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:

    Lodgepole
    coneseed waits for fire
    And then thin forests of silver-grey.
    in the void
    a pine cone falls
    Gary Snyder (b. 1930)

    Beyond this island bound
    By a thin sea of flesh
    And a bone coast ...
    Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)

    ... found myself
    myself, smaller,
    not thin but thinner, nervous,
    who hurries without animal calm.
    Denise Levertov (b. 1923)