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'''MU''', '''Mu''' or '''μ''' may refer to:
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==Arts and entertainment==
===Film and television===
* [[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! School Idol Project|Love Live!]]''.

=== Gaming ===
* ''[[Mu Online]]'', a 2003 online role-playing game
* Mu, an ancient civilization from ''[[Mega Man Star Force 2]]''.
* Mu-12, a character from the ''[[BlazBlue]]'' series
* Colony Mu, a location from ''[[Xenoblade Chronicles 3]]''

===Music===
* [[Mu (album)|''Mu'' (album)]], a pair of free jazz albums by Don Cherry, released in 1969 and 1970
* Mu, an album by [[Jah Wobble]].
* [[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 Vol. I, is an EP album by [[Richard Henshall]], released in 2024. It is part of a trilogy.

==Business==
* [[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

== Language and scripts ==
* [[Mu (letter)]] (Μ or μ), the 12th letter of the Greek alphabet
::[[Micro-]] (μ), metric prefix for one millionth
* [[Mu (kana)]], む or ム, a Japanese kana
* [[Mu (cuneiform)]], a sign in cuneiform writing
* [[Mu (negative)]], a word meaning "no" or "without" (Japanese: 無; Korean: 무)
* Middle Ukrainian, [[Ukrainian language]] 16th–18th century

==Organisations==
* [[Mothers' Union]], a global Anglican women's organisation
* [[Musicians' Union (UK)]]
* ''[[Groupe μ]]'', Belgian linguistics group

== Places ==
* [[Mu River (Irrawaddy)]], 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

===Mythical places===
* [[Mu (mythical lost continent)]], a mythical continent in the Pacific Ocean

==People==
* [[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

== Religion and philosophy ==
* [[Mu (negative)]], [[wikt:無|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|Hunters Hill]], [[New South Wales]], [[Australia]] ("early church code" used by NSW Registry of Births Deaths & Marriages)

== Science, technology, and mathematics ==
===Biology and medicine===
* [[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 (unit)|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

=== Chemistry ===
* [[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)

=== Mathematics ===
* [[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
* μ, the symbol for [[population mean]]

=== Measurement ===
* [[Micro-]], SI (metric, "μ-") prefix denoting a factor of 10<sup>&minus;6</sup> (one millionth)
* [[Micrometre]] (deprecated as a single-character symbol "μ" for micron) 
* Million units of energy, a term used in India for a gigawatt-hour, see [[kilowatt-hour#Other related energy units]]
* [[Mu (land)]], a Chinese unit of area also spelled "mou", equivalent to about 0.066 hectares.

=== Physics ===
* [[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

===Other uses in science and technology===
* μ, in [[evolutionary algorithm]]s, 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
* The mu (μ) [[Rings of Uranus#μ (mu) and ν (nu) rings|ring of Uranus]]

== Universities ==
* [[Metropolitan University (disambiguation)]]

=== Australia ===
* [[Macquarie University]], Sydney, New South Wales
* [[Monash University]], Melbourne, Victoria
* [[Murdoch University]], Perth, Western Australia

=== India ===
* [[Madras University]], Chennai
* [[Mumbai University]]
* [[Manipur University]], Imphal

=== United States ===
* [[Marquette University]], Milwaukee, Wisconsin
* [[Marymount University]], Arlington, Virginia
* [[Maryville University]], Town and Country, Missouri
* [[Marshall University]], Huntington, West Virginia
* [[Messiah University]], Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania
* [[Millersville University of Pennsylvania]], Millersville, Pennsylvania
* [[University of Missouri]], Columbia, Missouri

=== Other countries ===
* [[Mahidol University]], Salaya, Thailand
* [[Mandalay University]], Mandalay, Myanmar
* [[Masaryk University]], Brno, Czech Republic
* [[Meiho University]], Pingtung, Taiwan
* [[Misamis University]], Ozamiz City, Misamis Occidental, Philippines
* [[Mondragon University]], Mondragon, Spain
* [[Mzumbe University]], Mzumbe, Tanzania

== Other uses ==
* [[Musician (United States Navy)]], an enlisted rating
* [[Korean radish|Mu]], a type of icicle radish
* [[Manchester United F.C.]], a British football club
* [[Miss Universe]], international women's beauty pageant
* [[MuseScore]], a sheet music notation software
* /mu/, a board pertaining to music discussion on [[4chan]]

== See also ==
* [[Moo (disambiguation)]]
* [[M (disambiguation)]]

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