PIN may be an abbreviation for:
- Personal identification number, a password used to access an automated teller machine or other secured system
- Blackberry PIN, an eight character hexadecimal identification number assigned to a BlackBerry device
- People In Need (disambiguation) (PIN), various NGOs and charities
- Person In Need of Supervision (PINS), a truant in family court
- PIN diode (p-type, intrinsic, n-type diode), a type of a semiconductor diode
- PIN Group, a German courier and postal services company
- Postal Index Number, used in India, often called a PIN code
- Posterior interosseous nerve, a nerve in the forearm
- Progressive inflammatory neuropathy, a type of neuropathy that causes acute paralysis, weakness, and numbness
- Prostatic intraepithelial neoplasia, a microscopic lesion in the prostate which is thought to be a precursor to prostate cancer
Famous quotes containing the word pin:
“To pin your hopes upon the future is to consign those hopes to a hypothesis, which is to say, a nothingness. Here and now is what we must contend with.”
—Angela Carter (1940–1992)
“It is not, truly speaking, the labour that is divided; but the men: divided into mere segments of men—broken into small fragments and crumbs of life, so that all the little piece of intelligence that is left in a man is not enough to make a pin, or a nail, but exhausts itself in making the point of a pin or the head of a nail.”
—John Ruskin (1819–1900)
“What pursuit is more elegant than that of collecting the ignominies of our nature and transfixing them for show, each on the bright pin of a polished phrase?”
—Logan Pearsall Smith (1865–1946)