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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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
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
It’s nearly 90 degrees on a Saturday in South-Central and “sister dreamer lauren halsey’s architectural ode to tha surge n splurge of south central los angeles” is gleaming and activated.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 14, 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
All polynomials of degree n—those that have a leading term of xn—split into n distinct terms.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
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
The plant, which employs 350 people, produces well-known brands including Special K, All-Bran and Fruit 'n Fibre.
From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2024
But I didn’t enjoy it — not for more ’n a moment.
From "Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village" by Laura Amy Schlitz
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
I may have flown off the handle with Lewis, but I felt fully justified in my anger toward N now.
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
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
Nouns of the Third Declension end in -a, -e, -ī, -ō, -y, -c, -l, -n, -r, -s, -t, -x.
From New Latin Grammar by Charles E. (Charles Edwin) Bennett
Sev-en = the Latin sept-em, where the -m is equivalent to the -n.
From A Handbook of the English Language by R. G. (Robert Gordon) Latham
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
“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
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
“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
Therapist Dad, n.: pinched eyebrows, lowered voice, lots of questions, feared by daughters everywhere.
From "The Science of Breakable Things" by Tae Keller
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
Richard N. Landers, a professor of organizational psychology at the University of Minnesota, offers a hypothetical example of a company’s hiring for a software sales role.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 16, 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
He was aware that Comrade K. N. M. Pillai would not pass up this opportunity.
From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy
"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 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
Six′-shoot′er, a six-chambered revolver; Sixte, a parry in which the hand is on guard opposite the right breast, the point of the sword raised and moved a little to the right.—adjs. and ns.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various
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