# Tun

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**TUN** or **tun** may refer to:

## Biology

- Tun shells, large sea snails of the family *[Tonnidae](/source/Tonnidae)*
- Tun, a [tardigrade](/source/Tardigrade) in its cryptobiotic state
- Tun or Toon, common name for trees of the genus *[Toona](/source/Toona)*

## Places

- [Tun, Sweden](/source/Tun,_Sweden), a locality in Västra Götaland County
- Tūn or Toon, the former name of [Ferdows](/source/Ferdows), a city in Iran
- [Touro University Nevada](/source/Touro_University_Nevada), a private university in Henderson, Nevada, United States
- [Tunisia](/source/Tunisia), ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 country code
- [Tunis–Carthage International Airport](/source/Tunis%E2%80%93Carthage_International_Airport), (IATA airport code: TUN)
- [Old English](/source/Old_English) meaning town. Often used as a suffix in its Romanised form (*~ton*) e.g.: Southampton

## Measurement and time

- [Tun (Maya calendar)](/source/Tun_(Maya_calendar)), a unit of 360 days on the Maya calendar
- [Tun (unit)](/source/Tun_(unit)), an antiquated measurement of liquid

## Science and technology

- [TUN/TAP](/source/TUN/TAP), a computer network device driver
- [TUN (product standard)](/source/TUN_(product_standard)), Danish building materials numbering system

## Other uses

- [Brilliance Tun](/source/Brilliance_Tun), a 2014–2015 Chinese city car
- Tun, an honorific [Malay title](/source/Malay_titles#Tun)
- Tun, a type of cask ([barrel](/source/Barrel)) with a capacity of 252 wine gallons (954 litres) - [Lauter tun](/source/Lauter_tun), a vessel used in brewing - [Mash tun](/source/Mash_tun), a vessel used in brewing

## See also

- [Ton (disambiguation)](/source/Ton_(disambiguation))

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