TUN or tun may refer to:
Biology
* Tun shells, large sea snails of the family ''
Tonnidae
The Tonnidae are a family (biology), family of medium-sized to very large sea snails, known as the tun shells. These are marine invertebrates, marine gastropod molluscs in the clade Littorinimorpha. The name ''tun'' refers to the snails' shell sh ...
''
* Tun, a
tardigrade
Tardigrades (), known colloquially as water bears or moss piglets, are a phylum of eight-legged segmented micro-animals. They were first described by the German zoologist Johann August Ephraim Goeze in 1773, who called them . In 1776, th ...
in its cryptobiotic state
* Tun or Toon, common name for trees of the genus ''
Toona''
Places
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Tun, Sweden, a locality in Västra Götaland County
* Tūn or Toon, the former name of
Ferdows, a city in Iran
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Touro University Nevada, a private university in Henderson, Nevada, United States
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Tunisia
Tunisia, officially the Republic of Tunisia, is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. It is bordered by Algeria to the west and southwest, Libya to the southeast, and the Mediterranean Sea to the north and east. Tunisia also shares m ...
, ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 country code
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Tunis–Carthage International Airport
Tunis–Carthage International Airport, (, , ) is the international airport of Tunis, the capital of Tunisia. It serves as the home base for Tunisair, Tunisair Express, Nouvelair Tunisia, and Tunisavia. The airport is named for the historic city ...
, (IATA airport code: TUN)
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Old English
Old English ( or , or ), or Anglo-Saxon, is the earliest recorded form of the English language, spoken in England and southern and eastern Scotland in the Early Middle Ages. It developed from the languages brought to Great Britain by Anglo-S ...
meaning town. Often used as a suffix in its Romanised form (''~ton'') e.g.: Southamp
ton
Measurement and time
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Tun (Maya calendar)
The Maya calendar is a system of calendars used in pre-Columbian Mesoamerica and in many modern communities in the Guatemalan highlands, Veracruz, Oaxaca and Chiapas, Mexico.
The essentials of the Maya calendar are based upon a system which had ...
, a unit of 360 days on the Maya calendar
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Tun (unit)
The tun (, , ) is an English unit of ''liquid volume'' (not weight), used for measuring wine, oil or honey. Typically a large vat or vessel, most often holding 252 wine gallons, but occasionally other sizes (e.g. 256, 240 and 208 gallo ...
, an antiquated measurement of liquid
Science and technology
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TUN/TAP, a computer network device driver
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TUN (product standard), Danish building materials numbering system
Other uses
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Brilliance Tun, a 2014–2015 Chinese city car
* Tun, an honorific
Malay title
* Tun, a type of cask (
barrel
A barrel or cask is a hollow cylindrical container with a bulging center, longer than it is wide. They are traditionally made of wooden stave (wood), staves and bound by wooden or metal hoops. The word vat is often used for large containers ...
) with a capacity of 252 wine gallons (954 litres)
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Lauter tun, a vessel used in brewing
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Mash tun
In brewing and distilling, mashing is the process of combining ground grain – malted barley and sometimes supplementary grains such as corn, sorghum, rye, or wheat (known as the " grain bill") – with water and then heating the mixture. Mashi ...
, a vessel used in brewing
See also
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Ton (disambiguation)
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