Skein may refer to:
- A bundle of strong, elastic fibers or ropes that store relatively large amounts of energy when twisted by a rigid cross beam. Used to power ancient seige engines such as the ballista.
- A long coil of yarn or hair intended for weaving, dyeing, or heat setting. Yarn sold in skeins often needs to be re-wound into spools or balls using a swift depending on the application. A skein is not a specific unit of length.
- The flight of a flock of undomesticated fowl such as wild mallards or wild geese
- Skein relation, a mathematical concept often used to give a simple definition of knot polynomials
- A snaking pattern of machine tools paths used by CNC manufacturing equipment. Refer: SkeinForge
- A winning streak in sports
- Fish eggs still held in the membrane, harvested from unripe fish ie: salmon or trout skein, used as fishing bait to catch the same.
- The Skein Hash Function, a candidate hash function to the NIST hash function competition to replace the SHA family of hash functions.
- Television industry slang for a television show, common in editions of Variety.
In popular culture
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- The Tangled Skein, a novel by Baroness Orczy
- With a Tangled Skein, a novel by Piers Anthony, book three of Incarnations of Immortality
- Skein, a fictional supervillain in the Marvel Comics universe
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