Wind-up
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Wind-up or windup may refer to:
- a verb for terminating the existence of a company or other entity with a view to its liquidationLiquidationIn law, liquidation is the process by which a company is brought to an end, and the assets and property of the company redistributed. Liquidation is also sometimes referred to as winding-up or dissolution, although dissolution technically refers to the last stage of liquidation...
and dissolutionDissolution (law)In law, dissolution has multiple meanings.Dissolution is the last stage of liquidation, the process by which a company is brought to an end, and the assets and property of the company redistributed.... - pain wind-upPain wind-upPain wind-up is central pain sensitization caused by repeated painful stimulation of peripheral nerves at sufficient intensity to stimulate group C nerve fibers, leading to progressively increasing electrical response in the corresponding spinal posterior horn neurons...
, central sensitization caused by repeated stimulation of C nociceptors - the windup is one of the two legal pitching positionPitching positionIn baseball, there are two legal pitching positions: the windup, and the set. Each type of pitching position has its strengths and weaknesses. Compared to the set, the windup takes a relatively slower execution, so therefore is better suited for situations in which there are no baserunners, or when...
s in baseball - Wind-up RecordsWind-Up RecordsWind-up Entertainment, Inc. is a record label based in New York City. It was formed in 1997 by Alan Meltzer, former owner of CD One Stop, following his 1996 purchase of Grass Records. Wind-up is currently the largest independently-owned record label in the world...
, a New York record label - Wind It Up (Rewound)Wind It Up (Rewound)"Wind It Up " was the fifth single released by the British electronica/rave act The Prodigy on 29 March 1993. This song, a remix of "Wind It Up", makes extreme use of distortion and noise, and is significantly different than the version featured on Experience. The B-side "We Are the Ruffest"...
, an album by The Prodigy - The Wind-Up Bird ChronicleThe Wind-Up Bird Chronicleis a novel by Haruki Murakami. The first published translation was by Alfred Birnbaum. The American translation and its British adaptation, dubbed the "only official translations" are by Jay Rubin and were first published in 1997...
, a novel - "Wind Up", a song from the 2001 album Full CollapseFull CollapseFull Collapse is Thursday's second album and their debut on Victory Records. It combines post-hardcore influences with melodic elements and personal, emotional lyrics. The album helped to establish Thursday as an immensely popular group in the indie and alternative rock music scenes...
by post-hardcore band Thursday - a noun in UK English slang meaning a prank, or to teaseTeaseTease may refer to:* Teasing* Tease by Piano Overlord* Tease , a U.S. TV series presented by Lisa Rinna...
someone - a verb, meaning to conclude (see winding-up)
- a verb, meaning to tighten a mainspringMainspringA mainspring is a spiral torsion spring of metal ribbon that is the power source in mechanical watches and some clocks. Winding the timepiece, by turning a knob or key, stores energy in the mainspring by twisting the spiral tighter. The force of the mainspring then turns the clock's wheels as it...
powered mechanical device, such as a watch, music box or clockwork toy - Wind Up, a song by Foo Fighters from their 1997 album The Colour and the ShapeThe Colour and the Shape-Track information:DollGrohl stated that is "basically a song about being afraid to enter into something you're not prepared for."Monkey WrenchGrohl stated that it was "a song about realising that you are the source of all of the problems in a relationship and you love the other person so much, you...
. - Wind Up, a song by Jethro Tull off their 1971 album Aqualung (Jethro Tull album)
- integral windupIntegral windupIntegral windup refers to the situation in a PID controller where a large change in setpoint occurs and the integral terms accumulates a significant error during the rise , thus overshooting and continuing to increase as this accumulated error is unwound...
, an error condition that occurs in a PID controller - The Windup GirlThe Windup GirlThe Windup Girl is a biopunk science fiction novel written by Paolo Bacigalupi and published in September 2009. It was named as the ninth best fiction book of 2009 by TIME magazine, and as the best science fiction book of the year in the Reference and User Services Association's 2010 Reading List...
, a science fiction novel by Paolo Bacigalupi