• n – (s) Nano
  Nano (disambiguation)
  Nano may refer to:* Nano-, a prefix in the metric system* Nano * Nano * Nano * NANO * nano * iPod Nano, a digital media player...
  
  
• N – (s) Newton – Nitrogen
  Nitrogen
  Nitrogen is a chemical element that has the symbol N, atomic number of 7 and atomic mass 14.00674 u. Elemental nitrogen is a colorless, odorless, tasteless, and mostly inert diatomic gas at standard conditions, constituting 78.08% by volume of Earth's atmosphere...
  
   – North
  North
  North is a noun, adjective, or adverb indicating direction or geography.North is one of the four cardinal directions or compass points. It is the opposite of south and is perpendicular to east and west.By convention, the top side of a map is north....
  
  

NA

• na – (s) Nauruan language
  Nauruan language
  The Nauruan language is an Austronesian language spoken in Nauru. It is estimated that it has 7,000 speakers. Almost all speakers are bilingual in English....
  
   (ISO 639-1 code)
• nA – (s) Nanoampere
• Na – (s) Soudium
• NA – (s) Namibia
  Namibia
  Namibia, officially the Republic of Namibia , is a country in southern Africa whose western border is the Atlantic Ocean. It shares land borders with Angola and Zambia to the north, Botswana to the east and South Africa to the south and east. It gained independence from South Africa on 21 March...
  
   (ISO 3166 digram) – (i) Narcotics Anonymous
  Narcotics Anonymous
  Narcotics Anonymous is a twelve-step program modeled after Alcoholics Anonymous describing itself as a "fellowship or society of men and women for whom drugs had become a major problem," and it is the second-largest 12-step organization...
  
   – (i) National Archives – Negative Acknowledge
• N/A – (i) Neurotics Anonymous – (i) not available/applicable
• NAA – (p) N-Acetylaspartate
• NAAD
  Naad
  Naad is an Indian semi-pro rock band formed in 2006 with Chandrahaas Uniyal on vocals, Madhur Shukla and Uvais Mohammed on guitars, Maruthishankar Chandrasekaran on bass guitars and Sriram on drums...
  
   – (i) North American Air Defense
• NAAFI – (a) Navy, Army and Air Force Institute (UK) – (a) No Ambition And Fuckall Interest (RSA army slang)
• NAAK – (a) Mark I NAAK
  Mark I NAAK
  The Mark I NAAK, or MARK I Kit, is United States military nomenclature for the "Nerve Agent Antidote Kit". It is a dual-chamber autoinjector: Two anti-nerve agent drugs — atropine sulfate and pralidoxime chloride — each in injectable form, constitute the kit. The kits are only effective against the...
  
  , Nerve Agent Antidote Kit
• NAACP – (i) National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
  National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
  The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, usually abbreviated as NAACP, is an African-American civil rights organization in the United States, formed in 1909. Its mission is "to ensure the political, educational, social, and economic equality of rights of all persons and to...
  
   ("N double-A CP")
• NAAQS – (a) National Ambient Air Quality Standards
  National Ambient Air Quality Standards
  The National Ambient Air Quality Standards are standards established by the United States Environmental Protection Agency under authority of the Clean Air Act that apply for outdoor air throughout the country...
  
  
• NAAWS – (i) NATO Anti-Air Warfare System
• NABCI – (a) North American Bird Conservation Initiative ("nab-see")
• NAC – (i/a) National Agency Check – U.S. Naval Avionics Center – U.S. Navy Advanced Concepts – North Atlantic Council – Northern Area Command
• NACA
  NACA
  - Organizations :* National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, the forerunner of the U.S. federal agency NASA* National Association for Campus Activities, an organization for programmers of university and college activities...
  
   – (i) (U.S.) National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics
  National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics
  The National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics was a U.S. federal agency founded on March 3, 1915 to undertake, promote, and institutionalize aeronautical research. On October 1, 1958 the agency was dissolved, and its assets and personnel transferred to the newly created National Aeronautics and...
  
   (1915–1958, became NASA
  NASA
  The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is the agency of the United States government that is responsible for the nation's civilian space program and for aeronautics and aerospace research...
  
  )
• NACC – (i) North Atlantic Cooperation Council
  North Atlantic Cooperation Council
  The North Atlantic Cooperation Council was a NATO organisation founded in December 1991 and was the precursor to the Euro-Atlantic Partnership Council. It initially brought together NATO and nine central and eastern European nations in a consultative forum...
  
  
• NACISA – (a) NATO Communications and Information Systems Agency
  NATO Communications and Information Systems Agency
  The NATO Communication and Information Systems Services Agency, , is a service provider to its NATO and national customers. Wherever NATO deploys on operations or exercises, NCSA is there, providing communication and information systems services in support of the mission...
  
  
• NACMA
  NACMA
  NACMA is the NATO ACCS Management Agency. It is responsible for the management of the NATO Air Command and Control System programme, which is a $500M project to provide the NATO commands with a new air command and control system from 2009 onwards....
  
   – (p) NATO Air Command and Control System Management Agency
• NACRA – (a) North America Caribbean Rugby Association (more specifically rugby union)
• NAD – (s) Namibian dollar
  Namibian dollar
  The dollar has been the currency of Namibia since 1993. It is normally abbreviated with the dollar sign $, or alternatively N$ to distinguish it from other dollar-denominated currencies...
  
   (ISO 4217
  ISO 4217
  ISO 4217 is a standard published by the International Standards Organization, which delineates currency designators, country codes , and references to minor units in three tables:* Table A.1 – Current currency & funds code list...
  
   currency code)
• NAEC – (i) U.S. Naval Air Engineering Center
• NAF – (a) NATO Architecture Framework – (i) Naval Air Facility
• NAFLD – (i) NonAlcoholic Fatty Liver Disease
• NAFO
  Nafo
  Nafo is a village in the Bourzanga Department of Bam Province in northern Burkina Faso. It has a population of 1,650.-External links:*...
  
   – (a) Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Organization
  Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Organization
  The is an intergovernmental organization with a mandate to provide scientific advice and management of fisheries in the northwestern part of the Atlantic Ocean...
  
  
• NAFERA – (a) Native American Free Exercise of Religion Act
• NAFTA – (a) North American Free Trade Agreement
  North American Free Trade Agreement
  The North American Free Trade Agreement or NAFTA is an agreement signed by the governments of Canada, Mexico, and the United States, creating a trilateral trade bloc in North America. The agreement came into force on January 1, 1994. It superseded the Canada – United States Free Trade Agreement...
  
  
• NAGPRA – (a) Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act
  Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act
  The Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act , Pub. L. 101-601, 25 U.S.C. 3001 et seq., 104 Stat. 3048, is a United States federal law passed on 16 November 1990 requiring federal agencies and institutions that receive federal funding to return Native American "cultural items" to...
  
  
• NAI – (i) Named Area of Interest – (i) Network Access Identifier
  Network Access Identifier
  In computer networking, the Network Access Identifier is a standard way of identifying users who request access to a network. The standard syntax is "user@realm"...
  
  
• NAICS
  NAICS
  The North American Industry Classification System or NAICS is used by business and government to classify business establishments according to type of economic activity in Canada, Mexico and the United States...
  
   – (a) North American Industry Classification System
• NAIL – (i) Neurotics Anonymous
• NAILS – (a) National Airspace Integrated Logistics System
• NAIRU
  NAIRU
  In monetarist economics, particularly the work of Milton Friedman, on which also worked Lucas Papademos and Franco Modigliani in 1975,NAIRU is an acronym for Non-Accelerating Inflation Rate of Unemployment, and refers to a level of unemployment below which inflation rises.It is widely used in...
  
   – (a) Non Accelerating Inflation
  Inflation
  In economics, inflation is a rise in the general level of prices of goods and services in an economy over a period of time.When the general price level rises, each unit of currency buys fewer goods and services. Consequently, inflation also reflects an erosion in the purchasing power of money – a...
  
   Rate of Unemployment
  Unemployment
  Unemployment , as defined by the International Labour Organization, occurs when people are without jobs and they have actively sought work within the past four weeks...
  
  
• NAK
  NaK
  NaK, or sodium-potassium alloy, an alloy, of potassium , and sodium , is usually liquid at room temperature. Various commercial grades are available. NaK is highly reactive with water and may catch fire when exposed to air, so must be handled with special precautions...
  
   – (p) Negative Acknowledge
• NAM – (s) Namibia
  Namibia
  Namibia, officially the Republic of Namibia , is a country in southern Africa whose western border is the Atlantic Ocean. It shares land borders with Angola and Zambia to the north, Botswana to the east and South Africa to the south and east. It gained independence from South Africa on 21 March...
  
   (ISO 3166 trigram)
• NAMBLA – (a) North American Man-Boy Love Association
• NAMRL – (i) Naval Aerospace Medical Research Laboratory
• NaN
  NaN
  In computing, NaN is a value of the numeric data type representing an undefined or unrepresentable value, especially in floating-point calculations...
  
   – (i) Not A Number (computing)
• NAO – (i) UK National Audit Office
  National Audit Office (United Kingdom)
  The National Audit Office is an independent Parliamentary body in the United Kingdom which is responsible for auditing central government departments, government agencies and non-departmental public bodies...
  
  
• NAPDD – (i) Non-Acquisition Program Definition Document ("nap-dee-dee")
• NAPS – (a) Navy Acquisition Procedures Supplement
• NARA
  Nara
  Nara can refer to:Geography* Nara, Attock, a village in Attock, Pakistan* Nara, Jhelum, a village in Jhelum, Pakistan* Nara, NWFP, Union Council of Abbottabad, Pakistan* Nara, Nara, capital city of Nara Prefecture, Japan...
  
   – (i) (U.S.) National Archives and Records Administration
  National Archives and Records Administration
  The National Archives and Records Administration is an independent agency of the United States government charged with preserving and documenting government and historical records and with increasing public access to those documents, which comprise the National Archives...
  
  
• NARAL – (a) National Abortion Rights Action League
• NARDAC – (a) Naval Regional Data Automation Center
• NARDIC – (a) U.S. Navy Acquisition Research and Development Information Center
• NARPV – (i) National Association for Remotely Piloted Vehicles
• NAS
  Nas (disambiguation)
  -People:*Nas, an American rapper*Mehmet Nas, Turkish footballer*Nesrin Nas, Turkish academic-Computing:* Network-attached storage, a network-based computer data storage system* Network access server, also known as a terminal server...
  
   – (i) National Academy of Sciences – National Air Space – National Audubon Society
  National Audubon Society
  The National Audubon Society is an American non-profit environmental organization dedicated to conservation. Incorporated in 1905, Audubon is one of the oldest of such organizations in the world and uses science, education and grassroots advocacy to advance its conservation mission...
  
   – Naval Air Station – New Attack Submarine
• NASA
  NASA
  The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is the agency of the United States government that is responsible for the nation's civilian space program and for aeronautics and aerospace research...
  
   – (a) National Aeronautics and Space Administration
• NASCAR
  NASCAR
  The National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing is a family-owned and -operated business venture that sanctions and governs multiple auto racing sports events. It was founded by Bill France Sr. in 1947–48. As of 2009, the CEO for the company is Brian France, grandson of the late Bill France Sr...
  
