Up

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Contents 1 Initialisms 1.1 Music 1.2 Companies 1.3 Science and technology 1.4 Computing 1.5 Politics 1.6 Education 1.7 Geography 2 See also

Up may refer to:

• A relative direction, the opposite of down
• Experiencing the effects of psychoactive drugs
• At bat, in baseball, when a player is facing the pitcher
• On-line, in computing, the state of being available for use and functioning normally
• Up quark, a particle described by the Standard Model theory of physics
• Up! (film), a 1976 soft core sex comedy
• Up (1984 film), a short film
• Up (2009 film), an upcoming film by Pixar Animation Studios
• A railroad direction in the United Kingdom and China
• The Volkswagen up! concept car

[edit] Initialisms

[edit] Music

• Up! (album) by Shania Twain
  • "Up!" (song) from the above album
• Up (Great Big Sea album)
• Up (Peter Gabriel album)
• Up (R.E.M. album)
• Up (Right Said Fred album)

[edit] Companies

• Union Pacific Railroad, a US railroad network
• United Press International, a press agency
• Bahamasair, IATA airline designator

[edit] Science and technology

• μp, an abbreviation for microprocessor (where the "u" is actually "μ", the lowercase Greek letter mu, meaning "micro-")
• Unified Process, an iterative software development process
• UP (complexity), Unambiguous Non-deterministic Polynomial-time

[edit] Computing

• Unified Process, a popular software development process framework

[edit] Politics

• Patriotic Union, a political party of Colombia
• Unia Pracy (Labor Union), a political party of Poland
• Unity Party, the name of political parties in several countries
• United Party, the name of political parties in several countries
• Unidad Popular, political coalition of left wing parties in Chile between 1970-1973

[edit] Education

• Universidade Pedagógica, in Mozambique
• University of Pennsylvania, in the United States
• University of Portland, in the United States
• Univerzita Palackého, in the Czech Republic
• Universidad Panamericana, in Mexico
• University of Patras, in Greece
• University of the Philippines, in the Philippines
• University of Porto, in Portugal
• University of Pretoria, in South Africa
• A University Press at any major university

[edit] Geography

• Upper Peninsula of Michigan, in the United States
• Uttar Pradesh, an Indian state

[edit] See also

• Upward