Up

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Up may refer to:

[edit] General

• Relative direction, where up is the opposite of down
• At bat, in baseball, when a player is facing the pitcher
• Up, a type of quark
• Up! (film)

[edit] Music

• Up (ABC album)
• Up (Great Big Sea Album)
• Up (Peter Gabriel album)
• Up (R.E.M. album)
• Up! (album), by Shania Twain
• Up! (song), by Shania Twain
• Up Records, a Seattle based independent record label
• Upwards (album), by Ty

[edit] Initialisms

Companies and NGOs:

• Union Pacific Railroad, a US railroad network
• United Planet, a US organization dedicated to enhancing cross-cultural & geographical understanding
• United Press International, a press agency
• Bahamasair, IATA airline designator

In science and technology:

• Microprocessor, where the "u" is really the lowercase Greek letter Mu, "μ" (for micro-)
• Unified Process, an iterative software development process
• Unambiguous Non-deterministic Polynomial-time
• Undiluted Platinum, a mod chip for the Playstation Portable system.

In politics:

• Patriotic Union, a political party of Colombia
• Unia Pracy (Labor Union), a political party of Poland
• Unity Party, the name of political parties in several countries
• United Party, the name of political parties in several countries

In education:

• University of Pennsylvania, in the United States
• University of Portland, in the United States
• Univerzita Palackého, in the Czech Republic
• Universidad Panamericana Sede México, in Mexico
• University of Patras, in Greece
• University of the Philippines
• University of Porto, in Portugal
• University of Pretoria, in South Africa
• A University Press at any major university

In geography:

• Upper Peninsula of Michigan, in the United States
• Uttar Pradesh, an Indian state