Pinch 865070 211541905 2008-05-10T22:05:26Z Thijs!bot 1392310 robot Adding: [[fr:Prise]] {{wiktionarypar|pinch}} '''Pinch''' may refer to: * [[Pinch (cooking)]], a very small amount of an ingredient, typically salt or a spice * [[Pinch (plasma physics)]], the compression of a plasma filament by magnetic forces, or a device which uses this effect for magnetic fusion energy (the [[Z-pinch]] is a special case of such a device) * The point of maximum constraint or minimum flow in various [[chemical engineering]] processes * [[Pinch temperature]], the key point in a process when using [[pinch analysis]] techniques to minimise energy use * [[Pinch, West Virginia]] * ''[[Pinched]]'', a 1917 film starring Harold Lloyd Pinch is also the name of several people: * [[John Pinch]] the elder (1770–1827) and younger (1796–1849), British architects in Bath * [[Trevor Pinch]] (born 1953), British sociologist at Cornell University * [[Pinch (drummer)]], British musician, current drummer of punk band The Damned * Tom Pinch and Ruth Pinch, characters in the Charles Dickens novel ''[[Martin Chuzzlewit]]'' {{disambig}} [[de:Prise]] [[fr:Prise]]