MU

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

Music

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

Universities

United States

Other countries

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

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

Measurement

  • Micro-, SI (metric) prefix denoting a factor of 106 (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

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See also

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