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Nu has the following meanings:
- Nu is a letter in the Greek alphabet: lowercase ν, uppercase Ν.
- In Egyptian mythology, Nu (or
Nun) is the personification of the ocean which encircled the entire
world. He was an ancient god, even from before Ra, who emerged from Nu. He was part of the
Ogdoad at Hermopolis and the husband of Naunet.
- The Nu people are a Chinese ethnic group.
- With a slash to denote a click, the N/u, or Khomani, are a San (Bushman) people of Africa. They speak a Khoisan
language which is also called N/u.
- In ASCII, Ν and ν (for older browsers, approximately "N" and "v")
are displayed by using the letters "nu"
- "NU" is the ISO 3166-1 two-letter country code for Niue.
- In Canada "NU" represents the postal designation for the territory of Nunavut.
- 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).
- As an interjection before a sentence, the word
nu means "Well..." This interjection is of Yiddish
origin.
- In Chinese, Nu means woman. See Nu shu, the women-only language.
- The University of Nebraska
For multilingual definitions of Nu, see wiktionary:nu.
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