Pinion (disambiguation)

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Pinion is a round gear, usually the smaller of two meshed gears.

Pinion may also refer to:

Birds

  • Pinion (feather), an outermost primary flight feather on a bird's wing
  • Pinioning, the act of surgically removing a bird's pinion joint

People

Places

Taxonomy

  • Pinyon (or pinion, piñon), a group of pines
  • Pinion (moth), a number of moths mostly in the family Noctuidae

Other uses

  • "Pinion", an instrumental song by Nine Inch Nails from the 1992 EP Broken
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