Trim or TRIM may refer to:

Cutting

Cutting Cutting is the separation or opening of a physical object, into two or more portions, through the application of an acutely directed force. Implements commonly used for wikt:cut, cutting are the knife and saw, or in medicine and science the sca ...

or trimming small pieces off something to remove them ** Book trimming, a stage of the publishing process **

Pruning Pruning is the selective removal of certain parts of a plant, such as branches, buds, or roots. It is practiced in horticulture (especially fruit tree pruning), arboriculture, and silviculture. The practice entails the targeted removal of di ...

, trimming as a form of pruning often used on trees

Decoration

Trim (sewing) Trim or trimming in clothing and home decorating is applied ornament, such as Gimp (thread), gimp, passementerie, ribbon, Ruffle (sewing), ruffles, or, as a verb, to apply such ornament. Before the Industrial Revolution, all trim was made and ...

, ornaments applied to clothing or other textiles * , trimmings, ornaments fastened to women's hats *

Trim package Trim levels are used by manufacturers to identify a vehicle's level of equipment or special features. The equipment and features fitted to a particular vehicle also depend on any options packages or individual options that the car was ordered wi ...

, a set of cosmetic embellishments to a car or other vehicle * Trim, a kind of decorative molding, typically around an opening

Places

Trim, County Meath Trim () is a town in County Meath, Ireland. It is situated on the River Boyne and, as of the 2022 census of Ireland, 2022 census, had a population of 9,563. The town is in a Civil parishes in Ireland, civil parish of the same name. The town ...

, a town in Ireland **

Trim Castle Trim Castle () is a castle on the south bank of the River Boyne in Trim, County Meath, Ireland, with an area of 30,000 m2. Over a period of 30 years, it was built by Hugh de Lacy, Lord of Meath, Hugh de Lacy and his son Walter de Lacy, ...

, a castle in Ireland * Trim Station (OC Transpo), a bus station in Ottawa, Canada * Trim Road, Ottawa, Canada

Science and technology

* HP TRIM Records Management System, computer software *

Trim (computing) A trim command (known as TRIM in the ATA command set, and UNMAP in the SCSI command set) allows an operating system to inform a solid-state drive (SSD) which blocks of data are no longer considered to be "in use" and therefore can be erased in ...

, a solid-state drive erasure optimization command * Trimming (computer programming), using a computer command to trim whitespace from the ends of text * Transport of ions in matter, a computer program * Tripartite motif family, a protein family * Trim, adjustment of an electronic trimmer * Transfusion-related immunomodulation, a potential adverse effect of blood transfusion

Transport

* Automotive trim level - a feature of a car *

Trim tab Trim tabs are small surfaces connected to the trailing edge of a larger Flight control surfaces, control surface on a boat or aircraft, used to control the trim of the controls, i.e. to counteract hydro- or aerodynamic forces and stabilise the ...

, in aircraft and boats, an adjustable surface part of a larger control surface used to maintain a desired orientation * Trim, adjustment of a

sail A sail is a tensile structure, which is made from fabric or other membrane materials, that uses wind power to propel sailing craft, including sailing ships, sailboats, windsurfers, ice boats, and even sail-powered land vehicles. Sails may b ...

on a ship or boat * Trim (sailing ballast), adjustment of

sailing ballast Ballast is weight placed low in ships to lower their centre of gravity, which increases stability (more technically, to provide a righting moment to resist any heeling moment on the hull). Insufficiently ballasted boats tend to tip or heel e ...

* Trim (ship), the variation from horizontal on the longitudinal axis

Entertainment

* Trim height, the height in a theatre at which a

batten A batten is most commonly a strip of solid material, historically wood but can also be of plastic, metal, or fiberglass. Battens are variously used in construction, sailing, and other fields. In the lighting industry, battens refer to linea ...

is used * "Trim" (song), by Playboi Carti and Future *"Trim", a song by Atmosphere from the album '' Mi Vida Local'', 2018 *"Trim", a song by Underworld from the album '' A Hundred Days Off'', 2002 * Trim (rapper) (born 1984), English grime MC from London * '' Trimmed'', a 1922 film starring Hoot Gibson

Other uses

* Corporal Trim, a fictional character in ''

The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman ''The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman'', also known as ''Tristram Shandy'', is a humorous novel by Laurence Sterne. It was published in nine volumes, the first two appearing in 1759, and seven others following over the next sev ...

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Editing Editing is the process of selecting and preparing written language, written, Image editing, visual, Audio engineer, audible, or Film editing, cinematic material used by a person or an entity to convey a message or information. The editing p ...

** Trimming, editing a

posting style When a message is replied to in e-mail, Internet forums, or Usenet, the original can often be included, or "quoted", in a variety of different posting styles. The main options are interleaved posting (also called inline replying, in which the d ...

in online discourse *

Trim (cat) Trim (1799–1804) was a ship's cat which accompanied Matthew Flinders on his voyages to Circumnavigation, circumnavigate and map the coastline of Australia from 1801 to 1803. Biography Trim was born in 1799 aboard the ship , on a voyage f ...

, Matthew Flinders' cat, the first feline to circumnavigate Australia * Trade Related Investment Measures, rules of the World Trade Organization

People with the surname

* Albert Trim (1875-1954), Australian rules footballer * Andrew Trim (born 1968), Australian Olympic athlete * David Trim (born 1969), Indian historian *

John Trim (cricketer) John Trim (25 January 1915 – 12 November 1960) was a West Indies cricket team, West Indian cricketer who played in four Test cricket, Tests from 1948 to 1952. A barrel-chested right-arm fast-medium bowler and right-handed lower-order batsman f ...

(1915-1960), West Indian cricketer * John Trim (linguist) (1924-2013), English linguist * Judith Trim (1943-2001), English studio potter * Kibwe Trim (born 1984), Trinidad and Tobago businessman and former basketball player * Michael Trim (television producer) (born 1945), American cinematographer * Mike Trim (born 1945), English artist * Ted Trim (1907-1989), Australian rules footballer