Twin (disambiguation)
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Twin is most often used to refer to a pair of any similar objects or concepts:
- Twins are two siblings which gestated and were born together. types of twins include:
- Fraternal twins
- Identical twins
- Siamese, or Conjoined twins
- Multiple births, while not necessarily twins, are sometimes referred to as "multiple twins".
- Twin can also refer to a doppelgänger or clone.
- Twins are often a central theme in mythology.
- Twin Towers are any of a number of matching structures, most notably the former World Trade Center in New York City
- Twin city or twin town may refer to
- Twin cities: two towns or cities that are geographically close to each other, and often referred to collectively.
- Town twinning or sister cities: two distant cities agree to partner each other, for various reasons.
- A Twin prime is a prime number that differ from another prime number by two.
- Two crystallites which share atoms at repeated intervals and have only a minor difference in orientation. These meet at a twin boundary.
Other uses twin may refer to:
- Twins is a Hong Kong-based Cantopop musical group. It is also the the name of their self-titled album, Twins.
- Twins is a 1988 comedy film staring Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito.
- Twin is a standard bed, mattress, or sheet size.
- The Twin paradox is a thought experiment in special relativity.
- The Minnesota Twins of Major League Baseball take their name from the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul.
- See also: list of all pages beginning with "Twin", Category:Identical twins, and List of twins.
