Acorn in a sentence as a noun

Com/acorn/. It's like Apple's Numbers compared to Microsoft's Excel - there are things that the most sophisticated couple of percent of users will miss, but for most people it's a great alternative.

My imagination is moved by it in much the same way that it's moved by holding an acorn in my hand while contemplating a fully grown oak tree. Or studying the math that causes z <- z^2 + C to describe a ridiculously intricate shape.

Acorn definitions

noun

fruit of the oak tree: a smooth thin-walled nut in a woody cup-shaped base