Crimp or crimping may refer to:
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Crimp (climbing)
Glossary of climbing terms relates to rock climbing (including aid climbing, lead climbing, bouldering, and competition climbing), mountaineering, and to ice climbing. ebook:
The terms used can vary between different English-speaking countries; ...
, a small hold with little surface area
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Crimp (gambling), a bent corner of a card to facilitate cheating
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Crimp (joining)
Crimping is a method of joining two or more pieces of metal or other Ductility, ductile material by Deformation (engineering), deforming one or both of them to hold the other. The bend or deformity is called the crimp. Crimping tools are used to ...
, a deformity in metal or food dough used to make a joint. Commonly used to connect electrical components.
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Crimp (recruitment) or shanghaiing, to shanghai or conscript men as sailors
*A style of song in the British comedy series
''The Mighty Boosh''
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Crimp (wool)
Wool classing is the production of uniform, predictable, low-risk lines of wool, carried out by examining the characteristics of the wool in its raw state and classing (grading) it accordingly. Wool classing is done by a wool classer.
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, the number of bends per unit of length
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Crimp (electrical)
Crimping is a method of joining two or more pieces of metal or other ductile material by deforming one or both of them to hold the other. The bend or deformity is called the crimp. Crimping tools are used to create crimps.
Crimping is used exte ...
, a type of solderless connection
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Crimping pliers, tools for squeezing things together
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Grain crimping, an organic way to preserve feed grain
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Hair crimping, a method of styling hair
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Staple remover, also known as a "crimper"
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Crimp, Cornwall, a hamlet in England, United Kingdom
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Douglas Crimp
John Douglas Crimp (August 19, 1944 July 5, 2019) was an American art historian, critic, curator, and AIDS activist. He was known for his scholarly contributions to the fields of postmodern theories and art, institutional critique, dance, film, ...
(1944-2019), American writer, curator, and art historian
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Martin Crimp (born 1956), British playwright
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