MU

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MU, Mu or μ may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

Aries Mu, a character from the anime Saint Seiya
Mu La Flaga, a character from the anime Mobile Suit Gundam SEED
Monsters University, a 2013 animated film by Disney and Pixar
"μ's" (pronounced "Muse") is the name of the protagonist school idol group in the anime series Love Live!.

Mu (album), a pair of free jazz albums by Don Cherry, released in 1969 and 1970
Mu Performing Arts, an Asian-American theater company and taiko drumming ensemble
MU (musician), Mutsumi Kanamori, a Japanese-British musician
MU, musical group formed by Merrell Fankhauser and Jeff Cotton
M.U. – The Best of Jethro Tull, a greatest hits album
Planet Mu, an electronic music label

Mu Dynamics, a company which makes hardware and software to test network services
MU Press, an independent comic book publisher
Isuzu MU Wizard, a compact sport/utility vehicle
Micron Technology, Boise, Idaho, US, NASDAQ symbol
China Eastern Airlines, Shanghai, China, IATA code

Micro- (μ), metric prefix for one millionth

Mu River, a river in Burma (Myanmar)
Mu River (Hokkaidō), a river in Japan
Mù, a village in the Edolo municipality of Italy
Mauritius (ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code MU)
- .mu, the country code top-level domain for Mauritius

Mu (surname) (穆, 牧, 慕, 木, 母, 目, 沐, 睦 and 暮), Chinese surnames
Mu family, a powerful Chinese family from the 14th to the 18th century
Mu of Baekje (580–641), king of Baekje
Mu of Balhae (died 737), king of Balhae from 718 to 737
Marquis Mu of Cai, ruler of the state of Cai from 675 to 646 BC
King Mu of Chu (died 614 BC), king of the state of Chu from 625 to 614 BC
Emperor Mu of Jin (343–361), emperor of the Eastern Jin Dynasty
Marquis Mu of Jin (died 812 BC), ruler of the state of Jin from c. 798 to 776 BC
King Mu of Zhou (died 922 BC), king of the state of Zhou from c. 976 to 922 BC
Mu Dan (1918–1977), Chinese poet and translator
Athing Mu (born 2002), American middle-distance runner

Mu (negative), 無, a concept in Buddhism
Muism (Korean shamanism), the native religion of Korea
Mu (shaman), a Korean priest
Church of England in Hunters Hill, New South Wales, Australia ("early church code" used by NSW Registry of Births Deaths & Marriages)

Mu phage, a bacteriophage of the family Myoviridae of double-stranded DNA non-enveloped contractile tail bacterial viruses
Centimorgan, or "map unit", a unit of recombinant frequency in genetics
Monitor unit (MU), a measure of absorbed dose from a linear accelerator in radiation therapy = 0.001 Gray
SARS-CoV-2 Mu variant, one of the variants of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19
Mouse unit, the amount of toxin required to kill a 20g mouse in 15 minutes via Intraperitoneal injection

Chemical potential, a form of potential energy that can be absorbed or released during a chemical reaction
Bridging ligand, an atom that connects two or more metal centers in a complex (molecule)

MU puzzle, a puzzle in the book Gödel, Escher, Bach
Minimalization operator (M operator), a function-building operator for General recursive function
Möbius function, a multiplicative function in number theory and combinatorics
Degree of membership in a fuzzy set
The standard measure function name in measure theory
Complex cobordism, an extraordinary cohomology theory

Micro-, SI (metric) prefix denoting a factor of 10⁻⁶ (one millionth)
Micrometre (deprecated as a single-character symbol)
Million units of energy, a term used in India for a gigawatt-hour, see kilowatt-hour#Other related energy units
Mu (unit), a Chinese unit of area also spelled "mou", equivalent to about 0.066 hectares.

Coefficient of friction, used to approximate the force of friction
Deformation (physics), as the "unit" of strain
Electron mobility, relating the drift of electrons to the applied electric field across a material
Linear density, a measure of mass per unit of length
Magnetic dipole moment, a measure of the strength of a system's net magnetic source
Mu-metal, a nickel-iron alloy with high magnetic permeability
Muon, an elementary particle
Muonium, exotic atoms made up of an antimuon and an electron
Permeability (electromagnetism) coefficient, degree of magnetization of a material
Proton-to-electron mass ratio, a dimensionless physical constant
Reduced mass, the "effective" inertial mass appearing in the two-body problem
Standard gravitational parameter of a celestial body
Viscosity, the resistance of a fluid which is being deformed by stress

μ, in evolutionary algorithms, the population size from which in each generation λ offspring will generate
Mu (rocket family), a Japanese rocket family launched between 1966 and 2006
Multiple unit, self-propelled train carriages capable of coupling with other units of similar type
Olympus mju (stylised as μ[mju:]), series of a compact cameras