NLU

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English[edit]

Noun[edit]

NLU (countable and uncountable, plural NLUs)

  1. (uncountable, artificial intelligence) Initialism of natural-language understanding.
    Hypernym: NLP
    Coordinate term: NLG

Phrase[edit]

NLU

  1. (UK) Initialism of not like us.
    • 1983 [1955], Evelyn Waugh, “An Open Letter to the Honble Mrs Peter Rodd (Nancy Mitford) … on a Very Serious Subject”, in The Essays, Articles, and Reviews of Evelyn Waugh, Boston: Little, Brown, →ISBN, page 499:
      Every family and every set always had its private vocabulary and syntax and still has. I know people whose terms of condemnation are quite simply NLU and NLO (‘not like us’ and ‘not like one’).