Meru
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Meru may refer to:
In geography:
- Meru, Tanzania, a village in northern Tanzania (Arumeru District). It is inhabited by the Meru people of Tanzania, known as the "Wameru" in Bantu
- Arumeru District northern Tanzania
- Wameru Bantu for the Meru people of northern Tanzania who settled around the base of Mount Meru, Tanzania in the 17th century.
- Mount Meru (Tanzania), a volcano near Arusha in northern Tanzania
- Meru, Kenya, a Eastern Province City in the Republic of Kenya, associated with:
- Meru Central District
- Meru North District
- Maara District
- Ameru, the Meru people in the Republic of Kenya
- Kimiiru language, spoken by the Meru people
- Meru National Park, a famous Kenyan wildlife park
- Meru, Hazaribagh, a small town in Jharkhand, India
- MERU, Holland, headquarters of the Transcendental Meditation movement
- Meru, Malaysia, a town in Klang, located in Selangor
- Meru, Western Australia, a locality near Geraldton
- Méru, a commune of the Oise département in France
- Mount Meru (Tanzania), a volcano near Arusha in northern Tanzania
- Meru Peak, a mountain in the Indian Himalayas
In architecture:
- Pelinggih Meru, is the multiple tiered roofs similar to pagoda in Balinese temple
In fiction:
- Prince Meru, main character from the anime movie Keroro Gunso the Super Movie 2: The Deep Sea Princess
In other uses:
- Mount Meru, a mountain in Hindu (and Jain and Buddhist) myth
- Meru, the head bead in a Hindu mala
- Meru Chakra, a name for Sri Chakra in Shri Vidya of Hindu Tantricism
- Meru (Legend of Dragoon), a playable character from the video games The Legend of Dragoon
- MERU, Milli Earth Rate Unit, an angular velocity equal to 1/ 1000th of Earth's rotation rate. Sometimes used to measure the performance of an inertial navigation system [1]
- MERU, a UK charity that custom-makes equipment for children with disabilities.
- Meru Project, an endeavour led by Stan Tenen and the Meru Foundation (US) attempting to show the common origin and metaphysical anchoring of the Greek, Hebrew and Arabic alphabets.
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- ^ http://history.nasa.gov/alsj/a13/A13_MissionOpReport.pdf e.g. Apollo 13 Mission Operations report, p. III-4]
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