Gau

GAU is an acronym used in a variety of contexts, and its meaning depends on the subject area. In transportation, GAU is the IATA airport code for Lokpriya Gopinath Bordoloi International Airport in Guwahati, Assam, India. The airport serves as a gateway to Northeast India and handles both domestic and some international flights.

In military equipment, GAU appears in the designation GAU-8/A Avenger, a 30-millimeter Gatling-type rotary cannon used by the United States Air Force on the A-10 Thunderbolt II. In this context, GAU is short for Gatling Automatic Gun.

In education and research, GAU has been used as an acronym for Gujarat Agricultural University, a state agricultural university in India. Administrative restructuring in the 2000s reorganized its campuses and programs into separate institutions, and GAU is now mainly a historical reference rather than a current operational designation.

There are also likely regional or organizational uses of GAU beyond these examples, including university names or organizational acronyms. As with many acronyms, the intended meaning is typically inferred from the surrounding context.