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Sink (disambiguation)

A sink is a bowl-shaped fixture used for washing hands or small objects.

Sink may also refer to:

Music

  • Sink (Floater album), an album released by rock band Floater in September 1994
  • Sink (Foetus album), an album released by solo musical project Foetus Inc in October 1989

People

  • Alex Sink (born 1948), Adelaide "Alex" Sink, Chief Financial Officer of the state of Florida
  • Mark Sink, (born 1958), American photographer
  • Robert Sink (1905–1965), senior United States Army officer
  • Sadie Sink (born 2002), American actress
  • Sink Izumi, the lead character in the anime series Dog Days

Science

  • Sink (biology), a target tissue of (photosynthetic) metabolites; see Phloem loading
  • Sink (computing), an object implementing the interface to receive incoming events
  • Sink (geography), an area of dry land below sea-level
  • Sink (graph theory), a vertex with 0 out-degree
  • Sink, a point where the divergence of a vector field is negative
  • Sink, a flow network node that has more incoming flow than the outgoing flow
  • Sink condition (pharmaceutics), a required condition during chemical dissolution tests
  • Sink, or attractor, in dynamical systems (mathematics)
  • Sinkhole, a natural depression or hole caused by chemical dissolution of carbonate rocks
  • Current sink, in current sources and sinks
  • Heat sink, a component or assembly that transfers heat generated within a solid material to a fluid medium

Other uses

  • Sink (champagne), the act of pouring out the champagne in the sink
  • Sink, West Virginia, a community in the United States
  • Sink OFC, a term for an offshore financial center

See also

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