Look up skein in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Skein /skeɪn/ may refer to: A flock of geese or ducks in flight A wound ball of yarn with a centre pull...

A skein is a unit of length which has been used in the UK. As a measuring unit of cotton yarn or of silk, a skein equates to a "rap" or a "lea". One skein...

Skein relations are a mathematical tool used to study knots. A central question in the mathematical theory of knots is whether two knot diagrams represent...

Skein (real name Sybil Dvorak, also known as Gypsy Moth and Sybarite) is a supervillain appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics....

yarn in skeins. Unlike other types of yarn balls, a skein allows you to access both ends of the yarn. The yarn end in the inside of the skein is called...

candidate Keccak. The name Skein refers to how the Skein function intertwines the input, similar to a skein of yarn. Skein was created by Bruce Schneier...

With a Tangled Skein is a fantasy novel by Piers Anthony. It is the third of eight books in the Incarnations of Immortality series. In it, Niobe agrees...

now called the Alexander–Conway polynomial, could be computed using a skein relation, although its significance was not realized until the discovery...

by Józef H. Przytycki and Paweł Traczyk. The polynomial is defined using skein relations: P ( u n k n o t ) = 1 , {\displaystyle P(\mathrm {unknot} )=1...

A niddy-noddy is a tool used to make skeins from yarn. It consists of a central bar, with crossbars at each end, offset from each other by 90°. The central...

Peter Skene Ogden (alternately Skeene, Skein, or Skeen; baptised 12 February 1790 – 27 September 1854) was a British-Canadian fur trader and an early...

The Tangled Skein was Baroness Orczy's second novel. First published under the title In Mary's Reign in 1901,[citation needed] it was re-released under...

Winding the Skein is an oil painting by Frederic Leighton, first exhibited in 1878. Two canvases by Leighton were hung at the Royal Academy in 1878, the...

coordinate ring of the character variety has been related to skein modules in knot theory. The skein module is roughly a deformation (or quantization) of the...

The sgian-dubh (/ˌskiːən ˈduː/ skee-ən-DOO; Scottish Gaelic pronunciation: [s̪kʲənˈt̪u]) – also anglicized as skene-dhu – is a small, single-edged knife...

bolts instead of stones. It was also known as a 'skein-bow', and was a torsion device using twisted skeins of silk or sinew to power two bow-arms. The springald...

length of yarn is measured (usually a skein). The pointer allows the spinner to see how close they are to reaching a skein. The weasel's gear ratio is typically...

manufacturer and by product, a skein is usually considered 1/6th of a hank (either by weight or by length). One source identifies a skein of stranded cotton as...

Walpole – from left to right, Charlotte (holding a skein of silk), Elizabeth (winding Charlotte's skein onto a card) and Anna (producing tambour lace). Exhibited...

Kkul-tarae (Korean: 꿀타래; lit. "honey skein") is a Korean dessert based on the Chinese Dragon's beard candy. It is popular as street food in Korean streets...

Kazunoko (数の子), in Japanese cuisine, are the eggs or the ovaries (egg skeins) of the Pacific herring (Japanese: kazunoko nishin) that have been salted...

village its name. Various other transliterations and spellings (Skeen, Skin, Skein, Sk'in-pam) are also used to refer to the group. The Skinpah were extensive...

In female human anatomy, Skene's glands or the Skene glands (/skiːn/ SKEEN, also known as the lesser vestibular glands or paraurethral glands) are two...

group of geese on the ground is a gaggle; when in flight, they are called a skein, a team, or a wedge; when flying close together, they are called a plump...

A wrap reel or skein winder is a device for measuring yarn and making it into hanks of a standard size. The reel is of a standard size and its revolutions...

Threefish is a symmetric-key tweakable block cipher designed as part of the Skein hash function, an entry in the NIST hash function competition. Threefish...

are engaged to solve the disappearance of Rudolf Rassendyll. The Tangled Skein (1992): Holmes battles Count Dracula in a re-imagining of the events of...

Vanguard Films which produces live-action and animated (through its sister skein Vanguard Animation) products. Williams was born in Manhattan, New York City...

a skein relation for a version of the Alexander polynomial, usually referred to as the Alexander–Conway polynomial. The significance of this skein relation...

taking the value 1 on any diagram of the unknot and satisfies the following skein relation: ( t 1 / 2 − t − 1 / 2 ) V ( L 0 ) = t − 1 V ( L + ) − t V ( L...