   – (a) National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing
• NASDAQ
  NASDAQ
  The NASDAQ Stock Market, also known as the NASDAQ, is an American stock exchange. "NASDAQ" originally stood for "National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations". It is the second-largest stock exchange by market capitalization in the world, after the New York Stock Exchange. As of...
  
   – (a) National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations
• NASED – (a) National Association of State Election Directors
  National Association of State Election Directors
  The National Association of State Election Directors is a U.S. association that "was formed in 1989 when a group of state election directors and administrators met in Reno, Nevada...
  
   http://www.nased.orghttp://www.disinfopedia.org/wiki.phtml?title=National_Association_of_State_Election_Directors_(NASED)
• NASH – (a) Non-Alcoholic Steatohepatitis
  Steatohepatitis
  Steatohepatitis is a type of liver disease, characterized by inflammation of the liver with concurrent fat accumulation in liver...
  
  
• NASP – (p) National Aerospace Plane
• NASS – (a) National Association of Secretaries of State
  National Association of Secretaries of State
  The National Association of Secretaries of State , founded in 1904, is the oldest non-partisan professional organization of public officials in the United States, composed of the Secretaries of State of U.S. states and territories. Currently, all secretaries of state, including Washington D.C.,...
  
   http://nass.org
• NATO – (a) National Association of Theatre Owners
  National Association of Theatre Owners
  The National Association of Theatre Owners is a trade organization based in the United States whose members are the owners of movie theaters. Most major theater chains are members, as are many independent theatre operators; collectively, they account for the operation of over 26,000 motion...
  
   – North Atlantic Treaty Organisation
• nau – (s) Nauruan language
  Nauruan language
  The Nauruan language is an Austronesian language spoken in Nauru. It is estimated that it has 7,000 speakers. Almost all speakers are bilingual in English....
  
   (ISO 639-2 code)
• NaUKMA – (p) National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy
• nav – (s) Navajo language
  Navajo language
  Navajo or Navaho is an Athabaskan language spoken in the southwestern United States. It is geographically and linguistically one of the Southern Athabaskan languages .Navajo has more speakers than any other Native American language north of the...
  
   (ISO 639-2 code)
• NAV – (p) Navigation[al]
• NAVCAMS – (p) Naval Communications Area Master Station
• NAVCC – (p) National Audio-Visual Conservation Center
• NAVCC (Navy) – (p) Navy Component Commander
• NAVCENT – (p) Naval Forces U.S. Central Command
• NAVDAC – (p) Naval Data Automation Command
• NAVEUR – (p) Naval Forces U.S. European Command
• NAVFE – (p) U.S. Naval Forces, Far East
• NAVFOR – (p) Naval Force
• NAVMACS – (p) Naval Modular Automatic Communication Subsystem
• NAVNET – (p) Navy Network
• NAVS – (a) Non-Cooperative Airborne Vector Scoring
• NAVSAT – (p) Navigation Satellite
• NAVSPACECOM – (p) U.S. Navy Space Command
• NAVSPASUR
  Air Force Space Surveillance System
  The Air Force Space Surveillance System, colloquially known as the Space Fence, is a multistatic radar system that detects orbital objects passing over America...
  
   – (p) U.S. Naval Space Surveillance System
  Air Force Space Surveillance System
  The Air Force Space Surveillance System, colloquially known as the Space Fence, is a multistatic radar system that detects orbital objects passing over America...
  
  
• NAVSTAR – (p) Navigation Satellite Timing And Ranging
• NAVTACNET – (p) Navy Tactical Network
• NAWC – (i) U.S. Naval Air Warfare Center
• NAWMP – (a) North American Waterfowl Management Plan
  North American Waterfowl Management Plan
  The North American Waterfowl Management Plan is an international plan to conserve waterfowl and migratory birds in North America. It was established in 1986 by Canada and the United States, and expanded to include Mexico in 1994....
  
   ("gnaw-wump")

NB

• nb – (s) Norwegian Bokmål
  Bokmål
  Bokmål is one of two official Norwegian written standard languages, the other being Nynorsk. Bokmål is used by 85–90% of the population in Norway, and is the standard most commonly taught to foreign students of the Norwegian language....
  
   language (ISO 639-1 code)
• Nb – (s) Niobium
  Niobium
  Niobium or columbium , is a chemical element with the symbol Nb and atomic number 41. It's a soft, grey, ductile transition metal, which is often found in the pyrochlore mineral, the main commercial source for niobium, and columbite...
  
  
• NB – (s) New Brunswick
  New Brunswick
  New Brunswick is one of Canada's three Maritime provinces and is the only province in the federation that is constitutionally bilingual . The provincial capital is Fredericton and Saint John is the most populous city. Greater Moncton is the largest Census Metropolitan Area...
  
   (postal symbol) – (i) nota bene (Latin, "mark well")
• NBA – (i) National Basketball Association
  National Basketball Association
  The National Basketball Association is the pre-eminent men's professional basketball league in North America. It consists of thirty franchised member clubs, of which twenty-nine are located in the United States and one in Canada...
  
  
• NBACC – (i) U.S. National Biodefense Analysis and Countermeasures Center
  National Biodefense Analysis and Countermeasures Center
  The National Biodefense Analysis and Countermeasures Center is a government biodefense research laboratory created by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and located at the sprawling biodefense campus at Fort Detrick in Frederick, MD, USA. Created quietly a few months after the 2001 anthrax...
  
   ("enn-back")
• NBC
  NBC (disambiguation)
  -Broadcast television networks:* Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation* Nagasaki Broadcasting Company, Japan* Namibian Broadcasting Corporation* National Broadcasting Corporation , Saint Vincent and the Grenadines...
  
   – (i) National Broadcasting Corporation
  NBC
  The National Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network and former radio network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's Rockefeller Center with additional major offices near Los Angeles and in Chicago...
  
   – Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical
• NBCRS – (i) NBC (Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical) Reconnaissance System
• nbl – (s) Southern Ndebele language
  Southern Ndebele language
  The Southern Ndebele language is an African language belonging to the Nguni group of Bantu languages, and spoken by the amaNdebele . There are two dialects of Southern Ndebele in South Africa:* the Northern Transvaal Ndebele or Nrebele...
  
   (ISO 639-2 code)
• NBL – (a) National Basketball League (Australia)
• NBT – (p) Nitroblue tetrazolium (assay)

NC

• nC – (s) Nanocoulomb
• NC
  • (i) Network Computer
    Network computer
    Network Computer is a trademark of Oracle Corporation that was used, from approximately 1996 to 2000, to market a range of diskless desktop computer devices. The devices were designed and manufactured by an alliance, which included Sun Microsystems, IBM, and others...
    
    
  • (s) New Caledonia
    New Caledonia
    New Caledonia is a special collectivity of France located in the southwest Pacific Ocean, east of Australia and about from Metropolitan France. The archipelago, part of the Melanesia subregion, includes the main island of Grande Terre, the Loyalty Islands, the Belep archipelago, the Isle of...
    
     (ISO 3166 digram)
  • (i) Node Centre
  • Non-Consensual
  • Normally Closed
    Relay
    A relay is an electrically operated switch. Many relays use an electromagnet to operate a switching mechanism mechanically, but other operating principles are also used. Relays are used where it is necessary to control a circuit by a low-power signal , or where several circuits must be controlled...
    
    
  • (s) North Carolina
    North Carolina
    North Carolina is a state located in the southeastern United States. The state borders South Carolina and Georgia to the south, Tennessee to the west and Virginia to the north. North Carolina contains 100 counties. Its capital is Raleigh, and its largest city is Charlotte...
    
     (postal symbol)
• NCA – (i) National Command Authority
• NC3A or NC³A – (i) NATO Consultation, Command and Control Agency
  NATO Consultation, Command and Control Agency
  The NATO Consultation, Command and Control Agency was formed in 1996 by merging the SHAPE Technical Centre in The Hague, Netherlands; and the NATO Communications and Information Systems Agency in Brussels, Belgium...
  
  
• NCAA – (i) National Collegiate Athletic Association
  National Collegiate Athletic Association
  The National Collegiate Athletic Association is a semi-voluntary association of 1,281 institutions, conferences, organizations and individuals that organizes the athletic programs of many colleges and universities in the United States...
  
   ("NC double A")
• NCAR – (i) U.S. National Center for Atmospheric Research
  National Center for Atmospheric Research
  The National Center for Atmospheric Research has multiple facilities, including the I. M. Pei-designed Mesa Laboratory headquarters in Boulder, Colorado. NCAR is managed by the nonprofit University Corporation for Atmospheric Research and sponsored by the National Science Foundation...
  
  
• NCB – (i) National Codification Bureau
• NCCAM – (i) U.S. National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine
• NCCUSL – (i) National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws
  National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws
  The National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws is a non-profit, unincorporated association commonly referred to as the U.S. Uniform Law Commission. It consists of commissioners appointed by each state, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico and the United States...
  
   (U.S.)
• NCDDR – (i) U.S. National Center for the Dissemination of Disability Research
• NCES
  • (i) U.S. National Center for Education Statistics
    National Center for Education Statistics
    The National Center for Education Statistics is the part of the United States Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences that collects, analyzes, and publishes statistics on education and public school district finance information in the United States...
    
    
  • Net-Centric Enterprise Services
    Net-Centric Enterprise Services
    Net-Centric Enterprise Services is a Department of Defense program, managed by the Defense Information Systems Agency, to develop information technology infrastructure services for future systems used by the United States military....
    
    
• NCI – (i) U.S. National Cancer Institute
  National Cancer Institute
  The National Cancer Institute is part of the National Institutes of Health , which is one of 11 agencies that are part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The NCI coordinates the U.S...
  
  
• NCIS
  • (i) National Criminal Intelligence Service
    National Criminal Intelligence Service
    The National Criminal Intelligence Service was a United Kingdom policing agency set up as a separate body in April 1992 to centralise the gathering and distribution of intelligence on serious and organised criminal matters. NCIS was formed out of the National Drugs Intelligence Unit in the Home...
    
     (British)
  • Naval Criminal Investigative Service
    Naval Criminal Investigative Service
    The United States Naval Criminal Investigative Service is the primary security, counter-intelligence, counter-terrorism, and law enforcement agency of the United States Department of the Navy...
    
     (U.S. Navy; see also NCIS
    NCIS (TV series)
    NCIS, formerly known as NCIS: Naval Criminal Investigative Service, is an American police procedural drama television series revolving around a fictional team of special agents from the Naval Criminal Investigative Service, which conducts criminal investigations involving the U.S...
    
    , a U.S. TV series based on this unit)
• NCL – (s) New Caledonia
  New Caledonia
  New Caledonia is a special collectivity of France located in the southwest Pacific Ocean, east of Australia and about from Metropolitan France. The archipelago, part of the Melanesia subregion, includes the main island of Grande Terre, the Loyalty Islands, the Belep archipelago, the Isle of...
  
   (ISO 3166 trigram)
• NCLR
  NCLR
  The four-letter abbreviation may refer to:*National Center for Lesbian Rights*National Council of La Raza*National Conference of Law Reviews*National Council for Learning Resources*North Carolina Law Review...
  
   – (i) National Council of La Raza
  National Council of La Raza
  The National Council of La Raza is a non-profit and non-partisan advocacy group in the United States, focused on improving opportunities for Hispanics. It is sometimes confused with La Raza Unida...
  
