Screw (disambiguation)

A screw is an externally threaded fastener. "Screw" or "screws" may also refer to:

Engineering and mathematics

• 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 (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

Arts, entertainment, and media

Music

• Screw (band), a Japanese rock band
• "Screw" (song), a 2009 song by Japanese singer Kotoko
• A Screw, an EP by Swans
• Chopped and screwed music, a technique of remixing hip hop music by slowing the tempo
• "(Let's Dance) The Screw", a 1963 song by The Crystals

Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media

• Screw (magazine), a pornographic tabloid published and edited by Al Goldstein
• Screw (TV series), a 2022 British prison-drama series from Channel 4.

Other

• Screws v. United States, 1945 US Supreme Court case
• Screw is a slang name for a Prison Officer.

See also

• Screwed (disambiguation)
• Thumbscrew (disambiguation)