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Up is a relative direction, the opposite of down.
Up may also refer to:
- A railroad direction in the United Kingdom and China
- At bat, in baseball, when a player is facing the pitcher
- Experiencing the effects of psychoactive drugs
- On-line, in computing, the state of being available for use and functioning normally
- Up quark, a particle described by the Standard Model theory of physics
- The Volkswagen up! concept car
Film
- Up (1984 film), a short film
- Up (2009 film), an upcoming [needs update] film by Pixar Animation Studios
Music
- Up! (album) by Shania Twain
- "Up!" (song) from the above album
- Up (Great Big Sea album)
- Up (Peter Gabriel album)
- Up (R.E.M. album)
- Up (Right Said Fred album)
- "Up", a song by Rob Crow from his album Living Well
- "Up" (The Saturdays song)
Initialisms
Companies
- IATA airline designator for Bahamasair
- Union Pacific Railroad, a US railroad network
- United Press International, a press agency
Science and technology
- Unified Process, an iterative software development process
- μp, an abbreviation for microprocessor (where the "u" is actually "μ", the lowercase Greek letter mu, meaning "micro-")
- UP (complexity), Unambiguous Non-deterministic Polynomial-time
Computing
- Unified Process, a popular software development process framework
Politics
- Patriotic Union, a political party of Colombia
- Unia Pracy (Labor Union), a political party of Poland
- Unidad Popular, political coalition of left wing parties in Chile between 1970-1973
- United Party, the name of political parties in several countries
- Unity Party, the name of political parties in several countries
Education
- Universidad Panamericana, in Mexico
- Universidade Pedagógica, in Mozambique
- University of Patras, in Greece
- University of Pennsylvania, in the United States
- University of Phoenix, in the United States
- University of Portland, in Oregon, United States
- University of Porto, in Portugal
- University of Potsdam, in Germany
- University of Pretoria, in South Africa
- University of the Philippines
- Univerzita Palackého, in the Czech Republic
- University Press, at many universities
Geography
- Upper Peninsula of Michigan, in the United States
- Uttar Pradesh, an Indian state