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imu

imu noun: a traditional Hawaiian underground oven, consisting mainly of a hole in the ground.

imu: a traditional Hawaiian underground oven, consisting mainly of a hole in the ground
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Noun (1)

imu (plural imus)

  1. A traditional Hawaiian underground oven, consisting mainly of a hole in the ground.

Noun (2) capitalized: IMU

IMU (plural IMUs)

  1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of Inertial Measurement Unit.

Forms of imu

pluralimus
pluralIMUs

Origin of imu

Borrowed from Hawaiian imu. Doublet of umu.

Questions about imu

What does imu mean?
Imu means a traditional Hawaiian underground oven, consisting mainly of a hole in the ground.
What part of speech is imu?
Imu is a noun.
What is the plural of imu?
The plural of imu is imus.

Words near imu in the dictionary

  1. IMT
  2. IMTA
  3. IMTAs
  4. Imtenan
  5. Imtiaz
  6. imu
  7. Imum Coeli
  8. Imura
  9. imuracetam
  10. imus
  11. Imuses

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Adapted from Wiktionary: imu (page history and authors); IMU (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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