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:

    “Alcohol is nicissary f’r a man so that now an’ thin he can have a good opinion iv himsilf, ondisturbed be th’ facts.”
    —Finley Peter Dunne (1867–1936)

    ““Maman”, said Annaïse, her voice strangely weak. “Here is the water.”
    A thin blade of silver came forward in the plain and the peasants ran alongside it, crying and singing.
    ...
    “Oh, Manuel, Manuel, why are you dead?” moaned Délira.
    “No”, said Annaïse, and she smiled through her tears, “no, he is not dead”.
    She took the old woman’s hand and pressed gently against her belly where new life stirred.”
    —Jacques Roumain (1907–1945)

    “The thirteenth fairy,
    her fingers as long and thin as straws,
    her eyes burnt by cigarettes,
    her uterus an empty teacup,
    arrived with an evil gift.”
    —Anne Sexton (1928–1974)