Lu
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Lu or LU may stand for:
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[edit] Places
- Lu (AL), a town in Italy
- Lü, a municipality in Switzerland
- 鲁, or Lǔ, an abbreviation for the Shandong province of the People's Republic of China
- Lucerne, canton of Switzerland
- Luxembourg (ISO country code)
[edit] Universities
- Lakehead University , a university in Thunder Bay, Ontario
- Lander University, the largest university in Greenwood, South Carolina.
- Latvian University, the largest university in Latvia, located in Riga.
- Lehigh University, prestigious private 4-year university in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.
- Liberty University, a Christian University in Lynchburg, Virginia.
- Lingnan University in Hong Kong.
- Loughborough University, a university in Leicestershire, United Kingdom.
- Lund University, the largest university in Sweden, located in Lund.
[edit] Names and culture
- Lu, the Chinese family names represented by the characters 陸(陆), 路, 盧(卢), or 魯(鲁).
- Lü, the Chinese family name represented by the character 呂,(吕). A family by that name (呂) was a prominent supporter of the Eastern Jin Dynasty after the Han Zhao attacked the Jin.
- Lu (ethnic group), an ethnic group in Vietnam
- Lu (music), a Tibetan style of folk music
- Lu (Duet), a Mexican pop duet.
- "Lu" or "Lu rou" (lu meat) is a popular Chinese cooking style which is similar to the "adobo" style of cooking in the Philippines. It refers to the spices, more than the main ingredients. Spices include the "five spices" (anise, cinnamon, clove, cardamom, and something else [may be more or less than five in actual use]), soy sauce, sugar, and salt. Typical main ingredients are fatty pork and whole chicken eggs, but chicken organs, hard/dride tofu (dou gan), seaweed, and other meats are also popular ingredients.
- Lu may also be a novel by Mao Dun (Mao-Tun).
[edit] Organisations and brand names
- London Underground, the metro system in London.
- LU, the initial for Lefèvre Utile, a biscuit brand by Lefevre-Utile Biscuit Co., a subsidiary of Danone (or Dannon)
- Lefevre-Utile Biscuit Co. known as "LU", now a division of the Groupe Danone.
- Liberale Unie, a Dutch political party.
- Lucent, a company that trades on the DOW.
[edit] Scientific and technical
- lutetium (Lu), symbol for the chemical element
- LU was a computer program that processed .LBR archive files on MS-DOS systems.
- LU decomposition of matrix
- Logical unit
