Up

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Up may refer to:

[edit] General

• Relative direction, where up is the opposite of down
• Experiencing the effects of psychoactive drugs
• At bat, in baseball, when a player is facing the pitcher
• Up, a type of quark
• Up! (1976 film)
• Up (2009 film) by Pixar Animation Studios
• Railway direction in the United Kingdom
• The Volkswagen up! concept car seen at Frankfurt Motor Show
• The album Up by Canadian folk-rock group Great Big Sea
• The album Up! by Canadian singer Shania Twain
• The album Up by British musician Peter Gabriel
• The album Up by American rock band R.E.M.

[edit] Initialisms

Companies and NGOs:

• Union Pacific Railroad, a US railroad network
• United Planet, a US organization dedicated to enhancing cross-cultural & geographical understanding
• United Press International, a press agency
• Bahamasair, IATA airline designator

In science and technology:

• μp, an abbreviation for "microprocessor" (where the "u" is actually "μ", the lowercase Greek letter mu, meaning "micro-")
• Unified Process, an iterative software development process
• Unambiguous Non-deterministic Polynomial-time

In computing:

• On-line, a system that is available ("up") to users and functioning normally.
• Unified Process

In politics:

• Patriotic Union, a political party of Colombia
• Unia Pracy (Labor Union), a political party of Poland
• Unity Party, the name of political parties in several countries
• United Party, the name of political parties in several countries

In education:

• Universidade Pedagógica, in Mozambique
• University of Pennsylvania, in the United States
• University of Portland, in the United States
• Univerzita Palackého, in the Czech Republic
• Universidad Panamericana, in Mexico
• University of Patras, in Greece
• University of the Philippines, in the Philippines
• University of Porto, in Portugal
• University of Pretoria, in South Africa
• A University Press at any major university
• Universite populaire de boston, in Boston

In geography:

• Upper Peninsula of Michigan, in the United States
• Uttar Pradesh, an Indian state

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