Mu may refer to:
Language
- Mu (letter), Μ or μ, a letter in the Greek alphabet
- Mu (kana), represented by the Japanese kana む or ム
- 無, Mu (negative), a Japanese and Korean word important in Zen practice
- 木 (hanyu pinyin : Mù), a Chinese character meaning wood
- Groupe µ, an interdisciplinary Belgian group focusing on linguistics and rhetoric
Sciences
Measurement
Mathematics
Physics
- Coefficient of friction, used to approximate the force of friction
- Electron mobility, relating the drift of electrons to the applied electric field across a material
- Permeability (electromagnetism) coefficient, degree of magnetization of a material
- Muon, an elementary particle
- Standard gravitational parameter of a celestial body
- Magnetic dipole moment, a measure of the strength of a system's net magnetic source
- Linear density, a measure of mass per unit of length
- Reduced mass, the "effective" inertial mass appearing in the two-body problem
- Viscosity, the resistance of a fluid which is being deformed by stress
- Mu-metal, a nickel-iron alloy with high magnetic permeability,
- Muonium, exotic atoms made up of an antimuon and an electron
Chemistry
Other sciences
- Centimorgan, or "map unit", a unit of recombinant frequency in genetics
- Monitor unit, the machine output of a linear accelerator in radiation therapy
Real people and places
Universities
- Mahidol University, Thailand
- Manipal University, Karnataka, India
- Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, US
- Marshall University, Huntington, West Virginia, US
- Masaryk University, the Czech Republic,
- McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
- Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, US
- Middlesex University, London, UK
- Millersville University of Pennsylvania, US
- Misamis University, Ozamiz City, Misamis Occidental, Philippines
- Mzumbe University Mzumbe,Tanzania
- University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, US
- University of Mumbai, Maharashtra, India (formerly University of Bombay)
- Marmara University, Istanbul, Turkey
- Maastricht University, the Netherlands
- Manipur University, Manipur, India
Business and industry
Popular culture
Sports and games
Fiction
Theater and music
- Mu Performing Arts, an Asian-American theater company and taiko drumming ensemble.
- MU (00's band), an electro-punk group made up of producer Maurice Fulton and his wife Mutsumi Kanamori
- MU (70's band), a psychedelic group led by Merrell Fankhauser and Jeff Cotton
- /mu/, the music board on 4chan
Other
- Megaupload, an one-click filehosting service
- MisUnderstood word, a term in Scientology
- MU puzzle, a puzzle in Gödel, Escher, Bach
- Mothers' Union, global Anglican women's organisation
- µTorrent, a freeware BitTorrent client for Microsoft Windows
- Musician (MU), an enlisted rating in the United States Navy
- Daikon, a mild, large, white, East Asian radish (Korean word)
- A gusset in the traditional Korean dress of hanbok
See also
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