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,
plural
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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.
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
n.
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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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Students will visit Halsey’s South L.A. sculpture garden, “sister dreamer, lauren halsey’s architectural ode to tha surge n splurge of south central los angeles,” to explore themes of neighborhood, memory and belonging.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 29, 2026
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
Dispatchers received an emergency call after midnight on March 6 from a resident n the University City neighborhood, San Diego Police Lt.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 8, 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
Including Henrietta. o n February 5, 1951, after Jones got Henriettas biopsy report back from the lab, he called and told her it was malignant.
From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot
“We just tell them you can taste the difference,” Boes said while surveying the fry oil in the Indiana Steak ’n Shake.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026
Steak ’n Shake dumped vegetable oil—which Kennedy has blamed for fueling obesity and inflammation—in favor of beef tallow, and switched to Grade A Wisconsin butter versus a blend containing seed oil.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026
Biglari, a young, Texas-based investor, built up a position in the publicly traded company’s shares in 2007 and took Steak ’n Shake private.
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
“Maybe, at best, a half-dozen times in all my years—half-dozen times, no more ’n that.
From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson
Its original tagline was “A Herstoric Homegirl imagery. Dedicated to all the old school cholas, rucas & veteranas from CALI. Dip into our world. Follow N share!”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
Rwanda had sought his extradition in 2014 but the authorities in the Netherlands then launched their own investigation into N, who had become a Dutch citizen.
From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2026
N Chandrasekaran, the chairman of Tata Group, has said that he will not seek reappointment when his term ends in February.
From BBC ● Aug. 12, 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
There was no way N would be able to find me anymore.
From "From Twinkle, with Love" by Sandhya Menon
The junctions between n- and p-type silicon act like valves, stopping current flowing in the wrong direction.
From Economist ● Aug. 17, 2011
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
I cried, "how n-" nice, I was going to say, but stopped just in time.
From Stepping Heavenward by E. (Elizabeth) Prentiss
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
In the English language the point of most importance in this department of grammar is the place of forms like mine and thine; in other words, of the forms in -n.
From A Handbook of the English Language by R. G. (Robert Gordon) Latham
The substitution of -n for -m in the dative case, hwilon for hwilum.
From A Handbook of the English Language by R. G. (Robert Gordon) Latham
The only case inflexion is -n for the objective.
From The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 2: Ebert to Estremadura by Various
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
Bradley N. Rebeiro’s “Until the Last Yoke Is Broken” asks the next question: What constitutional theory allowed Douglass to reach so unlikely a conclusion?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 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
Ballmer countered by asking Wilson for a stiff sentence in a five-page Victim Impact Statement posted on social media by his lawyer, David N. Kelley.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 2, 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
And there it was between Jonas N. and Luke S. With an asterisk next to it.
From "Millionaires for the Month" by Stacey McAnulty
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
Manchester Crown Court has previously heard that Child N's clinical condition was "excellent" after his premature birth on 2 June 2016, although he did have a mild blood disorder.
From BBC ● Mar. 2, 2023
The Find N’s hinge lets the phone stay unfolded between 50 and 120 degrees.
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
I don’t care that you write your Ns backward and that you sometimes read nap instead of pan, which means you have to go to summer school this year.
From "The Thing About Jellyfish" by Ali Benjamin
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
The fishes became men, women, and children; Mahometans, Christians, Persians, or Jews, freemen or slaves, ns they were before; every one having recovered their natural form.
From The Arabian Nights Entertainments - Volume 01 by Anonymous
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