Au
Appearance
Au, AU, au or a.u. may refer to:
Science and technology
Computing
- .au, the internet country code for Australia
- Au file format, Sun Microsystems' audio format
- Audio Units, a system level plug-in architecture from Apple Computer
- Adobe Audition, a sound editor program
- Windows Update or Automatic Updates, in Microsoft Windows
- Windows 10 Anniversary Update, of August 2016a
Physics and chemistry
- Gold, symbol Au (from Latin aurum), a chemical element
- Absorbance unit, a reporting unit in spectroscopy
- Atomic units, a system of units convenient for atomic physics and other fields
- Ångström unit, a unit of length equal to 10−10 m or 0.1 nanometre.
- Astronomical unit, a unit of length often used in planetary systems astronomy, an approximation for the average distance between the Earth and the Sun
- Arbitrary unit, a relative placeholder unit for when the actual value of a measurement is unknown or unimportant ("a.u." is deprecated, use "arb. unit" instead)
Arts and entertainment
Music
- AU (band), an experimental pop group headed by Luke Wyland
- Au, a 2010 release by Scottish rock band Donaldson, Moir and Paterson
- Au a track on Some Time in New York City by an album by John Lennon & Yoko Ono and Elephant's Memory
Magazines
- Alternative Ulster, a Northern Irish music magazine, now called AU
- A&U: America's AIDS Magazine, sponsor of the Christopher Hewitt Award
Literature
- Alternative universe (fan fiction), fiction by fan authors that deliberately alters facts of the canonical universe written about.
Other media
- Au Co, a fairy in Vietnamese mythology
- Age of Ultron, a 2013 series published by Marvel Comics
- A.U, a Chinese media franchise and brand
Organizations
- au (mobile phone company), a mobile phone operator in Japan
- African Union, a continental union
- Americans United for Separation of Church and State
- Athletic Union, the union of sports clubs in a British university
- Austral Líneas Aéreas (IATA code AU)
- Auxiliary Units, specially trained, highly secret units created by the United Kingdom government during the Second World War
- AGROunia, an agrarian-socialist political party in Poland
Universities
Asia
- Ajou University in Suwon, Gyeonggi, South Korea
- Abasyn University in Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan
- Andhra University in Visakhapatnam, AP, India
- Anhui University in Hefei, Anhui, China
- Aletheia University in New Taipei City, Taiwan
- Allahabad University in Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh, India
- Arellano University in Philippines
- Assumption University (Thailand) in Thailand
- Abhilashi University in Himachal Pradesh, India
- Adesh University in Bathinda, Punjab, India.
Europe
- Aarhus University in Aarhus, Denmark
- Aberystwyth University in Aberystwyth, Wales, United Kingdom
- Akademia Umiejętności in Kraków, Poland
- Arden University in Coventry, England
Oceania
- Auckland University in New Zealand
North America
- Adelphi University in Garden City, New York
- Alfred University in Alfred, New York
- Algoma University in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Canada
- American University in Washington, D.C.
- Anaheim University in Anaheim, California
- Anderson University (Indiana) in Anderson, Indiana
- Anderson University (South Carolina) in Anderson, South Carolina
- Andrews University in Berrien Springs, Michigan
- Antioch University in Culver City, California
- Apollos University in Huntington Beach, California
- Arcadia University in Glenside, Pennsylvania
- Argosy University in Alameda, California
- Arizona University in Tucson, Arizona
- Ashland University in Ashland, Ohio
- Athabasca University in Athabasca, Alberta, Canada
- Auburn University in Auburn, Alabama
- Augsburg University in Minneapolis, Minnesota
- Aurora University in Aurora, Illinois
Other
- Air University (disambiguation), various Air Force universities
Places
- Aue (toponymy), a frequent element in Germanic toponymy
- Australia (ISO 3166 country code)
- Au, Guinea, Kankan Region
Austria
- Austria (informal two-letter country code)
- Au, Vorarlberg, Bregenz, Austria
- Au am Leithaberge, Austria
- Au im Bregenzerwald, Austria
Germany
- Au (Munich), Munich, Germany
- Au (Schwarzwald), Baden-Württemberg, Germany
- Au (squat), a building and cultural center in Frankfurt, Germany
- Au am Rhein, Germany
- Au in der Hallertau, Germany
Switzerland
- Au, St. Gallen
- Au, Zürich
- Au peninsula
- Schloss Au, a château in Wädenswil
Vehicles
- Ford Falcon (AU), a family car made in Australia
- Vought AU, a post-World War II US Marine Corps variant of the F4U Corsair aircraft
Other uses
- Aú, a cartwheel in the Brazilian martial art of Capoeira
- Au (surname), a Chinese family name
- Au language
- Ab urbe condita (sometimes abbreviated as a.u.), Latin for "from the founding of the City" (Rome)
- a'u, the Hawaiian name for the Pacific blue marlin