Pinch may refer to any of the following:

  1. Pinch describes a finger gesture used with a touch screen interface that supports multi-touch. The user touches the screen with two or more fingers, and moves them together or apart to zoom in or out. This function is also called a semantic zoom or pinch-to-zoom.

  2. With Adobe Photoshop, Pinch is the name of a filter. See our Photoshop Pinch page for further information and examples.

Phone terms, Semantics, Swipe, Touch screen, Zoom