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Meaning of a.u.

Source language: EnglishDictionary language: English

a.u.

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  1. Initialism of arbitrary unit.

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  1. Abbreviation of atomic units.

  2. Abbreviation of absorbance units.

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  1. A hypothetical world situated in a different dimension of space and time than the real world consisting of the universe known and experienced by human beings.

  2. An imaginary realm, often a variant form of the real world, depicting a different way events could have unfolded or the universe could have functioned.

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  1. A unit of length equal to 10−10 meters (that is, one ten-billionth of a meter), approximately the size of an atom, and denoted by the symbol Å, used especially to measure the wavelength of electromagnetic radiation or distances between atoms.

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  1. 149,597,870,700 metres, the approximate mean distance from the Earth to the Sun (the semi-major axis of Earth's orbit), (symbol AU), used to measure distances in the solar system.