n
neutron.
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1 American
'n
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American
[uhn]
/ ən /
Or
'n'
conjunction
Informal.
N
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American
[en]
/ ɛn /
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n
noun
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N's,
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Ns,
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n's,
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ns
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the 14th letter of the English alphabet, a consonant.
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any spoken sound represented by the letter N or n, as in now, dinner, son, etc.
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something having the shape of an N .
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a written or printed representation of the letter N or n.
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a device, as a printer's type, for reproducing the letter N or n.
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American
N
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American
Symbol.
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the 14th in order or in a series.
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(sometimes lowercase) the medieval Roman numeral for 90.
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Chemistry.
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Biochemistry. asparagine.
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Mathematics. an indefinite, constant whole number, especially the degree of a quantic or an equation, or the order of a curve.
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Chess. knight.
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Printing. en.
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Physics. neutron number.
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Chemistry.
-n
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American
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American
abbreviation
n.
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American
abbreviation
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name.
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nephew.
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Commerce. net.
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neuter.
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new.
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nominative.
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noon.
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Chemistry. normal (strength solution).
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north.
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northern.
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Finance. note.
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noun.
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number.
N.
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abbreviation
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Nationalist.
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Navy.
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New.
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Noon.
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Chemistry. normal (strength solution).
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Norse.
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north.
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northern.
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Finance. note.
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November.
N
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British
symbol
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Also: kt. chess knight
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neper
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neutral
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newton(s)
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chem nitrogen
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North
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Avogadro's number
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noun
abbreviation
n.
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British
abbreviation
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natus
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neuter
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new
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nominative
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noun
n
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British
symbol
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neutron
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optics index of refraction
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nano-
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British
/ ɛn /
noun
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the 14th letter and 11th consonant of the modern English alphabet
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a speech sound represented by this letter, usually an alveolar nasal, as in nail
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British
/ ɛn /
determiner
n-
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British
prefix
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of 'n2
A phonetic spelling representing the pronunciation of the word in continuous rapid speech
Origin of n.8
From the Latin word nātus
Example Sentences
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Science minister and veteran seismologist, Renato Solidum, said many students n survived because they were attending the morning assembly, which happens every Monday.
From BBC ● Jun. 9, 2026
The simplest version of the unit distance problem goes something like this: If you put n dots on a sheet of paper, how many pairs of dots can be exactly one unit apart?
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 30, 2026
Saying he was in "good spirits", he joked: "I am determined not to die before Benjamin Netanyahu, Vladimir Putin, Donald Trump and Ant' n 'Dec. That should keep me going for a while."
From BBC ● Apr. 17, 2026
That’s not to say its cultural significance is limited to the city, as it has been featured in iconic Black art like “Boyz n the Hood” and Tupac’s “To Live And Die In L.A.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 19, 2026
“Let’s count cars,” I suggest. u ml y n 1 here s one.
From "Rules" by Cynthia Lord
Sometimes seasoned simply with salt and pepper, sometimes coated in Shake ’n Bake, that sandy, paprika-tinged breadcrumb mix that crisped into something approximating a crust.
From Salon ● Apr. 10, 2026
He touted familiar features like Stow ’n Go seats, which fold into the floor to maximize storage space, and a camera that lets parents see what their kids are doing in the back seats.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 4, 2026
Salmond described his parents as working class nationalists with a small ‘n’.
From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2024
One of his instructors nicknamed him Kingfish after “The Amos ‘n Andy Show” character.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 26, 2024
He sang all the way: “ ‘Solomon ’n Ryna Belali Shalut “Where you learn that?” she asked him.
From "Song of Solomon" by Toni Morrison
Chavez's journey to Mexico had occurred "in a context of security and calm," Espa told the Canal N television channel.
From Barron's ● Aug. 7, 2026
Some juicy wordplay: How many words can you make with the letters N, U, E, P, G, and R?
From Slate ● Aug. 5, 2026
Karen Johnson is the spokeswoman for Rock N Roll Circus, which will be held in Norwich and Sheffield next month with James, The Streets and Richard Ashcroft among the bill-toppers.
From BBC ● Jul. 12, 2026
The judge added that the lead two defendants, J and N, had already spent the equivalent of an 18-month and 16-month sentence, respectively, in detention in local authority accommodation or on curfew.
From BBC ● Jun. 5, 2026
A large and fancy N and a fancy z with a tail.
From "P.S. Be Eleven" by Rita Williams-Garcia
The junctions between n- and p-type silicon act like valves, stopping current flowing in the wrong direction.
From Economist ● Aug. 17, 2011
I cried, "how n-" nice, I was going to say, but stopped just in time.
From Stepping Heavenward by E. (Elizabeth) Prentiss
They seem to be choo, joo, ja, ya, n-, yun, u-, ku, pu, bu, nu, etc.
From Kinship Organisations and Group Marriage in Australia by Northcote Whitridge Thomas
Now you run sudo sh ~/Downloads/crouton -t xiwi -u -n xenial, replacing xenial with your chosen chroot name if you have something custom.
From The Verge ● Nov. 16, 2017
Every service member who dies in one of America’s wars gives up his life in following the orders of the commander -n chief.
