Definition, Meaning, Synonyms & Anagrams | English word EMU
EMU
Definitions of EMU
- (obsolete) A cassowary (genus Casuarius). [from early 17th c.]
- A large flightless bird native to Australia, Dromaius novaehollandiae. [from 18th c.]
- (physics) Initialism of electromagnetic unit.
- (computing, video games, informal) Clipping of emulator.
- A dark constellation in Southern Celestial Hemisphere, Dome of the Sky; A constellation or asterism from Australian aborigine cultures, a dark constellation pattern formed by an arrangement of dark nebulae in the sky, blotting out background stars, appearing akin to the emu giant bird of Australia.
- (EU) Initialism of European Monetary Union.
- Initialism of w:Eastern Mennonite University.
- (economics) Initialism of w:economic and monetary union.
- (computing) Initialism of English metric unit.
- (rail transport, countable) Initialism of electric multiple unit.
- (cgs) Alternative form of emu or e.m.u..; Initialism of electromagnetic unit.
- (automotive engineering) Initialism of engine management unit.
- (astronautics) Initialism of extravehicular mobility unit.
Number of letters
3
Is palindrome
No
Examples of Using EMU in a Sentence
- An economic and monetary union (EMU) is a type of trade bloc that features a combination of a common market, customs union, and monetary union.
- The total number of collection sites is limited and distributed over a vast period of time: Maotianshan Shale and Balang Formation (China), Burgess Shale and Bertie Formation (Canada), the Šárka Formation (Czech Republic), Emu Bay Shale (Australia), Idaho and Utah (USA).
- The most common, the southern cassowary, is the third-tallest and second-heaviest living bird, smaller only than the ostrich and emu.
- They are distantly related to the African ostriches and Australia's emu (the largest and second-largest living ratites, respectively), with rheas placing just behind the emu in height and overall size.
- The timescale for conversion from the tolar to the euro operated differently from the first wave of European Monetary Union (EMU).
- Harrisonburg is home to James Madison University (JMU), a public research university with an enrollment of over 20,000 students, and Eastern Mennonite University (EMU), a private, Mennonite-affiliated liberal arts university.
- While he is hunting game, the eldest of the sisters is hides in a bush and imitates the cry of a female emu.
- Birdlife such as the emu, the Nankeen kestrel, the brown falcon, the little eagle, the crested pigeon, the brush bronzewing, the mulga parrot and the Australian bustard have all been found within the park boundaries.
- Keppel Bay Islands National Park includes 13 islands, positioned in Keppel Bay, off the coast of Yeppoon and Emu Park on the Capricorn Coast.
- ILC Dover, the company which manufactured the spacesuits for the Apollo and Skylab astronauts of the 1960s and 1970s, along with fabricating the suit component of the Space Shuttle's Extravehicular Mobility Unit (EMU), is located nearby.
- The White Elephant Emporium in Watertown was featured in the episode "The Emu Chase" of American Pickers.
- Unadulterated emu oil can vary widely in colour and viscosity anywhere from an off-white creamy texture to a thin yellow liquid, depending on the diet of the emu and the refining method(s) used.
- EMU Athletics utilizes Rynearson Stadium for its football games, Oestrike Stadium for its baseball games, and the multipurpose George Gervin GameAbove Center for its basketball games.
- He also played an important role the Summit of The Hague in 1969, where the European leaders decided to relaunch European integration with two new initiatives: on the one hand, Economic and Monetary Union of the European Union (EMU), and on the other hand, European Political Cooperation (EPC), which foreshadow the euro and the Common Foreign and Security Policy of the European Union today.
- The euro area, commonly called the eurozone (EZ), is a currency union of 20 member states of the European Union (EU) that have adopted the euro (€) as their primary currency and sole legal tender, and have thus fully implemented EMU policies.
- Other similar remains possibly referrable to the genus are known from the Emu Bay Shale of Australia and Chengjiang Biota of China.
- During this trip, Leichhardt named Seven Emu Creek, after shooting a mob of emus nearby, a name later taken on by a large cattle station still in existence, Seven Emu Station.
- The average weight of four unsexed Australian pelicans was , making this the second heaviest Australian flying bird species on average, after the brolga, although the male of the more sexually dimorphic Australian bustard weighs a bit more at average and maximum weights (both birds are, of course, much smaller than the cassowary and emu).
- EMU trainsets were identified by target plates, which are exhibited on the front lower nearside of driving carriages.
- Birds at the zoo included chickens, sarus cranes, red-crowned cranes, blue-and-gold macaws, scarlet macaws, military macaws, doves, emu, ostriches, pheasants, pigeons, toucans.
- AiRail Service was established 1982, when Deutsche Bundesbahn (now Deutsche Bahn AG) established a direct connection between Düsseldorf and Frankfurt Airport using the DB 403 "Donald Duck" EMU with tilting technology in Lufthansa livery.
- The worst of these, that he had connived at sending female convicts to Emu Plains for immoral purposes, was investigated by William Stewart, the lieutenant-governor, John Stephen, assistant judge, and the Rev.
- He kept a record of his 'Progress in roads and Public Works in New South Wales to 1855', including sketches and plans of Sydney, Emu Plains, the Blue Mountains, Victoria Pass, roads to Bathurst, Wisemans Ferry, and indigenous Australians.
- Like the ostrich, rhea, cassowary, emu, kiwi and extinct moa, elephant birds were ratites; they could not fly, and their breast bones had no keel.
- It was designed to fit over the life-support system backpack of the Space Shuttle Extravehicular Mobility Unit (EMU).
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