Thin

Thin may refer to:

  • People with lean narrow physiques, see emaciation and underweight
  • Thin client, computer in client-server architecture networks
  • Thin film, material layer of about 1 µm thickness
  • Thin-film deposition, any technique for depositing a thin film of material onto a substrate or onto previously deposited layers
  • Thin film memory, high-speed variation of core memory developed by Sperry Rand in a government-funded research project
  • Thin-film optics, the branch of optics that deals with very thin structured layers of different materials
  • Thin layer chromatography (TLC), a chromatography technique used in chemistry to separate chemical compounds
  • Thin layers (oceanography), congregations of phytoplankton and zooplankton in the water column
  • Thin lens, lens with a thickness that is negligible compared to the focal length of the lens in optics
  • Thin Lizzy, Irish rock band who formed in Dublin in 1969
  • The Thin Man, 1933 mystery novel by Dashiell Hammett
  • The Thin Man (film), the first of six comic detective films starring William Powell and Myrna Loy
  • Thin (film), an HBO television documentary about eating disorders by Lauren Greenfield
  • Thin (web server), a Ruby web-server based on Mongrel

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Famous quotes containing the word thin:

    “An actor must communicate his author’s given message—comedy, tragedy, serio- comedy; then comes his unique moment, as he is confronted by the looked-for, yet at times unexpected, reaction of the audience. This split second is his; he is in command of his medium; the effect vanishes into thin air; but that moment has a power all its own and, like power in any form, is stimulating and alluring.”
    —Eleanor Robson Belmont (1878–1979)

    “To higher or lower ends, they [the majority of mankind] move too often with something of a sad countenance, with hurried and ignoble gait, becoming, unconsciously, something like thorns, in their anxiety to bear grapes; it being possible for people, in the pursuit of even great ends, to become themselves thin and impoverished in spirit and temper, thus diminishing the sum of perfection in the world, at its very sources.”
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    “The seasons alter; hoary-headed frosts
    Fall in the fresh lap of the crimson rose,
    And on old Hiems’ thin and icy crown
    An odorous chaplet of sweet summer buds
    Is, as in mockery, set.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)