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/ˈāˌkôrn/,
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acorns, plural;
  1. The fruit of the oak, a smooth oval nut in a rough cuplike base

  1. fruit of the oak tree: a smooth thin-walled nut in a woody cup-shaped base
  2. The acorn, or oak nut, is the nut of the oaks and their close relatives (genera Quercus and Lithocarpus, in the family Fagaceae). It usually contains a single seed (rarely two seeds), enclosed in a tough, leathery shell, and borne in a cup-shaped cupule. Acorns vary from 1–6 cm long and 0. ...
  3. Acorn Computers was a British computer company established in Cambridge, England, in 1978. The company produced a number of computers which were especially popular in the UK. These included the Acorn Electron, the BBC Micro and the Acorn Archimedes. ...
  4. ACORN (acronym for A Classification Of Residential Neighbourhoods) is a geodemographic information system categorising all United Kingdom postcodes into various types based upon census data and other information such as lifestyle surveys. ...
  5. In marketing, Geodemographic segmentation is a multivariate statistical classification technique for discovering whether the individuals of a population fall into different groups by making quantitative comparisons of multiple characteristics with the assumption that the differences within any ...
  6. The Acorn is a Canadian indie folk band from Ottawa, Ontario, formed in 2003. Their songs have charted on Canadian campus charts and have been in rotation on CBC Radio 3 and The Verge.
  7. The Acorn is a peer-reviewed academic journal sponsored by the Gandhi-King Society. It explores philosophical issues related to non-violence in theory and practice, with a focus on the work of M. K. Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr. ...
  8. The fruit of the oak, being an oval nut growing in a woody cup or cupule; A cone-shaped piece of wood on the point of the spindle above the vane, on the mast-head
  9. (Acorned) (A'korned) An oak with acorns on it. (Placed on an escutcheon.)
  10. (Acorns) provide food for small game animals and are used to fatten swine and poultry. Red- and white-oak lumber is used in construction, flooring, furniture, millwork, cooperage, and the production of crossties, structural timbers, and mine props.
  11. (acorns) N (German cards suit) glanoEB
  12. Fruit of the oak tree. This nut may be eaten raw, roasted, or baked. It can be chopped to the size of coffee beans, roasted until brown, ground, mixed with a small amount of butter, and prepared as a coffee substitute.
  13. A piece of decorative millwork that complements an acorn pediment and looks similar to what the name implies, an acorn. Comes in half round and full round styles.
  14. Computer Manufacturing Company. British Company based in Cambridge. Designers of such computers as Atom, BBC-B, BBC-Master, Archimedes Series A3000, A3010, A3020, A4000, A5000, Risc PC, Phoebe etc. Uses RISC OS
  15. the fruit of an oak, not including the cup or peduncle. The nut of an oak.
  16. Applications, Catalogues, Operators/models, Repositories of data, all on the Network. Describes the interoperable system architecture proposed by the OpenGIS Consortium and used in the CANRI framework.
  17. A collaborative on research in Nanoparticles
  18. Hard fruit of the oak tree, which contains the seed.
  19. bellota; glande; glà (Cat.) The acorn of the holm oak is the staple of that most Spanish of animals: the cerdo ibérico, which gives us jamón ibérico. Holm oak and similar acorns are also known as glandes.
  20. ACORN is a geo-demographic tool assisting business in understanding their target market. ACORN focuses on population location and other lifestyle variables. Individuals in rural locations have different purchasing behavior than those residing in bustling downtown neighborhoods. ...
  21. A classification system that groups U.S. households into many different lifestyle segments, broken down by small geographic areas.
  22. type of fruit associated with Oaks (Quercus spp.) that is a nut partially or fully surrounded by a cup-like structure
  23. The carved or shaped wood block atop the mast for a wind vane.
  24. A system of classifying UK households into 56 demographic groups
  25. Turned ornament resembling an acorn; common in Jacobean furniture as finials on chair posts and bedposts, as pendants and as the profile of leg turnings in Jacobean tables.