PINCH

Pinch

A pinch is the compression of an electrically conducting filament by magnetic forces. The conductor is usually a plasma, but could also be a solid or liquid metal. In a z-pinch, the current is axial and the magnetic field azimuthal; in a theta-pinch, the current is azimuthal and the magnetic field is axial. The phenomenon may also be referred to as a "Bennett pinch", "electromagnetic pinch", "magnetic pinch", "pinch effect" or "plasma pinch".

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pinch

Noun

  1. The action of squeezing a small amount of a person's skin and flesh, making it hurt.
  2. A small amount of powder or granules, such that the amount could be held between fingertip and thumb tip.
  3. An awkward situation of some kind (especially money or social) which is difficult to escape.
  4. An organic herbal smoke additive.

Verb

  1. To squeeze a small amount of a person's skin and flesh, making it hurt.
    The children were scolded for pinching each other.
    This shoe pinches my foot.
  2. To steal, usually of something almost trivial or inconsequential.
    Someone has pinched my handkerchief!
  3. To arrest or capture.
  4. To cut shoots or buds of a plant in order to shape the plant, or to improve its yield.
  5. To sail so close-hauled that the sails begin to flutter.
  6. To take hold; to grip, as a dog does.
  7. To be niggardly or covetous.
  8. To seize; to grip; to bite; said of animals.
  9. To cramp; to straiten; to oppress; to starve.
    to be pinched for money
  10. To move, as a railroad car, by prying the wheels with a pinch.


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