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.
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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.
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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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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
“There will be significant lags behind i n the effects these supply chain disruptions will have on growth and inflation,” the economists write.
From Barron's ● Apr. 23, 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
But next day, though she still brought out our food, she set it dow n and left even faster than her grandma used to do.
From "Life Is So Good" by George Dawson
For decades, Steak ’n Shake subsisted in the middle of the U.S. fast-food pack.
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
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
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
When my daughter found me, I was stocking shelves in a Bag ’n Go market.
From "Milkweed" by Jerry Spinelli
At the centre of the dispute are two issues - the proposed public listing of Tata Sons and the reappointment of chairman N Chandrasekaran.
From BBC ● Oct. 12, 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
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
Air: Rover and trailer combined storage: 14 liters liquid 02, 14 liters liquid N,.
From "The Martian" by Andy Weir
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
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
Those whose stems originally ended in -n belong to the so-called weak or n-declension.
From A Middle High German Primer Third Edition by Joseph Wright
Yes′tereve, -n, Yes′terevening, the evening last past; Yes′termorn, Yes′termorning, the morning last past; Yes′ternight, the night last past; Yes′teryear, last year.—adv.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) 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
“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
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
Science Center President and Chief Executive Jeffrey N. Rudolph says there is hope to someday bring the building back into service, but that its small spaces, awkward circulation and constant leaking have made that difficult.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 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
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
"This island's more or less a bare rock. We shall make short work of searching it. We'll soon ferret out U. N. Owen, Esq."
From "And Then There Were None" by Agatha Christie
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 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
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
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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