Capstan may refer to: * Capstan (band), an American post-hardcore band *

Capstan (cigarette) Capstan is a British brand of unfiltered cigarettes, currently owned and manufactured by Imperial Brands. The brand dwindled in popularity when the health effects of Tobacco smoking, tobacco became more widely known; few shops sell them today. ...

, a brand of British cigarette *

Capstan (nautical) A capstan is a vertical-axled rotating machine developed for use on sailing ships to multiply the pulling force of sailors when hauling ropes, Nautical cable, cables, and hawsers. The principle is similar to that of the windlass, which has a hor ...

, a rotating machine used to control or apply force to another element *

Capstan (tape recorder) A tape transport is the collection of parts of a magnetic tape player or tape recorder, recorder that move the tape and play or record it. Transport parts include the head, capstan, pinch roller, tape pins, and tape guide. The tape transport as a ...

, rotating spindles used to move recording tape through the mechanism of a tape recorder *

Capstan equation The capstan equation or belt friction equation, also known as Euler–Eytelwein formula (after Leonhard Euler and Johann Albert Eytelwein), relates the hold-force to the load-force if a flexible line is wound around a cylinder (a bollard, a wi ...

, formula to describe hold-force in relation to load-force for flexible lines around a cylinder * Horse capstan, a device similar to a windlass used in mining; also called a whim * Slingsby Capstan, a British two-seat glider of the 1960s *

Capstan (software) Celemony Software GmbH is a German musical software company that specializes in digital audio pitch correction software. It produces Melodyne, a popular audio Pitch correction, pitch modification tool similar to Auto-Tune, although the program i ...

, audio restoration program by

Celemony Celemony Software GmbH is a German musical software company that specializes in digital audio pitch correction software. It produces Melodyne, a popular audio pitch modification tool similar to Auto-Tune, although the program itself is manual t ...

which eliminates wow and flutter * Capstan Station, a station on the Canada Line of Metro Vancouver's SkyTrain rapid transit system.

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