Mu
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mu¹
- /mjuː/
- /muː/
Sounds like mew (first pronunciation only), moo (second pronunciation only) · Rhymes with -uː
Where it comes from
From Ancient Greek μῦ (mû), derived from Phoenician 𐤌𐤌 (mm /mem/, “water”). Doublet of mem.
noun mus
- The 12th letter of the Modern Greek alphabet.
mu²
- /muː/ UK
- /mjuː/ US
- /muː/ US
Sounds like moo, (first pronunciation) mew, (second pronunciation) moo
Where it comes from
From Japanese 無 (mu, “nothing, neither yes nor no”).
interjection
- Neither yes nor no. Mu means "no thing." Like "Quality" it points outside the process of dualistic discrimination. Mu simply says, "No class; not one, not zero, not yes, not no."[…]It's a great mistake, a kind of dishonesty, to sweep nature's mu answers under the carpet.
noun
- Nothingness; nonexistence; the illusory nature of reality. That being the case, we should naturally choose to contemplate mu from morning to night, forgetting everything.
mu³
Where it comes from
From Mandarin 畝／亩 (mǔ).
noun mu
- A unit of surface area, currently equivalent to two-thirtieths of a hectare. The Lucky Star Co-operative in Chuwo County on the plains of southern Shansi had, before the anti-Japanese war, 26 wells, 4 water-wheels and 166.1 mou of irrigated fields, 4.82 per cent of its total arable land.
Mu⁴
Where it comes from
Coined by Charles Étienne Brasseur de Bourbourg in 1864 (through mistranslating a word in the Mayan Madrid Codex using the De Landa alphabet), as the name of a land that had been submerged by a catastrophe; later identified as Atlantis by Augustus Le Plongeon.
proper noun
- A hypothetical or legendary continent that allegedly existed in the Atlantic or Pacific Ocean.
Mu⁵
Where it comes from
Borrowed from Greek μ (m).
noun Mus
- μ (a mu particle)
Mu⁶
Where it comes from
Borrowed from Burmese မူး (mu:).
proper noun
- Mu (a river in Burma).
MU⁷
proper noun
- Initialism of North Maluku: a province of Indonesia.North Maluku
- Abbreviation of Micron Technology.Micron Technology Kishida told the executives, including those from Micron Technology Inc (MU), Intel Corp (INTC) and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSM) (TSMC), that stabilizing supply chains would be a topic of discussion at the G7 talks in the western city of Hiroshima.
- Initialism of University of Missouri
noun MUs
- Initialism of matchup.matchup
- Initialism of multiple unit.multiple unit
- Initialism of mutual understanding
- A person engaged in a situationship
