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A screw is an externally threaded fastener. Screw or screws may also refer to:

Contents

• Engineering and mathematics
• People with the name
• Arts, entertainment, and media
• Music
• Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media
• Other
• See also

Engineering and mathematics

• Devices with a helical thread:
  • Screw (simple machine)
    • Screw thread, screw thread principles and standards
    • Archimedes' screw, a simple machine for transporting water to a higher elevation
  • Leadscrew, a type of screw used to provide controlled and quantifiable movement in machine tools
• Screw (motion), a description of spiral motion used in rigid body dynamics
• Screw propeller
• Screw, some specific pair of vectors (e.g., force+moment or linear+angular velocity); see Screw theory
• Screw axis, the axis of rotation in 3D geometry

People with the name

• Homer Screws (born 1966), American soccer defender
• Kattie B. Screws (born 1930), matriarch of the Jackson family of American singers
• William W. Screws (1839–1913), American politician in Alabama

Arts, entertainment, and media

Other

• Screws v. United States , 1945 US Supreme Court case
• Screw is a slang term for a prison officer in some Commonwealth countries

See also

• Screwed (disambiguation)
• Thumbscrew (disambiguation)

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