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'''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]]''
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