  
• NCMO – (i) No Commitment Make Out
• NCND – Non Circumvention&Non Disclosure
• NCO
  Non-commissioned officer
  A non-commissioned officer , called a sub-officer in some countries, is a military officer who has not been given a commission...
  
   – (i) Non-Commissioned Officer
• NCP – (i) Net Contracted Purchases
• NCR – (i) National Cash Register Co.
• NCTR – (i) Non-Co-operative Target Recognition
• NCW – (i) Network Centric Warfare

ND

• nd – (s) Northern Ndebele language
  Northern Ndebele language
  The Northern Ndebele language, isiNdebele, or Ndebele is an African language belonging to the Nguni group of Bantu languages, and spoken by the Ndebele or Matabele people of Zimbabwe. It is commonly known as Sindebele....
  
   (ISO 639-1 code)
• Nd – (s) Neodymium
  Neodymium
  Neodymium is a chemical element with the symbol Nd and atomic number 60. It is a soft silvery metal that tarnishes in air. Neodymium was discovered in 1885 by the Austrian chemist Carl Auer von Welsbach. It is present in significant quantities in the ore minerals monazite and bastnäsite...
  
  
• ND
  • (i) Non-Disclosure
  • (s) North Dakota
    North Dakota
    North Dakota is a state located in the Midwestern region of the United States of America, along the Canadian border. The state is bordered by Canada to the north, Minnesota to the east, South Dakota to the south and Montana to the west. North Dakota is the 19th-largest state by area in the U.S....
    
     (postal symbol)
• NDAA – (i) U.S. National Defense Authorization Act
  National Defense Authorization Act
  The National Defense Authorization Act is the name of a United States federal law that has been enacted for each of the past 48 fiscal years to specify the budget and expenditures of the United States Department of Defense.-See also:...
  
  
• NDBP – (i) Non-Departmental Public Body
  Scottish public bodies
  Public bodies of the Scottish Government are organisations that are funded by the Scottish Government. It includes executive and advisory non-departmental public bodies ; tribunals; and nationalised industries....
  
   (Scotland)
• NDCC – (i) New Directions Counseling Center (Concord, California)
• nde
  NDE
  NDE is an acronym with several meanings:* Near-death experience, the perception reported by a person who nearly died or who was clinically dead and revived** See also near miss for a situation where death or other harmful event is averted...
  
   – (s) Northern Ndebele language
  Northern Ndebele language
  The Northern Ndebele language, isiNdebele, or Ndebele is an African language belonging to the Nguni group of Bantu languages, and spoken by the Ndebele or Matabele people of Zimbabwe. It is commonly known as Sindebele....
  
   (ISO 639-2 code)
• NDH
  • (i) Neue Deutsche Härte
    Neue Deutsche Härte
    Neue Deutsche Härte is a genre of industrial metal. The term was invented by the German music press after the release of the debut album Herzeleid by Rammstein....
    
    (German, "new German hardness"—heavy metal genre)
  • Nezavisna Država Hrvatska
    Independent State of Croatia
    The Independent State of Croatia was a World War II puppet state of Nazi Germany, established on a part of Axis-occupied Yugoslavia. The NDH was founded on 10 April 1941, after the invasion of Yugoslavia by the Axis powers. All of Bosnia and Herzegovina was annexed to NDH, together with some parts...
    
    (Croatian, "Independent State of Croatia"—Nazi puppet state)
• ndo
  NDO
  NDO Limited was an Internet Service Provider in the United Kingdom. Originally established in 1995, originating from NetDirect which was one of the first ISPs in the UK.-History:...
  
   – (s) Ndonga
  Ndonga
  Ndonga is a Bantu language spoken in Namibia and some parts of Angola. It is a standardized dialect of the Ovambo language, and is mutually intelligible with Kwanyama, the other Ovambo dialect with a standard written form...
  
   language (ISO 639-2 code)
• NDP – (i) New Democratic Party
  New Democratic Party
  The New Democratic Party , commonly referred to as the NDP, is a federal social-democratic political party in Canada. The interim leader of the NDP is Nycole Turmel who was appointed to the position due to the illness of Jack Layton, who died on August 22, 2011. The provincial wings of the NDP in...
  
   (Canada)
• NDS – Nintendo DS
• NDU – (i) National Defense University
  National Defense University
  The National Defense University is an institution of higher education funded by the United States Department of Defense, intended to facilitate high-level training, education, and the development of national security strategy. It is chartered by the Joint Chiefs of Staff, with Navy Vice Admiral...
  
   (Washington, DC)

NE

• ne – (s) Nepali language
  Nepali language
  Nepali or Nepalese is a language in the Indo-Aryan branch of the Indo-European language family.It is the official language and de facto lingua franca of Nepal and is also spoken in Bhutan, parts of India and parts of Myanmar...
  
   (ISO 639-1 code)
• Ne – (s) Neon
  Neon
  Neon is the chemical element that has the symbol Ne and an atomic number of 10. Although a very common element in the universe, it is rare on Earth. A colorless, inert noble gas under standard conditions, neon gives a distinct reddish-orange glow when used in either low-voltage neon glow lamps or...
  
  
• NE – (s) Nebraska
  Nebraska
  Nebraska is a state on the Great Plains of the Midwestern United States. The state's capital is Lincoln and its largest city is Omaha, on the Missouri River....
  
   (postal symbol) – Niger
  Niger
  Niger , officially named the Republic of Niger, is a landlocked country in Western Africa, named after the Niger River. It borders Nigeria and Benin to the south, Burkina Faso and Mali to the west, Algeria and Libya to the north and Chad to the east...
  
   (ISO 3166 digram) – North-East
• NEA – (i) National Education Association
  National Education Association
  The National Education Association is the largest professional organization and largest labor union in the United States, representing public school teachers and other support personnel, faculty and staffers at colleges and universities, retired educators, and college students preparing to become...
  
   (U.S. labor union) – Near-Earth Asteroid – Nuclear Energy Agency
  Nuclear Energy Agency
  The Nuclear Energy Agency is an intergovernmental multinational agency that is organized under the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development...
  
   (OECD)
• NEAT – (a) Near-Earth Asteroid Tracking
• NEC
  Network Enabled Capability
  Network-enabled capability, or NEC, is the name given to the United Kingdom Ministry of Defence intent to achieve enhanced military effect through the better use of information systems towards the goal of "right information, right place, right time – and not too much".NEC is envisaged as the...
  
   – (i) Network-Enabled Capability
• NED
  NED
  Ned may refer to:* Ned , a slang term for a Scottish urban youth who engages in hooliganism* Ned, a 2003 Australian film* Neds, a 2010 British film.* Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide, a Nickelodeon TV show...
  
   – (s) Netherlands
  Netherlands
  The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...
  
   (IOC and FIFA trigram, but not ISO 3166)
• NECTEC – (a) National Electronics and Computer Technology Center
  Thailand National Electronics and Computer Technology Center
  Thailand's National Electronics and Computer Technology Center is a statutory government organization under the National Science and Technology Development Agency , Ministry of Science and Technology...
  
   (Thailand
  Thailand
  Thailand , officially the Kingdom of Thailand , formerly known as Siam , is a country located at the centre of the Indochina peninsula and Southeast Asia. It is bordered to the north by Burma and Laos, to the east by Laos and Cambodia, to the south by the Gulf of Thailand and Malaysia, and to the...
  
  )
• NEI – (i) National Eye Institute – Not Enough Information – Nuclear Energy Institute
• NEIC (i) – U.S. National Earthquake Information Center
  National Earthquake Information Center
  The National Earthquake Information Center is part of the United States Geological Survey located on the campus of the Colorado School of Mines in Golden, Colorado. The NEIC has three main missions:...
  
   – National Economic Intelligence Committee (Nigeria
  Nigeria
  Nigeria , officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria, is a federal constitutional republic comprising 36 states and its Federal Capital Territory, Abuja. The country is located in West Africa and shares land borders with the Republic of Benin in the west, Chad and Cameroon in the east, and Niger in...
  
  ) – National Energy Information Center (U.S. DOE
  United States Department of Energy
  The United States Department of Energy is a Cabinet-level department of the United States government concerned with the United States' policies regarding energy and safety in handling nuclear material...
  
  ) – National Enforcement Investigations Center (U.S. EPA
  United States Environmental Protection Agency
  The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is an agency of the federal government of the United States charged with protecting human health and the environment, by writing and enforcing regulations based on laws passed by Congress...
  
  )
• nem con – (p) nemine contradicente (Latin, "no one contradicting")
• nem diss – (p) nemine dissentiente (Latin, "no one dissenting")
• NEMS – (i) National Energy Modeling System
  National Energy Modeling System
  The National Energy Modeling System is an economic and energy model of United States energy markets created at the U.S. Department of Energy, Energy Information Administration. NEMS projects the production, consumption, conversion, import, and pricing of energy...
  
   (USDOE-EIA)
• NEO – (i) Near-Earth Object
  Near-Earth object
  A near-Earth object is a Solar System object whose orbit brings it into close proximity with the Earth. All NEOs have a perihelion distance less than 1.3 AU. They include a few thousand near-Earth asteroids , near-Earth comets, a number of solar-orbiting spacecraft, and meteoroids large enough to...
  
   – Non-combatant Evacuation Operations
• nep – (s) Nepali language
  Nepali language
  Nepali or Nepalese is a language in the Indo-Aryan branch of the Indo-European language family.It is the official language and de facto lingua franca of Nepal and is also spoken in Bhutan, parts of India and parts of Myanmar...
  
   (ISO 639-2 code)
• NEPA
  Nepa
  Nepa is a village development committee in Dailekh District in the Bheri Zone of western-central Nepal. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census it had a population of 3621 people living in 739 individual households.-External links:*...
  
   – (a) National Environmental Policy Act
  National Environmental Policy Act
  The National Environmental Policy Act is a United States environmental law that established a U.S. national policy promoting the enhancement of the environment and also established the President's Council on Environmental Quality ....
  
  
• NER – (s) Niger
  Niger
  Niger , officially named the Republic of Niger, is a landlocked country in Western Africa, named after the Niger River. It borders Nigeria and Benin to the south, Burkina Faso and Mali to the west, Algeria and Libya to the north and Chad to the east...
  
   (ISO 3166 trigram)
• NERICA – (p) New Rice for Africa
  New Rice for Africa
  New Rice for Africa is an interspecific cultivar of rice developed by the Africa Rice Center to improve the yield of African rice varieties. Although 240 million people in West Africa rely on rice as the primary source of food energy and protein in their diet, the majority of this rice is...
  
  
• NESDIS – (a) National Environmental Satellite, Data and Information Service
• NESP – (i) NSA
  National Security Agency
  The National Security Agency/Central Security Service is a cryptologic intelligence agency of the United States Department of Defense responsible for the collection and analysis of foreign communications and foreign signals intelligence, as well as protecting U.S...
  
  /CSS
  Central Security Service
  The Central Security Service is an agency of the United States Department of Defense, established in 1972 by a Presidential Directive to promote full partnership between the National Security Agency and the Service Cryptologic Elements of the United States Armed Forces.-Organization:The blue...
  
   Enterprise Standards Program
• NESS-T – (p) Near-Earth Space Surveillance - Terrestrial project
• NET – (i) National Educational Television
  National Educational Television
  National Educational Television was an American non-commercial educational public television network in the United States from May 16, 1954 to October 4, 1970...
  
