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Nu (uppercase ?, lowercase ?; also transcribed as Ny; modern Ni), is the 13th letter of the Greek alphabet
Greek alphabet

The Greek alphabet is a set of twenty-four letters that has been used to write the Greek language since the late 9th century BC or early 8th century BCE....
. In the system of Greek numerals
Greek numerals

Greek numerals are a numeral system using letters of the Greek alphabet. They are also known by the names Milesian numerals, Alexandrian numerals, or alphabetic numerals....
 it has a value of 50. Its Latin Alphabet
Latin alphabet

The Latin alphabet, also called the Roman alphabet, is the most widely used alphabetic writing system in the world today. It evolved from the western variety of the Greek alphabet called the Cumae alphabet, and was initially developed by the Ancient Romes to write the Latin....
 equivalent is N, though the lowercase resembles the Roman lowercase v
V

V is the twenty-second letter in the modern Latin alphabet. Its name in English language is spelled vee ....
.

The name of the letter is written in in Ancient Greek
Ancient Greek

Ancient Greek is the historical stage in the development of the Greek language spanning across the Archaic Greece , Classical Greece , and Hellenistic civilization periods of ancient Greece and the classical antiquity....
 and traditional Modern Greek
Modern Greek

Modern Greek refers the varieties of Greek spoken in the modern era. The beginning of the "modern" period of the language is often symbolically assigned to the fall of the Byzantine Empire in 1453, even though that date marks no clear linguistic boundary and many characteristic modern features of the language had been present centuries earli...
 polytonic orthography, while in Modern Greek
Modern Greek

Modern Greek refers the varieties of Greek spoken in the modern era. The beginning of the "modern" period of the language is often symbolically assigned to the fall of the Byzantine Empire in 1453, even though that date marks no clear linguistic boundary and many characteristic modern features of the language had been present centuries earli...
 it is sometimes written . In English, the name of the letter is or .

The lower-case letter ? is used as a symbol for:



Once on the TV game show Jeopardy!
Jeopardy!

Jeopardy! is a game show featuring trivia in topics such as history, literature, pop culture and science. The show has a decades-long Jeopardy! broadcast history in the United States since its creation by Merv Griffin in the early 1960s....
, there was a category "Homophones", with the question "Was acquainted with the 13th letter of the Greek alphabet".






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Nu (uppercase ?, lowercase ?; also transcribed as Ny; modern Ni), is the 13th letter of the Greek alphabet
Greek alphabet

The Greek alphabet is a set of twenty-four letters that has been used to write the Greek language since the late 9th century BC or early 8th century BCE....
. In the system of Greek numerals
Greek numerals

Greek numerals are a numeral system using letters of the Greek alphabet. They are also known by the names Milesian numerals, Alexandrian numerals, or alphabetic numerals....
 it has a value of 50. Its Latin Alphabet
Latin alphabet

The Latin alphabet, also called the Roman alphabet, is the most widely used alphabetic writing system in the world today. It evolved from the western variety of the Greek alphabet called the Cumae alphabet, and was initially developed by the Ancient Romes to write the Latin....
 equivalent is N, though the lowercase resembles the Roman lowercase v
V

V is the twenty-second letter in the modern Latin alphabet. Its name in English language is spelled vee ....
.

The name of the letter is written in in Ancient Greek
Ancient Greek

Ancient Greek is the historical stage in the development of the Greek language spanning across the Archaic Greece , Classical Greece , and Hellenistic civilization periods of ancient Greece and the classical antiquity....
 and traditional Modern Greek
Modern Greek

Modern Greek refers the varieties of Greek spoken in the modern era. The beginning of the "modern" period of the language is often symbolically assigned to the fall of the Byzantine Empire in 1453, even though that date marks no clear linguistic boundary and many characteristic modern features of the language had been present centuries earli...
 polytonic orthography, while in Modern Greek
Modern Greek

Modern Greek refers the varieties of Greek spoken in the modern era. The beginning of the "modern" period of the language is often symbolically assigned to the fall of the Byzantine Empire in 1453, even though that date marks no clear linguistic boundary and many characteristic modern features of the language had been present centuries earli...
 it is sometimes written . In English, the name of the letter is or .

