Skein
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- A traditional English collective noun for a flock of wildfowl such as ducks, geese, or swans in flight
- A wound ball of yarn with a center-pull strand: see hank
- A metal sleeve fitted over the end of a wagon axle, to which the wheel is mounted
- Skein dubh or sgian-dubh, a Scottish knife
- Skein (unit), a unit of length used by weavers and tailors
Fiction
[edit]- Skein (character), a Marvel Comics supervillain
- The Tangled Skein, a novel by Baroness Orczy
- With a Tangled Skein, a novel by Piers Anthony
Mathematics
[edit]- Skein (graph theory), a subgraph of a graph formed by paths connecting a given pair of vertices
- Skein (hash function), a cryptographic hash function submitted to the NIST competition
- Skein module, a mathematical structure used in knot theory
- Skein relation, a key identity used to define knot polynomials
See also
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