MU

{{Wiktionary|MU|Mu|mu|無|木|母|μ|Μ}} '''MU''', '''Mu''' or '''μ''' may refer to: {{tocright}}

==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 * Colony Mu, a location from ''Xenoblade Chronicles 3''

===Music=== * ''Mu'' (album), a pair of free jazz albums by Don Cherry, released in 1969 and 1970 * Mu, an album by Jah Wobble. * 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 * Mu Vol. I, is an EP album by Richard Henshall, released in 2024. It is part of a trilogy.

==Business== * 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

== Language and scripts == * Mu (letter) (Μ or μ), the 12th letter of the Greek alphabet ::Micro- (μ), metric prefix for one millionth * 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) * Middle Ukrainian, Ukrainian language 16th–18th century

==Organisations== * Mothers' Union, a global Anglican women's organisation * Musicians' Union (UK) * ''Groupe μ'', Belgian linguistics group

== Places == * Mu River (Irrawaddy), 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 (mythical lost continent), a mythical continent in the Pacific Ocean

==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 * Athing Mu (born 2002), American middle-distance runner

== Religion and philosophy == * Mu (negative), 無, a concept in Buddhism * Muism (Korean shamanism), the native religion of Korea * Mu (shaman), a Korean priest * Church of England in Hunters Hill, New South Wales, Australia ("early church code" used by NSW Registry of Births Deaths & Marriages)

== 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 * SARS-CoV-2 Mu variant, one of the variants of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19 * Mouse unit, the amount of toxin required to kill a 20g mouse in 15 minutes via Intraperitoneal injection

=== 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 * μ, the symbol for population mean

=== Measurement === * Micro-, SI (metric, "μ-") prefix denoting a factor of 10^−6 (one millionth) * Micrometre (deprecated as a single-character symbol "μ" for micron) * Million units of energy, a term used in India for a gigawatt-hour, see kilowatt-hour#Other related energy units * Mu (land), a Chinese unit of area also spelled "mou", equivalent to about 0.066 hectares.

=== Physics === * Coefficient of friction, used to approximate the force of friction * Deformation (physics), 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 * The mu (μ) ring of Uranus

== Universities == * Metropolitan University (disambiguation)

=== Australia === * Macquarie University, Sydney, New South Wales * Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria * Murdoch University, Perth, Western Australia

=== India === * Madras University, Chennai * Mumbai University * Manipur University, Imphal

=== United States === * Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin * Marymount University, Arlington, Virginia * Maryville University, Town and Country, Missouri * Marshall University, Huntington, West Virginia * Messiah University, Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania * Millersville University of Pennsylvania, Millersville, Pennsylvania * University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri

=== Other countries === * Mahidol University, Salaya, Thailand * Mandalay University, Mandalay, Myanmar * Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic * Meiho University, Pingtung, Taiwan * Misamis University, Ozamiz City, Misamis Occidental, Philippines * Mondragon University, Mondragon, Spain * Mzumbe University, Mzumbe, Tanzania

== Other uses == * Musician (United States Navy), an enlisted rating * Mu, a type of icicle radish * Manchester United F.C., a British football club * Miss Universe, international women's beauty pageant * MuseScore, a sheet music notation software * /mu/, a board pertaining to music discussion on 4chan

== See also == * Moo (disambiguation) * M (disambiguation)

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