MU
Mu denotes:
- Mu (continent), a legendary vanished continent
- Mu (philosophy), nothing, emptiness in Chinese (無 / 无) and Japanese (無 / む) philosophy.
- Mu (rocket), Japanese launch vehicle
- Mu (tribe), one of the six tribes of the Tibetans (cf. Sinmo)
- My, Greek letter µ in the English spelling
- Sekpele (language) (also Mu), a language of the Sekpele people of southeastern Ghana north of Hohoe on the border with Togo.
- mu (市畝 / 市亩) a Chinese measure of area.
Kings:
- Mu (Baekje) (600-641), king of Baekje, cf. list of the rulers of Korea #Baekje (18 BC-660 AD).
- Mu (Zhou king), king of the Chinese Zhou dynasty
People, family name:
- Mu Shouqi (1874-1947), Chinese politician in Gansu and renowned scholar
- Mu Shuangshuang (* 1984), Chinese weightlifter
- Mu Zi (* 1989), Chinese table tennis player
MU stands as an abbreviation for:
- moonset, as the date of the astronomical event
- Mathematics Education
- Monsters University, original title of the American animated film The Monsters University.
- University of Leoben
- Ministry of the Environment, in Lower Saxony the Lower Saxony Ministry of the Environment, Energy, Building and Climate Protection
Geography:
- Mauritius, country name according to ISO 3166
- Cuba, (ICAO code)
- Muggenhof subway station of the Nuremberg subway system
Economy:
- China Eastern, a Chinese airline (IATA code)
- Market unit, area of a strategic alliance between two or more companies
- Minimum turnover
- Mittelstands-Union
on license plates:
- Manchester (Great Britain)
- Murau district (Austria)
- Murcia (region) (Spain; phasing out)
- Foreigners with residence permit (Turkey)
Mu is an acronym for:
- Muthesius Academy of Fine Arts in Kiel, Germany's youngest art academy with its conversion of a former technical college for art and design into an art academy in 2005.
mu stands as an abbreviation for:
- math unit, 1 mu = 1/18 em (typeset)
- as abbreviation for Lower Muschelkalk in labels on geological maps
.mu stands for:
- .mu, country-code top-level domain of Mauritius
See also:
- Mu-metal (µ-metal, mumetal, English Mu-metal or English permalloy)
This is a term clarification page to distinguish between several terms designated by the same word.
Questions and Answers
Q: What is Mu?
A: Mu is a letter in the Greek alphabet. It is represented by Μ or μ.
Q: What does μ symbolize?
A: μ symbolizes the SI prefix micro, meaning a factor of 10-6 (one millionth).
Q: How is μ used in mathematics?
A: In mathematics, μ can be used as the arithmetic mean of a statistical population, the Möbius function, the least-fixed-point-operator and a degree of membership from a fuzzy set.
Q: How is μ used in chemistry?
A: In chemistry, it can be used as the chemical potential.
Q: How is μ used in physics?
A: In physics, it can be used as the coefficient of friction, mobility coefficient, permeability (electromagnetism) coefficient, muon (an elementary particle), standard gravitational parameter, magnetic dipole moment and linear density viscosity reduced mass.
Q: What other uses does Mu have?
A: Mu also has other uses such as being an alias for Mike Paradinas and being an atomic symbol for muonium. It's also been used to refer to a Chinese surname and unit of area (亩/畝). Additionally it has been important in Zen koan practice with its Japanese word "無". Finally it has been associated with several books films and games such as µTorrent freeware BitTorrent client for Microsoft Windows written in C++ and MU Online role-playing game.