  
• NETCU – (i) (UK) National Extremism Tactical Co-ordination Unit
  National Extremism Tactical Co-ordination Unit
  The National Extremism Tactical Co-ordination Unit is a British police organization funded by, and reporting to, the Association of Chief Police Officers that coordinates police action against groups in the United Kingdom it describes as extremist. As of April 2007, it was headed by...
  
  
• NETL – (a) (US) National Energy Technology Laboratory
  National Energy Technology Laboratory
  The National Energy Technology Laboratory is a science, technology, and energy laboratory owned and operated by the U.S. Department of Energy . As part of DOE's national laboratory system, NETL supports DOE's mission to advance the national, economic, and energy security of the United States...
  
  
• NETWARS
  NetWars
  NetWars was an IPX-based 3D vector-graphics computer game released by Novell in 1993 for DOS to demonstrate NetWare capabilities. It was written by Edward Hill, one of Novell's engineers in its European Development Centre in Hungerford, UK...
  
   – (p) Network Warfare Simulation
• NEWS
  NeWS
  NeWS was a windowing system developed by Sun Microsystems in the mid 1980s. Originally known as "SunDew", its primary authors were James Gosling and David S. H. Rosenthal...
  
   – (a) Navy Electronic Warfare Simulator – North, East, West, South
• NEX – (p) Navy EXchange

NF

• nF – (s) Nanofarad
• NF – (s) Norfolk Island
  Norfolk Island
  Norfolk Island is a small island in the Pacific Ocean located between Australia, New Zealand and New Caledonia. The island is part of the Commonwealth of Australia, but it enjoys a large degree of self-governance...
  
   (ISO 3166 digram)
• NFA – (i) No-Fire Area
• NFC – (i) National Football Conference
  National Football Conference
  The National Football Conference is one of the two conferences of the National Football League . This conference and its counterpart, the American Football Conference , currently contain 16 teams each, making up the 32 teams of the NFL.-Current teams:Since 2002, the NFC has comprised 16 teams,...
  
  
• NFER – (i) National Foundation for Educational Research
  National Foundation for Educational Research
  The National Foundation for Educational Research was founded in 1946 as a centre for educational research and development in England and Wales. NFER's head office is located at 'The Mere' in Slough, Berkshire, England...
  
  
• NFG – (i) No Fucking Good
• NFHS – (i) National Federation of High Schools, now National Federation of State High School Associations
  National Federation of State High School Associations
  The National Federation of State High School Associations is the body that writes the rules of competition for most high school sports and activities in the United States. Most high schools, whether public or private, belong to their state's high school association; in turn, each state association...
  
  
• NFI – (i) Not F****** Interested
• NFK – (s) Norfolk Island
  Norfolk Island
  Norfolk Island is a small island in the Pacific Ocean located between Australia, New Zealand and New Caledonia. The island is part of the Commonwealth of Australia, but it enjoys a large degree of self-governance...
  
   (ISO 3166 trigram)
• NFL – (i) National Football League
  National Football League
  The National Football League is the highest level of professional American football in the United States, and is considered the top professional American football league in the world. It was formed by eleven teams in 1920 as the American Professional Football Association, with the league changing...
  
   – No-Fire Line
• Nfld – (p) Newfoundland
  Newfoundland and Labrador
  Newfoundland and Labrador is the easternmost province of Canada. Situated in the country's Atlantic region, it incorporates the island of Newfoundland and mainland Labrador with a combined area of . As of April 2011, the province's estimated population is 508,400...
  
  
• NFPA – (a) National Fluid Power Association
  National Fluid Power Association
  The National Fluid Power Association is a 5016 trade association founded in 1955. Members include more than 315 manufacturers of fluid power systems and components, fluid power distributors, suppliers to the fluid power industry, educators and researchers...
  
   (US)

NG

• ng
  Ng
  Ng is a Cantonese and Hakka transliteration of the Chinese surnames 吳/吴 and 伍 , and Hokkien and Teochew transliteration of the Chinese surname 黃 . It is pronounced , and 伍 means "five." It is sometimes romanized as Ang, Eng, Ing and Ong in the United States and Ung in Australia...
  
   – (s) Nanogram – Ndonga
  Ndonga
  Ndonga is a Bantu language spoken in Namibia and some parts of Angola. It is a standardized dialect of the Ovambo language, and is mutually intelligible with Kwanyama, the other Ovambo dialect with a standard written form...
  
   language (ISO 639-1 code)
• NG
  • (i) Natural Gas
  • Next Generation
  • (s) Niger
    Niger
    Niger , officially named the Republic of Niger, is a landlocked country in Western Africa, named after the Niger River. It borders Nigeria and Benin to the south, Burkina Faso and Mali to the west, Algeria and Libya to the north and Chad to the east...
    
     (FIPS 10-4 country code)
  • Nigeria
    Nigeria
    Nigeria , officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria, is a federal constitutional republic comprising 36 states and its Federal Capital Territory, Abuja. The country is located in West Africa and shares land borders with the Republic of Benin in the west, Chad and Cameroon in the east, and Niger in...
    
     (ISO 3166 digram)
• NGA
  • (i) National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
    National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
    The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency is an agency of the federal government of the United States with the primary mission of collecting, analyzing and distributing geospatial intelligence in support of national security. NGA was formerly known as the National Imagery and Mapping Agency ...
    
    
  • (s) Nigeria
    Nigeria
    Nigeria , officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria, is a federal constitutional republic comprising 36 states and its Federal Capital Territory, Abuja. The country is located in West Africa and shares land borders with the Republic of Benin in the west, Chad and Cameroon in the east, and Niger in...
    
     (ISO 3166 trigram)
• NGH – Northern General Hospital
  Northern General Hospital
  The Northern General Hospital is a large teaching hospital in Sheffield, England. It hosts most major departments, including a busy Accident and Emergency for adults...
  
  
• NGATS – (i) New Generation Army Targetry System
• NGIC – (a) National Ground Intelligence Center
  National Ground Intelligence Center
  The National Ground Intelligence Center is part of the United States Army Intelligence and Security Command. The NGIC provides scientific and technical intelligence and general military intelligence on foreign ground forces in support of the warfighting commanders, force and material developers,...
  
   ("Injick")
• NGN – (s) Nigerian naira (ISO 4217
  ISO 4217
  ISO 4217 is a standard published by the International Standards Organization, which delineates currency designators, country codes , and references to minor units in three tables:* Table A.1 – Current currency & funds code list...
  
   currency code)
• NGO – (i) Non-Governmental Organization
  Non-governmental organization
  A non-governmental organization is a legally constituted organization created by natural or legal persons that operates independently from any government. The term originated from the United Nations , and is normally used to refer to organizations that do not form part of the government and are...
  
  
• NGR – (s) Nigeria
  Nigeria
  Nigeria , officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria, is a federal constitutional republic comprising 36 states and its Federal Capital Territory, Abuja. The country is located in West Africa and shares land borders with the Republic of Benin in the west, Chad and Cameroon in the east, and Niger in...
  
   (IOC trigram, but not ISO 3166 or FIFA)
• NGS – (i) Naval Gunfire Support
  Naval gunfire support
  Naval gunfire support is the use of naval artillery to provide fire support for amphibious assault and other troops operating within their range. NGFS is one of a number of disciplines encompassed by the term Naval Fires...
  
  

NH

• nH – (s) Nanohenry
• NH – (s) New Hampshire
  New Hampshire
  New Hampshire is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States of America. The state was named after the southern English county of Hampshire. It is bordered by Massachusetts to the south, Vermont to the west, Maine and the Atlantic Ocean to the east, and the Canadian...
  
   (postal symbol) – New Hebrides
  New Hebrides
  New Hebrides was the colonial name for an island group in the South Pacific that now forms the nation of Vanuatu. The New Hebrides were colonized by both the British and French in the 18th century shortly after Captain James Cook visited the islands...
  
   (ISO 3166 digram; obsolete 1980) – Vanuatu
  Vanuatu
  Vanuatu , officially the Republic of Vanuatu , is an island nation located in the South Pacific Ocean. The archipelago, which is of volcanic origin, is some east of northern Australia, northeast of New Caledonia, west of Fiji, and southeast of the Solomon Islands, near New Guinea.Vanuatu was...
  
   (FIPS 10-4 country code; from New Hebrides)
• NHANES – (i) National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey
• NHB – (s) New Hebrides
  New Hebrides
  New Hebrides was the colonial name for an island group in the South Pacific that now forms the nation of Vanuatu. The New Hebrides were colonized by both the British and French in the 18th century shortly after Captain James Cook visited the islands...
  
   (ISO 3166 trigram; obsolete 1980)
• NHB – (i) No Holds Barred radio (Link)
• NHL – (i) National Hockey League
  National Hockey League
  The National Hockey League is an unincorporated not-for-profit association which operates a major professional ice hockey league of 30 franchised member clubs, of which 7 are currently located in Canada and 23 in the United States...
  
  
• NHO – (i) Næringslivets Hovedorganisasjon (Confederation of Norwegian Enterprises, a Norwegian employers' organisation)
• NHRA – (i) National Hot Rod Association
• NHS
  National Health Service
  The National Health Service is the shared name of three of the four publicly funded healthcare systems in the United Kingdom. They provide a comprehensive range of health services, the vast majority of which are free at the point of use to residents of the United Kingdom...
  
   – (i) National Health Service
  National Health Service
  The National Health Service is the shared name of three of the four publicly funded healthcare systems in the United Kingdom. They provide a comprehensive range of health services, the vast majority of which are free at the point of use to residents of the United Kingdom...
  
   (UK)

NI

• Ni – (s) Nickel
  Nickel
  Nickel is a chemical element with the chemical symbol Ni and atomic number 28. It is a silvery-white lustrous metal with a slight golden tinge. Nickel belongs to the transition metals and is hard and ductile...
  
  
• NI
  • (s) Nicaragua
    Nicaragua
    Nicaragua is the largest country in the Central American American isthmus, bordered by Honduras to the north and Costa Rica to the south. The country is situated between 11 and 14 degrees north of the Equator in the Northern Hemisphere, which places it entirely within the tropics. The Pacific Ocean...
    
     (ISO 3166 digram)
  • Nigeria
    Nigeria
    Nigeria , officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria, is a federal constitutional republic comprising 36 states and its Federal Capital Territory, Abuja. The country is located in West Africa and shares land borders with the Republic of Benin in the west, Chad and Cameroon in the east, and Niger in...
    
     (FIPS 10-4 country code)
• NIAAA – (i) U.S. National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism
  National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism
  The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism , as part of the U.S. National Institutes of Health, supports and conducts biomedical and behavioral research on the causes, consequences, treatment, and prevention of alcoholism and alcohol-related problems...
  
  
• NIAID – (a) National Institute of Allergies and Infectious Disease
• NIAG – (a) NATO Industrial Advisory Group
• NIAMD – (i) National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal Diseases
• NIB – (i) New In Box (Internet auction/trading listings)
• NIBP – (i) Non-invasive blood pressure monitor
• NIC
  • (a) Network Interface Card
  • (s) Nicaragua
    Nicaragua
    Nicaragua is the largest country in the Central American American isthmus, bordered by Honduras to the north and Costa Rica to the south. The country is situated between 11 and 14 degrees north of the Equator in the Northern Hemisphere, which places it entirely within the tropics. The Pacific Ocean...
    
