Spur (disambiguation)
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Spur may refer to one of the following.
- Spur, a metal instrument fastened to the heel of a horseman.
- In architecture a column ormnament.
- The simplest type of gear wheel, with teeth cut "straight", in distinction from helical gears, bevel gears, worm gears, etc.
- For the mathematical term, see trace (linear algebra).
- A spur line in railroading is a relatively short railway that leads from the main line of a railroad to some destination offset from the main line. This destination might be a city, a factory, a mine, a sawmill, etc.
- In telecommunications, a spur is the link that connects a singly-connected node to the rest of the network.
- In electrical terms (chiefly UK), a spur is a socket connected into the ring by a single cable run so the socket does not have the full benefit of two cable routes to the consumer unit.
- Spur route in the United States, a branch off a primary Interstate highway that connects with a destination away from the primary route.
- A spur can also refer to a condition such as plantar fasciitis, in which a "spur" develops on part of a bone.
- Spur, in botany refers to an elongated appendage of certain sepals
- A powerul gun in the freeware game Doukutsu Monogatari
- Spur (mountain), a mountain ridge projecting laterally from the main mountain or mountain range.
- The South African Spur restaurant chain.
- Spur is the name of a Texas-based holding company.
- See also Spurs.
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