amu

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A form of atomic mass unit — A unit of mass equal to 1/12 the mass of an atom of ¹²C (carbon-12, an isotope of carbon).

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amu1

nounamu (plural amus)

plural amus

  1. abbreviationAbbreviation of atomic mass unit.
  2. abbreviationclippinginformalvideo gamesClipping of amulet.

    How to ID rings and amulets? So far I found 3 ?ID and have quite some rings and amus, but no clue, what they do.

    2005 October 20, Pia Kraft, “[crawl] Linux problems & more newbie questions”, in rec.games.roguelike.misc (Usenet)
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    I have just recently got my Barba to 84, and all he has been doing since is gambling for amus. He can carry 1,290,000 Gold at one time, and I have gambled it all away FIVE times on amus, and so far I have a plain blue +2 sorc amu, and quite a few rare skill amus.

    2001 March 21, Wayne Youngman, “Best ammy in the game”, in alt.games.diablo2 (Usenet)

    I was in some sort of trouble -- can't remember exactly what -- but that lead to reading un-id'd scrolls and trying on un-id'd rings and amu. One of the rings was ring of conflict, and amu at least didn't do anything bad so I left it on.

    2005 December 21, Moleman, “YASD: that promising samurai who lost his unicorn horn...”, in rec.games.roguelike.nethack (Usenet)

    Synonyms: ammy

AMU2

nounAMU (plural AMUs)

plural AMUs

  1. abbreviationinitialismInitialism of atomic mass unit.
  2. abbreviationinitialismInitialism of astronaut maneuvering unit.
  3. abbreviationinitialismInitialism of Acute Medical Unit.
proper nounAMU (uncountable)
  1. abbreviationinitialismuncountableInitialism of Aligarh Muslim University.

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APA

amu. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/amu

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