Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- The symbol for the element nitrogen.
- abbr. Printing en
- abbr. knight (chess)
- abbr. needs improvement
- abbr. newton.
- abbr. nominative.
- abbr. north.
- abbr. northern.
Wiktionary
- n. The fourteenth letter of the English alphabet, called en and written in the Latin script.
- n. The ordinal number fourteenth, derived from this letter of the English alphabet, called en and written in the Latin script.
- abbr. military Navy.
- abbr. north (see also n)
- abbr. chess knight
- n. The fourteenth letter of the basic modern Latin alphabet.
- n. chemistry Symbol for nitrogen.
- n. metrology Symbol for newton, the SI unit of force.
- n. biochemistry IUPAC 1-letter abbreviation for aspargine
- n. physics electron number
- n. music Neapolitan chord (usually in first inversion, therefore followed by a superscript six)
Examples
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"Commander 'N Thief"- Explosive new documentary presents evidence of fraud in 2004 election
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“Note, too, that Fear Equals Funding bureaucrats like the NiH and CDC assume, irrationally, that if N exposure causes 100% death, then a N*.01 exposure causes one percent of all people exposed to die.”
Conjugated linoleic acid (CLA) and breast milk | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D.
“Here follows the proof that this sum is just a roundabout way of calculating the sum of the first N integers, which the brilliant Gauss found useful as a child to escape some boring math drills: instead of adding the numbers up, Gauss realized the sum of the first N numbers was just (N*(N+1)/2).”
Calling ID's Bluff, Calling ID's Bluff... - The Panda's Thumb
“The basic problem is that the ratio P(N&F&L) / P(~N&F&L) can ONLY be small if the ratio P(N|L) / P(~N|L) is small.”
What is Cosmological Fine-Tuning Evidence For? - The Panda's Thumb
“However, regardless of what our prior assumption is, P(N|L) / P(~N|L)”
What is Cosmological Fine-Tuning Evidence For? - The Panda's Thumb
“The pitch pinion, N ', is cast in a piece with a hollow friction cone, N², which is mounted loosely upon the shaft, _h_, and to which corresponds a second friction cone, O.”
“The mixed azo compounds are those in which the azo group ·N: N· is united with an aromatic radical on the one hand, and with a radical of the aliphatic series on the other.”
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon"
“If we represent by N the angular velocity of the earth, and by M the angular velocity of the moon in its orbit round the earth, the quantity we desire to express is N-- M; we shall call it the relative rotation.”
“Selection of X at pick Y where X is more than N% likely to have taken before pick Z, where N varies depending on whether X is seen to fill an immediate starting need (such that N is appreciably lower if X is likely to be a starter)”
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There is no place like Nebraska
Place names, landmarks, famous residents, "-isms," etc.
Nebraska, nebraksa, Lincoln, Omaha, Grand Island, Kearney, Carhenge, Pioneer Village, Valentine, husker, cornhusker, There is no place... and 126 more...
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All Things Scrabble
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Boy or Girl Letters?
I recently had a discussion with my family on the sex of language. So I was just wondering about y'all's opinions on the gender/sex of American English letters.
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Letters
See also The Phonetic alphabet by oroboros.
aye, bee, cee, dee, e, ef, eff, gee, aitch, eye, jay, kay and 452 more...
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