     (ISO 3166 trigram)
• NicA
  Nica
  Nica or NICA may refer to:* IBM NICA, Networked Interactive Content Access, a software solution for media and publishing sector.* Baroness Pannonica "Nica" de Königswarter* The National Ice Carving Association , based in Oakbrook, Illinois...
  
   – (i) Nicotine Anonymous
  Nicotine Anonymous
  Nicotine Anonymous is a twelve-step program for people desiring to quit smoking and live nicotine free. As of May, 2008 there are 600 meetings in thirty-eight countries worldwide with the overwhelming majority of these meetings occurring in the United States, followed by Canada, Brazil, Australia...
  
  
• NICAP – (a) National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena
  National Investigations Committee On Aerial Phenomena
  The National Investigations Committee On Aerial Phenomena was a civilian unidentified flying object research group active in the United States from the 1950s to the 1980s.-Overview:...
  
  
• NICE
  NICE
  NICE may refer to:* National Independent Cadres and Elites in Iraq* National Institute for Coordinated Experiments, a fictional organisation in C.S...
  
   – (p) UK. National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence
  National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence
  The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence is a special health authority of the English National Health Service , serving both English NHS and the Welsh NHS...
  
  
• NICHD – National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
  National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
  The Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development , created by Congress in 1962, supports and conducts research on topics related to the health of children, adults, families, and populations...
  
   http://www.nichd.nih.gov
• NICP – (i) National Inventory Control Point
• NIDDK – (i) National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases
  National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases
  The National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases , of the U.S. National Institutes of Health, conducts and supports research on many of the most serious diseases affecting public health...
  
  
• NIDRR – (i) National Institute on Disability Research and Rehabilitation
• NIEHS – (i) National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
  National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
  The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences is a part of the National Institutes of Health , which is in turn a part of the Department of Health and Human Services ....
  
  
• NIG
  NIG
  NIG is a three letter acronym that may also refer to:* Niger, a country in Africa* Nigger, a racial slur* Nigga, a slang term* Nig, Brady Langlois* Niglet a racial slur...
  
   – (s) Niger
  Niger
  Niger , officially named the Republic of Niger, is a landlocked country in Western Africa, named after the Niger River. It borders Nigeria and Benin to the south, Burkina Faso and Mali to the west, Algeria and Libya to the north and Chad to the east...
  
   (IOC and FIFA trigram, but not ISO 3166)
• NIH
  • (i) National Institutes of Health
    National Institutes of Health
    The National Institutes of Health are an agency of the United States Department of Health and Human Services and are the primary agency of the United States government responsible for biomedical and health-related research. Its science and engineering counterpart is the National Science Foundation...
    
    
  • Not Invented Here
    Not Invented Here
    Not invented here is a term used to describe persistent social, corporate, or institutional culture that avoids using or buying already existing products, research, standards, or knowledge because of their external origins. It is normally used in a pejorative sense, and may be considered an...
    
    
• NIIN – (i) National Item Identification Number
• NIMA – (a) National Imagery and Mapping Agency (became NGA
  National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
  The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency is an agency of the federal government of the United States with the primary mission of collecting, analyzing and distributing geospatial intelligence in support of national security. NGA was formerly known as the National Imagery and Mapping Agency ...
  
  )
• NIMBY
  NIMBY
  NIMBY or Nimby is an acronym for the phrase "not in my back yard". The term is used pejoratively to describe opposition by residents to a proposal for a new development close to them. Opposing residents themselves are sometimes called Nimbies...
  
   – (a) Not In My Back Yard (See NOME)
• NIMG – (i) Not In My Generation
• NiMH – (p) nickel metal hydride ("Ni" is the chemical symbol for nickel
  Nickel
  Nickel is a chemical element with the chemical symbol Ni and atomic number 28. It is a silvery-white lustrous metal with a slight golden tinge. Nickel belongs to the transition metals and is hard and ductile...
  
  )
• NIMH
  • (i) National Institute of Medical Herbalists
    National Institute of Medical Herbalists
    The National Institute of Medical Herbalists is the largest professional body regulating medical herbalists in the United Kingdom. It was first established as the National Association of Medical Herbalists in 1864 by a group of herbalists from the north of England, but currently has members in...
    
    
  • National Institute of Mental Health
    National Institute of Mental Health
    The National Institute of Mental Health is one of 27 institutes and centers that make up the National Institutes of Health...
    
    
• NIN
  Nin
  Nin may refer to:* Nine Inch Nails, an American industrial rock band* NIN , a Serbian political magazine* NIN , the Sumerian sign for lady* NIN , a human gene* Nion or Nin, a letter in the Ogham alphabet...
  
   – (i) Nine Inch Nails (band)
• NIO – (s) Nicaraguayan cordoba oro (ISO 4217
  ISO 4217
  ISO 4217 is a standard published by the International Standards Organization, which delineates currency designators, country codes , and references to minor units in three tables:* Table A.1 – Current currency & funds code list...
  
   currency code)
• NIPR – (i) National Institute of Polar Research (Japan)
• NIR
  NIR
  The three-letter acronym NIR may stand for:* Near Infrared, infrared radiation of a wave length near that of red* Northern Ireland, a region of the United Kingdom* Northern Ireland Railways* National Identity Register* National Internet Registry...
  
   – (s) Northern Ireland
  Northern Ireland
  Northern Ireland is one of the four countries of the United Kingdom. Situated in the north-east of the island of Ireland, it shares a border with the Republic of Ireland to the south and west...
  
   (FIFA trigram; not eligible for an ISO 3166 or IOC trigram)
• NISAC – (a) U.S. National Infrastructure Simulation and Analysis Center
• NISCAP – (a) NSA
  National Security Agency
  The National Security Agency/Central Security Service is a cryptologic intelligence agency of the United States Department of Defense responsible for the collection and analysis of foreign communications and foreign signals intelligence, as well as protecting U.S...
  
   Information System Certification and Accreditation Program
• NISER – (i) National Institute of Science Education and Research
• NIST – (a/i) National Institute of Standards and Technology
  National Institute of Standards and Technology
  The National Institute of Standards and Technology , known between 1901 and 1988 as the National Bureau of Standards , is a measurement standards laboratory, otherwise known as a National Metrological Institute , which is a non-regulatory agency of the United States Department of Commerce...
  
  
• NIT
  • (i) National Invitation Tournament
    National Invitation Tournament
    The National Invitation Tournament is a men's college basketball tournament operated by the National Collegiate Athletic Association. There are two NIT events each season. The first, played in November and known as the Dick's Sporting Goods NIT Season Tip-Off , was founded in 1985...
    
      (U.S. college basketball)
  • (i) National Institutes of Technology
    National Institutes of Technology
    The National Institutes of Technology , are a group of higher education engineering institutes in India. Comprising thirty autonomous institutes, they are located in one each major state/territory of India. On their inception decades ago, all NITs were referred as Regional Engineering Colleges ...
    
     (India)
• NITFS – (i) National Imagery Transmission Format Standard
• NIU – (s) Niue
  Niue
  Niue , is an island country in the South Pacific Ocean. It is commonly known as the "Rock of Polynesia", and inhabitants of the island call it "the Rock" for short. Niue is northeast of New Zealand in a triangle between Tonga to the southwest, the Samoas to the northwest, and the Cook Islands to...
  
   (ISO 3166 trigram)

NJ

• nJ
  Nj
  Nj or NJ may stand for:*New Jersey*Nanojoule , an International System of Units unit of energy equal to 10−9 joules*Nj *Narva-Jõesuu, Estonia*Nordjyske Jernbaner, a Danish railway...
  
   – (s) Nanojoule
• NJ
  Nj
  Nj or NJ may stand for:*New Jersey*Nanojoule , an International System of Units unit of energy equal to 10−9 joules*Nj *Narva-Jõesuu, Estonia*Nordjyske Jernbaner, a Danish railway...
  
   – (s) New Jersey
  New Jersey
  New Jersey is a state in the Northeastern and Middle Atlantic regions of the United States. , its population was 8,791,894. It is bordered on the north and east by the state of New York, on the southeast and south by the Atlantic Ocean, on the west by Pennsylvania and on the southwest by Delaware...
  
   (postal symbol)
• NJHS – (s) National Junior Honor Society
• NJPW – (i) New Japan Pro Wrestling
  New Japan Pro Wrestling
  is a major professional wrestling promotion in Japan, founded by Antonio Inoki in June 1972 and owned by Yuke's since 2005, when Inoki sold the promotion. Naoki Sugabayashi is the current President of the promotion and has held that position from 2007. Owing to its TV program aired on TV Asahi, it...
  
  

NK

• nK – (s) Nanokelvin
• NKA – No Known Allergies
• N/K/A – Now Known As
• NKVD
  NKVD
  The People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs was the public and secret police organization of the Soviet Union that directly executed the rule of power of the Soviets, including political repression, during the era of Joseph Stalin....
  
   – (i) Narodnyi Komissariat Vnutrennikh Del (Russian "People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs") (1934–1954)

NL

• nl – (s) Dutch language
  Dutch language
  Dutch is a West Germanic language and the native language of the majority of the population of the Netherlands, Belgium, and Suriname, the three member states of the Dutch Language Union. Most speakers live in the European Union, where it is a first language for about 23 million and a second...
  
   (ISO 639-1 code)
• nL – (s) Nanolitre
• NL
  • (s) Netherlands
    Netherlands
    The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...
    
     (ISO 3166 and FIPS 10-4 country code digram)
  • Newfoundland and Labrador
    Newfoundland and Labrador
    Newfoundland and Labrador is the easternmost province of Canada. Situated in the country's Atlantic region, it incorporates the island of Newfoundland and mainland Labrador with a combined area of . As of April 2011, the province's estimated population is 508,400...
    
     (postal symbol)
• NLB – (i) Non-Linear Battlefield
• nld
  NLD
  The acronym NLD can refer to* National League for Democracy, the main opposition party in Burma* Necrobiosis lipoidica diabeticorum, a skin disorder* Nonverbal learning disorder* Novell Linux Desktop* North London Derby...
  
   – (s) Dutch language
  Dutch language
  Dutch is a West Germanic language and the native language of the majority of the population of the Netherlands, Belgium, and Suriname, the three member states of the Dutch Language Union. Most speakers live in the European Union, where it is a first language for about 23 million and a second...
  
   (ISO 639-2 code)
• NLD – (s) Netherlands
  Netherlands
  The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...
  
   (ISO 3166 trigram)
• NLF – (i) National Liberation Front
  National Liberation Front
  National Liberation Front may refer to:* National Liberation Front for South Vietnam * National Liberation Front * People's Liberation Front , sometimes referred to as the National Liberation Front...
  
   (disambiguation)
• NLL
  NLL (disambiguation)
  NLL is an abbreviation for:*Two unrelated lacrosse leagues by the name of National Lacrosse League:**National Lacrosse League, a current league formed in 1987**National Lacrosse League...
  
   – (i) National Lacrosse League
  National Lacrosse League
  The National Lacrosse League is a men's professional indoor lacrosse league in North America. It currently has nine teams; three in Canada and six in the United States. Unlike other lacrosse leagues which play in the summer, the NLL plays its games in the winter and spring. Each year, the playoff...
  
