Kink
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- A twist or bend in something such as ropeRopeA rope is a length of fibres, twisted or braided together to improve strength for pulling and connecting. It has tensile strength but is too flexible to provide compressive strength...
, cableCableA cable is two or more wires running side by side and bonded, twisted or braided together to form a single assembly. In mechanics cables, otherwise known as wire ropes, are used for lifting, hauling and towing or conveying force through tension. In electrical engineering cables are used to carry...
, hairHairHair is a filamentous biomaterial, that grows from follicles found in the dermis. Found exclusively in mammals, hair is one of the defining characteristics of the mammalian class....
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Kink or KINK can refer to:
- Kink (sexual)Kink (sexual)In human sexuality, kinkiness and kinky are terms used to refer to a playful usage of sexual concepts in an accentuated, and unambiguously expressive form....
, a colloquial term for non-normative sexual behavior - KinKKinKKinK was a Canadian documentary television series, which first aired in 2001 on Showcase. The series profiled some of the more unusual edges of human sexuality, primarily the kink and fetish scenes. It was filmed in Montreal, Toronto, Vancouver and Winnipeg; the fifth season, set in Halifax, Nova...
, a Canadian documentary television series profiling some of the more unusual edges of human sexuality - KINKKINKKINK, also kink.fm, is an American commercial broadcast FM radio station in Portland, Oregon. The station began broadcasting Christmas Day, 1968 as “KINK – The Underground Link”...
-FM (101.9), a radio station in Portland, Oregon, in the United States - Kink FMKink FMKink FM described itself as the only commercial radio station in the Netherlands dedicated entirely to alternative music.In 1992 Dutch radio station RTL Radio started broadcasting. After this station failed to be a success, its format and name was first changed to RTL Rockradio, then to Happy RTL...
, a radio station in the Netherlands - The KinksThe KinksThe Kinks were an English rock band formed in Muswell Hill, North London, by brothers Ray and Dave Davies in 1964. Categorised in the United States as a British Invasion band, The Kinks are recognised as one of the most important and influential rock acts of the era. Their music was influenced by a...
, a British rock band - A colloquial term for a trigger pointTrigger pointTrigger points, also known as trigger sites or muscle knots, are described as hyperirritable spots in skeletal muscle that are associated with palpable nodules in taut bands of muscle fibers. Trigger point practitioners believe that palpable nodules are small contraction knots and a common cause of...
- Kinks are solutions to the Sine-Gordon equationSine-Gordon equationThe sine–Gordon equation is a nonlinear hyperbolic partial differential equation in 1 + 1 dimensions involving the d'Alembert operator and the sine of the unknown function. It was originally considered in the nineteenth century in the course of study of surfaces of constant negative...
- Sun kinkSun kinkSun kink refers to a condition that can occur on hot days in rail tracks. The phenomenon is caused by what is properly termed as buckling.The buckling force in the track due to warming up is a function of the rise in temperature only and is independent of the track length: F = E A \alpha_L \Delta...
, a buckling of railway tracks caused by high temperature. - Kink.comKink.comKink.com is a San Francisco-based internet pornography company that runs a group of websites devoted to catfighting, BDSM and related fetishes.-Hogtied:...
, an internet pornographyInternet pornographyInternet pornography is pornography that is distributed by means of various sectors of the Internet, primarily via websites, peer-to-peer file sharing, or Usenet newsgroups...
company focusing on BDSMBDSMBDSM is an erotic preference and a form of sexual expression involving the consensual use of restraint, intense sensory stimulation, and fantasy power role-play. The compound acronym BDSM is derived from the terms bondage and discipline , dominance and submission , and sadism and masochism...
and related fetishesSexual fetishismSexual fetishism, or erotic fetishism, is the sexual arousal a person receives from a physical object, or from a specific situation. The object or situation of interest is called the fetish, the person a fetishist who has a fetish for that object/situation. Sexual fetishism may be regarded, e.g... - Kerberized Internet Negotiation of KeysKerberized Internet Negotiation of KeysKerberized Internet Negotiation of Keys is a protocol defined in RFC 4430 used to set up an IPsec security association , similar to Internet Key Exchange , utilizing the Kerberos protocol to allow trusted third parties to handle authentication of peers and management of security policies in a...
, a Kerberos-based protocol used in IPSecIPsecInternet Protocol Security is a protocol suite for securing Internet Protocol communications by authenticating and encrypting each IP packet of a communication session...
similar to Internet Key ExchangeInternet key exchangeInternet Key Exchange is the protocol used to set up a security association in the IPsec protocol suite. IKE builds upon the Oakley protocol and ISAKMP... - Tarmo KinkTarmo KinkTarmo Kink is an Estonian professional footballer, who plays in English Football League Championship, for Middlesbrough. He is an attacking left-footed winger or striker and is also a member of the Estonia national football team....
(born 1985), Estonian football player - delta Kink an optical equipment parameter that signifies the percentage of slope dPf/dIf