Nu
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Template:Wiktionary NU may be a two-letter acronym for:
- Nicaragua (NATO country code)
- Niue (ISO 3166 country code)
- Nunavut, Canadian Territory postal code
- Nahdatul Ulama, an Islamic group in Indonesia
- The University of Nebraska-Lincoln
- Niagara University
- Northwestern University
- Northeastern University
- Norwich University, Military College of Vermont
Nu may stand for:
- Nu is a letter in the Greek alphabet: lowercase ν, uppercase 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.
- The HTML character entity references
Ν
andν
give the characters Ν and ν. - 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).
- Yiddish interjection. Though its literal translation is "come on" it is used in modern vernacular (slang) as a way to say "hurry up," "well," or "get on with it."
- In Chinese, Nu means woman. See Nü shu, the women-only writing system.
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.
nu may stand for:
- .nu is the Internet Top-level domain for Niue
For multilingual definitions of Nu, see wiktionary:nu.
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