  
• NLOS-LS – (i) Non Line Of Sight-Launch System
• NLP
  • (i) Natural Language Processing
    Natural language processing
    Natural language processing is a field of computer science and linguistics concerned with the interactions between computers and human languages; it began as a branch of artificial intelligence....
    
    
  • Neuro-Linguistic Programming
    Neuro-linguistic programming
    Neuro-linguistic programming is an approach to psychotherapy, self-help and organizational change. Founders Richard Bandler and John Grinder say that NLP is a model of interpersonal communication and a system of alternative therapy which seeks to educate people in self-awareness and effective...
    
     (pseudoscience)
• NLW – (i) Non-Lethal Weapon

NM

• nm – (s) Nanometre
  Nanometre
  A nanometre is a unit of length in the metric system, equal to one billionth of a metre. The name combines the SI prefix nano- with the parent unit name metre .The nanometre is often used to express dimensions on the atomic scale: the diameter...
  
  
• nm, NM – Nautical mile
  Nautical mile
  The nautical mile is a unit of length that is about one minute of arc of latitude along any meridian, but is approximately one minute of arc of longitude only at the equator...
  
  
• N·m, Nm – Newton metre
  Newton metre
  A newton metre is a unit of torque in the SI system. The symbolic form is N m or N·m, and sometimes hyphenated newton-metre...
  
  
• NM – (s) New Mexico
  New Mexico
  New Mexico is a state located in the southwest and western regions of the United States. New Mexico is also usually considered one of the Mountain States. With a population density of 16 per square mile, New Mexico is the sixth-most sparsely inhabited U.S...
  
   (postal symbol)
• NMCI – (i) Navy Marine Corps Intranet
• NMCS – (i) Not Mission Capable Supply (SM&R code)
• NMD – (i) U.S. National Missile Defense
• NMN – (i) No middle name
• NMOS – (i/a) N-type/Negative Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor transistor ("enn-moss")
• NMSG – (i) NATO Modelling and Simulation Group
• NMR
  NMR
  NMR may refer to:Applications of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance:* Nuclear magnetic resonance* NMR spectroscopy* Solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance* Protein nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy* Proton NMR* Carbon-13 NMR...
  
   – (i) Nuclear Magnetic Resonance
• NMHNFG – (i) Not Made Here, No Fucking Good

NN

• nn – (s) Norwegian Nynorsk
  Nynorsk
  Nynorsk or New Norwegian is one of two official written standards for the Norwegian language, the other being Bokmål. The standard language was created by Ivar Aasen during the mid-19th century, to provide a Norwegian alternative to the Danish language which was commonly written in Norway at the...
  
   language (ISO 639-1 code)
• nN – (s) Nanonewton
• NNE – (i) North North-East
• nno
  NNO
  NNO may stand for:* Nuveen North Carolina Dividend Advantage Municipal Fund 2 * In mathematics, a natural number object;* National Night Out, a crime prevention activity in the United States;* Nitrous oxide....
  
   – (s) Norwegian Nynorsk
  Nynorsk
  Nynorsk or New Norwegian is one of two official written standards for the Norwegian language, the other being Bokmål. The standard language was created by Ivar Aasen during the mid-19th century, to provide a Norwegian alternative to the Danish language which was commonly written in Norway at the...
  
   language (ISO 639-2 code)
• NNSA – (i) U.S. National Nuclear Security Administration
  National Nuclear Security Administration
  The United States National Nuclear Security Administration is part of the United States Department of Energy. It works to improve national security through the military application of nuclear energy...
  
  
• NNW – (i) North North-West

NO

• no – (s) Norwegian language
  Norwegian language
  Norwegian is a North Germanic language spoken primarily in Norway, where it is the official language. Together with Swedish and Danish, Norwegian forms a continuum of more or less mutually intelligible local and regional variants .These Scandinavian languages together with the Faroese language...
  
   (ISO 639-1 code)
• No – (s) Nobelium
  Nobelium
  Nobelium is a synthetic element with the symbol No and atomic number 102. It was first correctly identified in 1966 by scientists at the Flerov Laboratory of Nuclear Reactions in Dubna, Soviet Union...
  
  
• NO
  • (s) Nitric Oxide
  • (i) Normally Open
    Relay
    A relay is an electrically operated switch. Many relays use an electromagnet to operate a switching mechanism mechanically, but other operating principles are also used. Relays are used where it is necessary to control a circuit by a low-power signal , or where several circuits must be controlled...
    
    
  • (s) Norway
    Norway
    Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...
    
     (ISO 3166 and FIPS 10-4 country code digram)
• NOAA – (a) U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
• NOAF – (i) Norwegian Air Force
• NOAO – (i) National Optical Astronomy Observatory
  National Optical Astronomy Observatory
  The National Optical Astronomy Observatory is the United States national observatory for ground based nighttime ultraviolet-optical-infrared astronomy. The National Science Foundation funds NOAO to provide forefront astronomical research facilities for US astronomers...
  
  
• nob – (s) Norwegian Bokmål
  Bokmål
  Bokmål is one of two official Norwegian written standard languages, the other being Nynorsk. Bokmål is used by 85–90% of the population in Norway, and is the standard most commonly taught to foreign students of the Norwegian language....
  
   language (ISO 639-2 code)
• NOC – (i) UK. National Oceanography Centre
  National Oceanography Centre
  - The National Oceanography Centre :The National Oceanography Centre is a marine science research and technology institution based on two sites in Southampton and Liverpool, United Kingdom...
  
  
• NODEF – (a) NATO Oceanographic Data Exchange Format
• No-FEAR – (p) Notification and Federal Employee Antidiscrimination Retaliation Act (2002)
• NOK
  Norwegian krone
  The krone is the currency of Norway and its dependent territories. The plural form is kroner . It is subdivided into 100 øre. The ISO 4217 code is NOK, although the common local abbreviation is kr. The name translates into English as "crown"...
  
   – (s) Norwegian krone
  Norwegian krone
  The krone is the currency of Norway and its dependent territories. The plural form is kroner . It is subdivided into 100 øre. The ISO 4217 code is NOK, although the common local abbreviation is kr. The name translates into English as "crown"...
  
   (ISO 4217
  ISO 4217
  ISO 4217 is a standard published by the International Standards Organization, which delineates currency designators, country codes , and references to minor units in three tables:* Table A.1 – Current currency & funds code list...
  
   currency code)
• NOLA – (p) New Orleans, Louisiana (LA is the official postal code
  United States Postal Service
  The United States Postal Service is an independent agency of the United States government responsible for providing postal service in the United States...
  
   for Louisiana)
• NOLF – (i) Navy OutLying Field
• NOM – (i) Novus Ordo Missae or New Ordinary of the Mass
  Mass of Paul VI
  The Mass of Pope Paul VI is the liturgy of the Catholic Mass of the Roman Rite promulgated by Paul VI in 1969, after the Second Vatican Council...
  
   (sometimes abbreviated to simply "NO")
• NOME
  Nome
  Nome may refer to:A country subdivision:* Nome an administrative division within ancient Egypt.* Nome , the administrative division immediately below the peripheries of Greece Places:* Nome, Norway* Nome, Alaska, US...
  
   - Not on Mars Either
• NoMBO – (p) Non-mine, Mine-like Bottom Object
• NOME
  Nome
  Nome may refer to:A country subdivision:* Nome an administrative division within ancient Egypt.* Nome , the administrative division immediately below the peripheries of Greece Places:* Nome, Norway* Nome, Alaska, US...
  
   - Not on Mars Either (see NIMBY)
• NOPA – (i) National Office Products Alliance – National Office Products Association
• nor – (s) Norwegian language
  Norwegian language
  Norwegian is a North Germanic language spoken primarily in Norway, where it is the official language. Together with Swedish and Danish, Norwegian forms a continuum of more or less mutually intelligible local and regional variants .These Scandinavian languages together with the Faroese language...
  
   (ISO 639-2 code)
• NOR – (s) Norway
  Norway
  Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...
  
   (ISO 3166 trigram)
• NORAD – (p) North American Aerospace Defense Command
• NORCECA – (p) North, Central America and Caribbean Volleyball Confederation
  North, Central America and Caribbean Volleyball Confederation
  The North, Central America and Caribbean Volleyball Confederation is an incorporated, non-profit organization responsible for all volleyball activities that take place in its zone. NORCECA is the continental confederation that represents its thirty-five member countries at the International...
  
  
• NORML – (a) National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws ("normal")
• NORTHAG – (p) Northern Army Group
• NORWICH – (a) (k) Nickers Off Ready When I Come Home (British army slang written on letters home)
• NOS
  • (i) Network Operating System
  • New Old Stock (Internet auction/trading listings)
  • Nitric Oxide Synthase
    Nitric oxide synthase
    Nitric oxide synthases are a family of enzymes that catalyze the production of nitric oxide from L-arginine. NO is an important cellular signaling molecule, having a vital role in many biological processes...
    
     (enzyme)
• NOSA – (i) NATO OSI
  Open Systems Interconnection
  Open Systems Interconnection is an effort to standardize networking that was started in 1977 by the International Organization for Standardization , along with the ITU-T.-History:...
  
   Security Architecture
• NOTAFLOF – (a) No One Turned Away For Lack Of Funds
• NOTAM
  NOTAM
  NOTAM or NoTAM is the quasi-acronym for a "Notice To Airmen". NOTAMs are created and transmitted by government agencies and airport operators under guidelines specified by Annex 15: Aeronautical Information Services of the Convention on International Civil Aviation...
  
   – (p) Notice to Airmen
• NOW – (a) National Organization for Women
  National Organization for Women
  The National Organization for Women is the largest feminist organization in the United States. It was founded in 1966 and has a membership of 500,000 contributing members. The organization consists of 550 chapters in all 50 U.S...
  
  

NP

• Np – (p) Neap tide (nautical charts) – (s) Neptunium
  Neptunium
  Neptunium is a chemical element with the symbol Np and atomic number 93. A radioactive metal, neptunium is the first transuranic element and belongs to the actinide series. Its most stable isotope, 237Np, is a by-product of nuclear reactors and plutonium production and it can be used as a...
  
  
• NP – (s) National Permit – A permit in India for trucks so they can go anywhere in the nation
• NP – (s) Nepal
  Nepal
  Nepal , officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal, is a landlocked sovereign state located in South Asia. It is located in the Himalayas and bordered to the north by the People's Republic of China, and to the south, east, and west by the Republic of India...
  
   (ISO 3166 and FIPS 10-4 country code digram)
• NPB
  NPB
  NPB can refer to:* NAS Parallel Benchmarks, a set of benchmarks developed by the NASA for measuring the performance of supercomputers* National Printing Bureau of Japan...
  
   – (i) Nippon Professional Baseball
• NPC – (i) National Postgraduate Committee
  National Postgraduate Committee
  The National Postgraduate Committee of the United Kingdom represents postgraduates at UK universities. Since 2002 it has held charitable status...
  
   – National Provincial Championship
  National Provincial Championship
  The National Provincial Championship, or NPC, is the major domestic rugby competition in New Zealand. The NPC has seen many alterations to its format and brand. Since 2006 the National Championship has been split into 2 competitions, the ITM Cup and the Heartland Championship...
  
