Pinwheel

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A pinwheel is a children's toy that spins when blown.

Pinwheel may also refer to:

• Catherine wheel (firework), also known as a pinwheel
• Pinwheel (TV series), a children's show on Nickelodeon that ran from 1977-1990.
  • Pinwheel (TV channel), a channel which would later turn into Nickelodeon
• 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
• Elegant pinwheel snail (Coenocharopa elegans), a land snail found in Queensland, Australia