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U (disambiguation)

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U is the twenty-first letter of the Latin alphabet. U may also refer to:

Mathematics

Chemistry

Astronomy

  • U, ultraviolet magnitude, in a UBV photometric system
  • U, an October 16 through 31 discovery in the provisional designation of a comet

Computing

Other scientific uses

  • 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

Music

Education

  • University, commonly abbreviated "U"
  • U, an unsatisfactory grade, or 'Ungraded' (UK)

Other uses

See also

Latin letter disambiguation

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ

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