Pinwheel may refer to: * Pinwheel (toy), a spinning children's toy *

Pinwheel (cryptography) In cryptography, a pinwheel was a device for producing a short pseudorandom sequence of bits (determined by the machine's initial settings), as a component in a cipher machine. A pinwheel consisted of a rotating wheel with a certain number of pos ...

, a device for producing a short pseudo-random sequence of bits *

Pinwheel (shogi) In shogi, the Pinwheel (風車 ''kazaguruma'') is an uncommon opening with the rook on the bottom rank 9 enabling it to switch between a Ranging Rook and Static Rook attack. The pinwheel name comes from the way the king is able to rotate around ...

, an opening in the game shogi or Japanese chess *

Pinwheel (TV channel) Nickelodeon (often shortened to Nick) is an American pay television channel which launched on April 1, 1979, as the first cable channel for children. It is run by Paramount Global through its networks division's Kids and Family Group. Its ...

, 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 A pinwheel calculator is a class of mechanical calculator described as early as 1685, and popular in the 19th and 20th century, calculating via wheels whose number of teeth were adjustable. These wheels, also called pinwheels, could be set by usin ...

(part of), a type of early mechanical arithmetic machine * ''

Tabernaemontana divaricata ''Tabernaemontana divaricata'', commonly called pinwheel flower, crape jasmine, East India rosebay, and Nero's crown, is an evergreen shrub or small tree native to South Asia, Southeast Asia and China. In zones where it is not hardy it is grown ...

'', also known as pinwheel flower * 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 ''Coenocharopa elegans'', the elegant pinwheel snail, is a species of air-breathing land snails in the family Charopidae Charopidae is a taxonomic family of small air-breathing land snails (and semi-slugs such as '' Otoconcha dimidiata''), ...

'', 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 Babel is a name used in the Hebrew Bible for the city of Babylon and may refer to: Arts and media Written works Books * ''Babel'' (book), by Patti Smith * ''Babel'' (2012 manga), by Narumi Shigematsu * ''Babel'' (2017 manga), by Yūgo Ishika ...

'' * Pinwheel USY, part of United Synagogue Youth covering the Pacific Northwest * Wartenberg wheel, a neurological medical device

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