Screw (disambiguation)
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- Devices with a helical thread:
- Screw (simple machine)
- Screw thread, screw thread principles and standards
- Archimedes' screw, a simple machine for transporting water to a higher elevation
- Leadscrew, a type of screw used to provide controlled and quantifiable movement in machine tools
- Screw (simple machine)
- Screw (motion), a description of spiral motion used in rigid body dynamics
- Screw propeller
- Screw, some specific pair of vectors (e.g., force+moment or linear+angular velocity); see Screw theory
- Screw axis, the axis of rotation in 3D geometry
People with the name
- Homer Screws (born 1966), American soccer defender
- Kattie B. Screws (born 1930), matriarch of the Jackson family of American singers
- William W. Screws (1839–1913), American politician in Alabama
