U (disambiguation)
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U is the twenty-first letter of the Latin alphabet.
U may also refer to:
Science
Mathematics
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, union (set theory) - U-set, a set of uniqueness
- U, the unitary group
Chemistry
- Uranium, a metallic chemical element
- Unified atomic mass unit, used to express atomic and molecular masses
Astronomy
- U, ultraviolet magnitude, in a UBV photometric system
- U, an October 16 through 31 discovery in the provisional designation of a comet
Computing
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<u>, a now-deprecated HTML element denoting underlined text - U, measurement of size of a rack unit
- U, universal Turing machine
Other scientific uses
- U, a common notation for potential energy
- U, the middle of an edge joining a hexagonal and a square face of the Brillouin zone of a face-centered cubic lattice, in solid-state physics
- U, one of the two subcarrier-modulated color-difference channels in the YUV colorspace, in video
- U, the recommended symbol for a system's internal energy, in thermodynamics
- U, the enzyme unit
- U, the abbreviation for selenocysteine, an uncommon amino acid containing selenium
- u, the alternative abbreviation for the SI prefix "micro-" when the Greek letter mu (µ) is not available
Music
- U or yu (wind instrument), a free reed wind instrument
- U, a solo Japanese music artist, also known to be the lead vocals of Funta
- U, the stage name of the solo Japanese music artist Yu Shirota
- ’u’, the first opera in the Klingon language
- "U" (Kasha & Shara Nelson song), 1999
- "u" (Kendrick Lamar song), 2015
- "U" (Super Junior song), 2006
- U (album), a 1970 double album by the Incredible String Band
- "U", a song by Pearl Jam on their album Lost Dogs
- "U", a song by S.E.S., released in 2002
People
- An honorific used in Burmese names
- An alternative spelling of Woo (Korean name), including a list of people with that family or given name
- U of Goryeo (1363–1389), king of Goryeo (Korea), often called King Woo
Places
- U, Pohnpei, Federated States of Micronesia
- Ü-Tsang, one of three historical provinces of Tibet
- Ü (region), a particular region of Ü-Tsang
Education
- University, commonly abbreviated "U"
- U, an unsatisfactory grade, or 'Unclassified' (UK)
Language
- /u/, the close back rounded vowel in the International Phonetic Alphabet
- U language, a language spoken by about 40,000 people in the Yunnan Province of China
- U (Cyrillic), a letter of the Cyrillic script
- U (kana), a Japanese syllabary symbol
- U and non-U English, sociolectal varieties of British English
- u, an abbreviation for "you" in computer chats
- U-, a prefix used for German submarines during World War II
- U, a title roughly equal to "Mister" in Burmese
Film and television
- U (film), a 2006 French animated feature film directed by Serge Elissalde and Grégoire Solotareff
- The U (film), a 2009 documentary about the Miami Hurricanes football team
- U (Universal), a film rating used by:
- U (TV channel), a former television channel in New Zealand
Other uses
- U Mobile, Malaysian mobile phone and data service provider
- U-bend, a U-shaped plumbing trap
- Ⓤ, (U inside a circle), hechsher or kosher certification by the Orthodox Union
- U, symbol for Ustaše Croatian movement
- Nickname for football teams:
- La U or Universitario de Deportes, Peru
- Universitatea Cluj, Romania
- U, the color blue in Magic: The Gathering
- Wii U, Nintendo's most recent console
See also
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