Nut

Nut, in Egyptian religion, sky-goddess. She was the sister-wife of the earth god Geb, to whom she bore Osiris, Isis, Set, and Nephthys. She was sometimes represented with her hands and feet on the earth and the curve of her body forming the vault of heaven.

In technology, a fastening device consisting of a square or hexagonal block, usually of metal, with a hole in the centre having internal, or female, threads that fit on the male threads of an associated bolt or screw. Bolts or screws with nuts are widely used for fastening machine and structural components. Seealso fastener.

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or cola nut

Caffeine-containing nut of two evergreen trees (Cola acuminata and C. nitida) of the cocoa family (Sterculiaceae), native to tropical Africa and cultivated extensively in the New World tropics. The trees grow to 60 ft (18.3 m) in height and have oblong leathery leaves, yellow flowers, and star-shaped fruit. The nut has been used in medicines and in soft drinks, though American “colas” today instead use synthetic flavorings that mimic its taste. Kola nuts are also used where grown as a medium of exchange or are chewed to diminish sensations of hunger and fatigue, to aid digestion, and to combat intoxication, hangover, and diarrhea.

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Edible seed of a large South American tree, Bertholletia excelsa (family Lecythidaceae), and one of the major commercially traded nuts in the world. The hard-walled fruit, resembling a large coconut, contains 8–24 nuts (seeds) arranged in it like sections of an orange. Each nut has a very hard shell and is three-sided in shape. Brazil nuts are high in fat and protein and taste somewhat like almond or coconut. The tree grows wild in stands in the Amazon River basin, reaching heights of 150 ft (45 m) or more.

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Nut may refer to:

• Nut (climbing), a metal wedge used as protection during rock climbing
• NUT Container, a free multimedia container format
• Nut (fruit), a type of fruit borne by certain flowering plants
• Nut (goddess), a goddess in Egyptian mythology
• Nut hand, in poker, the best possible 5-card poker hand in hold 'em games, also referred to as "The Nuts"
• Nut (hardware), a fastener with internal screw thread
• Nut (linear positioning), the moving element along a lead screw or ball screw
• NUT (motorcycle), a now defunct British motorcycle manufacturer
• Nut (string instrument), a strip of hard material used to stop string vibrations
• also the adjustment device at the end of a bow (music)
• National Union of Teachers (NUT) in the United Kingdom
• The Nut, a volcanic plug and landmark near Stanley, Tasmania
• nut case (slang), a crazy person

Nuts may refer to:

• Nuts, a British lad mag
• National University Theatre Society, the student theatre society of the Australian National University
• Nuclear Utilization Target Selection, counterpart to mutual assured destruction
• Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics, a standard for referencing the administrative division of countries
• Norwegian University of Technology and Science
• No U-Turn Syndrome
• Nuts (comic strip), a comic strip by Gahan Wilson that appeared in National Lampoon
• "Nuts!", a quote attributed to General Anthony McAuliffe at the Battle of Bastogne
• A slang term for the testicles.