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 /
Or
n
noun
N's,
plural
Ns,
plural
n's,
plural
ns
plural
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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.
9
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.
2
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
3
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
n
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British
/ ɛn /
determiner
n-
6
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
Even better: that bottle features a sleeve and label designed by Halsey herself, who declares the scent to be an ode to “smelling good n feeling good.”
From Los Angeles Times ● May 15, 2026
These racial categories are still used n South Africa today.
From BBC ● Apr. 20, 2026
It recovered a bit i n February after Trump nominated former Fed governor Kevin Warsh, viewed as a more traditional pick, as the next Fed chair.
From Barron's ● Feb. 19, 2026
The two Wives in blue help the third Wife, the Wife of the household, dow n from the Birthing Stool and over to the bed, where they lay her down and tuck her in.
From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood
After the lackluster “Black and Blue” and the mixed critical reception of “It’s Only Rock ‘n Roll” and “Goats Head Soup,” some wondered if the Stones had lost their musical magic.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 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
The bots particularly reposted anti-Cracker Barrel messages on X from Biglari’s holdings, Steak ’n Shake and media brand Maxim, including calls to fire Masino.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 25, 2025
Salmond described his parents as working class nationalists with a small ‘n’.
From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2024
I asked, picturing him riding down Main Street holding a Pack ’n Play.
From "The Season of Styx Malone" by Kekla Magoon
The second defendant, N, was found by experts to have an IQ in the bottom 1% compared with his contemporaries.
From BBC ● Jun. 5, 2026
The tour is set to continue with Big Boi as an opener and A-Trak, Me N Ü and Dot Da Genius slated to open at certain shows.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 5, 2026
Photos and videos posted on the Rock N Pawz animal rescue Instagram show Animal Care and Control workers in hazmat suits removing the animals from the property.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 21, 2026
Another more immediate challenge to the economy is the war in the Middle East, according to Nishchal N Pandey, director of the Centre for South Asian Studies in Nepal.
From BBC ● Mar. 12, 2026
The N train at last rumbled in, and Boaz carefully averted his eyes.
From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny
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 Prentiss, E. (Elizabeth)
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 Thomas, Northcote Whitridge
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 Latham, R. G. (Robert Gordon)
"Where" here = "whither," therefore add -n, which denotes motion.
From International Language Past, Present and Future: With Specimens of Esperanto and Grammar by Clark, Walter John
The substitution of -n for -m in the dative case, hwilon for hwilum.
From A Handbook of the English Language by Latham, R. G. (Robert Gordon)
“Just to make the point, most phones won’t let you put an umlaut over an n. Look: n. It’s impossible. Spın̈al Tap will have to remain for the pre-iPhone age.”
From The Guardian ● Apr. 9, 2022
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
“Val·e·dic·to·rian: n. in schools and colleges, the student, usually the one highest in scholastic rank in the graduating class, who delivers the valedictory,” according to Webster’s New World College Dictionary.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 15, 2015
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
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
The new store, located at 520 N. Glendale Avenue, includes the chain’s signature cafe and tonic bar as well as an indoor-outdoor patio space.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 20, 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
Chacko took the shortcut through the tilting rubber trees so that he would have to walk only a very short stretch down the main road to Comrade K. N. M. Pillai’s house.
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
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 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
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
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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