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nt

1 American  
Physics.
  1. nit; nits.


Nt 2 American  
Symbol, Chemistry.
  1. niton.


NT 3 American  

abbreviation

  1. Biology, Ecology. near threatened.

  2. neurotypical.

  3. New Testament.

  4. Northwest Territories, Canada (approved for postal use).


-n't 4 American  
  1. a contraction of not.

    didn't; hadn't; couldn't; shouldn't; won't; mustn't.


N.T. 5 American  

abbreviation

  1. New Testament.

  2. Northern Territory.


NT 1 British  

abbreviation

  1. National Trust

  2. New Testament

  3. Northern Territory (of Australia)

  4. (esp in postal addresses) Northwest Territories (of Australia)

  5. (esp in postal addresses) Nunavut

  6. no-trump

  7. (in Ireland) National Teacher (teacher in a National School)

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

-n't 2 British  

contraction

  1. not: used as an enclitic after be and have when they function as main verbs and after auxiliary verbs or verbs operating syntactically as auxiliaries

    can't

    don't

    shouldn't

    needn't

    daren't

    isn't

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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"Following recent above-average rainfall in Paris, the water quality in the Seine has remained below acceptable standards for safeguarding swimmers' health," read a statemeold old nt.

From BBC Aug. 6, 2023

You do nt have to accept these missions but they often provide rare and advanced weapons and equipment as rewards.

From The Guardian Sep. 8, 2014

From each library, one lane of data was generated with read lengths of 2 ×54 nt on the GA and 2×50 nt on the HiSeq2000.

From Nature Jan. 22, 2014

If every day goes like this one, then the record low it stock hit today, may nt be the rock at the bottom of the fall.

From Forbes Aug. 2, 2012

A j'era' na crava C' a pasturava, A m' a rout 'l bout Oh 'l bon vin c'a j'era' nt 'l me bout L' è la crava c' a' m l' a rout!

From Italian Popular Tales by Thomas Frederick Crane

Price: $50 to $74 Amazon Sears Walmart Analogue Super Nt console Analogue makes modernized versions of classic consoles that are focused on preserving the gameplay experience of retro consoles.

From The Verge Nov. 22, 2021

Afterwards by continuing the Motion of the first Prism, the Rays MG are also reflected to N and increase the number of the Rays Nt.

From Opticks or, a Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections, and Colours of Light by Sir Isaac Newton

It will run through the NT Skills Centre, which the theatre said trains thousands of people across the UK each year in partnership with Bank of America.

From BBC Jul. 30, 2026

NT WorkSafe, which regulates workplace health and safety in the territory, said the agency managing the Henbury conservation zone had notified it of the incident.

From BBC Apr. 24, 2026

Hundreds of homes have been flooded in towns including the Queensland coastal town of Bundaberg, and Katherine in the NT.

From BBC Mar. 12, 2026

Under NT law, all deaths in custody must be investigated.

From BBC Jul. 7, 2025

At the moment, he had NT 5, NT 4, Work Station, Windows 98, and he and Eric had begun fooling around with Linux, the complex, open-source software system rapidly spreading across the world.

From "Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho" by Jon Katz

Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce is selling its Caribbean banking arm for roughly $1.6 billion to Bank of N.T.

From The Wall Street Journal May 28, 2026

Grassroots favorite “Naatu Naatu” had factors in its favor: namely, “RRR” stars N.T.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 12, 2023

Rajamouli, "Naatu Naatu" begins when the two leads, played by Ram Charan and N.T.

From Reuters Jan. 25, 2023

The movie, which stars two of India’s most popular actors — Ram Charan and N.T.

From New York Times Jan. 24, 2023

Neander was so completely a pectoralist, that even his criticism was dominated by feeling, as seen in his vacillations on questions of N.T. authenticity and historicity.

From Church History, Vol. 3 of 3 by J. H. Kurtz

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