Mu

See also: Appendix:Variations of "mu"

Translingual

Symbol

Mu

1. (chemistry, physics) The chemical symbol for muonium (antimuon–electron pair pseudo-element; not the muon–antimuon onium pair (muononium))

English

Etymology 1

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

Mu

1. A hypothetical or legendary continent that allegedly existed in the Atlantic or Pacific Ocean.

Derived terms

• Muvian

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Greek μ (m).

Noun

Mu (plural Mus)

1. μ (a mu particle)

Etymology 3

Borrowed from Burmese မူး (mu:).

Proper noun

Mu

1. Mu (a river in Burma).

Anagrams

• 'um, -um, UM, um, um-