Pinion is a round gear, usually to the smaller of two meshed gears.
Pinion may also refer to:
Birds
- Pinion (feather), an outermost primary flight feather on a bird's wing
- Pinioning, the act of surgically removing a bird's pinion joint
People
- Bradley Pinion (born 1994), American football punter
- Joe Pinion (born 1983), American politician
- Offutt Pinion (1924–1961), American sport shooter
Places
Taxonomy
- Pinyon (or pinion, piñon), a group of pines
- Pinion (moth), a number of moths mostly in the family Noctuidae
Other uses
- "Pinion", an instrumental song by Nine Inch Nails from the 1992 EP Broken
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