ns
nanosecond; nanoseconds.
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- plural of N.
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not sufficient (funds).
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Nova Scotia, Canada (approved for postal use).
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nuclear ship.
n/s
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N.S.
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New Style.
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Nova Scotia.
NS
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New Style (method of reckoning dates)
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not sufficient or not satisfactory
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(esp in postal addresses) Nova Scotia
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nuclear ship
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new series
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not specified
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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
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
In emerging markets, stock-market performance has been “more narrow than the U.S. rally,” said Michael Mortimore, partner at NS Partners, during an interview with MarketWatch.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 7, 2026
NS Group is the holding company for Nihon Safety, which is a leader in the rent-guarantee industry by size and profitability, the analyst says in a note.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 3, 2026
Jetten appointed Wouter Koolmees, head of national rail firm NS, as scout to lead the haggling.
From Barron's ● Nov. 7, 2025
NS: I think Atiba specifically is like our ancestral guide to this whole thing.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 12, 2024
Buys's application to them, was accordingly done, by a resolution taken in Holland upon the twenty first of November, one thousand seven hundred and eleven, NS.
From The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. — Volume 10 Historical Writings by Swift, Jonathan
In Science Gossip, n.s., 3-135, are more details of the Brooks object—apparent diameter about one-thirtieth of the moon's—moon's disk crossed in three or four seconds.
From The Book of the Damned by Fort, Charles
Na.C., the nasal capsule. n.p., neural plate. n.s., neural spine.
From Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
It was unfavorably noticed in the Monthly Rev., XL, n.s., p.
From Early Reviews of English Poets by Haney, John Louis
The tone of the brief notice reprinted from the Monthly Rev., LXXIX, n.s., p.
From Early Reviews of English Poets by Haney, John Louis
In the Annals of Philosophy, n.s., 12-93, there is mention of a fibrous substance like blue silk that fell near Naumberg, March 23, 1665.
From The Book of the Damned by Fort, Charles
The woman, who was only identified by the initials N.S., was stopped by customs officials who felt she was acting oddly, police said.
From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2025
N.S. has yet to tell her family about her surgery.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 13, 2023
“Possible is enough for us to take it seriously, because the possible can turn into a probable and we don’t want that to happen,” said Joseph N.S.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2022
"All these things will make the tiger slightly weaker than its younger cousins," says N.S.
From Salon ● May 18, 2022
We then came to the hill called the Gloria, from the name of the church dedicated to N.S. da Gloria, on the eminence immediately overlooking the sea.
From Journal of a Voyage to Brazil And Residence There During Part of the Years 1821, 1822, 1823 by Graham, Maria
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