Piston
Piston stands for:
- a slang term for the French engineering school École Centrale Paris
- a brass instrument, see cornet (instrument)
- Piston (organ) , foot-operated switch for controlling a modern organ
- Piston (percussion weapon) , fastening device for primers in percussion weapons
- Pist.On , an American alternative metal band
- the English name for piston (technology)
- also ferrule; Tip of the top of the cue in billiards. It is designed to hold the bitter orange (*) / leather.
- Oganelles ('pistons') of certain dinoflagellates , such as the Warnowiaceae (Warnowiiden) and ( Polykrikaceae ) (polycricoid dinoflagellates)
Piston is the name of the following people:
- Piston (sculptor) , Greek sculptor at the beginning of the 3rd century BC. Chr.
- Walter Piston (1894–1976), American composer
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