n
neutron.
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1 American
'n
2
American
[uhn]
/ ən /
Or
'n'
conjunction
Informal.
N
3
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
5
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
These racial categories are still used n South Africa today.
From BBC ● Apr. 20, 2026
Crowds listen to the Rolling Stones perform at n historic free performance to hundreds of thousands of people at Ciudad Deportiva on Friday, March 25, 2016, in Havana.
From Los Angeles Times ● 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
Geri Hooperman, then draws hearts over the double o and curlicues after the n.
From "The Tenth Mistake of Hank Hooperman" by Gennifer Choldenko
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
Sardar Biglari, the owner of restaurant chain Steak ’n Shake, has maintained an investment in Cracker Barrel and pushed for changes for more than a decade, with little success.
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
One of his instructors nicknamed him Kingfish after “The Amos ‘n Andy Show” character.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 26, 2024
She had her parlour set up just as nice as our ’n.
From "Elijah of Buxton" by Christopher Paul Curtis
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
Form 900s for Rock N Pawz Rescue in Lake Hughes were not immediately available, but information on Guidestar showed just under $11,000 in donations over a two-year period in 2022 and 2023.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 9, 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
N R Jenzen Jones, director of Armament Research Services, said although it's difficult to positively identify the munition, "it appears to be correctly aligned for the terminal phase of its flight".
From BBC ● Apr. 3, 2026
The bus starts up again and bumps over the little bridge before breezing past the Surf N Sea shop.
From "Clairboyance" by Kristiana Kahakauwila
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
They make a mistake of Esperanto by omitting the -n, but they are understood, which is the essential.
From International Language Past, Present and Future: With Specimens of Esperanto and Grammar by Clark, Walter John
Sev-en = the Latin sept-em, where the -m is equivalent to the -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
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
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
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
"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
Christopher Gillum, 44 years old, of Chapel Hill, N. C., was arrested Wednesday evening at a Destin, Fla., hotel “without incident,” according to a social-media post by the Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 23, 2026
The accident report concluded that Major N. Jaax had not been exposed to Ebola virus.
From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston
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 outer display works pretty much like a regular phone, albeit quite a small one.
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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