# Pinwheel

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'''Pinwheel''' may refer to:

* [Pinwheel (toy)](/source/Pinwheel_(toy)), a spinning children's toy
* [Pinwheel (cryptography)](/source/Pinwheel_(cryptography)), a device for producing a short pseudo-random sequence of bits
* [Pinwheel (shogi)](/source/Pinwheel_(shogi)), an opening in the game shogi or Japanese chess
* [Pinwheel (TV channel)](/source/Pinwheel_(TV_channel)), a channel which would later turn into Nickelodeon
* [''Pinwheel'' (TV series)](/source/Pinwheel_(TV_series)), a children's show on Nickelodeon that ran from 1977 to 1984
* [Pinwheel calculator](/source/Pinwheel_calculator) (part of), a type of early mechanical arithmetic machine
* [Pinwheel escapement](/source/Pinwheel_escapement), part of a mechanical clock
* ''[Tabernaemontana divaricata](/source/Tabernaemontana_divaricata)'', also known as pinwheel flower
* [Pinwheel scheduling](/source/Pinwheel_scheduling), problem of devising a rotating sequence of tasks with given frequencies
* [Pinwheel tiling](/source/Pinwheel_tiling)s, aperiodic tilings of the plane whose tiles appear in infinitely many orientations
* [Catherine wheel (firework)](/source/Catherine_wheel_(firework)), a form of pyrotechnic display device also known as a pinwheel
* ''[Coenocharopa elegans](/source/Coenocharopa_elegans)'', 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](/source/Babel_(book))''
* Pinwheel USY, part of [United Synagogue Youth](/source/United_Synagogue_Youth) covering the Pacific Northwest
* [Wartenberg wheel](/source/Wartenberg_wheel), a neurological medical device

== See also ==
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* [Pinwheel Galaxy (disambiguation)](/source/Pinwheel_Galaxy_(disambiguation))

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