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• ns
  ns

  nanosecond; nanoseconds.
• Ns
  Ns

  nimbostratus.
• NS
  NS

  abbreviation

  not sufficient (funds).
• n/s
  n/s

  not sufficient.
• n.s.
  n.s.

  abbreviation

  not specified.
• N.S.
  N.S.

  abbreviation

  New Style.
• N/S
  N/S

  abbreviation

  non-smoker: used in lonely hearts columns and personal advertisements

ns

¹ American  

Or nsec

1. nanosecond; nanoseconds.

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Ns ² American  

1. Meteorology. nimbostratus.

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NS ³ American  

abbreviation

1. not sufficient (funds).

2. Nova Scotia, Canada (approved for postal use).

3. nuclear ship.

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n/s ⁴ American  

1. not sufficient.

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n.s. ⁵ American  

abbreviation

1. not specified.

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N.S. ⁶ American  

abbreviation

1. New Style.

2. Nova Scotia.

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NS ¹ British  

abbreviation

1. New Style (method of reckoning dates)

2. not sufficient or not satisfactory

3. (esp in postal addresses) Nova Scotia

4. nuclear ship

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ns ² British  

abbreviation

1. new series

2. not specified

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N/S ³ British  

abbreviation

1. non-smoker: used in lonely hearts columns and personal advertisements

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Example Sentences

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