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.net
.net is one of the original generic top-level domains from the 1980s, operated by VeriSign under contract to ICANN, with 12.5 million registrations as of 2025.
.NET
.NET, also known as .NET Core, is Microsoft's cross-platform, open-source developer platform for building web, mobile, desktop, cloud, and game applications, first released in 2002 and hosted on GitHub under the MIT license.
.NET Framework
.NET Framework is a Microsoft software platform for building and running Windows applications and web services, consisting of the common language runtime and a large class library.
.NET Framework version history
The .NET Framework version history tracks Microsoft's Windows-only application platform from version 1.0, released in 2002, through rapid major releases to the frozen, quarterly serviced 4.8.x line.
.nu
.nu is the country code top-level domain for Niue, delegated in 1997 and administered by the Swedish Internet Foundation, popular because "nu" means "now" in Swedish.
'Ndrangheta
The 'Ndrangheta is the Calabrian mafia, one of Italy's three traditional mafias. Family-based 'ndrina clans, Greek-derived contested name, dominant in Europe's cocaine trade, estimated revenue up to US$60 billion.
‘Nemetotacio’
Nemetotacio (Nemetostatio), a Roman fort in Dumnonian Devon named in the Ravenna Cosmography, tentatively identified with North Tawton; Celtic nemeton 'sacred grove' plus Latin statio, a 2.2 ha auxiliary fort.
‘Nido’
'Nido' (Nidum), Roman auxiliary fort and milestone at Neath, Glamorgan, Wales, attested in the Antonine Itinerary; Flavian foundation (c. AD 75–80), stone rebuild c. AD 120–5, scheduled monument GM215.
'night, Mother
'night, Mother is a one-act play by Marsha Norman, first produced in 1983, in which a daughter tells her mother she plans to end her life that night.
'Non ho l'età'
"Non ho l'età" is an Italian pop song that won the 1964 Sanremo Festival and then Eurovision in Copenhagen, giving Italy its first Eurovision victory.
"No Title As of 13 February 2024 28,340 Dead"
"No Title As of 13 February 2024 28,340 Dead" is the eighth studio album by Canadian post-rock collective Godspeed You! Black Emperor, released October 4, 2024 on Constellation Records; its title cites the official Gaza death toll of 28,340 on that date.
[NiFe]-hydrogenase, small subunit
The small subunit of [NiFe]-hydrogenase (also called the beta subunit) is the ~30 kDa electron-transfer component carrying up to three iron-sulfur clusters that relay electrons between the NiFe active site in the large subunit and the physiological partner, and it largely determines oxygen tolerance.
@neurIST study
@neurIST study: data collection program of @neurIST (Integrated Biomedical Informatics for the Management of Cerebral Aneurysms), a 2006-2010 EU FP6 project; 28 institutions, 12 countries, €17.1M; over 1400 aneurysm patients; continued as NCT05526352 registry.
*Navoa
Navoa (Navoae on the Tabula Peutingeriana) is a Roman road station in Raetia/Noric, placed at modern Eggenthal, Bavaria, 23 miles from Rostro Nemaviae and 18 from Camboduno; distinct from Naeva in Baetica and Novae on the Danube.
*Nemetodurum
Nemetodurum is the ancient name of Nanterre, Hauts-de-Seine, France, a Gaulish town of the Parisii (c. 150-30 BC, possibly their capital), from nemeto- 'sanctuary' and -duron 'gate'; first written mention in the 6th century by Gregory of Tours.
*Novivicum
Novivicum, an ancient place of Roman Gaul on Barrington Atlas map 14 F1, identified with Neuvy-le-Roi (Indre-et-Loire), France; cited by Gregory of Tours as Novivicencis ecclesia and proposed as the Merovingian mint Novo vico.
*Nuceriola
Nuceriola, shown as Nueriola on the Tabula Peutingeriana, was a Roman Via Appia road station east of Benevento, identified with Masseria Grasso; occupied 4th century BCE to 6th century CE, distinct from Nuceria Alfaterna and Nuceria Camellaria.
N
N (n) is the fourteenth letter of the Latin alphabet, from Phoenician nun via Greek nu; U+004E/U+006E in Unicode, with derived letters Ń, Ñ, Ņ, Ň, and ŋ.
Ñ
The letter ñ (eñe), U+00F1/U+00D1, a tilde-marked N that is a distinct letter of the Spanish alphabet representing the palatal nasal /ɲ/, also used in Galician, Basque, and some indigenous American languages, originating from a medieval abbreviation of nn.
N (New York City Subway service)
The N, or Sea Beach Express, is a New York City Subway service from Astoria, Queens to Coney Island, Brooklyn, local in Queens and express in Manhattan and Brooklyn.
N (singer)
N (엔), real name Cha Hak-yeon (차학연), born 1990, is a South Korean singer-actor, leader and main dancer of VIXX (debuted 2012 with Super Hero), later an actor under 51k with roles in Bad and Crazy, Castaway Diva, and Midnight Sun.
N (video game)
N is a free 2004 Flash physics platformer by Metanet Software (Raigan Burns, Mare Sheppard), starring a momentum-based ninja; it won IGF and Slamdance audience awards and spawned N+ (2008) and N++ (2015).
N = 32 shell closure
The N = 32 shell closure is a neutron subshell gap in neutron-rich nuclei near calcium, a new magic number absent in stable nuclei, most clearly established in calcium-52.
N = 34 magic number
The N = 34 magic number is a neutron shell closure, absent in stable nuclei, predicted for calcium-54 in 2001 and confirmed experimentally at RIKEN's beam factory in 2013.
N acetyl thiazolidin 4 carboxylic acid
N acetyl thiazolidin 4 carboxylic acid (NATCA), also known as N-acetylthioproline, is a synthetic sulfur-containing amino acid derivative used in agriculture as a plant biostimulant.
N High School (高等学校)
N High School (N高等学校) is a Japanese private correspondence high school opened in 2016 by KADOKAWA DWANGO Educational Institute in Okinawa, forming the N High School Group with S and R High Schools, teaching 36,371 students online as of March 2026.
N Louise Glass
N Louise Glass is an American fungal biologist, Professor Emerita at UC Berkeley, known for her work on nonself recognition and biomass deconstruction in Neurospora crassa.
N phenylphthalamic acid
N phenylphthalamic acid, also called phthalanilic acid, is an aromatic amide-carboxylic acid used as a plant growth regulator on fruit trees and field crops, developed in Hungary in 1982.
N Puzzles
N Puzzles, or sliding number puzzles such as the 8-puzzle and 15-puzzle, are grid puzzles where numbered tiles slide into one empty space until ordered; invented 1874 by Noyes Chapman, half of positions solvable by parity, shortest-solution search NP-complete.
N Seoul Tower
N Seoul Tower (남산서울타워, Namsan Tower), a 236.7 m broadcast and observation tower on Namsan in Seoul, Korea's first general broadcasting tower (1969), opened to the public in 1980, renamed N Seoul Tower in 2004.