Au

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Au, AU, au or a.u. may refer to:

Science and technology

Computing

  • .au, the internet country code for Australia
  • Au file format, Sun Microsystems' audio format
  • Audio Units, a system level plug-in architecture from Apple Computer
  • Adobe Audition, a sound editor program
  • Windows Update or Automatic Updates, in Microsoft Windows
  • Windows 10 Anniversary Update, of August 2016a

Physics and chemistry

  • Gold, chemical symbol Au
  • Absorbance unit, a reporting unit in spectroscopy
  • Atomic units, a system of units convenient for atomic physics and other fields
  • Ångström unit, a unit of length equal to 10−10 m or 0.1 nanometre.
  • Astronomical unit, a unit of length used in planetary systems astronomy
  • Arbitrary unit, a placeholder unit for when the actual value of a measurement is unknown or unimportant

Arts and entertainment

Music

  • AU (band), an experimental pop group headed by Luke Wyland
  • Au, a 2010 release by Scottish rock band Donaldson, Moir and Paterson
  • Au a track on Some Time in New York City by an album by John Lennon & Yoko Ono and Elephant's Memory

Magazines

  • Alternative Ulster, a Northern Irish music magazine, now called AU
  • A&U: America's AIDS Magazine, sponsor of the Christopher Hewitt Award

Other media

  • Alternative universe (fan fiction), fiction by fan authors that deliberately alters facts of the canonical universe written about.
  • Au Co, a fairy in Vietnamese mythology
  • Age of Ultron, a 2013 series published by Marvel Comics
  • A.U, a Chinese media franchise and brand

Organizations

Universities

Asia

Europe

Oceania

North America

Other

  • Air University (disambiguation), various Air Force universities

Places

  • Aue (toponymy), a frequent element in Germanic toponymy
  • Australia (ISO 3166 country code)
  • Au, Guinea, Kankan Region

Austria

Germany

  • Au (Munich), Munich, Germany
  • Au (Schwarzwald), Baden-Württemberg, Germany
  • Au (squat), a building and cultural center in Frankfurt, Germany
  • Au am Rhein, Germany
  • Au in der Hallertau, Germany

Switzerland

Vehicles

  • Ford Falcon (AU), a family car made in Australia
  • Vought AU, a post-World War II US Marine Corps variant of the F4U Corsair aircraft

Other uses

  • , a cartwheel in the Brazilian martial art of Capoeira
  • Au (surname), a Chinese family name
  • Au language
  • Ab urbe condita (sometimes abbreviated as a.u.), Latin for "from the founding of the City" (Rome)
  • a'u, the Hawaiian name for the Pacific blue marlin
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