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
''Toona'', commonly known as red cedar, toon (also spelled tun) or toona, tooni (in Nepal and India) is a genus in the mahogany family, Meliaceae, native from Afghanistan south to India, and east to North Korea, Papua New Guinea and eastern Austr ...
''
Places
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Tun, Sweden
Tun is a locality situated in Lidköping Municipality, Västra Götaland County, Sweden
Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden, is a Nordic countries, Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. It borders Norwa ...
, 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
Touro University Nevada (TUN) is a private university in Henderson, Nevada, United States. It is part of the Touro College and University System. Touro University Nevada is a branch campus of its sister campus Touro University California.
His ...
, 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
In computer networking, TUN and TAP are kernel virtual network devices. Being network devices supported entirely in software, they differ from ordinary network devices which are backed by physical network adapters.
The Universal TUN/TAP Driv ...
, a computer network device driver
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TUN (product standard) TUN is a Danish product standard numbering system identifying building materials, managed by Danish Timber & Building Merchants' Trade Organization (Trælasthandlerunionen). Currently more than 30,000 products are identified. TUN numbers are assig ...
, Danish building materials numbering system
Other uses
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Brilliance Tun
The Brilliance Tun (), is a 5-door city car produced by Chinese automobile manufacturer Brilliance Auto, sold briefly from 2014 to 2015 for the 2015 model year. ''Tun'' is derived from ''haitun'' (海豚), the Chinese word for dolphin. A dolphi ...
, 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
Lautering () is the beer brewing process that separates the mash into clear liquid wort and residual grain. Lautering usually consists of three steps: mashout, recirculation, and sparging.
Mashout
Mashout is the term for raising the temperature ...
, 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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