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)

    “I remember how they picked me up, a spindly kid,
    Pinching and poking my thin ribs
    Till I lay in their laps, laughing,
    Weak as a whiffet;”
    —Theodore Roethke (1908–1963)

    “It is remarkable with what pure satisfaction the traveler in these woods will reach his camping-ground on the eve of a tempestuous night like this, as if he had got to his inn, and, rolling himself in his blanket, stretch himself on his six-feet-by-two bed of dripping fir twigs, with a thin sheet of cotton for roof, snug as a meadow-mouse in its nest.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)