TRIM

The word 'trim' can mean:

★ Adjustment of sails on a ship or boat

★ Adjustment of the angle of a ship to the water by shifting cargo or ballast.

★ Adjustment of airfoils on an aircraft

★ Adjustment of a variable resistor or capacitor

★ To decorate in general (e.g. "trim" a Christmas tree)

★ In music and audio, the term used for sensitivity. Higher trim means that a greater magnitude of the audio waves are sampled.

★ Trim (programming), also called "strip", a function to remove white space from the ends of a string

★ Trimming, the process of modifying parametric or polygonal surfaces in 3D computer graphics and CAD

★ In film editing, the process of shortening scenes by a few minutes, seconds, or even frames

★ Trim package, a set of cosmetic (mostly non-functional) embellishments to a vehicle, such as an automobile

★ Trim (sewing) for clothing and home decorating, is applied ornament such as gimp, passementarie, ribbon, or, as a verb, to apply such ornament

★ "Trim", slang for a pubic region with trimmed pubic hair

★ Trim trail, a special sort of trail that combines running with exercising

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As an acronym

Places

★ Trim, County Meath, a town and castle in Ireland

★ Trim Station (OC Transpo), a bus station for OC Transpo buses in Ottawa, Canada

★ Trim Road (Ottawa), a road in Ottawa

Other

★ Trim (cat), the first feline to circumnavigate Australia

As an acronym

★ Tidal, Residual, Inter-tidal Mudflat

★ Tone Ringer Illuminated Model, a British telephone with a distinct ringing sound

★ Trade-related Investment Measures, an agreement within the Uruguay Round trade negotiations

★ Transfusion-related immunomodulation

★ TRIM Context, a records management software product from TOWER Software

★ Trim optimization, a set of techniques (algorithmic or heuristic or hybrid) to reduce the waste resulting from cutting an arbitrary set of demand rolls from a jumbo or master roll, in materials processing