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Nu or NU may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

Music

Other media

Businesses and organizations

Universities

United States

Other countries

Other businesses and organizations

Language

  • Nu (letter), a letter in the Greek alphabet: lowercase ν, uppercase Ν
  • Nu (kana), the Japanese characters ぬ and ヌ
  • Nǀu language, a moribund Tuu (Khoisan) language spoken by the Nǁnǂe people in South Africa

People

Burmese

  • Nga Nu, a pretender to the Ava throne (1367)
  • Saya Gyi U Nu, a writer famous during King Bodawpaya's reign (r. 1782–1819)
  • Me Nu, chief queen of King Bagyidaw (r. 1819–1837)
  • U Nu, Prime Minister of the Union of Burma (1948–1958; 1960–1962); "U" is a title equivalent to "Mr."

Other peoples

Places

  • Nu river or Salween River, in China, Burma, and Thailand
  • Nicaragua (NATO country code NU)
  • Niue, (ISO 3166 country code NU)
    • .nu, the Internet top-level domain for Niue
  • Nunavut, the largest and newest of the territories of Canada

Science and technology

  • .nu, the Internet top-level domain for Niue
  • Nu (programming language), an interpreted object-oriented programming language
  • NuMachine, a computer architecture developed at MIT in the late 1970s that included the NuBus
  • Nucellar embryony (Nu+), a form of seed reproduction that occurs in certain plant species
  • Nusselt number (Nu), a dimensionless heat transfer ratio
  • Poisson's ratio, a dimensionless ratio relating strain on element along one axis to the strain in an orthogonal axis, is symbolized by the Greek letter Nu, ν

Other uses

See also