spindle

n. small rod with tapered ends around which thread is twisted while spinning; rotating machine part or axis; cellular axis around which chromosomes are distributed during meiosis; rod of turned wood

Spindle may refer to:In technologyA spindle, also called cakebox, is the a type of optical disc packaging, the plastic container in which bulk blank CDs and DVDs are often soldA spindle is the axis on which the platters of a computer hard disk spin. Database performance can be improved by spindling, the action of mounting data files and index files on different hard disks so that contention for read or write resources is diminishedA spindle is part of an automobile suspension system. It carries the hub for the wheel. It attaches to the upper and lower control armsA spindle is part of a bicycle pedal. It carries the pedal body and threads into the crank arm.
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Noun
1. (biology) tiny fibers that are seen in cell division; the fibers radiate from two poles and meet at the equator in the middle; "chromosomes are distributed by spindles in mitosis and meiosis"
(hypernym) fiber, fibre
(classification) biology, biological science
2. any of various rotating shafts that serve as axes for larger rotating parts
(synonym) mandrel, mandril, arbor
(hypernym) rotating shaft, shaft
(part-holonym) drive
3. a stick or pin used to twist the yarn in spinning
(hypernym) stick
(part-holonym) spinning wheel

(v. i.)
To shoot or grow into a long, slender stalk or body; to become disproportionately tall and slender.
  

(n.)
The vertical rod on which the runner of a grinding mill turns.
  

(n.)
The shaft, mandrel, or arbor, in a machine tool, as a lathe or drilling machine, etc., which causes the work to revolve, or carries a tool or center, etc.
  

(n.)
The long, round, slender rod or pin in spinning wheels by which the thread is twisted, and on which, when twisted, it is wound; also, the pin on which the bobbin is held in a spinning machine, or in the shuttle of a loom.
  

(n.)
The fusee of a watch.
  

(n.)
Any marine univalve shell of the genus Rostellaria; -- called also spindle stromb.
  

(n.)
Any marine gastropod of the genus Fusus.
  

(n.)
A yarn measure containing, in cotton yarn, 15,120 yards; in linen yarn, 14,400 yards.
  

(n.)
A solid generated by the revolution of a curved line about its base or double ordinate or chord.
  

(n.)
A slender rod or pin on which anything turns; an axis; as, the spindle of a vane.
  

(n.)
A shaft or pipe on which a core of sand is formed.
  

(n.)
A long and slender stalk resembling a spindle.
  

Spindle In biology, a fusiform arrangement of fibrils which appears at the nucleus of a cell that is about to divide; for in this early stage of the development of a germ-cell the nucleus forms a double cone which resembles a spindle.