Awn

AWN as an abbreviation may refer to:

  • Awn Access to Justice Network in Gaza Strip, Legal Aid Network operate in Gaza Strip, Palestine.
  • Animation World Network, an online organization for animators
  • Avant Window Navigator, a dock-like bar that tracks open windows
  • Advance Wars Net, an Advance Wars fan site
  • Ask Women Net, women's lifestyle magazine
  • Avant Window Navigator, a fully-fledged customize-able dock.
  • Awn as a word or name may refer to:

  • Awn (botany), a hair or bristle-like appendage on a plant
  • Awn hair (mammal), a type of hair on mammals
  • Awn (botany)


    In botany, an awn is either a hair- or bristle-like appendage on a larger structure, or in the case of the Asteraceae, a stiff needle-like element of the pappus.

    Awns are characteristic of various plant families, including Geraniaceae and many grasses (Poaceae).

    In grasses awns typically extend from the lemmas of the florets. This often makes the hairy appearance of the grass synfloresce. Awns may be long (several centimeters) or short, straight or curved, single or multiple per floret. Some genera are named after their awns, such as the three-awns (Aristida).

    In some species, the awns can contribute significantly to photosynthesis, as, for example, in barley.

    The awns of wild emmer wheat spikelets effectively self-cultivate by propelling themselves mechanically into soils. During a period of increased humidity during the night, the awns of the spikelet become erect and draw together, and in the process push the grain into the soil. During the daytime the humidity drops and the awns slacken back again; however, fine silica hairs on the awns act as ratchet hooks in the soil and prevent the spikelets from reversing back out again. During the course of alternating stages of daytime and nighttime humidity, the awns' pumping movements, which resemble a swimming frog kick, drill the spikelet as much as an inch into the soil.

    Avant Window Navigator

    Avant Window Navigator (abbreviated AWN or Awn) is a dock-like bar for Linux, which sits on an edge of a user's screen and tracks open windows. Instead of representing open windows as buttons or segments on a bar, it uses large icons on a translucent background to minimize screen space and add visual appeal. The program was created by Neil J. Patel.

    Both the appearance and functionality of Avant Window Navigator may be customized, and plugins and applets are available, such as to display the progress of a download in Mozilla Firefox or to control a music player like Rhythmbox. The plugins use the D-Bus IPC system, and applets can be written in C, Python, or Vala. There is a sister project, AWN Extras, which is a collection of community-contributed applets and plugins. Its releases are usually kept in sync with AWN.

    One of the major requirements to run older versions of Avant Window Navigator is a compositing window manager. At least version 0.4.0-2 in the Debian repos has either Metacity, xcompmgr, Compiz, xfwm4, KWin or Mutter as a dependency.

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