   (New Zealand rugby competition, now defunct) – Navigation Planning Chart – Non-Player Character (role-playing games)
• NPD – (i) Nationaldemokratische Partei Deutschlands (German)
• NPDI – (i) New Product Development and Introduction
• NPG – (i) Needline/Network Participation Group
• NPH – (i) Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus
  Normal pressure hydrocephalus
  Normal pressure hydrocephalus , also termed symptomatic hydrocephalus, occurs when there is an increase in intracranial pressure due to an abnormal accumulation of cerebrospinal fluid in the ventricles of the brain, which can cause ventriculomegaly...
  
  
• NPL – (i) National Priorities List
  National Priorities List
  The National Priorities List is the list of hazardous waste sites in the United States eligible for long-term remedial action financed under the federal Superfund program. Environmental Protection Agency regulations outline a formal process for assessing hazardous waste sites and placing them on...
  
   – (s) Nepal
  Nepal
  Nepal , officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal, is a landlocked sovereign state located in South Asia. It is located in the Himalayas and bordered to the north by the People's Republic of China, and to the south, east, and west by the Republic of India...
  
   (ISO 3166 trigram)
• NPOV
  Objectivity (journalism)
  Parent article: Journalism ethics and standardsObjectivity is a significant principle of journalistic professionalism. Journalistic objectivity can refer to fairness, disinterestedness, factuality, and nonpartisanship, but most often encompasses all of these qualities.- Definitions :In the context...
  
   – (i) Neutral Point Of View
• NPR
  NPR
  NPR, formerly National Public Radio, is a privately and publicly funded non-profit membership media organization that serves as a national syndicator to a network of 900 public radio stations in the United States. NPR was created in 1970, following congressional passage of the Public Broadcasting...
  
   – (i) National Public Radio – (s) Nepalese rupee
  Rupee
  The rupee is the common name for the monetary unit of account in India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Pakistan, Mauritius, Seychelles, Maldives, and formerly in Burma, and Afghanistan. Historically, the first currency called "rupee" was introduced in the 16th century...
  
   (ISO 4217
  ISO 4217
  ISO 4217 is a standard published by the International Standards Organization, which delineates currency designators, country codes , and references to minor units in three tables:* Table A.1 – Current currency & funds code list...
  
   currency code)

NQ

• NQ – (s) Dronning Maud Land (ISO 3166 digram; obsolete 1983)
• NQOCD – (i) Not Quite Our Class, Dear (or Darling). (Upper-class English slang
  Slang
  Slang is the use of informal words and expressions that are not considered standard in the speaker's language or dialect but are considered more acceptable when used socially. Slang is often to be found in areas of the lexicon that refer to things considered taboo...
  
  )
• NPO – nothing by mouth

NR

• nr – (s) Southern Ndebele language
  Southern Ndebele language
  The Southern Ndebele language is an African language belonging to the Nguni group of Bantu languages, and spoken by the amaNdebele . There are two dialects of Southern Ndebele in South Africa:* the Northern Transvaal Ndebele or Nrebele...
  
   (ISO 639-1 code)
• NR – (s) Nauru
  Nauru
  Nauru , officially the Republic of Nauru and formerly known as Pleasant Island, is an island country in Micronesia in the South Pacific. Its nearest neighbour is Banaba Island in Kiribati, to the east. Nauru is the world's smallest republic, covering just...
  
   (ISO 3166 and FIPS 10-4 country code digram)
• NRA – (i) National Rifle Association
  National Rifle Association
  The National Rifle Association of America is an American non-profit 501 civil rights organization which advocates for the protection of the Second Amendment of the United States Bill of Rights and the promotion of firearm ownership rights as well as marksmanship, firearm safety, and the protection...
  
  
• NRAO – (i) National Radio Astronomy Observatory
  National Radio Astronomy Observatory
  The National Radio Astronomy Observatory is a Federally Funded Research and Development Center of the United States National Science Foundation operated under cooperative agreement by Associated Universities, Inc for the purpose of radio astronomy...
  
  
• NRC – (i) National Research Council
  United States National Research Council
  The National Research Council of the USA is the working arm of the United States National Academies, carrying out most of the studies done in their names.The National Academies include:* National Academy of Sciences...
  
   (U.S.) – Nuclear Regulatory Commission
  Nuclear Regulatory Commission
  The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is an independent agency of the United States government that was established by the Energy Reorganization Act of 1974 from the United States Atomic Energy Commission, and was first opened January 19, 1975...
  
   (U.S.)
• NRDC – (i) (U.S.) Natural Resources Defense Council
  Natural Resources Defense Council
  The Natural Resources Defense Council is a New York City-based, non-profit, non-partisan international environmental advocacy group, with offices in Washington DC, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago, and Beijing...
  
  
• NREL – (i) U.S. National Renewable Energy Laboratory
  National Renewable Energy Laboratory
  The National Renewable Energy Laboratory , located in Golden, Colorado, is the United States' primary laboratory for renewable energy and energy efficiency research and development. The National Renewable Energy Laboratory is a government-owned, contractor-operated facility; it is funded through...
  
  
• NRK – (p) Norsk Rikskringkasting
  Norsk Rikskringkasting
  The Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation , which is usually known as NRK, is the Norwegian government-owned radio and television public broadcasting company, and the largest media organisation in Norway...
  
   (Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation)
• NRO – (i) U.S. National Reconnaissance Office
  National Reconnaissance Office
  The National Reconnaissance Office , located in Chantilly, Virginia, is one of the 16 U.S. intelligence agencies. It designs, builds, and operates the spy satellites of the United States government.-Mission:...
  
  
• NRT – (i) Near Real Time
• NRTA – (i) National Rat Terrier Association – National Retail Tenants Association – National Retired Teachers Association – Northwest Regional Transmission Association
• NRU – (s) Nauru
  Nauru
  Nauru , officially the Republic of Nauru and formerly known as Pleasant Island, is an island country in Micronesia in the South Pacific. Its nearest neighbour is Banaba Island in Kiribati, to the east. Nauru is the world's smallest republic, covering just...
  
   (ISO 3166 trigram)

NS

• ns – (s) Nanosecond
  Nanosecond
  A nanosecond is one billionth of a second . One nanosecond is to one second as one second is to 31.7 years.The word nanosecond is formed by the prefix nano and the unit second. Its symbol is ns....
  
  
• nS – (s) Nanosiemens
• NS – (s) Nova Scotia
  Nova Scotia
  Nova Scotia is one of Canada's three Maritime provinces and is the most populous province in Atlantic Canada. The name of the province is Latin for "New Scotland," but "Nova Scotia" is the recognized, English-language name of the province. The provincial capital is Halifax. Nova Scotia is the...
  
   (postal symbol) – Suriname
  Suriname
  Suriname , officially the Republic of Suriname , is a country in northern South America. It borders French Guiana to the east, Guyana to the west, Brazil to the south, and on the north by the Atlantic Ocean. Suriname was a former colony of the British and of the Dutch, and was previously known as...
  
   (FIPS 10-4 country code)
• NSA – (i) U.S. National Security Agency
  National Security Agency
  The National Security Agency/Central Security Service is a cryptologic intelligence agency of the United States Department of Defense responsible for the collection and analysis of foreign communications and foreign signals intelligence, as well as protecting U.S...
  
   – Naval Support Activity – No Strings Attached
• NSABB – (i) National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity
  National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity
  The National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity is a panel of the United States Department of Health and Human Services. It is tasked with recommending policies on such questions as how to prevent published research in biotechnology from aiding terrorism, without slowing scientific progress...
  
  
• NSAID – (i) Non-Steroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drug
• NSB – (i) Norges Statsbaner
  Norges Statsbaner
  Norges Statsbaner AS, also known as the Norwegian State Railways and NSB, is a company which is responsible for most passenger train operation in Norway...
  
   (Norwegian State Railways)
• NSC – National Security Council
• NSDAP – (i) Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (German: "German National Socialist Workers Party", the formal name of the Nazi Party)
• NSDL – (i) National Science Digital Library (US)
• NSG – (i) National System for Geospatial-Intelligence
• NSN – (i) National Stock Number
• NSNA – (i) National Student Nurses' Association
• NSO – (i) National Standardization Office (ABCA)
• NSS – (i) (U.S.) Naval Simulation System
• NST – (i) (UK) Nimrod Software Team
• NSTAC – (i) National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee
• NSV – (i) Nikitin-Sokolov-Volkov heavy machine gun (Russian НСВ Никитина-Соколова-Волкова) :ru:ПулеметНСВ-12,7 "Утес"
• NSW – (i) New South Wales
  New South Wales
  New South Wales is a state of :Australia, located in the east of the country. It is bordered by Queensland, Victoria and South Australia to the north, south and west respectively. To the east, the state is bordered by the Tasman Sea, which forms part of the Pacific Ocean. New South Wales...
  
   (postal symbol)

NT

• N/T – (Aa) No text
• nT – (s) Nanotesla
• NT – (s) Saudi–Iraqi neutral zone (ISO 3166 digram; obsolete 1993) – Northern Territory
  Northern Territory
  The Northern Territory is a federal territory of Australia, occupying much of the centre of the mainland continent, as well as the central northern regions...
  
   (Australia
  Australia
  Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
  
  ) (postal symbol) – Northwest Territories
  Northwest Territories
  The Northwest Territories is a federal territory of Canada.Located in northern Canada, the territory borders Canada's two other territories, Yukon to the west and Nunavut to the east, and three provinces: British Columbia to the southwest, and Alberta and Saskatchewan to the south...
  
   (Canada
  Canada
  Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
  
  ) (postal symbol) – National Trust (UK) – New Technology (Windows NT
  Windows NT
  Windows NT is a family of operating systems produced by Microsoft, the first version of which was released in July 1993. It was a powerful high-level-language-based, processor-independent, multiprocessing, multiuser operating system with features comparable to Unix. It was intended to complement...
  
  )
• NTC – (i) National Training Center – Negative Temperature Coefficient (thermistor
  Thermistor
  A thermistor is a type of resistor whose resistance varies significantly with temperature, more so than in standard resistors. The word is a portmanteau of thermal and resistor...
  
  )
• NTDS
  Naval Tactical Data System
  Naval Tactical Data System, commonly NTDS, refers to a computerized information processing system developed by the United States Navy in the 1950s and first deployed in the early 1960s for use in combat ships.- Reason for development :...
  
   – (i) Naval Tactical Data System
• NTP – (i) Network Time Protocol
  Network Time Protocol
  The Network Time Protocol is a protocol and software implementation for synchronizing the clocks of computer systems over packet-switched, variable-latency data networks. Originally designed by David L...
  
  
• NTR – (i) Network Time Reference
• NTRA – (i) National Thoroughbred Racing Association
  National Thoroughbred Racing Association
  The National Thoroughbred Racing Association is a broad-based coalition of horse racing interests consisting of leading thoroughbred racetracks, owners, breeders, trainers and affiliated horse racing associations, charged with increasing the popularity of horse racing and improving economic...
  
  
• NTSB – (i) National Transportation Safety Board
• NTSC
  NTSC
  NTSC, named for the National Television System Committee, is the analog television system that is used in most of North America, most of South America , Burma, South Korea, Taiwan, Japan, the Philippines, and some Pacific island nations and territories .Most countries using the NTSC standard, as...
  
