MU
MU may refer to:
Arts and entertainment
Film and television
- Aries Mu, a character from the anime Saint Seiya
- Mu La Flaga, a character from the anime Mobile Suit Gundam SEED
- Mirror Universe (Star Trek), a fictional parallel universe
- Miss Universe, a beauty pageant
- Monsters University, a 2013 animated film by Disney and Pixar
Gaming
- Magic-User, a class type in Dungeons & Dragons, HackMaster, and other fantasy RPGs
- Mew (Pokémon), a fictional creature
- Mu Online, a 2003 online role-playing game
Music
- Mu chord or mu major, a term coined by jazz-rock group Steely Dan to refer to various voicings of an add-9 chord
- Mu Performing Arts, an Asian-American theater company and taiko drumming ensemble
- MU (musician), real name Mutsumi Kanamori
- MU, a psychedelic group led by Merrell Fankhauser and Jeff Cotton
- /mu/, the music board on 4chan
Other media
- Mu Performing Arts, an Asian-American theater company and taiko drumming ensemble
- Miskatonic University, a fictional university in the works of H.P. Lovecraft
- MU Press, an independent comic book publisher
Businesses and organizations
Businesses and brands
- Mu Dynamics, a company which makes hardware and software to test network services
- MU Press, an independent comic book publisher
- μTorrent, a freeware BitTorrent client for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X
- Isuzu MU Wizard, a compact sport/utility vehicle
- Megaupload, a one-click filehosting service
- Micron Technology, Boise, Idaho, US, known for producing semiconductor devices
- China Eastern Airlines (IATA code: MU), an airline headquartered in Shanghai, China
Other organizations
- Groupe µ, an interdisciplinary Belgian group focusing on linguistics and rhetoric
- Manchester United F.C., an English association football club
- Mediterranean Union, an intergovernmental organization of 43 countries from Europe and the Mediterranean Basin
- Mothers' Union, a global Anglican women's organisation
- Movement for Unification (Albanian: Lëvizja për Bashkim), a nationalist Albanian political party in Kosovo
- Musicians' Union (disambiguation page)
Language
- Mu (letter), Μ or μ, a letter in the Greek alphabet
- Mu (kana), む or ム, a Japanese kana
- Groupe µ, an interdisciplinary Belgian group focusing on linguistics and rhetoric
Places
- Mu River, a river in Burma (Myanmar)
- Mu River (Hokkaidō), a river in Japan
- Mù, a village in the Edolo municipality of Italy
- Mauritius (ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code MU)
- .mu, the country code top-level domain for Mauritius
Mythical places
- Mu (lost continent), a mythical continent in the Pacific Ocean
- Mù, a purported entrance near Edolo, Italy to the underground legendary city Agartha
Universities
India
- Mangalayatan University (MU), Uttar Pradesh, India
- Manipal University, Karnataka, India
- University of Mumbai, Maharashtra, India (formerly University of Bombay)
- Manipur University, Manipur, India
United States
- Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, US
- Marshall University, Huntington, West Virginia, US
- Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, US
- Millersville University of Pennsylvania, US
- University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, US
Other countries
- Mahidol University, Thailand
- Macquarie University, Macquarie, New South Wales, Australia
- Masaryk University, Czech Republic
- McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
- Meiho University, Pingtung, Taiwan
- Middlesex University, London, UK
- Misamis University, Ozamiz City, Misamis Occidental, Philippines
- Mzumbe University Mzumbe, Tanzania
- Marmara University, Istanbul, Turkey
- Maastricht University, Netherlands
- Mondragon University, Mondragon, Spain
People
- MU (musician), real name Mutsumi Kanamori
- Mu family, a powerful Chinese family from the 14th to the 18th century
- Mu of Baekje (580–641), king of Baekje
- Mu of Balhae (died 737), king of Balhae from 718 to 737
- Marquis Mu of Cai, ruler of the state of Cai from 675 to 646 BC
- King Mu of Chu (died 614 BC), king of the state of Chu from 625 to 614 BC
- Emperor Mu of Jin (343–361), emperor of the Eastern Jin Dynasty
- Marquis Mu of Jin (died 812 BC), ruler of the state of Jin from c. 798 to 776 BC
- King Mu of Zhou (died 922 BC), king of the state of Zhou from c. 976 to 922 BC
- Mu Dan (1918–1977), Chinese poet and translator
Religion and philosophy
- Mu (negative), 無, a concept in Buddhism
- Mu (shaman), a Korean priest
- MisUnderstood word, a term in Scientology
Science, technology, and mathematics
Biology and medicine
- Mu phage, a bacteriophage of the Myoviridae family of double-stranded DNA non-enveloped contractile tail bacterial viruses
- Meaningful Use, Electronic Health Record regulations in the United States linked to achieving measurable outcomes in patient engagement, care coordination, and population health
- Centimorgan, or "map unit", a unit of recombinant frequency in genetics
- Monitor unit, the machine output of a linear accelerator in radiation therapy
- Population growth rate, a calculation of doubling time of an organism or population
Chemistry
- Chemical potential, a form of potential energy that can be absorbed or released during a chemical reaction
- Bridging ligand, an atom that connects two or more metal centers in a complex (molecule)
Computing
- μ, in evolutionary algorithms, the population size from which in each generation λ offspring will generate
- Mu, in the Perl 6 programming language, the root of the language's type hierarchy
- .mu, the country code top-level domain for Mauritius
- μTorrent, a freeware BitTorrent client for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X
- Megaupload, a one-click filehosting service
Mathematics
- MU puzzle, a puzzle in the book Gödel, Escher, Bach
- Arithmetic mean, of a statistical population
- Möbius function, a multiplicative function in number theory and combinatorics
- Least-fixed-point operator
- Degree of membership in a fuzzy set
- The standard measure function name in measure theory
- Complex cobordism, an extraordinary cohomology theory
Measurement
- Micro-, SI (metric) prefix denoting a factor of 10−6 (one millionth)
- Micrometre (deprecated as a single-character symbol)
- Million units of energy, a term used in India for a gigawatt-hour
- Mu (亩 or 畝), a Chinese unit of area
Physics
- Coefficient of friction, used to approximate the force of friction
- Deformation (mechanics), as the "unit" of strain
- Electron mobility, relating the drift of electrons to the applied electric field across a material
- Permeability (electromagnetism) coefficient, degree of magnetization of a material
- Muon, an elementary particle
- Standard gravitational parameter of a celestial body
- Reduced mass, the "effective" inertial mass appearing in the two-body problem
- Magnetic dipole moment, a measure of the strength of a system's net magnetic source
- Linear density, a measure of mass per unit of length
- Viscosity, the resistance of a fluid which is being deformed by stress
- Mu-metal, a nickel-iron alloy with high magnetic permeability
- Muonium, exotic atoms made up of an antimuon and an electron
Other uses in science and technology
- Mu (rocket family), a Japanese rocket family launched between 1966 and 2006
- Multiple unit, self-propelled train carriages capable of coupling with other units of similar type
Other uses
- Musician (MU), an enlisted rating in the United States Navy
See also
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