Crossword clues for pinwheel
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. 1 an artificial flower with the stem, usually in plastic, for children; the flower spins round in the wind. 2 a firework which forms a kind of spinning wheel 3 A cogged (toothed) gear. vb. To spin.
WordNet
n. perennial subshrub of Tenerife having leaves in rosettes resembling pinwheels [syn: Aeonium haworthii]
circular-shaped firework; spins round and round [syn: catherine wheel]
Wikipedia
Pinwheel was a children's television show that aired on the Nickelodeon cable network from 1977 to 1990. The show originally aired on channel C-3 of Warner Cable's interactive system QUBE in Columbus, Ohio, and it began airing on Nickelodeon when it first launched in April 1979.
A pinwheel is a children's toy that spins when blown.
Pinwheel may also refer to:
- Catherine wheel (firework), also known as a pinwheel
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Pinwheel (TV series), a children's show on Nickelodeon that ran from 1977-1990.
- Pinwheel (TV channel), a channel which would later be the Nickelodeon channel
- Pinwheel cookie
- Pinwheel (origami), a type of traditional origami form that can be used as a toy pinwheel, as a base for more complicated models, or as a component of modular origami such as the Tamatebako.
- Pinwheel (cryptography), a device for producing a short pseudo-random sequence of bits
- Pinwheel Galaxy (astronomy)
- Pinwheel calculator (part of), a type of early mechanical arithmetic machine
- "Pinwheels", a poem by Patti Smith from her 1978 book Babel
- The Wartenberg wheel, a neurological medical device
- The Pinwheel Region, part of United Synagogue Youth covering the Pacific Northwest
- Pinwheel tilings, aperiodic tilings of the plane whose tiles appear in infinitely many orientations.
In cryptography, a pinwheel was a device for producing a short pseudorandom sequence of bits (determined by the machine's initial settings), as a component in a cipher machine. A pinwheel consisted of a rotating wheel with a certain number of positions on its periphery. Each position had a "pin", " cam" or "lug" which could be either "set" or "unset". As the wheel rotated, each of these pins would in turn affect other parts of the machine, producing a series of "on" or "off" pulses which would repeat after one full rotation of the wheel. If the machine contained more than one wheel, usually their periods would be relatively prime to maximize the combined period.
Pinwheels might be turned through a purely mechanical action (as in the M-209) or electromechanically (as in the Lorenz SZ 40/42). Other cipher machines which used pinwheels include the C-52, the CD-57 and the Siemens and Halske T52.
Pinwheels can be viewed as a predecessor to the electronic linear feedback shift register (LFSR), used in later cryptosystems.
A pinwheel is a simple child's toy made of a wheel of paper or plastic curls attached at its axle to a stick by a pin. It is designed to spin when blown upon by a person or by the wind. It is a predecessor to more complex whirligigs.
Usage examples of "pinwheel".
Niles smiled as Russell tumbled from the loft in counterfeit glee, hurtling through the air, his arms pinwheeling, his body arcing into space and dropping out of the light into blackness, his voice ricocheting from the recesses of the barn as he landed with a thud in the haymow twenty feet away across the threshing floor.
The image of the moon pinwheeled as the Space Command pilot went through a victory roll, then slipped out of the viewer as they pulled their Speeds back toward the darkness.
Above my workstation, a pinwheel spins lazily in the draft of the ventilation system.
He was halfway to the building, running splayfooted, arms making ragged pinwheels at his sides.
He did not have time to consider the implications of a blow powerful enough to send a twelve-hundredton Privateer-class patrol ship tumbling like a pinwheel, nor the fact that the blow itself was the reaction from most of the Weasers air exhausting to space in explosive decompression.
Clusters and metagalaxies formed, and actual galaxies began to pinwheel into their familiar spiral forms.
The thief pinwheeled across the tops of the grass like a skipped stone, and came to a gentle, dizzy landing three hundred feet away.
It was so dark that she kept squeezing her eyes shut just to see the pinwheeling colors form on her eyelids.
Sunbright glimpsed two surprised faces topped by red hair, and felt his own craft lurch from the added weight and the pinwheeling of the hooked wing.
I decide to turn on my swiveling fan so all the pinwheels and spin spirals can spin together, filling my office with twinkling light.
Stacy looking at all the twinklies, the spin spirals and pinwheels and other decorations.
I send the wood flying out into the corridor among the Cats, then I smash the pinwheel into the wall at my side, exploding the planks into what I hope is a blinding cloud of splinters and sawdust.
Dogtown was a chaotic subcluster, pinwheeling slowly to itself above the rotational axis of C-K.
Hundreds of yards and hundreds of passengers away, Gwyn Barry, practically horizontal on his crimson barge, shod in prestige stockings and celebrity slippers, assenting with a smile to the coaxing refills of Alpine creekwater and sanguinary burgundy with which his various young hostesses strove to enhance his caviar tartlet, his smoked-salmon pinwheel and asparagus barquette, his prime fillet tournedos served on a timbale of tomato and a tapenade of Castilian olivesGwyn was in First.
His knights were forming their pinwheel, racing ahead of him in a line to cut off reavers that thundered into battle, their thick carapaces crashing against the stony ground.