Nut

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Nut often refers to:

• Nut (fruit), a fruit composed of a hard shell and a seed
• Nut (hardware), a fastener used with a bolt

Nut or Nuts may also refer to:

Places

• Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics, a geocode standard for referencing the subdivisions of countries for statistical purposes in the European Union
• The Nut, a landmark near Stanley, Tasmania

Arts, entertainment, and media

Mechanical tools

• Nut (climbing), metal device for wedging in rock crevices
• Nut (string instrument), device supporting and stabilizing strings between their tension-adjusting and sounding regions
• Nut, moving element of a ball screw

Schools and other organisations

• National Union of Teachers or NUT, a British trade union for school teachers
• Norwegian University of Science and Technology

Science and technology

• 306367 Nut, Apollo asteroid (1960)
• Network UPS Tools or NUTS
• Nuclear utilization target selection or NUTS, a theory regarding nuclear weaponry
• NUT Container, FFmpeg format

Slang

• Nut hand or "the nuts", a poker term for an unbeatable hand
• Testicle
• Truck nuts, mock testicles usually mounted below a motor vehicle's trailer hitch

Other uses

• Nut (goddess), the Egyptian goddess of the sky
• Modesto Nuts, a minor league baseball team in Modesto, California, USA
• No U-turn syndrome or NUTS, a term describing Singaporean culture
• NUT Motorcycles, Newcastle upon Tyne motorcycle manufacturer
• "Nuts!", refusal-to-surrender message at the WWII Siege of Bastogne
• Nut, the En dash in typography

See also

• Nut case
• Nut grass (Cyperus rotundus), sometimes known as "the world's worst weed"
• Nut job (disambiguation)
• Nutcracker
• Nutt (disambiguation)
• Nutter (disambiguation)
• The Nut (disambiguation)