Nut may be:
- Nut (fruit), a type of fruit borne by certain flowering plants
- Nut (hardware), a fastener with internal screw thread
- Nut (linear positioning), the moving element along a lead screw or ball screw
- Nut (string instrument), a strip of hard material used to stop string vibrations
- also the adjustment device at the end of a bow (music)
- Nut (climbing), a metal wedge used as protection during rock climbing
- Nut (goddess), a goddess in Egyptian mythology
- Nut hand, in poker, pocket cards that cannot be beaten
- A nut case, or crazy person
- NUT Container, a free multimedia container format
- National Union of Teachers in the United Kingdom
- The Nut, a volcanic plug and landmark near Stanley, Tasmania
See also
nut can be either a seed or a fruit.
Botanical definitions
A nut in botany is a simple dry fruit with one seed (rarely two) in which the ovary wall becomes very hard (stony or woody) at maturity, and where the seed remains unattached or unfused with the
..... Click the link for more information. A nut is a type of hardware fastener with a threaded hole. Nuts are almost always used opposite a mating bolt to fasten a stack of parts together. The two partners are kept together by a combination of their threads' friction, a slight stretch of the bolt, and compression of the
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A leadscrew is screw specialized for the purpose of translating rotational to linear motion. The mechanical advantage of a leadscrew is determined by the screw pitch or lead.
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ball screw is a mechanical device for translating rotational motion to linear motion. A threaded shaft provides a spiral raceway for ball bearings which act as a precision screw.
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The nut of a string instrument is a small piece of hard material which supports the strings at their top end (the end closest to the tuning pegs or machines). The nut has two functions: to hold the string in place and mark the start of the vibrating part of the string, and to set
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bow is a device pulled across the strings of a string instrument in order to make them vibrate and emit sound.
Materials and manufacture
A bow consists of a carefully chosen stick (usually wood) with some other material stretched between its ends.
..... Click the link for more information. nut (or chock or chockstone) is a metal wedge threaded on a wire, used for protection by wedging it into a crack in the rock. Nuts come in a variety of sizes and styles, and several different brands are made by competing manufacturers.
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Nut (alternatively spelled Nuit, Newet, and Neuth), was the goddess of the sky. Her name means Night. Some of the titles of Nut were Coverer of the Sky, She Who Protects, Mistress of All, and She Who Holds a Thousand Souls.
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In poker, the nut hand, or simply the nuts, is the strongest possible hand in a given situation. The second-nut hand or third-nut hand (and so on) may refer to the second and third best possible hands.
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Insanity, or madness, is a general popular and legal term defining behaviour influenced by mental instability. It is defined by the Merriam-Webster dictionary as a deranged state of the mind or lack of understanding.
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NUT Container
File extension: .nut NUT (file-extension: .nut) is a patent-free, multimedia container format originally conceived by a few MPlayer and FFmpeg developers that were dissatisfied with the limitations of all currently available
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NUT
National Union of Teachers
Founded 1870
Country United Kingdom
Affiliation TUC, EI
Key people Steve Sinnott, General Secretary
Office location London, England
Website www.teachers.org.
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Stanley is a town on on the north-west coast of Tasmania, Australia. Travelling west, Stanley is the second last major township on the north-west coast of Tasmania, Smithton being the larger township in the Circular Head municipality.
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Nuts may refer to:
- Nut (fruit)
- Nuts (magazine), a British weekly men's magazine
- Nuts (film), a 1987 film by Martin Ritt
- Neils Unix Talk Server
- Nuclear Utilization Target Selection, counterpart to Mutual Assured Destruction
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