   – (i) National Television Standards Committee (colloquially, Never Twice the Same Color)
• NTV – (i) Non-Tactical Vehicle
• NTY – (i) (Internet Abbreviations:) Not Tested Yet; (Alternatively) No Thank You
• NTZ – (s) Iraq-Saudi Arabia Neutral Zone (ISO 3166 trigram; obsolete 1993)

NU

• NU
  • (s) Nicaragua
    Nicaragua
    Nicaragua is the largest country in the Central American American isthmus, bordered by Honduras to the north and Costa Rica to the south. The country is situated between 11 and 14 degrees north of the Equator in the Northern Hemisphere, which places it entirely within the tropics. The Pacific Ocean...
    
     (FIPS 10-4 country code)
  • Niue
    Niue
    Niue , is an island country in the South Pacific Ocean. It is commonly known as the "Rock of Polynesia", and inhabitants of the island call it "the Rock" for short. Niue is northeast of New Zealand in a triangle between Tonga to the southwest, the Samoas to the northwest, and the Cook Islands to...
    
     (ISO 3166 digram)
  • Nunavut
    Nunavut
    Nunavut is the largest and newest federal territory of Canada; it was separated officially from the Northwest Territories on April 1, 1999, via the Nunavut Act and the Nunavut Land Claims Agreement Act, though the actual boundaries had been established in 1993...
    
     (postal symbol)
• NUCC(C) – (a) Nordic University Computer Club (Conference)
• NUFN – (i) No Use For Nickels
• NUI – (a) No user interface ("noo-ey")
• NUL
  • (i) Null character
    Null character
    The null character , abbreviated NUL, is a control character with the value zero.It is present in many character sets, including ISO/IEC 646 , the C0 control code, the Universal Character Set , and EBCDIC...
    
     (ASCII
    ASCII
    The American Standard Code for Information Interchange is a character-encoding scheme based on the ordering of the English alphabet. ASCII codes represent text in computers, communications equipment, and other devices that use text...
    
     code of control character
    Control character
    In computing and telecommunication, a control character or non-printing character is a code point in a character set, that does not in itself represent a written symbol.It is in-band signaling in the context of character encoding....
    
    )
  • National Urban League
    National Urban League
    The National Urban League , formerly known as the National League on Urban Conditions Among Negroes, is a nonpartisan civil rights organization based in New York City that advocates on behalf of African Americans and against racial discrimination in the United States. It is the oldest and largest...
    
    
• NUTS – (a) Nuclear Utilization Target Selection
  Nuclear utilization target selection
  Nuclear utilization target selection is a theory regarding the use of nuclear weapons often contrasted with mutually assured destruction . NUTS theory at its most basic level asserts that it is possible for a limited nuclear exchange to occur and that nuclear weapons are simply one more rung on...
  
  
• NUWC – (i) U.S. Naval Undersea Warfare Center
  Naval Undersea Warfare Center
  The Naval Undersea Warfare Center is the United States Navy's full-spectrum research, development, test and evaluation, engineering and fleet support center for submarines, autonomous underwater systems, and offensive and defensive weapons systems associated with undersea warfare...
  
  

NV

• nv – (s) Navajo language
  Navajo language
  Navajo or Navaho is an Athabaskan language spoken in the southwestern United States. It is geographically and linguistically one of the Southern Athabaskan languages .Navajo has more speakers than any other Native American language north of the...
  
   (ISO 639-1 code)
• nV – (s) Nanovolt
• NV
  • (i) Naamloze vennootschap
    Naamloze Vennootschap
    is the Dutch term for a public limited liability company. The company is owned by shareholders, and the company's shares are not registered to certain owners, so that they may be traded on the public stock market....
    
    (Dutch, "innominate partnership" or "anonymous venture"; i.e. a public limited-liability company)
  • (s) Nevada
    Nevada
    Nevada is a state in the western, mountain west, and southwestern regions of the United States. With an area of and a population of about 2.7 million, it is the 7th-largest and 35th-most populous state. Over two-thirds of Nevada's people live in the Las Vegas metropolitan area, which contains its...
    
     (postal symbol)
• NVEOL – (i) Night Vision and Electro-Optics Laboratory
• NVESD – (i) Night Vision and Electronic Sensors Directorate, Fort Belvoir, Virginia
• NVG – (i) Night Vision Goggles
  Night vision goggles
  A night vision device is an optical instrument that allows images to be produced in levels of light approaching total darkness. They are most often used by the military and law enforcement agencies, but are available to civilian users...
  
  
• NVL
  NVL
  In Oracle/PLSQL, the NVL function lets you substitute a value when a null value is encountered.The syntax for the NVL function is:*NVL string1 is the string to test for a null value. replace_with is the value returned if string1 is null.Both parameters of the function have to be of the same data type...
  
   – (i) Night Vision Laboratory

NW

• nW – (s) Nanowatt
• NW – (s) North-West
• NW – (i) Nuclear Weapon
  Nuclear weapon
  A nuclear weapon is an explosive device that derives its destructive force from nuclear reactions, either fission or a combination of fission and fusion. Both reactions release vast quantities of energy from relatively small amounts of matter. The first fission bomb test released the same amount...
  
  
• NWA – (i) National Wrestling Alliance
  National Wrestling Alliance
  The National Wrestling Alliance is a wrestling promotion company and sanctions various NWA championships in the United States. The NWA has been in operation since 1948...
  
  
• NWF – (i) National Wildlife Federation
  National Wildlife Federation
  The National Wildlife Federation is the United States' largest private, nonprofit conservation education and advocacy organization, with over four million members and supporters, and 48 state and territorial affiliated organizations...
  
  
• NWFZ – (i) Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone
  Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone
  A nuclear-weapons-free zone, or NWFZ is defined by the United Nations as an agreement which a group of states has freely established by treaty or convention, that bans the use, development, or deployment of nuclear weapons in a given area, that has mechanisms of verification and control to enforce...
  
  
• NWHN – (i) U.S. National Women's Health Network
  National Women's Health Network
  The National Women's Health Network is a non-profit women's health advocacy organization located in Washington, D.C.. It was founded in 1975 by Barbara Seaman, Alice Wolfson, Belita Cowan, Mary Howell, M.D., and Phyllis Chesler, Ph.D. The stated mission of the organization is to give women a...
  
  
• nWo
  New World Order (professional wrestling)
  The New World Order was a professional wrestling stable that originally wrestled for World Championship Wrestling . The group later appeared in the World Wrestling Federation after the purchase of WCW by the WWF...
  
   – (i) New World Order
  New World Order (professional wrestling)
  The New World Order was a professional wrestling stable that originally wrestled for World Championship Wrestling . The group later appeared in the World Wrestling Federation after the purchase of WCW by the WWF...
  
   (see article for explanation of idiosyncratic capitalization)
• NWOAHM
  New Wave of American Heavy Metal
  The New Wave of American Heavy Metal is a movement in that originated in the United States during the early to mid 1990s and has expanded most in the recent 2000s. Some of the bands considered part of the movement had formed as early as the late 1980s, but did not become influential or reach...
  
   – (i) New Wave of American Heavy Metal
  New Wave of American Heavy Metal
  The New Wave of American Heavy Metal is a movement in that originated in the United States during the early to mid 1990s and has expanded most in the recent 2000s. Some of the bands considered part of the movement had formed as early as the late 1980s, but did not become influential or reach...
  
  
• NWOBHM
  New Wave of British Heavy Metal
  The New Wave of British Heavy Metal was a heavy metal movement that started in the late 1970s, in Britain, and achieved international attention by the early 1980s. The movement developed as a reaction in part to the decline of early heavy metal bands such as Deep Purple, Led Zeppelin and Black...
  
   – (i) New Wave of British Heavy Metal
  New Wave of British Heavy Metal
  The New Wave of British Heavy Metal was a heavy metal movement that started in the late 1970s, in Britain, and achieved international attention by the early 1980s. The movement developed as a reaction in part to the decline of early heavy metal bands such as Deep Purple, Led Zeppelin and Black...
  
   (sometimes pronounced n.ˈwɒbm as if it were an acronym)
• NWRA – (i) National Wildlife Rehabilitators Association
• NWT – (i) North-West Territories
  Northwest Territories
  The Northwest Territories is a federal territory of Canada.Located in northern Canada, the territory borders Canada's two other territories, Yukon to the west and Nunavut to the east, and three provinces: British Columbia to the southwest, and Alberta and Saskatchewan to the south...
  
  

NY

• ny – (s) Chichewa language
  Chichewa language
  Chewa, also known as Nyanja, is a language of the Bantu language family. The gender prefix chi- is used for languages, so the language is also known as Chichewa and Chinyanja.-Distribution:...
  
   (ISO 639-1 code)
• NY – (s) New York
  New York
  New York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...
  
   (postal symbol)
• nya – (s) Chichewa language
  Chichewa language
  Chewa, also known as Nyanja, is a language of the Bantu language family. The gender prefix chi- is used for languages, so the language is also known as Chichewa and Chinyanja.-Distribution:...
  
   (ISO 639-2 code)
• NYHA – (i) New York Heart Association
• NYO – (i) National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain
• NYRA – (i) National Youth Rights Association
  National Youth Rights Association
  The National Youth Rights Association is the largest youth-led civil rights organization in the United States promoting youth rights, with approximately ten thousand members...
  
   – (a) New York Racing Association
  New York Racing Association
  The New York Racing Association, Inc. is the not-for-profit corporation that operates the three largest thoroughbred horse-racing tracks in the state of New York. It runs Aqueduct Racetrack in South Ozone Park, Queens, Belmont Park in Elmont, Long Island , and Saratoga Race Course in Saratoga...
  
   (horse racing)
• NYSE – (i) New York Stock Exchange
  New York Stock Exchange
  The New York Stock Exchange is a stock exchange located at 11 Wall Street in Lower Manhattan, New York City, USA. It is by far the world's largest stock exchange by market capitalization of its listed companies at 13.39 trillion as of Dec 2010...
  
  
• NYT – (i) The New York Times
  The New York Times
  The New York Times is an American daily newspaper founded and continuously published in New York City since 1851. The New York Times has won 106 Pulitzer Prizes, the most of any news organization...
  
  

NZ

• NZ – (s) New Zealand
  New Zealand
  New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...
  
   (ISO 3166 and FIPS 10-4 country code digram)
• NZC – (i) New Zealand Cricket
  New Zealand Cricket
  New Zealand Cricket, formerly the New Zealand Cricket Board, is the governing body for professional cricket in New Zealand. Cricket is the most popular and highest profile summer sport in New Zealand....
  
  
• NZD – (s) New Zealand dollar
  Dollar
  The dollar is the name of the official currency of many countries, including Australia, Belize, Canada, Ecuador, El Salvador, Hong Kong, New Zealand, Singapore, Taiwan, and the United States.-Etymology:...
  
   (ISO 4217
  ISO 4217
  ISO 4217 is a standard published by the International Standards Organization, which delineates currency designators, country codes , and references to minor units in three tables:* Table A.1 – Current currency & funds code list...
  
   currency code)
• NZL – (s) New Zealand
  New Zealand
  New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...
  
   (ISO 3166 trigram)
• NzL – Noze looan
  Noze looan
  Noze looan is a style of Cornish-Celtic dance, and associated music and events similar to the Breton Fest Noz. Noze Looan is late Cornish for "happy night" ....
  
   (online/event listings)
• NZOSS – (i) New Zealand Open Source Society
  New Zealand Open Source Society
  The New Zealand Open Source Society is an incorporated society supporting the advocacy and promotion of open source software in New Zealand.-Formation:...
  
  
• NZRU – (i) New Zealand Rugby Union