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Skein /skeɪn/ may refer to:
- A flock of geese or ducks in flight
- A wound ball of yarn with a centre pull strand; see Hank
- A metal piece fitted over the end of a wagon axle, to which the wheel is mounted
- Skein (unit), a unit of length used by weavers and tailors
- Skein dubh, a Scottish knife
- Skein (fish), the egg sack of the fish eggs and/or the eggs themselves
- Skein module, a mathematical concept
- Skein relation, a mathematical concept often used to give a simple definition of knot polynomials
- Skein (comics), a fictional supervillain in the Marvel Comics universe
- Skein (hash function), a candidate hash function to the NIST hash function competition from Bruce Schneier et al.
See also
edit- The Tangled Skein, a novel by Baroness Orczy
- With a Tangled Skein, a novel by Piers Anthony, book three of Incarnations of Immortality
- Skien
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