Au

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, symbol Au (from Latin ), a chemical element 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 often used in planetary systems astronomy, an approximation for the average distance between the Earth and the Sun Arbitrary unit, a relative placeholder unit for when the actual value of a measurement is unknown or unimportant ("a.u." is deprecated, use "arb. unit" instead)

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

Literature Alternative universe (fan fiction), fiction by fan authors that deliberately alters facts of the canonical universe written about.

Other media 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 au (mobile phone company), a mobile phone operator in Japan African Union, a continental union Americans United for Separation of Church and State Athletic Union, the union of sports clubs in a British university Austral Líneas Aéreas (IATA code AU) Auxiliary Units, specially trained, highly secret units created by the United Kingdom government during the Second World War AGROunia, an agrarian-socialist political party in Poland

Universities

Asia Ajou University in Suwon, Gyeonggi, South Korea Abasyn University in Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan Andhra University in Visakhapatnam, AP, India Anhui University in Hefei, Anhui, China Aletheia University in New Taipei City, Taiwan Allahabad University in Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh, India Arellano University in Philippines Assumption University (Thailand) in Thailand Abhilashi University in Himachal Pradesh, India Adesh University in Bathinda, Punjab, India.

Europe Aarhus University in Aarhus, Denmark Aberystwyth University in Aberystwyth, Wales, United Kingdom Akademia Umiejętności in Kraków, Poland Arden University in Coventry, England

Oceania Auckland University in New Zealand

North America Adelphi University in Garden City, New York Alfred University in Alfred, New York Algoma University in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Canada American University in Washington, D.C. Anaheim University in Anaheim, California Anderson University (Indiana) in Anderson, Indiana Anderson University (South Carolina) in Anderson, South Carolina Andrews University in Berrien Springs, Michigan Antioch University in Culver City, California Apollos University in Huntington Beach, California Arcadia University in Glenside, Pennsylvania Argosy University in Alameda, California Arizona University in Tucson, Arizona Ashland University in Ashland, Ohio Athabasca University in Athabasca, Alberta, Canada Auburn University in Auburn, Alabama Augsburg University in Minneapolis, Minnesota Aurora University in Aurora, Illinois

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 Austria (informal two-letter country code) Au, Vorarlberg, Bregenz, Austria Au am Leithaberge, Austria Au im Bregenzerwald, 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 Au, St. Gallen Au, Zürich Au peninsula Schloss Au, a château in Wädenswil

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 Aú, 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