Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • abbreviation New Style
  • abbreviation Nova Scotia
  • abbreviation nuclear ship

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • abbreviation Nova Scotia, a province of Canada.
  • abbreviation Netscape (Internet Browser)
  • abbreviation No Show
  • abbreviation Nice Shot (FPS slang)
  • abbreviation Ireland (Usually as part of a name) National School
  • abbreviation Nuclear Ship - nuclear-powered ship
  • abbreviation Norfolk Southern (Railroad)

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Examples

  • *pores NS a niec tawl glass ob hoemmaed Katluah wif milkz adn sum ice and gibs it to NS*

    Safety blanket - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008

  • It seems to me that they are making the point that NS is implicated where other factors are controlling.

    About 'What Darwin Got Wrong' 2010

  • CD via RM&NS is the typical neo-Darwinian held POV.

    A Disclaimer for Behe? 2009

  • If Darwinian evolution by random (sorry Allen MacNeill) mutation sorted by NS is true, then, yes, there must be have been billions upon billions of species that didn't survive and left no fossil record.

    Blast From the Past 2010

  • IOW NS is a minor player - and a player that reduces variation.

    A New Book 2010

  • CD via RM&NS is the typical neo-Darwinian held POV.

    The Weasel Thread 2009

  • NS is not blind — or if it is blind, then it's blind in the same what a creature would be blind: lacking in long-distance sensory capability, but perfectly able to react to events and objects within the range of physical contact

    Assessing Applegate's Attack 2010

  • It seems to me that they are making the point that NS is implicated where other factors are controlling.

    About 'What Darwin Got Wrong' 2010

  • NS is not blind — or if it is blind, then it's blind in the same what a creature would be blind: lacking in long-distance sensory capability, but perfectly able to react to events and objects within the range of physical contact.

    Assessing Applegate's Attack 2010

  • RM&NS is a learning process, because adaptations that increase reproductive success are preserved in the gene pool.

    Bunny and a Book 2008

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