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Nautical chart
A nautical chart, also called a marine or navigation chart, is an official government-issued map for marine navigation, showing depths, hazards, and aids to seafarers.
Nautical mile
The nautical mile, historically called the admiralty mile, is a unit of length used in sea and air navigation, defined as exactly 1,852 meters and standardized in 1929; its speed companion is the knot.
Nautilida
Nautilida is an order of coiled nautiloid cephalopods including the living chambered nautiluses and their fossil relatives, which range from the early Devonian to the present day.
Nautiloid
Nautiloids, a group within Nautiloidea, are characterized by an external, chambered shell divided by septa and a siphuncle, appearing in the Upper Cambrian.
Nautiloid fossil record by region
The regional distribution of nautiloid and other non-ammonoid fossil cephalopods, surveyed continent by continent, explaining why Ordovician records cluster in the tropics of the ancient Southern Hemisphere.
Nautilus
Nautilus, the chambered or pearly nautilus (Nautilus pompilius), is a shelled cephalopod of the deep Indo-Pacific that controls buoyancy with its siphuncle, swims by jet propulsion, and is threatened by the international shell trade (CITES Appendix II, 2017).
Nautilus Biotechnology
Nautilus Biotechnology is a development-stage life sciences company building a single-molecule platform for quantifying the human proteome, founded by Sujal Patel and Parag Mallick and traded on Nasdaq as NAUT.
Nautilus Gas Pipeline
The Nautilus Gas Pipeline, often called the Nautilus Pipeline, is a FERC-regulated offshore natural gas pipeline in the Gulf of Mexico serving Louisiana, in service since 1997.
Nautilus Rupes
Nautilus Rupes is a 348-km-long lobate scarp (rupes) on Mercury in the Debussy quadrangle H-14, centered at 28.23S, 293.33W, IAU-approved June 3, 2013, and named for the E/V Nautilus research vessel.
Nautor's Swan
Nautor's Swan is a Finnish sailing yacht builder founded in 1966 by Pekka Koskenkylä in Pietarsaari, Finland, producing Swan yachts from one-design racers to maxis over 30 meters.
Nauvoo Legion
Nauvoo Legion: Mormon militia chartered in Nauvoo, Illinois, 1840-1841 under Joseph Smith as lieutenant general, revived in Utah 1849-1852 as the territorial militia, disbanded 1887 by the Edmunds-Tucker Act.
Nauvoo, Illinois
Nauvoo, Illinois: Mississippi River city in Hancock County, LDS Church headquarters 1839-1846, once Illinois' largest city, site of Joseph Smith's 1844 murder, the 1846 Mormon exodus, and a National Historic Landmark district.
Nav (rapper)
NAV (Navraj Singh Goraya) is a Punjabi-Canadian rapper and producer from Toronto's Rexdale, known for "Beibs in the Trap," the Weeknd's XO label, and the Billboard 200 No. 1 album Bad Habits (2019).
NAV CANADA
NAV CANADA is the private, not-for-profit corporation providing Canada's air traffic control, flight information, and aviation weather services across 18 million square kilometers of airspace.
Nav2
Nav2 (Navigation2) is the open-source navigation stack for ROS 2, proposed in a 2020 paper as successor to the ROS 1 navigation stack, that lets mobile robots autonomously reach goals while avoiding obstacles.
Nava Mau
Nava Mau is a Mexican-born American transgender actress and filmmaker who plays Teri in Netflix's Baby Reindeer and Ana in HBO Max's Genera+ion; her 2024 Emmy nomination made her the first trans woman recognized in that supporting actress category.
Nava Ventures
Nava Ventures is a San Francisco-based early-stage venture capital firm founded in 2021 by Freddie Martignetti and Cory Rellas, investing in startups from pre-seed through Series A.
Navab Nassirshalal
Navab Nassirshalal (نواب نصیرشلال), born 1989 in Ahvaz, is an Iranian weightlifter, 105 kg, who won London 2012 silver (411 kg total) and was upgraded to Olympic gold in 2020 after Torokhtiy's doping disqualification; later Iran national head coach.
Navacaprant
Navacaprant (NMRA-140, formerly BTRX-335140) is an oral, highly selective kappa opioid receptor antagonist developed by Neumora as an MDD monotherapy; its Phase 3 KOASTAL program failed and development was discontinued in 2026.
NAVAIR Spike
NAVAIR Spike, later renamed the Forward Firing Miniature Munition (F2M2), is a small, low-cost, fire-and-forget precision-guided missile developed by the U.S. Navy's Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division.
Navajivan
Navajivan (નવજીવન, "New Life") was a Gujarati-language weekly newspaper published from Ahmedabad under Mahatma Gandhi's editorship from 1919, serving as the Gujarati counterpart of his English weekly Young India.
Navajo
Navajo (Diné, Diné Bizaad) — the largest federally recognized Native American tribe and reservation in the U.S., 27,425 sq mi across Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah; 2020 census 423,412 claiming Navajo ancestry; Long Walk 1864, 1868 treaty, 110-chapter three-branch government.
Navajo chantway
A Navajo chantway is a multi-day healing or blessing ceremony of Diné (Navajo) religion, led by a hataalii, that uses songs, prayers, sandpaintings, and ritual to restore hozho, or harmony.
Navajo Dam
Navajo Dam is a Bureau of Reclamation earthfill dam on the San Juan River in northeastern New Mexico, built between 1958 and 1963 to impound Navajo Reservoir.
Navajo Generating Station
The Navajo Generating Station was a 2,250-megawatt coal-fired power plant near Page, Arizona, which operated from the early 1970s until it shut down in late 2019.
Navajo Hero Twins
The Navajo Hero Twins, Monster Slayer and Born for Water, are twin warrior brothers of Diné oral tradition who slew the monsters plaguing the earth.
Navajo language
Navajo (Diné bizaad, ISO nav) is an Apachean Athabaskan language of Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah; the most spoken Native American language in the US, official language of the Navajo Nation since December 2024, known for its tone, nasal vowels, complex polysynthetic verbs, and WWII Code Talker use.
Navajo Nation
The Navajo Nation (Diné) is a tribal sovereign in the southwestern United States whose 27,425-square-mile land base in Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah is the largest in the country.
Navajo neurohepatopathy
Navajo neurohepatopathy (NNH, MTDPS6), an autosomal recessive MPV17-related mitochondrial DNA depletion syndrome of Navajo children, caused by the homozygous R50Q founder mutation, incidence 1 in 1,600 live births in the western Navajo Reservation.
Navajo Refinery
The Navajo Refinery is a petroleum refinery in Artesia, New Mexico, built in 1925 and owned by HF Sinclair, which processes Permian Basin crude for southwestern markets.