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

  • abbreviation Nahum

from The Century Dictionary.

  • An obsolete or dialectal (Scotch) form of no.
  • An abbreviation of National Academy of Design.
  • An abbreviaton of National Academy of Sciences.
  • In chem., the symbol for sodium (NL. natrium).

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • obsolete No, not. See no.

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  • noun chemistry Symbol for sodium.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group; occurs abundantly in natural compounds (especially in salt water); burns with a yellow flame and reacts violently in water; occurs in sea water and in the mineral halite (rock salt)

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[From New Latin natrium, from French natron, natron; see natron.]

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Latin natrium.

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