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OTU

OTU is the initialism of Ontario Tech University.

OTU is the initialism of operational taxonomic unit.

OTU is the initialism of Operational Training Unit.

OTU is the initialism of oxygen toxicity unit.

Meaning of operational taxonomic unit

Noun

operational taxonomic unit (plural operational taxonomic units)

  1. A terminal node in phylogenetic analysis; an organism.
    • External nodes: things under comparison; operational taxonomic units

Forms of OTU

pluralOTUs

Questions about OTU

What is OTU the initialism of?
OTU is the initialism of Ontario Tech University.

Words near OTU in the dictionary

  1. Otts
  2. Ottses
  3. ottsuke
  4. Ottumwa
  5. OTTW
  6. OTU
  7. otubain
  8. otubains
  9. Otucan Norte
  10. Otucan Sur
  11. Otuho

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Adapted from Wiktionary: OTU (page history and authors); operational taxonomic unit (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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