n
neutron.
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'n
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American
[uhn]
/ ən /
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'n'
conjunction
Informal.
N
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[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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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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abbreviation
n.
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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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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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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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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
These racial categories are still used n South Africa today.
From BBC ● Apr. 20, 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
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
December n Mami washed his face with a cold washcloth.
From "The Dead and the Gone" by Susan Beth Pfeffer
Nearly a year later it introduced a ’90s edition, with scents including “VHS rental ‘n chill” and “mall food court.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026
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
Even Schaffer’s Disney cartoon “Chip ‘n Dale: Rescue Rangers” was good and here, he’s teamed up again with its writers, Dan Gregor and Doug Mand.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 16, 2025
Salmond described his parents as working class nationalists with a small ‘n’.
From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2024
“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
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
Rock N Roll Circus, as its name suggests, mixes the traditional elements of a music festival with the thrills of high-wire and fire displays.
From BBC ● Jul. 12, 2026
The Drake tour experience led to an eventual epiphany in the form of another of Yeat and BNYX’s biggest songs to date, 2025’s “COMË N GO.”
From Los Angeles Times ● May 11, 2026
So we added seventeen more Navajo words for A, E, I, O, U, D, H, L, N, R, S, and T. The most commonly used of those letters got more than one new word.
From "Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two" by Joseph Bruchac
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
The form in -en.—In the Anglo-Saxon no termination of the plural number is more common than -n: tungan, tongues; steorran, stars.
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
As in the case of the noun, the plural is formed by adding the termination -j, and the accusative is formed by adding -n to the nominative.
From Esperanto Self-Taught with Phonetic Pronunciation by William W. Mann
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
Red Flags, n.: possibly therapists’ favorite term in the world.
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
Anna Mundow writes that Jennifer N. Brown’s “vivid and erudite” rendering of Elizabeth’s 16th-century world adds “historical and emotional depth” to a story of two women whose lives are manipulated by others.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 30, 2026
Cook had pulled up to 812 N. Broadway that day to meet a friend for dim sum.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 13, 2026
With N. P. Thomas, a Ranger who was one of his closest friends, he was sent to deal with a plague of rascality in Amarillo, in the Texas Panhandle.
From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann
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
A doctor, who cannot be named for legal reasons, told the court she remembered Ms Letby being "agitated" when a team of specialists from Alder Hey Hospital arrived to help with Child N's treatment.
From BBC ● Mar. 3, 2023
The rest of the Find N’s spec sheet is what you’d expect from a 2021 Android flagship.
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
Four′square, having four equal sides and angles: square.—adjs. and ns.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various
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