Cau

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proper noun

A surname from French.

OriginFrench Cau →
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Meanings

Cau1

proper nounCau (plural Caus)

plural Caus

  1. A surname from French.

CAU2

nounCAU (plural CAUs)

plural CAUs

  1. abbreviationinitialismbankingInitialism of credit card account updater, a service to automatically update customers' credit card information.

CAU3

proper noun
  1. abbreviationinitialismInitialism of Christian Albrecht University of Kiel.

    The professor for Functional Nanomaterials at CAU had developed the materials, which were first presented in 2012, together with colleagues from Hamburg University of Technology.

    2021 November 15, “Nanomaterial 'aerographene' used to create extremely powerful pumps”, in Phys.org, archived from the original on 22 Oct 2025

Origin

Cau · proper noun

  1. FrenchCau
  2. EnglishCau

Borrowed from French Cau.

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CAU · proper noun

  1. GermanCAU“Christian-Albrechts-Universität”
  2. EnglishCAU

Borrowed from German CAU (“Christian-Albrechts-Universität”).

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Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

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APA

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

MLA

“Cau.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Cau. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Cau,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Cau.

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