Usually means: Securing something in a fixed position.
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We found 24 dictionaries that define the word pinning:

General (16 matching dictionaries)
  1. pinning: Merriam-Webster
  2. pinning: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. pinning: Collins English Dictionary
  4. pinning: Vocabulary.com
  5. Pinning, pinning: Wordnik
  6. pinning: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. pinning: Wiktionary
  8. Pinning, pinning: Dictionary.com
  9. pinning: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. Pinning: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. Pinning: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. pinning: Rhymezone
  13. Pinning: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. pinning: FreeDictionary.org
  15. pinning: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. pinning: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pinning: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pinning: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. pinning: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. pinning: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pinning: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pinning: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Coal Mining Terms (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (pinning)

▸ noun:  The action of the verb pin in any sense.
▸ noun:  A ceremony in which a pin badge is given.
▸ noun:  (physics) The establishment of the definite quantum state of a particle, or of the occupation number of a system of particles

Similar:
stapled, fastened, pinhold, preen, packing, riveting, tying, potting, hooking, penetration, more...

Opposite:
unpinning

Types:
safety pin, bobby pin, straight pin, pearl pin, hat pin, lapel pin, stick pin, locking pin, more...

Phrases:
pinning down, intramedullary pinning, Zener pinning, pinning ears back, pinning faith on, more...

Adjectives:
percutaneous, strong, intramedullary, level, weak, under, intrinsic, collective, prophylactic, surgical, closed



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Similar:
stapled, fastened, pinhold, preen, packing, riveting, tying, potting, hooking, penetration, more...

Opposite:
unpinning

Types:
safety pin, bobby pin, straight pin, pearl pin, hat pin, lapel pin, stick pin, locking pin, more...

Phrases:
pinning down, intramedullary pinning, Zener pinning, pinning ears back, pinning faith on, pinning hopes on, pinning on, pinning colors to the mast, pinning colours to the mast, bone pinning, more...

Adjectives:
percutaneous, strong, intramedullary, level, weak, under, intrinsic, collective, prophylactic, surgical, closed



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