The lower-case letter ? is used as a symbol for:
  • Degree of freedom
    Degrees of freedom (statistics)

    In statistics, the phrase degrees of freedom is used to describe the number of values in the final calculation of a statistic that are free to vary....
     in statistics
    Statistics

    Statistics is a Mathematics pertaining to the collection, analysis, interpretation or explanation, and presentation of data. It also provides tools for prediction and forecasting based on data....
  • The frequency
    Frequency

    Frequency is the number of occurrences of a repeating event per unit time. It is also referred to as temporal frequency.The period is the duration of one cycle in a repeating event, so the period is the reciprocal of the frequency....
     of a wave in physics and other fields.
  • Kinematic viscosity
    Viscosity

    Viscosity is a measure of the Drag of a fluid which is being deformed by either shear stress or extensional stress. In everyday terms , viscosity is "thickness"....
     in fluid mechanics
    Fluid mechanics

    Fluid mechanics is the study of how fluids move and the forces on them. Fluid mechanics can be divided into fluid statics, the study of fluids at rest, and fluid dynamics, the study of fluids in motion....
  • Poisson's ratio
    Poisson's ratio

    Poisson's ratio , named after Simeon Poisson, is the ratio of the contraction or transverse strain , to the extension or axial strain .When a sample cube of a materials is stretched in one direction, it tends to contract in the other two directions perpendicular to the direction of stretch....
    , the ratio of strains perpendicular with and parallel with an applied force.
  • Specific volume
    Specific volume

    Specific volume is the volume occupied by a unit of mass of a material. It is equal to the inverse of density. Specific volume may be expressed in , or ....
    , the volume occupied by a unit of mass of a material.
  • Any of three kinds of neutrino
    Neutrino

    Neutrinos are elementary particles that travel close to the speed of light, lack an electric charge, are able to pass through ordinary matter almost undisturbed and are thus extremely difficult to detect....
     in particle physics.
  • One of the Greeks
    Greeks (finance)

    In mathematical finance, the Greeks are the quantities representing the sensitivities of derivative such as option to a change in underlying parameters on which the value of an instrument or Portfolio of financial instruments is dependent....
     in mathematical finance
    Mathematical finance

    Mathematical finance is the branch of applied mathematics concerned with the financial markets.The subject has a close relationship with the discipline of financial economics, which is concerned with much of the underlying theory....
    , known as "vega".
  • The number of neutrons released per fission
    Nuclear fission

    In nuclear physics and nuclear chemistry, nuclear fission is a nuclear reaction in which the atomic nucleus of an atom splits into smaller parts, often producing free neutrons and lighter atomic nucleus, which may eventually produce photons ....
     of an atom in nuclear physics.
  • A DNA polymerase
    DNA polymerase

    A DNA polymerase is an enzyme that catalyze the polymerization of deoxyribonucleotides into a DNA strand. DNA polymerases are best-known for their role in DNA replication, in which the polymerase "reads" an intact DNA strand as a template and uses it to synthesize the new strand....
     found in higher eukaryotes and implicated in Translesion Synthesis.
  • Molecular vibrational mode, ?x where x is the number of the vibration (a label)


  • The Greatest fixed point
    Greatest fixed point

    In mathematics, more specifically in order theory, the greatest fixed point of a function is the fixed point which is greater than or equal to all other fixed points, according to some partial order....
     of a function, as commonly used in the µ-calculus


Once on the TV game show Jeopardy!
Jeopardy!

Jeopardy! is a game show featuring trivia in topics such as history, literature, pop culture and science. The show has a decades-long Jeopardy! broadcast history in the United States since its creation by Merv Griffin in the early 1960s....
, there was a category "Homophones", with the question "Was acquainted with the 13th letter of the Greek alphabet". The answer was "Knew Nu".

The Nu Gundam is a mobile suit piloted by Amuro Ray
Amuro Ray

is a fictional character from the anime series Mobile Suit Gundam and its sequels, Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam and Char's Counterattack, voiced by Toru Furuya , Brad Swaile , Michael Lindsay and Matthew Erickson ....
, the main protagonist of the Mobile Suit Gundam
Mobile Suit Gundam

is a televised anime series, created by Sunrise . Written and directed by Yoshiyuki Tomino, it premiered in Japan on Nagoya Broadcasting Network between April 7, 1979 and January 26, 1980, spanning 43 episodes....
 series. It appears in the movie Mobile Suit Gundam : Char's Counterattack