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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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
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
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: The skateboarding roots are so deep in Los Angeles that it just always had a skate vibe to the whole city for real.
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 Jonathan Swift
The tone of the brief notice reprinted from the Monthly Rev., LXXIX, n.s., p.
From Early Reviews of English Poets by John Louis Haney
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
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
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
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 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
It’s been more than a year since N.S. underwent the 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
So, though, I acknowledged by last post Mr Harte's letter of the 8th September, N.S.,
From A Letter Book Selected with an Introduction on the History and Art of Letter-Writing by George Saintsbury
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