sun
     n 1: a typical star that is the source of light and heat for the
          planets in the solar system; "the sun contains 99.85% of
          the mass in the solar system"
     2: the rays of the sun; "the shingles were weathered by the sun
        and wind" [syn: {sunlight}, {sunshine}]
     3: a person considered as a source of warmth or energy or glory
        etc
     4: any star around which a planetary system evolves
     5: first day of the week; observed as a day of rest and worship
        by most Christians [syn: {Sunday}, {Lord's Day}, {Dominicus}]
     v 1: expose one's body to the sun [syn: {sunbathe}]
     2: expose to the rays of the sun or affect by exposure to the
        sun; "insolated paper may turn yellow and crumble"; "These
        herbs suffer when sunned" [syn: {insolate}, {solarize}, {solarise}]
     [also: {sunning}, {sunned}]
Source: WordNet® 2.0

Sun n. Sun Microsystems. Hackers remember that the name was originally
   an acronym, Stanford University Network. Sun started out around 1980
   with some hardware hackers (mainly) from Stanford talking to some
   software hackers (mainly) from UC Berkeley; Sun's original technology
   concept married a clever board design based on the Motorola 68000 to
   {BSD} Unix. Sun went on to lead the workstation industry through the
   1980s, and for years afterwards remained an engineering-driven company
   and a good place for hackers to work. Though Sun drifted away from its
   techie origins after 1990 and has since made some strategic moves that
   disappointed and annoyed many hackers (especially by maintaining
   proprietary control of Java and rejecting Linux), it's still considered
   within the family in much the same way {DEC} was in the 1970s and early
   1980s.


Source: The Jargon File