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Una-Sana Canton

Una-Sana Canton (Unsko-sanski kanton) is one of ten cantons of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, established 27 May 1995, seat Bihać; it ranks last among cantons on employment and unemployment, with a development index of 76.3 (8th of 10) in 2017.

Unabomber (film)

Unabomber is a 2026 Netflix crime drama directed by Janus Metz, starring Jacob Tremblay, Russell Crowe, and Shailene Woodley, dramatizing Ted Kaczynski's Harvard years and the FBI manhunt; released September 25, 2026.

Unacademy

Unacademy is an Indian educational technology company based in Bengaluru offering online test preparation and live classes, founded by Gaurav Munjal in 2010 as a YouTube channel.

Unaccompanied Minors

Unaccompanied Minors is a 2006 American holiday comedy directed by Paul Feig, in which five children stranded by a Christmas Eve blizzard run wild while evading airport officials.

Unaccustomed Earth

Unaccustomed Earth is a 2008 collection of eight short stories by the American writer Jhumpa Lahiri, centered on Bengali immigrants in the United States and their American-born children.

Unagi (1997 film)

Unagi (うなぎ, The Eel) is Shohei Imamura's 1997 Japanese drama starring Koji Yakusho, adapted from Akira Yoshimura's novel Yami ni Hirameku; it shared the 1997 Cannes Palme d'Or with Taste of Cherry, Imamura's second after The Ballad of Narayama.

Unagi (うなぎ)

Unagi (うなぎ) is the Japanese term for freshwater eel, chiefly Anguilla japonica, eaten as kabayaki grilled eel. Endangered IUCN status, capture-based farming, and the rejected 2025 CITES Appendix II listing proposal define it.

Unai Emery

Unai Emery is a Spanish football manager, born in 1971, known for his success at Aston Villa and his status as the most decorated UEFA Europa League coach.

Unai Hernández

Unai Hernández (Unai Hernández Lorenzo), Spanish midfielder born 2004 in Malgrat de Mar; Girona youth product, ex-Barça Atlètic captain, sold to Al-Ittihad for €4.5M in 2025, loaned to Al-Shabab and back to Girona in 2026.

Unai Simón

Unai Simón Mendibil, Spanish goalkeeper for Athletic Club and Spain; Lezama graduate, 271 Athletic games, Zamora Trophy 2023/24, EURO 2024 and 2026 World Cup winner, contract to 2029 without release clause.

Unaizah

Unaizah (عنيزة) is a city and Category (A) governorate on the Najd Plateau in al-Qassim Province, central Saudi Arabia, about 28 km from Buraydah, known for its International Date Festival.

Unakkum Enakkum (உனக்கும் எனக்கும்)

Unakkum Enakkum (உனக்கும் எனக்கும்), formerly titled Something Something Unakkum Enakkum, is a 2006 Tamil romantic drama directed by M. Raja, starring Jayam Ravi, Trisha, and Prabhu; a remake of the Telugu hit Nuvvostanante Nenoddantana, released 28 July 2006.

Unalaska, Alaska

Unalaska, Alaska (Unangan: Ounalashka), city on Unalaska Island in the Aleutians; its Dutch Harbor port is the #1 US fishing port by volume for 26 straight years, with 4,254 residents and a fishing-only economy.

Unam oil field

The Unam oil field is a conventional oil and gas field in OML 67, offshore Nigeria south of Akwa Ibom State, producing under the NNPC and Mobil joint venture.

Unangan oral literature

Unangan oral literature is the body of stories, songs, and narratives transmitted orally among the Unangan (Aleut) people of the Aleutian Islands, composed in the Unangam Tunuu language.

Unani medicine

Unani medicine (Unani Tibb, Greco-Arab medicine): traditional healing system rooted in Greek Hippocratic-Galenic medicine, transmitted via Arabic and Persian scholars, now practiced and regulated in India and Pakistan.

Unanimism

Unanimism (French: unanimisme) is a French literary doctrine founded by Jules Romains around 1903, holding that writers should express the collective soul of human groups.

Unapologetic

Unapologetic is Rihanna's seventh studio album (Def Jam, November 19, 2012). It became her first Billboard 200 number one with 238,000 first-week copies, led by the single "Diamonds", and won Best Urban Contemporary Album at the Grammys.

Unary numeral system

The unary numeral system, also known as base 1, is the simplest numeral system, representing each natural number by repeating a single symbol that many times, as in tally marks.

Unary operation

A unary operation, also called a unary or monadic operator, is a function with exactly one input, such as negation, square root, or multiplicative inverse in a group.

Unatoned

Unatøned is Machine Head's eleventh studio album, released April 25, 2025 on Nuclear Blast/Imperium Recordings. Known for its 41-minute length, Flynn's three songwriting rules, the piano ballad 'Scorn', and a divided critical reception (Metacritic 72).

Unattended death

Unattended death (ICD-11 MH13; ICD-10 R98, "found dead") is a death occurring without medical attendance, requiring coroner or medical examiner investigation; certified causes differ from autopsy findings in about 30% of cases.

UNAVCO

UNAVCO was a Boulder, Colorado non-profit consortium, founded in 1984 to share GPS equipment and archive geodetic data for Earth science research, merging with IRIS in 2023.

Unbabel

Unbabel was a Portuguese language-technology company founded in Lisbon in 2013 that combined machine translation with human post-editing, raised $91 million, and was acquired by TransPerfect in 2025.

Unbalanced growth

Unbalanced growth is a development-economics doctrine holding that a poor country should concentrate investment in a few strategic sectors, advanced by Albert O. Hirschman in The Strategy of Economic Development (1958).

Unbeatable

Unbeatable is a 2025 rhythm-adventure video game by D-Cell Games and Playstack, following the musician Beat through a story in a world where music is illegal.

Unbeatable (激战) (2013 film)

Unbeatable (激战) is a 2013 Hong Kong MMA sports drama directed by Dante Lam, starring Nick Cheung and Eddie Peng as Macau boxer and trainee; it won Cheung the Shanghai Golden Goblet and 2014 Hong Kong Film Award Best Actor.

Unbelievable (miniseries)

Unbelievable is a 2019 Netflix eight-episode true crime miniseries created by Susannah Grant, Michael Chabon, and Ayelet Waldman, based on the Pulitzer-winning ProPublica/Marshall Project article about Marie, a teen disbelieved after reporting rape, starring Toni Collette, Merritt Wever, and Kaitlyn Dever.

Unbiased estimation of standard deviation

Unbiased estimation of standard deviation corrects the sample standard deviation s, which underestimates σ because the square root is nonlinear; the c₄ factor applies for normal populations.

Unbiased estimator

An unbiased estimator is a statistic used to estimate an unknown quantity whose expected value equals that quantity for every possible value, so errors average to zero across repeated samples.