OU or Ou or ou may stand for:
Universities
United States
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Oakland University
Oakland University is a public research university in Auburn Hills and Rochester Hills, Michigan. Founded in 1957 through a donation of Matilda Dodge Wilson, it was initially known as Michigan State University-Oakland, operating under the Mi ...
in Oakland County, Michigan
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Oakwood University in Huntsville, Alabama
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Oglethorpe University in Atlanta, Georgia
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Ohio University in Athens, Ohio
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Olivet University in San Francisco, California
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University of Oklahoma in Norman, Oklahoma
Japan
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Osaka University
, abbreviated as , is a public research university located in Osaka Prefecture, Japan. It is one of Japan's former Imperial Universities and a Designated National University listed as a "Top Type" university in the Top Global University Project. ...
, a national research university
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Okayama University, a national university
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Onomichi City University, a public university in Hiroshima Prefecture
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Otemae University, a private university in Hyogo Prefecture
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Ohu University, a private university in Fukushima Prefecture
Other countries
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Hong Kong Metropolitan University, Hong Kong, previously the Open University of Hong Kong
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Osnabrück University, Germany
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Open University, United Kingdom
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Open University of Mauritius
The Open University of Mauritius (OU) is a public university in Mauritius. It offer programmes leading to undergraduate, and postgraduate degrees through open distance learning. OU's headquarters are located in Réduit, Moka.
The OU was establi ...
, Mauritius
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Osmania University, India
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University of Otago, New Zealand
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University of Ottawa, Canada
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University of Oxford, United Kingdom
Language and writing
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Ou (digraph)
This is a list of digraphs used in various Latin alphabets. Capitalisation involves only the first letter (''ch'' becomes ''Ch'') unless otherwise stated (''ij'' becomes ''IJ'').
Letters with diacritics are arranged in alphabetic order accordin ...
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Ou (ligature)
Ou (Majuscule: , Minuscule: ) is a Greek ligatures, ligature of the Greek alphabet, Greek letters omicron, ο and upsilon, υ which was frequently used in Byzantine Greek, Byzantine manuscripts. This ligature is still seen today on icon artwork ...
, the ligature ȣ in the Latin and Greek alphabets
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Uk (Cyrillic), the Cyrillic letter Ꙋ, derived from the ''ou'' ligature
*OU, an abbreviation for Old Ukrainian, an aspect of the
Ruthenian language
Ruthenian ( Belarusian: руская мова; Ukrainian: руська мова; Ruthenian: руска(ѧ) мова; also see other names) is an exonymic linguonym for a closely-related group of East Slavic linguistic varieties, particularly th ...
from the 11th to the 14th century
Surnames
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O (surname), anglicized as Ō, (王), a Japanese family name
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Ou (surname) (區 or 歐), a Chinese family name
Geography
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Nam Ou, a river in Laos
* Ōu (奥羽), a synonym of
Tōhoku region, Japan
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Ōu Mountains
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Ōu Main Line
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Ohu University
Organizations
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Croatia Airlines (IATA code OU)
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Orthodox Union
The Orthodox Union (abbreviated OU) is one of the largest Orthodox Jewish organizations in the United States. Founded in 1898, the OU supports a network of synagogues, youth programs, Jewish and Religious Zionist advocacy programs, programs for ...
(Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America)
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Our Ukraine (political party)
Other uses
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Ōū, a bird (''Psittirostra psittacea'')
* ''
oculi uterque'', Latin for ''both eyes'', in eyeglass prescriptions
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Organizational Unit in computing, particularly in the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP)
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Over unity, a phrase related to perpetual motion
* "Overused", in
competitive Pokémon tiering
* One Utama, or
1 Utama
1 Utama is a shopping mall in Bandar Utama, Selangor, Malaysia, with an area of and containing 713 stores. It is the one of the largest shopping malls in Malaysia and the seventh-largest shopping mall in the world before IOI City Mall in Putraja ...
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