Pen (disambiguation)

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A pen is a writing instrument which applies ink to a surface, usually paper.

Pen may also refer to:

Animal husbandry

• Pen (enclosure), enclosure for domestic animals
  • Pigpen, enclosure for pigs kept as livestock
• Sea pen (aquaculture), another name for a sea cage, used in fish farming

Animals

• Pen, an adult female swan
• Sea pen, an animal
• Gladius (cephalopod), a hard internal bodypart found in certain cephalopods
• Pen, the much-reduced and entirely internal shell of some cephalopod molluscs, especially squid

Places

• Pen, Maharashtra, a town in India, in the Raigad district near Mumbai

People

• Frans Pen (1775–1841), Dutch mayor of Baarn
• Jan Pen (1921–2010), a Dutch economist
• Luke Pen (1960–2002), an Australian biologist and environmental scientist
• Ue-Li Pen (born 1967), Canadian astrophysicist
• Yehuda Pen (1854–1937), a Jewish-Belarusian artist

Books

• Pen (play), a play by David Marshall Grant
• Al-Qalam (“The Pen”), the sixty-eighth sura of the Qur'an

Film and TV

• The Pen (Seinfeld)
• The Pen (TV series), Dean Chamberlain, Marcie Deanne, Elizabeth Fields

Abbreviations

• Pen, an abbreviation of penitentiary
• Pens, a shortened nickname of the Pittsburgh Penguins of the NHL
• PEN, an abbreviation of Private Enterprise Number, a unique number assigned to an organization.

Other

• Pens (game), a card game
• Olympus Pen, a family of half-frame film cameras manufactured by Olympus
• An insulin pen or other autoinjector such as an EpiPen
• Pen register, an electronic device that records all numbers called from a particular telephone line
• Submarine pen, a type of submarine bases.

See also

• PEN (disambiguation)
• Penn (disambiguation)
• le Pen (disambiguation)