VU

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The two-letter abbreviation VU has several different meanings:

[edit] Country codes

• VU is the country code of Vanuatu
• .vu is Vanatu's country code top-level domain

[edit] Companies

• Air Ivoire, IATA airline designator
• Vivendi Universal, now Vivendi SA, a French company active in media and communications
• Vu Technologies, a California based display company with major presence in India.

[edit] Music

• Volume unit as measured by a VU meter
• The Velvet Underground, an American rock and roll band of the late 1960s
• VU (album), an album released by The Velvet Underground

[edit] Universities

[edit] Worldwide

• Virtual University in Lahore, Pakistan
• Vilnius University in Vilnius, Lithuania
• Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam, Netherlands
• Vedanta University in Orissa, India
• Victoria University - various universities

[edit] In United States

• Valparaiso University in Valparaiso, Indiana
• Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee
• Villanova University in Villanova, Pennsylvania
• Vincennes University in Vincennes, Indiana

[edit] Radio communications

Radio communication callsign series of India: 8TA-8YZ, ATA-AWZ & VTA-VWZ. VU prefixes indicate ham radio (amateur radio) stations from India.

[edit] Politics

• Venstres Ungdom, the youth wing of the Danish liberal party Venstre
• Volksunie, a defunct Flemish political party

[edit] Other

• ν_μ, the symbol for a muon neutrino
• Tom Vu, poker player and former infomercial star.
• A Vietnamese family name or first name
• VU, a French pictorial magazine akin to Britain's Picture Post or the US's Life
• A religious spirit(s) involving Fijian Healing pronounced (voo) (In "The Straight Path of the Spirit" by Richard Katz)