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PU

/pu/

PU is the abbreviation of Punjab.

PU is the initialism of processing unit.

PU is the initialism of prosodic unit.

PU is the initialism of polyurethane.

PU is the initialism of power unit.

PU is the initialism of penalty unit.

Meaning of Punjab

Proper noun

Punjab

  1. A geographical region of South Asia, divided (by the Radcliffe Line) between India and Pakistan. Pakistani Punjab includes the (West) Punjab Province and parts of the Islamabad Capital Territory; Indian Punjab includes (East) Punjab State and some other territories.
  2. A state in northern India. Capital: Chandigarh. Largest city: Ludhiana.
  3. A province in Pakistan. Capital: Lahore.

Meaning of processing unit

Noun

processing unit (plural processing units)

  1. An electrical component (digital circuit) that performs operations on an external data source, usually memory or some other data stream.
    Synonyms:
    PU

Proper noun capitalized: Pu

Pu

  1. A county of Linfen, Shanxi, China.
    • He also announced: the former Pu County CCP Committee must be affirmed as a party organization. The decision to reorganize the Pu County CCP Committee was wrong. There was no one and no incidents in Pu County which were related to the conspiratorial activities of the "gang of four" to usurp party...1980 December 3 [1980 November 29], “Verdict in frameup case of 'armed rebellion' in Pu County, Shanxi reversed under the direction of the Central Discipline Inspection Commission--the frameup case...
    • She wanted to find out where the artist lived and learn from him or her. She discovered the artist lived in Pu county, Shanxi province.2003 January 3, Xiaoli Hu, “New Life in Old Art”, in Beijing Today, number 95, →OCLC, Face, page 9, column 3
  2. A surname from Chinese.

Forms of PU

alternative formP.U.
alternative formP. U.
pluralPUs

Origin of PU

From Mandarin 蒲 (Pú).

Phrases with PU

Questions about PU

What does PU mean?
PU means a county of Linfen, Shanxi, China.
What is PU the abbreviation of?
PU is the abbreviation of Punjab.
What part of speech is PU?
PU is a proper noun.
How do you pronounce PU?
PU is pronounced /pu/.

Words near PU in the dictionary

  1. ptygmatic
  2. ptyxes
  3. ptyxis
  4. PTZ
  5. PTZs
  6. PU
  7. pu pu
  8. Pu'an
  9. pu'er
  10. Pu'er City
  11. pu-erh

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Adapted from Wiktionary: PU (page history and authors); Pu (page history and authors); Punjab (page history and authors); processing 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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