Screw (disambiguation)

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

Music

 * Screw (band), a Japanese rock band
 * "Screw" (song), a 2009 song by Japanese singer Kotoko
 * 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 tabloid published and edited by Al Goldstein
 * Screw (TV series), a 2022 British prison-drama series from Channel 4.

Other

 * Screws v. United States, 1945 US Supreme Court case