Twip

A twip is a typographical measurement, defined as of a typographical point. One twip is inch, or 17.64 μm.

In computing

Twips are screen-independent units to ensure that the proportion of screen elements are the same on all display systems. A twip is defined as being of an inch.
A pixel is a screen-dependent unit, standing for 'picture element'. A pixel is a dot that represents the smallest graphical measurement on a screen.
Twips are the default unit of measurement in Visual Basic. Converting between twips and screen pixels is achieved using the TwipsPerPixelX and TwipsPerPixelY properties or the ScaleX and ScaleY methods.
Twips can be used with Symbian OS bitmap images for automatic scaling from bitmap pixels to device pixels. They are also used in Rich Text Format from Microsoft for platform-independent exchange and they are the base length unit in OpenOffice.org and its fork LibreOffice.
Flash internally specifies most sizes in units it calls twips, but which are really of a logical pixel, which is of an actual twip.