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
  • "Screws", a 2008 song by Psapp from The Camel's Back
  • 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 magazine
  • Screw (TV series), 2022 UK prison drama

Other

  • Screws v. United States, 1945 US Supreme Court case
  • Screw is a slang term for a prison officer in some Commonwealth countries

See also

  • Screwed (disambiguation)
  • Thumbscrew (disambiguation)