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See also: Μ, Μ΄, µ, μ', μ΄, μ-, and Appendix:Variations of "m"

μ	U+03BC, μ GREEK SMALL LETTER MU

Greek and Coptic

µ	U+00B5, µ MICRO SIGN

Latin-1 Supplement

𝜇	U+1D707, 𝜇 MATHEMATICAL ITALIC SMALL MU

Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols

Translingual

Symbol

μ

(Should we delete⁽⁺⁾ this sense?) (sciences) micro-
μs: microsecond
(statistics) population mean
(physics) coefficient of friction
(physics) magnetic permeability
(physics) muon
(dated, physics) micron, micrometre

Further reading

μ on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Derived from its majuscule counterpart Μ.

Letter

μ • (m) (lowercase, uppercase Μ)

Lower-case mu (μῦ), the 12th letter of the ancient Greek alphabet. It represented the bilabial nasal /m/. It is preceded by λ and followed by ν.

Derived terms

See also mu

See also

(Greek-script letters) Α α, Β β, Γ γ, Δ δ, Ε ε, Ζ ζ, Η η, Θ θ, Ι ι, Κ κ, Λ λ, Μ μ, Ν ν, Ξ ξ, Ο ο, Π π, Ρ ρ, Σ σ ς, Τ τ, Υ υ, Φ φ, Χ χ, Ψ ψ, Ω ω
(non-Classical letters) Ϝ ϝ, Ͷ ͷ, Ͱ ͱ, Ϻ ϻ, Ϙ ϙ, Ͳ ͳ
(punctuation) · ;
(diacritics) ᾿ ῾ ◌́ ◌̀ ῀ ¨

Greek

Letter

μ • (m) (lowercase, uppercase Μ)

The lower case letter mu (μι), the 12th letter of the modern Greek alphabet.

Symbol

μ • (m)

meter (metre), the unit of length in the International System of Units

See also

(Greek-script letters) Α α, Β β, Γ γ, Δ δ, Ε ε, Ζ ζ, Η η, Θ θ, Ι ι, Κ κ, Λ λ, Μ μ, Ν ν, Ξ ξ, Ο ο, Π π, Ρ ρ, Σ σ ς, Τ τ, Υ υ, Φ φ, Χ χ, Ψ ψ, Ω ω
(non-Classical letters) Ϝ ϝ, Ͷ ͷ, Ͱ ͱ, Ϻ ϻ, Ϙ ϙ, Ͳ ͳ
(punctuation) · ;
(diacritics) ᾿ ῾ ◌́ ◌̀ ῀ ¨
μ΄
͵μ

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