Definitions

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

  • abbreviation Printing en
  • abbreviation knight (chess)
  • abbreviation needs improvement
  • abbreviation newton
  • abbreviation nominative
  • abbreviation Chemistry normality
  • abbreviation north
  • abbreviation northern

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  • noun The fourteenth letter of the basic modern Latin alphabet.
  • noun chemistry Symbol for nitrogen.
  • noun metrology Symbol for newton, the SI unit of force.
  • noun biochemistry IUPAC 1-letter abbreviation for aspargine
  • noun physics electron number
  • noun music Neapolitan chord (usually in first inversion, therefore followed by a superscript six)
  • noun The fourteenth letter of the English alphabet, called en and written in the Latin script.
  • noun The ordinal number fourteenth, derived from this letter of the English alphabet, called en and written in the Latin script.
  • abbreviation military Navy
  • abbreviation north (see also n)
  • abbreviation chess knight

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Examples

  • "Commander 'N Thief" - Explosive new documentary presents evidence of fraud in 2004 election yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = '"Commander \'N Thief" - Explosive new documentary presents evidence of fraud in 2004 election'; yahooBuzzArticleSummary = 'Article: Investigative journalist Greg Palast introduces the documentary and also provides staggering information in the body of the film about the RNC\'s purposeful and targeted strategies for disenfranchisng millions of minority voters across the United States, including African-American soldiers serving in Iraq.'

    "Commander 'N Thief"- Explosive new documentary presents evidence of fraud in 2004 election 2007

  • 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. 2007

  • "Commander 'N Thief", a must-see documentary by Tom O'Brien yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = '"Commander \'N Thief", a must-see documentary by Tom O\'Brien'; yahooBuzzArticleSummary = 'Article: While most of the film is spent presenting the evidence of massive, nationwide election fraud in 2004, Palast casts his eyes ahead to 2008, where he predicts more of the same, but on an even larger scale.

    "Commander 'N Thief", a must-see documentary by Tom O'Brien 2007

  • 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 2006

  • 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 2005

  • 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 2005

  • 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" Various

  • 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.

    Scientific American Supplement, No. 441, June 14, 1884. Various

  • 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.

    Time and Tide A Romance of the Moon 1876

  • 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)

    Battle Red Blog MDC 2010

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