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mu

noun
/mjuː//muː/UK

Etymology

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.

  1. derived from 𐤌𐤌
  2. derived from μῦ

Definitions

  1. The 12th letter of the Modern Greek alphabet.

  2. Neither yes nor no.

  3. Nothingness

    Nothingness; nonexistence; the illusory nature of reality.

    • That being the case, we should naturally choose to contemplate mu from morning to night, forgetting everything.
    • Consequently, though mu is mindlike, the likeness to individual consciousness cannot be pushed very far.
    • The monk posed to Chaoi-chou a question: Does a dog have a buddha nature or not?" Chao-chou, without a moment's hesitation, answered, “Mu." (Translated as "No.")
  4. ›+ 11 more definitions

    1. A unit of surface area, currently equivalent to two-thirtieths of a hectare.

      • The Lucky Star Co-operative in Chuwo County on the plains of southern Shansi had, before the anti-Japanese war, 26 wells, 4 water-wheels and 166.1 mou of irrigated fields, 4.82 per cent of its total arable land.

    2. A hypothetical or legendary continent that allegedly existed in the Atlantic or Pacific…

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

    3. μ (a mu particle)

    4. Mu (a river in Burma).

    5. Initialism of North Maluku

      Initialism of North Maluku: a province of Indonesia.

    6. Abbreviation of Micron Technology.

    7. Initialism of University of Missouri

    8. Initialism of matchup.

    9. Initialism of multiple unit.

    10. Initialism of mutual understanding

    11. A person engaged in a situationship

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for mu. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA