n
neutron.
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'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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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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symbol
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neutron
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optics index of refraction
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nano-
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/ 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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/ ɛn /
determiner
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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
He predicts that Microsoft “will be a n early” adopter of Arista’s XPO and linear pluggable optics, or LPO, strategy deployments and that others could follow suit.
From Barron's ● Apr. 7, 2026
“I couldn’t even get a real apology just more pressure about signing sum papers I denied to sign over n over.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 25, 2026
She shuffled to the last page of the stack of papers and painstakingly began writing: F r a n c .
From "The School for Whatnots" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
Steak ’n Shake closed around 200 locations between 2018 and 2024, with sales dropping by one-third to $760 million, according to market-research firm Technomic.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026
Steak ’n Shake’s food costs have grown this year as a result of its investments in quality, the company said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026
Boes launched a whirlwind restaurant and marketing tour, including a spot with Lara Trump at a Steak ’n Shake earlier this year.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026
He himself is out on probation for a harassment charge he garnered last year in a Steak ’n Shake, a business he is now permanently banned from entering.
From Slate ● Aug. 20, 2026
I can always find the eggs — more ’n Mogg.
From "Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village" by Laura Amy Schlitz
MacAskill's haulage firm, N D MacAskill & Son, transports livestock around Inverness, Dingwall and Stirling but also further afield.
From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026
On a GoFundMe page, De Anda and Rock N Pawz said they have received more than $9,000 in donations for a legal defense.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026
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
Dad had named me after her; Mom suggested adding the second N to make it more elegant and French.
From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls
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
There is good reason for believing that the final -n is no part of the original root.
From A Handbook of the English Language by R. G. (Robert Gordon) Latham
But in the Greek ἑπτὰ, and the Scandinavian syv, and sju, neither -n nor -m occur. b.
From A Handbook of the English Language by R. G. (Robert Gordon) Latham
The termination of the past participle in -n or -en is a sure indication that a verb is strong.
From Composition-Rhetoric by Stratton D. Brooks
But Wednesday was also the Feast of the Epiphany, and epiphany n. “a moment of sudden revelation of insight” is just as 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
Red Flags, n.: possibly therapists’ favorite term in the world.
From "The Science of Breakable Things" by Tae Keller
John N. Apostol, then supervisor of recreation at San Quentin, told Recreation Magazine in 1963 that the group served a twofold purpose.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2026
More than 100 firefighters responded to the conflagration at 8500 N. Sunland Blvd. at 4:40 a.m. and knocked down the fire in 34 minutes, according to the Los Angeles Fire Department.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2026
"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
Along the bottom of the 5-shaped swirl of his billowing skirt, it said, in an 5-shaped swirl, Emperors of the Realm of Taste—which was Comrade K. N. M. Pillai’s unsolicited contribution.
From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy
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
Baby N's mother said that her son is home-schooled "as we didn't want anybody else looking after him".
From BBC ● Aug. 22, 2023
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 cipher text had two Ns and she’d assigned a different letter to each one.
From "Book Scavenger" by Jennifer Chambliss Bertman
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
They told ns that their rain only came here and there in fine misty sprays, and a basketful of corn was regarded as a large crop.
From A Study of Pueblo Architecture: Tusayan and Cibola Eighth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1886-1887, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891, pages 3-228 by Henry Hobart Nichols
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