Nu

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Nu or NU may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

Music

• Nu metal, a heavy metal fusion genre
• Nu jazz, a jazz fusion genre
• Nu-disco, a genre of dance music
• Nu gaze, a shoegaze fusion genre
• Nu prog, a subgenre of progressive rock
• Nu-funk, a genre of dance music

Other media

• Nu-13, a fictional character from the BlazBlue video game series
• Nu (Chrono Trigger), a fictional species from the video game Chrono Trigger
• N.U. (film), 1948 documentary film directed by Michelangelo Antonioni
• Mr. Nu, a fictional character from the novel Hitman: Enemy Within
• Nu Gundam from the anime Mobile Suit Gundam: Char's Counterattack
• Nickelodeon Universe, an indoor theme park at Mall of America
• Nu, a 1934 collection of essays written in Romanian by Eugène Ionesco

Businesses and organizations

Universities

United States

• National University (California), a private nonprofit university in La Jolla, California, United States
• Niagara University, a Roman Catholic university in Niagara County, New York, United States
• Northeastern University, a research university in Boston, Massachusetts, United States
• Northwest University (Washington), a private university in Kirkland, Washington, United States
• Northwestern University, a research institution in Evanston, Illinois, United States
• Norwich University, a private military and traditional university in Northfield, Vermont, United States
• University of Nebraska–Lincoln, United States

Japan

• Nagoya University, a national research university
• Niigata University, a national university
• Nihon University, a private university in Tokyo

Other countries

• Nazarbayev University, an international research university based in Astana, Kazakhstan
• Nanjing University, a national university in China
• Naresuan University, a public university in Phitsanulok, Thailand
• Nile University, a private research university in Egypt
• National University (Philippines), a private, non-sectarian university in Manila, Philippines
  • NU Bulldogs, the intercollegiate athletic program of the above school
• Nkumba University, a private university near Entebbe, Uganda
• Nirma University, a private university in Ahmedabad, India
• Northern University, Nowshera, a private university in Nowshera, Pakistan

Other businesses and organizations

• Nahdatul Ulama, an Islamic group in Indonesia
• Northeast Utilities, a gas and electric company in the northeastern United States
• Northern Union, an early name of the Rugby Football League
• NU.nl, a Dutch online newspaper
• Nubank (NYSE: NU), a Brazilian bank
• Japan Transocean Air (IATA airline designator NU)

Language and scripts

• Nu (cuneiform), a cuneiform sign
• Nu (letter) (Ν or ν), the 13th letter of the Greek alphabet
• Nu (kana), the Japanese characters ぬ and ヌ
• Nu (Yiddish), a Yiddish interjection meaning "so what" or "hurry up"
• Nǀu language, a moribund Tuu (Khoisan) language spoken by the Nǁnǂe people in South Africa

People

Burmese people

• 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)

Other peoples

• Nu people, a Chinese ethnic group

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
• North Uist, an island in the Scottish Hebrides

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
• Nucellar embryony (Nu+), a form of seed reproduction that occurs in certain plant species
• Nusselt number (Nu), a dimensionless heat transfer ratio
• Nanodalton, a unit of mass; see dalton (unit)
• NU, the abbreviation for natural uranium, referring to uranium with the same isotopic ratio as found in nature
• Sega Nu, arcade board architecture
• Not used (N.U.), indicating not populated parts in schematics and BOMs
• 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

• Nu (mythology), the male form of the Egyptian goddess Naunet
• The Chinese term for crossbow, as in the chu-ko-nu or repeating crossbow
• Bhutanese ngultrum (Nu.), the official currency of Bhutan
• The IATA airline code for Japan Transocean Air
• NU, designation used for the Nestle-Aland and United Bible Societies biblical texts in the New King James Version

See also

• Nus (disambiguation)
• Gnu, GNU
• New (disambiguation)

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This page was last edited on 19 March 2024, at 16:18