ns
nanosecond; nanoseconds.
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- plural of N.
ns
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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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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
When therefore he came to the Lieutenant-Colonel, it was represented to him that the town must provide ns with accommodation for the night, whether they liked or not.
From Pictures of German Life in the XVth XVIth and XVIIth Centuries, Vol. II. by Gustav Freytag
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
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
NS Dutch railways said services were severely disrupted on Monday, especially in the Amsterdam region, and fewer trains would run in some parts of the country on Tuesday.
From Barron's ● Jan. 5, 2026
NS: My advice to any kid trying to be a pro skater, No. 1, is: Maintain the love in skating.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 12, 2024
With the log haversine S enter table 45 in the adjacent parallel column, take out the corresponding Natural Haversine, which mark NS.
From Lectures in Navigation by Ernest Gallaudet Draper
Nevertheless, in Science Gossip, n.s., 6-65, it is said that, though meteorites have fallen in storms, no connection is supposed to exist between the two phenomena, except by the ignorant peasantry.
From The Book of the Damned by Charles Fort
I. is the intestine, coe. the coelom, s.c. the spinal cord; n.c. the notochord, surrounded by n.s., the notochordal sheath, ao. is the dorsal aorta.
From Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
Na.C., the nasal capsule. n.p., neural plate. n.s., neural spine.
From Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
Southey gave it a favorable welcome in the Critical Review, and became a life-long admirer of Landor; but our brief notices reprinted from the Monthly Rev., XXXI, n.s., p.
From Early Reviews of English Poets by John Louis Haney
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 Charles Fort
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 struggled with anger at her parents and low self-confidence.
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
From the pepper gardens we rode on to a convent at the farther extremity of the town, and overlooking both the bays, above and below the peninsula of Bon fin, or N.S. da Monserrat.
From Journal of a Voyage to Brazil And Residence There During Part of the Years 1821, 1822, 1823 by Maria Graham
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