Smith from her 1978 book Babel
• Pinwheel USY, part of United Synagogue Youth covering the Pacific Northwest
• Wartenberg wheel, a neurological medical device

See also

• Pinwheel Galaxy (disambiguation)