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Aum (disambiguation)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 25, 2026
Entity authorityQ300105
Source-derived summary

Aum, or Om, is an Indian mantra and spiritual symbol.

Aum or AUM may also refer to:

Art, entertainment and media

Audiological Medicine (SUAM), a peer-reviewed medical journal

August Underground's Mordum, a 2003 exploitation film

Aum!, a 2021 Indonesian adventure mockumentary film

TeenSet, a former American magazine rebranded AUM in 1969

AUM, a magazine and an imprint AUM Publications by Sri Chinmoy's organization

Music

"Aum", a track from the 2013 album Asymmetry by Karnivool

AUM Fidelity, a jazz record label

Aum (album), by Deuter

"A.U.M.", a track from the album Bleed the Future (2021) by Archspire

Education

American University of Madaba, a private university in Jordan

American University of Malta, a private liberal arts university in Malta

Auburn University at Montgomery, a public university in Alabama

American University of Kuwait, Private university in Kuwait.

American University of the Middle East, Private university in Kuwait.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Aum (disambiguation)” as wikimedia disambiguation page. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2003, 2021, 1969, 2013—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where disambiguation, Wikimedia and page can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as wikimedia disambiguation page. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 25, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q300105. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2003, 2021, 1969 and 2013.

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This entry incorporates text from Aum (disambiguation)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.