What does AU stand for?

Alternate Universe

This definition appears very rarely and is found in the following Acronym Finder categories:

Science, medicine, engineering, etc.
Organizations, NGOs, schools, universities, etc.

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Adelaide University (University of Adelaide, Australia) Adelphi University Administrative Unit African Union (formerly Organization of African Unity) Air University (US Air Force) Alcohol Unit Alfred University Aligarh University (India) Alignment Unit Alopecia Universalis		Always Usually Ambassador University American Racing Pigeon Union (Oklahoma City) American University (Washington, DC, USA) Americans United (for the Separation of Church and State: Washington, DC) Amman University Anadolu University Analyzer Unit Anderson University (Indiana) Andhra University (India)

Samples in periodicals archive:

It's in this alternate universe that things bumble along amusingly enough for the first 20 minutes or so with some witty remarks about advertising - a bus stop hoarding proclaims, "Pepsi: When they don't have Coke" while a nursing home is advertised as "a sad place for hopeless old people".

IT'S ONE TRICK RICKY; THE BIG RELEASE

Star Trek: eep Space Nine, 11pm, Bravo Two of the crew cross over into an evil alternate universe.

SIX OF THE BEST

ly/9JH Tweet of the week "Woke up in an alternate universe where the president inspiring kids to stay in school and get an education is somehow a bad thing.

WEB WATCH

Contrast these statistics with the pontiff's remarks that marital fidelity and abstinence from premarital sex are better weapons in the battle against HIV/AIDS, and it is as though the pope moves in an alternate universe.

Pope Benedict's unfortunate message

Cren and the War of the Seven Days" follows Jamey as he learns this fact when he finds himself in an alternate universe.

Cren and the War of the Seven Days

Taking a look into this, I found a massive amount of posts and material that seems to have come from this alternate universe (the one where the Watchmen exists).

The New Watchmen Trailer Campaign

DOCTOR WHO: E-SPACE TRILOGY (PG) A THREE disc box set bringing together three of the Time Lord's most exciting adventures in the alternate universe of E-Space.

Luvvies' labours lost in the jungle; DVD

Even before the ship full of ragtag international conservationists, animal activists and reporters makes it to Antarctica to find and confront Japanese whaling ships, the book presents an amazing alternate universe.

The real Maverick