Emu vs Emergency - What's the difference?
emu | emergency |
electromagnetic unit.
* 1943 , Henry Augustus Perkins, College Physics , p. 530:
* 1959 , American Geological Institute, Geoscience Abstracts , p. 38:
* 1974 , William Berkson, Fields of Force: The Development of a World View from Faraday to Einstein , p. 168:
* 1976 , John Aloysius O'Keefe, Tektites and Their Origin , p. 109:
* 2005 , Peter Mohn, Magnetism in the Solid State: An Introduction , p. 39:
(computing, video games, informal) emulator
* 2005', "Dane L. Galden at at", ''Could this be used for classic '''emus on GBA?'' (on newsgroup ''rec.games.video.classic )
A situation which poses an immediate risk and which requires urgent attention.
:Cardiac arrest is an emergency and if you find someone in cardiac arrest you should call 999 immediately.
(US, Canada, often attributive) The department of a hospital that treats emergencies.
An individual brought in at short notice to replace a member of staff, a player in a sporting team, etc.
* November 2 2014 , Daniel Taylor, "
(archaic) The quality of being emergent; sudden or unexpected appearance; an unforeseen occurrence.
As nouns the difference between emu and emergency
is that emu is a large flightless bird native to Australia, Dromaius novaehollandiae while emergency is a situation which poses an immediate risk and which requires urgent attention.As an abbreviation emu
is electromagnetic unit.As an initialism EMU
is with respect to the European Union: Economic and Monetary Union.emu
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Alternative forms
* emeu (obsolete)External links
* ("emu" on Wikipedia) * (Dromaius novaehollandiae) * (Dromaius novaehollandiae)Abbreviation
(Abbreviation) (head)- A bar magnet NS has poles of strength 144 emu , 5 cm apart.
- The average intensity is 80 X 10"5 emu /cm3.
- The amount of charge named by one emu is that which produces a unit magnetic effect when flowing in a current at one unit length per second.
- Booker and Harrison (1966) set an upper limit of 10~7 emu /g.
- Experimentally the magnetic moment is usually given in units of emu'/g, '''emu'''/cm3 or ' emu /mole.
- Saw this article for playing downloadable games on GBA. It's an official Nintendo product in Japan, and thought it might be useful for Nintendo to release actual emus and some of their older game properties (beyond the $20 classic series).
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(emergencies)Sergio Agüero strike wins derby for Manchester City against 10-man United," guardian.co.uk
- Van Gaal responded by replacing Adnan Januzaj with Carrick and, in fairness, the emergency centre-half did exceedingly well given that he has not played since May.