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Revision as of 19:11, 10 August 2007
The two-letter abbreviation VU has several different meanings:
Country codes
Companies
- Air Ivoire, IATA airline designator
- Vivendi Universal, now Vivendi SA, a French company active in media and communications with activities in music, television and film, publishing, telecommunications and the Internet.
Music
- Volume unit as measured by a VU meter.
- The Velvet Underground an American rock and roll band of the late 1960s, VU was an album released by this band.
Universities
Worldwide
- Vilniaus Universitetas in Vilnius, Lithuania.
- Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
- Vedanta University in Orissa, India.
- VU can refer to various universities named Victoria University (disambiguation page).
In the United States
- Valparaiso University in Valparaiso, Indiana.
- Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee.
- Villanova University in Villanova, Pennsylvania.
- Vincennes University in Vincennes, Indiana.
Unaccredited
Radio communications
Radio communication callsign series of India: 8TA-8YZ, ATA-AWZ & VTA-VWZ. VU prefixes indicate ham radio (amateur radio) stations from India.
Politics
- Venstres Ungdom, the youth wing of the Danish Liberal party Venstre
- Volksunie, a Flemish political party.
Other
- Tom Vu, poker player and former infomercial star.
- A Vietnamese family name
- Vu, a French pictorial magazine akin to Britain's Picture Post or the US's Life
- A religious spirit(s) involving Fijian Healing pronounced (voo) (In "The Straight Path of the Spirit" by Richard Katz)