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IU

American  
  1. immunizing unit.

  2. Also I.U. international unit.


IU British  

abbreviation

  1. immunizing unit

  2. international unit

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Since NOvA began in 2014, Messier and his colleagues have also mentored many IU graduate and undergraduate students working on the experiment.

From Science Daily • Mar. 3, 2026

Because what on earth is going on at IU?

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 13, 2025

In a delightful bit of magical TV storytelling, K-pop superstar IU plays both the young adult Ae-sun and later her own grown daughter.

From Salon • Jun. 28, 2025

The two-and-a-half-hour show ended with a half-hour encore, during which IU scanned the crowd for fan-made signs of songs they wanted to hear.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 5, 2024

“I mean, it’s less than half of what IU would cost,” which was the state school a couple hours south of us in Bloomington.

From "Turtles All the Way Down" by John Green