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MU, Mu or μ 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
- Monsters University, a 2013 animated film by Disney and Pixar
- "μ's" (pronounced "Muse") is the name of the protagonist school idol group in the anime series Love Live!.
Gaming
- Mu Online, a 2003 online role-playing game
- Mu, an ancient civilization from Mega Man Star Force 2.
- Mu-12, a character from the BlazBlue series
Music
- Mu chord, a type of chord
- Mu Performing Arts, an Asian-American theater company and taiko drumming ensemble
- MU (musician), Mutsumi Kanamori, a Japanese-British musician
- MU, musical group formed by Merrell Fankhauser and Jeff Cotton
- M.U. – The Best of Jethro Tull, a greatest hits album
- Planet Mu, an electronic music label
Other media
- MU (ムー, Mu) [ ja ] is a Japanese monthly occult magazine published by Gakken Plus.
- 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
- Isuzu MU Wizard, a compact sport/utility vehicle
- Micron Technology, Boise, Idaho, US, NASDAQ symbol
- China Eastern Airlines, Shanghai, China, IATA code
Other organizations
- Mothers' Union, a global Anglican women's organisation
- Musicians' Union (UK)
Language
- Mu (letter), Μ or μ, a letter in the Greek alphabet
- Mu (kana), む or ム, a Japanese kana
- Mu (cuneiform), a sign in cuneiform writing
- Mu (negative), a word meaning "no" or "without" (Japanese: 無; Korean: 무)
- 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
Universities
United States
- Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
- Marshall University, Huntington, West Virginia
- Millersville University of Pennsylvania
- University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri
Other countries
- Madras University, Chennai, India
- Mahidol University, Salaya, Thailand
- Mandalay University, Mandalay, Myanmar
- Manipur University, Imphal, India
- Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
- Meiho University, Pingtung, Taiwan
- Misamis University, Ozamiz City, Misamis Occidental, Philippines
- Mondragon University, Mondragon, Spain
- Mumbai University, Mumbai, India
- Mzumbe University, Mzumbe, Tanzania
Names and people
- Mu (surname) (穆, 牧, 慕, 木, 母, 目, 沐, 睦 and 暮), Chinese surnames
- 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
- Muism (Korean shamanism), the native religion of Korea
- Mu (shaman), a Korean priest
Science, technology, and mathematics
Biology and medicine
- Mu phage, a bacteriophage of the family Myoviridae of double-stranded DNA non-enveloped contractile tail bacterial viruses
- Centimorgan, or "map unit", a unit of recombinant frequency in genetics
- Monitor unit (MU), a measure of absorbed dose from a linear accelerator in radiation therapy = 0.001 Gray
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)
Mathematics
- MU puzzle, a puzzle in the book Gödel, Escher, Bach
- Minimalization operator (M operator), a function-building operator for General recursive function
- Möbius function, a multiplicative function in number theory and combinatorics
- 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, see kilowatt-hour#Other energy-related units
- Mu (unit), a Chinese area also spelled "mou", approximately 0.066 hectares.
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
- Linear density, a measure of mass per unit of length
- Magnetic dipole moment, a measure of the strength of a system's net magnetic source
- Mu-metal, a nickel-iron alloy with high magnetic permeability
- Muon, an elementary particle
- Muonium, exotic atoms made up of an antimuon and an electron
- Permeability (electromagnetism) coefficient, degree of magnetization of a material
- Proton-to-electron mass ratio, a dimensionless physical constant
- Reduced mass, the "effective" inertial mass appearing in the two-body problem
- Standard gravitational parameter of a celestial body
- Viscosity, the resistance of a fluid which is being deformed by stress
Other uses in science and technology
- μ, in evolutionary algorithms, the population size from which in each generation λ offspring will generate
- 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
- Olympus mju (stylised as μ[mju:]), series of a compact cameras
Other uses
- Musician (United States Navy), an enlisted rating
- Mu, a type of icicle radish
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