English Words: N
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A kind of tuned-radio-frequency (TRF) receiver in which the instability-causing interelectrode capacitance of the triode RF tubes is cancelled out to prevent parasitic oscillations that cause unwanted noise.
Chiefly of a person: having a neutral gender (being neither male nor female), and having or seeking to have no or reduced physical sexual characteristics; contrasts with agender.
Neither eulogistic nor dyslogistic; having a neutral affect, with neither positive nor negative connotations.
A subatomic particle forming part of the nucleus of an atom and having no charge; it is a combination of an up quark and two down quarks.
The process, such as within a collapsing star, in which protons and electrons fuse to form neutrons and release neutrinos.
The past perfect tense of a neuter (intransitive) verb which is formed by a passive participle.
Of a cell: being more easily or more fully stained by neutral dyes than by acidic or alkaline (basic) ones.
Of or relating to a general form of logic in which each proposition has separate values for truth, falsehood, and indeterminacy.
A region bounded by the vertices at Reno, Nevada, US; Las Vegas, Nevada, US; Fresno, California, US; containing part of the Sierra Nevada (a mountain range in the Rocky Mountain Cordillera); the triangle falling mostly in the U.S. state of Nevada; where many plane crashes occur and planes disappear.
An orthorhombic-disphenoidal mineral containing aluminum, copper, fluorine, hydrogen, oxygen, phosphorus, vanadium, and zinc.
A high-elevation orogenic plateau that once existed during the Tertiary period in what is modern North America’s Great Basin, analogous to today’s high-elevation South American altiplano.
A part of the theory of meromorphic functions that describes the asymptotic distribution of solutions to the equation ƒ(z) = a, as a varies.
There is always something interesting happening; there is no chance of boredom.
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The English alphabetical index for the letter N contains 24,391 headwords drawn from our Wiktionary-derived dictionary table. At 50 entries per page the browse splits into 488 pages, and you are currently viewing page 138. Every row above is a dictionary-backed entry with a canonical slug, and each links through to a full definition page with pronunciation, senses, etymology, and related-word data where available.
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