Nu

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NU may refer to:

• Japan Transocean Air (IATA airline designator)
• Nicaragua (NATO country code)
• Niue (ISO 3166 country code)
• Nunavut (Canadian Province/Territory Code)
• Nahdatul Ulama, an Islamic group in Indonesia
• Fictional Noon Universe
• Any of several universities whose name contains an N:
  • The University of Nebraska-Lincoln, an American land grant university in Lincoln, Nebraska
  • Niagara University, a Roman Catholic university in Niagara County, New York
  • Northwestern University, an American research institution in Evanston, Illinois
  • Northeastern University, an American research university in Boston, Massachusetts
  • Norwich University, a private American military and traditional university in Northfield, Vermont
  • National University, a private, non-sectarian university in Manila, Philippines

Nu may stand for:

• Nu is a letter in the Greek alphabet: lowercase ν, uppercase Ν.
  • The HTML character entity references Ν and ν give the characters Ν and ν.
• In Egyptian mythology, Nu (or Nun) is male form of the androgynous god/goddess whose female form was known as Naunet.
• The Nu people are a Chinese ethnic group.
• Nu river
• The Nusselt number, in physics.
• U Nu is a former Burmese prime minister.
• With a slash to denote a click, the N/u, or Khomani, are a San (Bushmen) people of Africa. They speak a Khoisan language which is also called N/u.
• In botany, Nu+ can refer to the genetic trait nucellar embryony.
• Nu is also used as a short form of new, as in Nu Metal, Nu Jazz, and Nupedia (as well as being a pun on GNU).
• In Yiddish it is an interjection with multiple meanings, often analogous to "well?" or "so?"; of the same linguistic origin as English now (Russian "ну")
• In Chinese, Nu means woman. See Nü shu, the women-only writing system.
• Romanisation of the Japanese kana ぬ and ヌ
• In Romanian, "nu" means simply "no". It is also the name of a romanian music group.
• In Dutch, "nu" means simply "now" or "at this very moment". It is also the name of one of the widely used news websites nu.nl.

Uses in naming:

• It may refer to the model designation V Gundam in the anime "Mobile Suit Gundam: Char's Counterattack"
• A Nu is a fictional species from the video game Chrono Trigger.
• The initals of Naruto Uzumaki

nu may stand for:

• .nu is the Internet Top-level domain for Niue

For multilingual definitions of Nu, see wiktionary:nu.