Technology
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Spinner (aeronautics), the aerodynamic cone at the hub of an aircraft propeller
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Spinner (cell culture)
A Spinner is a type of bioreactor which features an impeller, stirrer or similar device to agitate the contents (usually a mixture of cells, medium and products like proteins that can be harvested). The vessels are usually made out of glass or ...
, laboratory equipment for cultivating plant or mammalian cells
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Spinner (computing)
A spinner or numeric updown is a graphical control element with which a user may adjust a value in an adjoining text box by either clicking on an up or down arrow, by pressing an arrow key down or moving mouse wheel, causing the value in the tex ...
, a graphical widget in a GUI
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Spinner (MIT Media Lab)
The MIT Media Lab is a research laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, growing out of MIT's Architecture Machine Group in the MIT School of Architecture and Planning, School of Architecture. Its research does not restrict to fi ...
, software that can automatically edit video to fit a narrative structure
Arts and entertainment
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''Spinner'' (album), a 1995 album by Brian Eno & Jah Wobble
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Spinner (Blade Runner), a flying car from the film ''Blade Runner''
People
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Spinner (surname)
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Brian Spencer (1949–1988), Canadian National Hockey League player nicknamed "Spinner"
Fictional characters
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Spinner (''My Hero Academia''), a character in the manga series ''My Hero Academia''
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Spinner Mason, in the TV series ''Degrassi: The Next Generation''
*Spinner, in the animated TV series ''
Clutch Cargo''
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Dorothy Spinner, a DC Comics character.
*Spinner, a villain of
Batman
Batman is a superhero appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. The character was created by artist Bob Kane and writer Bill Finger, and debuted in the 27th issue of the comic book '' Detective Comics'' on March 30, 1939 ...
from
DC Comics
DC Comics, Inc. (doing business as DC) is an American comic book publisher and the flagship unit of DC Entertainment, a subsidiary of Warner Bros. Discovery.
DC Comics is one of the largest and oldest American comic book companies, with their f ...
Sports and games
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Spinner (dominoes), a domino tile that may be played on four ways
*a
spin bowler in cricket
*a style of delivery in
Ten-pin bowling
Ten-pin bowling is a type of bowling in which a bowler rolls a bowling ball down a wood or synthetic lane toward ten pins positioned evenly in four rows in an equilateral triangle. The objective is to knock down all ten pins on the first roll ...
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Fidget spinner, a stress relieving toy
Other uses
*a person who
spins textiles
*a person who engages in
article spinning
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Spinnerbait, a type of fishing lure
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Spinner (website)
Spinner was an online music and entertainment service. An AOL Music property, it was acquired by AOL on June 1, 1999, along with Nullsoft for $400 million. Based in San Francisco, California, the website was the first Internet music service and ...
, a music website owned by AOL
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Spinner (wheel), an accessory that goes on an automobile wheel and spins independently
*Spinner, a locomotive of the former
Midland Railway 115 Class in the UK
*a machine used to do
spin coating in manufacturing
*a wind spinner or
whirligig
See also
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Spinner dolphin
The spinner dolphin (''Stenella longirostris'') is a small dolphin found in off-shore tropical waters around the world. It is famous for its acrobatic displays in which it rotates around its longitudinal axis as it leaps through the air. It is a ...
, a dolphin species
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Spinner shark, a shark species
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Spinor
In geometry and physics, spinors are elements of a complex vector space that can be associated with Euclidean space. Like geometric vectors and more general tensors, spinors transform linearly when the Euclidean space is subjected to a sligh ...
(mathematics)
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Spinners (disambiguation)
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Bamboo-copter, a spinner toy
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