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Twink (musician)
Twink (John Charles Edward Alder, Mohammed Abdullah since 2006) is an English psychedelic rock drummer and singer of the Fairies, Tomorrow, Pretty Things, Pink Fairies, and Stars, and solo maker of Think Pink (1970).
Twinkie
Twinkie, Hostess snack cake of golden sponge cake with creamy filling, invented April 6, 1930 by James A. Dewar at Continental Baking in River Forest, Illinois; originally banana crème, switched to vanilla in WWII; 45-day shelf life; now owned by J.M. Smucker.
Twinkie Clark
Twinkie Clark (Elbernita Clark, born 1954, Detroit) is an American gospel singer, songwriter, Hammond B-3 organist, and leader of the Clark Sisters, composer of "You Brought the Sunshine" and over 350 songs, an NPR 50 Great Voices honoree and Hammond Organ Hall of Fame member.
Twinkie defense
Twinkie defense: popular name for Dan White's 1979 diminished-capacity defense in the Moscone-Milk killings, where junk food was cited as evidence of depression; the term prompted California's abolition of diminished capacity.
Twinkle Khanna (ट्विंकल खन्ना)
Twinkle Khanna (ट्विंकल खन्ना), also Tina Jatin Khanna, Indian former actress, columnist and author, daughter of Rajesh Khanna and Dimple Kapadia, wife of Akshay Kumar; wrote Mrs Funnybones, The Legend of Lakshmi Prasad, Pyjamas Are Forgiving, Welcome to Paradise.
Twinkle Twinkle Lucky Stars (夏日福星)
Twinkle Twinkle Lucky Stars (夏日福星), also known as Seven Lucky Stars, is a 1985 Hong Kong action comedy directed by Sammo Hung and starring Hung, Jackie Chan, and Yuen Biao.
Twinkle-like protein
Twinkle-like protein (InterPro IPR027032): family of T7 gp4-like SF4 helicases. Twinkle is the ATP-dependent 5'-3' mitochondrial DNA helicase; TWINKLE mutations cause progressive external ophthalmoplegia.
Twinkling Watermelon (반짝이는 워터멜론)
Twinkling Watermelon (반짝이는 워터멜론) is a 2023 tvN Korean fantasy youth drama, 16 episodes, written by Jin Soo-wan, starring Ryeoun, Choi Hyun-wook, Seol In-ah, and Shin Eun-soo; a CODA boy time-slips to 1995 and bands with his teenage father.
Twinless
Twinless is a 2025 American dark comedy-drama written, directed, produced by, and co-starring James Sweeney, with Dylan O'Brien playing twins Roman and Rocky. It won the Sundance 2025 U.S. Dramatic Audience Award and was released September 5, 2025 by Roadside Attractions.
Twinning-induced plasticity
Twinning-induced plasticity (TWIP) is a deformation mechanism where mechanical twinning carries a large share of plastic deformation in FCC metals and alloys, notably high-manganese austenitic steels.
Twinrix
Twinrix is a combination vaccine against hepatitis A and hepatitis B given to adults, produced by GlaxoSmithKline and first approved in the United States in 2001.
Twins (1988 film)
Twins (1988) is an Ivan Reitman comedy starring Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito as genetically engineered fraternal twins; it grossed $216.6 million worldwide on a $15 million budget under a famous back-end salary deal.
Twins Hinahima
Twins Hinahima (ツインズひなひま) is a 2025 one-episode Japanese anime special about twin TikToker high school girls Himari and Hinana, promoted as Japan's first full-scale AI anime with about 95% AI-assisted production, aired March 28, 2025 on Tokyo MX.
Twins in mythology
Twins in mythology: sacred twin and sibling pairs such as the Maya Hero Twins of the Popol Vuh, Quetzalcoatl and Tezcatlipoca, the Dioscuri, and Romulus and Remus, embodying contrasting duality and social ambivalence.
Twins Seven-Seven
Twins Seven-Seven, born Taiwo Olaniyi Oyewale-Toyeje Oyelale Osuntoki, was a Nigerian painter and musician of the Osogbo School whose densely patterned work drew on Yoruba mythology.
TWINSCAN
TWINSCAN is ASML's lithography platform with two wafer stages that swap places, so one wafer is exposed while the next is measured and aligned; announced in 2000, it bases ASML's DUV and EUV scanners.
TWINSPAN
TWINSPAN (Two-Way Indicator Species Analysis) is a hierarchical, divisive classification method for community ecology data, introduced by M. O. Hill in 1979 as a FORTRAN program.
Twintron
Twintron: an intron nested within another intron, first found in Euglena gracilis chloroplast psbF in 1991; the inner intron must splice before the outer one, with cases in bacteria, archaea, fungi, and plants.
Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes family
Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes, an English compound surname joining the Twisleton, Wykeham, and Fiennes lines, tied to the barony of Saye and Sele, Broughton Castle, and to explorer Sir Ranulph Fiennes and actors Ralph and Joseph Fiennes.
Twist and Shout
Twist and Shout is a 1961 song by Phil Medley and Bert Berns, first recorded by the Top Notes, a 1962 hit for the Isley Brothers (#17 pop, #2 R&B), and famous through the Beatles' one-take 1963 Please Please Me cover.
Twist Bioscience (Emily Leproust, Bill Banyai, Bill Peck)
Twist Bioscience, also known as Twist Biosciences, is a synthetic biology company founded in 2013 by Emily Leproust, Bill Banyai, and Bill Peck that manufactures synthetic DNA on silicon chips.
Twist drill
A twist drill is a rotating cutting tool with helical flutes that drills holes in metal, wood, plastic, and masonry, patented by Stephen A. Morse in 1863.
Twist King
Twist King (트위스트 킹) is a 1996 dance song by the South Korean duo Turbo, the title track of their second album New Sensation, which became a million seller.
Twist-angle control of van der Waals heterostructures
Twist-angle control of 2D heterostructures is the set of techniques for setting and adjusting the relative rotation between stacked atomically thin layers, whose angle tunes superconductivity and magnetism.
Twist-bend nematic phase
The twist-bend nematic phase (NTB) is a liquid crystal phase in which the director follows a nanoscale heliconical structure, predicted in 1973 and first observed experimentally in 2011.
Twist-spun carbon nanotube artificial muscle
A twist-spun carbon nanotube artificial muscle is a yarn made by twisting carbon nanotube sheets so heating or charging makes it rotate and contract, first reported in Science in 2011.
TWIST1
TWIST1 (twist family bHLH transcription factor 1, HGNC:12428) is a human chromosome 7p21.1 gene encoding a bHLH transcription factor essential for mesoderm and craniofacial development; mutations cause Saethre-Chotzen syndrome, and overexpression drives cancer EMT and metastasis.
Twista
Twista (Carl Terrell Mitchell, born 1973), Chicago rapper, Guinness fastest rapper 1992 as Tung Twista; broke through via Do or Die's 'Po Pimp' and the 2004 #1 album Kamikaze with 'Slow Jamz.'
Twisted (2004 film)
Twisted (2004) is a psychological thriller directed by Philip Kaufman, starring Ashley Judd as San Francisco inspector Jessica Shepard hunting a killer targeting her ex-lovers, with Samuel L. Jackson and Andy Garcia. Released February 27, 2004, it grossed $40.1 million on a $50 million budget and scored 3% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Twisted (2026 film)
Twisted (2026), formerly The Monster, is an American horror-thriller directed by Darren Lynn Bousman, starring Lauren LaVera and Djimon Hounsou, about con artists renting apartments they don't own; released February 6, 2026 by Republic Pictures, distinct from other films titled Twisted.