title: Au
text: Au, AU,  au or a.u. may refer to:
  
  Science and technology
  
  Computing
   .au, the internet country code for Australia
   Au file format, Sun Microsystems' audio format
   Audio Units, a system level plug-in architecture from Apple Computer
   Adobe Audition, a sound editor program
   Windows Update or Automatic Updates, in Microsoft Windows
   Windows 10 Anniversary Update, of August 2016a
  
  Physics and chemistry
   Gold, symbol Au (from Latin ), a chemical element
   Absorbance unit, a reporting unit in spectroscopy
   Atomic units, a system of units convenient for atomic physics and other fields
   Ångström unit, a unit of length equal to 10−10 m or 0.1 nanometre. 
   Astronomical unit, a unit of length often used in planetary systems astronomy, an approximation for the average distance between the Earth and the Sun
   Arbitrary unit, a relative placeholder unit for when the actual value of a measurement is unknown or unimportant ("a.u." is deprecated, use  "arb. unit" instead)
  
  Arts and entertainment
  
  Music
   AU (band), an experimental pop group headed by Luke Wyland
   Au, a 2010 release by Scottish rock band Donaldson, Moir and Paterson
   Au a track on Some Time in New York City by an album by John Lennon & Yoko Ono and Elephant's Memory
  
  Magazines
   Alternative Ulster, a Northern Irish music magazine, now called AU
   A&U: America's AIDS Magazine, sponsor of the Christopher Hewitt Award
  
  Literature
  Alternative universe (fan fiction), fiction by fan authors that deliberately alters facts of the canonical universe written about.
  
  Other media
   Au Co, a fairy in Vietnamese mythology
   Age of Ultron, a 2013 series published by Marvel Comics
   A.U, a Chinese media franchise and brand
  
  Organizations
   au (mobile phone company), a mobile phone operator in Japan
   African Union, a continental union
   Americans United for Separation of Church and State
   Athletic Union, the union of sports clubs in a British university
   Austral Líneas Aéreas (IATA code AU)
   Auxiliary Units, specially trained, highly secret units created by the United Kingdom government during the Second World War
   AGROunia, an agrarian-socialist political party in Poland
  
  Universities
  
  Asia
   Ajou University  in Suwon, Gyeonggi, South Korea
   Abasyn University in Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan
   Andhra University in Visakhapatnam, AP, India
   Anhui University in Hefei, Anhui, China 
   Aletheia University in New Taipei City, Taiwan
   Allahabad University in Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh, India
   Arellano University in Philippines
   Assumption University (Thailand) in Thailand
   Abhilashi University in Himachal Pradesh, India
   Adesh University in Bathinda, Punjab, India.
  
  Europe
   Aarhus University in Aarhus, Denmark
   Aberystwyth University in Aberystwyth, Wales, United Kingdom
   Akademia Umiejętności in Kraków, Poland
   Arden University in Coventry, England
  
  Oceania
   Auckland University in New Zealand
  
  North America
   Adelphi University in Garden City, New York
   Alfred University in Alfred, New York
   Algoma University in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Canada
   American University in Washington, D.C.
   Anaheim University in Anaheim, California
   Anderson University (Indiana) in Anderson, Indiana
   Anderson University (South Carolina) in Anderson, South Carolina
   Andrews University in Berrien Springs, Michigan
   Antioch University in Culver City, California
   Apollos University in Huntington Beach, California
   Arcadia University in Glenside, Pennsylvania
   Argosy University in Alameda, California
   Arizona University in Tucson, Arizona
   Ashland University in Ashland, Ohio
   Athabasca University in Athabasca, Alberta, Canada
   Auburn University in Auburn, Alabama
   Augsburg University in Minneapolis, Minnesota
   Aurora University in Aurora, Illinois
  
  Other
   Air University (disambiguation), various Air Force universities
  
  Places
   Aue (toponymy), a frequent element in Germanic toponymy
   Australia (ISO 3166 country code)
   Au, Guinea, Kankan Region
  
  Austria
   Austria (informal two-letter country code) 
   Au, Vorarlberg, Bregenz, Austria
   Au am Leithaberge, Austria
   Au im Bregenzerwald, Austria
  
  Germany
   Au (Munich), Munich, Germany
   Au (Schwarzwald), Baden-Württemberg, Germany
   Au (squat), a building and cultural center in Frankfurt, Germany
   Au am Rhein, Germany
   Au in der Hallertau, Germany
  
  Switzerland
   Au, St. Gallen
   Au, Zürich
   Au peninsula
   Schloss Au, a château in Wädenswil
  
  Vehicles
   Ford Falcon (AU), a family car made in Australia
   Vought AU, a post-World War II US Marine Corps variant of the F4U Corsair aircraft
  
  Other uses
   Aú, a cartwheel in the Brazilian martial art of Capoeira
   Au (surname), a Chinese family name
   Au language
   Ab urbe condita (sometimes abbreviated as a.u.), Latin for "from the founding of the City" (Rome)
   a'u, the Hawaiian name for the Pacific blue marlin