Mu

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

Etymology 2

Etymology tree
Greek μ (m)bor.
English Mu

    Borrowed from Greek μ (m).

    Noun

    Mu (plural Mus)

    1. μ (a mu particle)

    Etymology 3

    Etymology tree
    Burmese မူး (mu:)bor.
    English Mu

      Borrowed from Burmese မူး (mu:).

      Proper noun

      Mu

      1. Mu (a river in Burma).

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