Lu

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Lu or LU may stand for:

Contents 1 Places 2 Universities 3 Names and culture 4 Organisations and brand names 5 Scientific and technical 6 Translation

[edit] Places

• Lu (AL), a town in Italy
• Lü, a municipality in Switzerland
• 鲁, or Lǔ, an abbreviation for the Shandong province of the People's Republic of China
• Lucerne, canton of Switzerland
• Luxembourg (ISO country code)
• Luton, a town in England

[edit] Universities

• Lakehead University, a university in Thunder Bay, Ontario
• Laurentian University, a university in Sudbury, Ontario
• Lamar University, a university in Beaumont, Texas.
• Lander University, the largest university in Greenwood, South Carolina.
• Latvian University, the largest university in Latvia, located in Riga.
• Lawrence University, a private university in Appleton, Wisconsin.
• Lehigh University, prestigious private 4-year university in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.
• Liberty University, a Christian University in Lynchburg, Virginia.
• Lindenwood University, a private university in St. Charles, Missouri, part of the St. Louis metropolitan area.
• Lingnan University in Hong Kong.
• Loughborough University, a university in Leicestershire, United Kingdom.
• Lund University, the largest university in Sweden, located in Lund.

[edit] Names and culture

See also: List of people by name: Lu#People named Lu

• Lu, the Chinese family names represented by the characters 陸(陆), 路, 盧(卢), or 魯(鲁).
• Lü, the Chinese family name represented by the character 呂,(吕). A family by that name (呂) was a prominent supporter of the Eastern Jin Dynasty after the Han Zhao attacked the Jin.
• Lu (ethnic group), an ethnic group in Vietnam
• Lu (state), an ancient state in China during the Spring and Autumn Period.
• Lu (music), a Tibetan style of folk music
• Lu (Duet), a Mexican pop duet.
• "Lu" or "Lu rou" (lu meat) is a popular Chinese cooking style which is similar to the "adobo" style of cooking in the Philippines. It refers to the spices, more than the main ingredients. Spices include the "five spices" (anise, cinnamon, clove, cardamom, and something else [may be more or less than five in actual use]), soy sauce, sugar, and salt. Typical main ingredients are fatty pork and whole chicken eggs, but chicken organs, hard/dride tofu (dou gan), seaweed, and other meats are also popular ingredients.
• Lu may also be a novel by Mao Dun (Mao-Tun).
• lu is the ISO 639-1 code for the Luba-Katanga language.
• "Singapuri Lu" is a song by Terminaator from their album "Singapur".

[edit] Organisations and brand names

• London Underground, the metro system in London
• LAN Express IATA code
• Lefevre-Utile Biscuit Co. known as "LU", a division of Groupe Danone
  • Lefèvre Utile known as "LU", a biscuit brand by Lefevre-Utile Biscuit Co.
• Liberale Unie, a Dutch political party.
• Lucent, a company that trades on the DOW.

[edit] Scientific and technical

• lutetium (Lu), symbol for the chemical element
• LU was a computer program that processed .LBR archive files on MS-DOS systems.
• LU decomposition of matrix
• Logical unit
• LU/Ha , Livestock units per hectare

[edit] Translation

• Lu (路) is sometimes translated as Circuit.
• LU, the Sumerian word for "man"