From New York Times ● Oct. 17, 2017
This is formed in Esperanto by adding the letter -n.
From International Language Past, Present and Future: With Specimens of Esperanto and Grammar by Walter John Clark
Instead of the infinitive moods and plural numbers ending in -n as in Holland, the former end in -a, the latter in -ar.
From The Ethnology of the British Colonies and Dependencies by R. G. (Robert Gordon) Latham
All these pronouns form the accusative case by adding -n.
From International Language Past, Present and Future: With Specimens of Esperanto and Grammar by Walter John Clark
And certainly infamy, n. “the state of being well known for some bad quality or deed,” feels accurate.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 7, 2021
Get, n., a traditional Jewish divorce, and also the success in booking someone for a TV interview The Tel Aviv talk show was set — Its most coveted on-air guest yet!
From Washington Post ● Sep. 15, 2016
Underfunding schools, low tax base, depressed n. hoods, and few good job prospects--all work together to produce a downward spiral.
From New York Times ● Dec. 19, 2014
Infrastructure Architect guardian news and media. permanent guardian news & media n.... £ - £55,000.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 30, 2010
Therapist Dad, n.: pinched eyebrows, lowered voice, lots of questions, feared by daughters everywhere.
From "The Science of Breakable Things" by Tae Keller
"Today I sit here, tomorrow I stand there," said engineering graduate Rani N., 21, on a break from filming herself, once again, folding a towel.
From Barron's ● Jun. 11, 2026
Late last month, the company’s first-quarter results and guidance came in ahead of Wall Street’s expectations, leading Needham analyst N. Quinn Bolton to say the company “has reached an inflection point.”
From MarketWatch ● May 9, 2026
A change in transportation habits would start with lower-income individuals and families, said Ethan N. Elkind, director of the Climate Program at UC Berkeley’s Center for Law, Energy and the Environment.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 23, 2026
Jan Dutkiewicz and Gabriel N. Rosenberg deliver the news—well-known to many Americans, if not to the frequenters of farmers markets—that the American food industry is wildly successful at keeping us safely and even delectably fed.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026
Led by Reverend N. B. Tantsi, they were to court arrest by entering the township without permission.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
"I am quite sure that N's culpability was reduced as result of his profound impairments," Judge Rowland said.
From BBC ● Jun. 5, 2026
All that phosphate reduced N’s ability to bind RNA.
From Salon ● Oct. 9, 2024
N’s journey began in Bangladesh, where a series of boats ferried her and other Rohingya across the Bay of Bengal.
From Seattle Times ● May 7, 2024
The Find N’s back panel curves similarly to the Find X3 Pro.
From The Verge ● Dec. 15, 2021
Tanisha’s up there with all the B’s, and here I am standing in my holey tube socks, sandwiched between all the M’s and N’s, with Beatriz tailing right behind me.
From "Like Vanessa" by Tami Charles
Straighten those arches on Ms and Ns, and don’t forget the little left arm on capital “I.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 11, 2024
It’s actually three Ns: nitpicker, narcissist or neurodivergent.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 1, 2021
To construct pseudomolecules, the gaps between the neighbouring super-scaffolds were filled with 1,000 Ns.
From Nature ● Nov. 14, 2017
Although the ash genome assembly covers about 99% of the expected genome size based on flow cytometry, about 17% is composed of Ns.
From Nature ● Dec. 25, 2016
The meteorologist from Cincinnati spins the wheel and goes bankrupt, but then the schoolteacher from Kansas manages to find three Ns in the puzzle.
From "South of Somewhere" by Kalena Miller
At first, I went by Ann Jilliann with two n’s.
From Fox News ● Aug. 14, 2021
In 1992 Roger Heath-Brown of the University of Oxford proposed a stronger conjecture stating that there are infinitely many ways to express all possible n’s as the sum of three cubes.
From Scientific American ● Sep. 21, 2020
Subtract 12n from each side to get the n’s to one side.
From Textbooks ● May 6, 2020
“In one of my first tweets, I managed to spell ‘finish’ wrong — with two n’s, like ‘Finnish,’ ” said Erik Isberg, an 18-year-old high school student who was @Sweden for the week ending Sunday.
From New York Times ● Jun. 11, 2012
No mistaking her u's for n’s or her is for e's.
From "The View From Saturday" by E.L. Konigsburg
As a general rule, when the representative elements form cations, they do so by the loss of the ns or np electrons that were added last in the Aufbau process.
From Textbooks ● Feb. 14, 2019
Paul,nnto @ @ Heh-One of my "ns" is for "nitpicking". jmac Romney's history.
From Time ● Mar. 15, 2013
In one of the letters dictated to him by his captors, he intentionally misspelled the two words prisonners and questionned, intending the extra ns to indicate that he was in Montreal North.
From Time Magazine Archive
“Gareth came to me just now, to warn ns that Arthur had gone away on purpose to set a trap, and that Agravaine or Mordred was going to catch us out.”
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
Thus I got 'm ns sanan... san,' or, supplying the now quite obvious vowels, 'mens sana in... sano.'
From Prince Zaleski by M. P. (Matthew Phipps) Shiel
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