TUN or tun may refer to:
Biology
* Tun shells, large sea snails of the family ''
Tonnidae''
* Tun, a
tardigrade in its cryptobiotic state
* Tun or Toon, common name for trees of the genus ''
Toona
''Toona'', commonly known as redcedar, toon (also spelled tun) or toona, tooni (in 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 Australia. In ol ...
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Places
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Tun, Sweden
Tun is a locality situated in Lidköping Municipality, Västra Götaland County
Västra Götaland County ( sv, Västra Götalands län) is a county or '' län'' on the western coast of Sweden.
The county is the second most populous of 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, ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 country code
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Tunis–Carthage International Airport, (IATA airport code: TUN)
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Old English
Old English (, ), 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 was brought to Great Britain by Anglo-Saxon settlement of Britain, Anglo ...
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), a unit of 360 days on the Maya calendar
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Tun (unit), 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 staves and bound by wooden or metal hoops. The word vat is often used for large containers for liquids, ...
) 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 a mix of ground grains – typically malted barley with supplementary grains such as corn, sorghum, rye, or wheat – known as the "grain bill" with water and then heating the ...
, a vessel used in brewing
See also
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Ton (disambiguation)
A ton is a unit of mass, force, volume, energy or power.
Ton or TON may also refer to:
Organizations
* Proud of the Netherlands (Trots op Nederland), a Dutch political party
* Tajna Organizacja Nauczycielska, "Secret Teaching Organization", i ...
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