Skein

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Skein may refer to:

  • A flock of geese or ducks in V formation flight
  • A wound ball of yarn with a center pull strand, see hank
  • TV Series, used part of Variety's slanguage.
  • Skein dubh, a Scottish knife
  • Skein module, a mathematical concept
  • Skein relation, a mathematical concept often used to give a simple definition of knot polynomials
  • Skein (comics), a fictional supervillain in the Marvel Comics universe
  • Skein (hash function), a candidate hash function to the NIST hash function competition from Bruce Schneier et al.

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