VU

VU

__NOTOC__The two-letter abbreviation VU has several different meanings:

Country codes

* VU is the country code of Vanuatu
* .vu is Vanatu's country code top-level domain

Companies

* Air Ivoire, IATA airline designator
* Vivendi Universal, now Vivendi SA, a French company active in media and communications
* Vu Technologies, a California based display company with major presence in India.

Music

* Volume unit as measured by a VU meter
* The Velvet Underground, an American rock and roll band of the late 1960s
* "VU (album)", an album released by The Velvet Underground

Universities

Worldwide

* Virtual University in Lahore, Pakistan
* Vilnius University in Vilnius, Lithuania
* Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam, Netherlands
* Vedanta University in Orissa, India
* Victoria University - various universities

In United States

* Valparaiso University in Valparaiso, Indiana
* Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee
* Villanova University in Villanova, Pennsylvania
* Vincennes University in Vincennes, Indiana

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 defunct Flemish political party

Other

* νμ, the symbol for a muon neutrino
* Tom Vu, poker player and former infomercial star.
* A Vietnamese family name or first 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)


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