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Naveil Roman Villa

Naveil Roman Villa: a Roman villa reported in the French commune of Naveil near Vendôme (Loir-et-Cher), recorded in Pleiades (140456), Barrington Atlas 14 G1 25, and CAG 41 no. 188; no ancient name recorded.

Navel

Navel (belly button, umbilicus): the fibrous scar left after the umbilical cord detaches, containing obliterated orifices of one vein and two arteries; landmark at T10, prone to hernia, urachal and omphalomesenteric remnant disease.

Navel fetishism

Navel fetishism (alvinophilia, alvinolagnia) is sexual attraction to the navel, a form of abdominal partialism; about 3% of body-part fetish preferences in a large survey, a paraphilia rather than a disorder absent distress.

Navel piercing

Navel (belly button) piercing: jewelry worn through the rim above the navel. One of the most common non-earlobe piercings, slow to heal (about 9-12 months) due to waistband friction, prone to infection, migration, and rejection.

Naver (네이버)

Naver (네이버), also known as Naver.com, is a South Korean internet company founded in 1999 as NHN, operating Korea's leading search portal and the HyperCLOVA Korean-language AI models.

Naver Corporation

Naver Corporation (formerly NHN) is a South Korean internet company founded in 1999, operating the country's leading search portal plus AI, commerce, cloud, and fintech services.

Naver V Live

Naver V Live, also known as V App, was a live video streaming platform launched by Naver in 2015, built around K-pop artists' official channels.

Naveta des Tudons

Naveta des Tudons: Menorca's most famous prehistoric collective tomb, an inverted-boat-shaped cyclopean ossuary in use about 1200–750 BC, holding remains of about 100 people, near Ciutadella.

Navgeet

Navgeet (नवगीत, "new song") is a modern genre of Hindi lyric poetry, arising in the mid-1940s as the metrical song-form of the Nayi Kavita movement.

Navi (fintech company)

Navi, also known as Navi Technologies, is an Indian fintech company in Bengaluru founded in 2018 by Sachin Bansal, offering payments, lending, insurance, and mutual funds.

Navi Mumbai (नवी मुंबई)

Navi Mumbai (नवी मुंबई), or New Bombay, is a planned counter-magnet city across Mumbai Harbour, developed from 1970 by CIDCO over 344 sq km in 14 nodes, with the Navi Mumbai International Airport opening in December 2025.

Navi Mumbai International Airport

Navi Mumbai International Airport, also known as D.B. Patil International Airport, is a greenfield airport at Ulwe, Maharashtra, serving as Mumbai's second international airport, inaugurated in 2025.

Navi Pillay

Navi Pillay, born Navanethem Pillay in 1941, is a South African jurist and UN High Commissioner for Human Rights who won the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize.

Navi Rawat

Navi Rawat (Navlata Rawat), American actress born 1977 in Malibu, California; known for Amita Ramanujan on Numb3rs (2005–2010), Theresa Diaz on The O.C., and the films House of Sand and Fog and Feast.

Navia Robinson

Navia Ziraili Robinson (born 2005, Marietta, Georgia) is an American actress known as Nia Baxter-Carter on Disney's Raven's Home, Rosie on Netflix's Free Rein, and Carrie Kelley/Robin on The CW's Gotham Knights, with voice roles in Marvel Rising and The Rocketeer.

NaviCam

NaviCam is a magnetically controlled capsule endoscopy system developed by Ankon Technologies of China, in which a swallowable camera capsule is steered through the stomach by an external magnetic robot without sedation.

Navicixizumab

Navicixizumab (OMP-305B83) is a bispecific anti-DLL4/anti-VEGF monoclonal antibody developed by OncoMed, licensed to Feng Biosciences, tested in ovarian cancer phase 1-3 trials.

Navicula

Navicula is a genus of boat-shaped biraphid diatoms, single-celled algae with silica cell walls, drastically revised since the late 1970s and used in stream water-quality assessment.

Navid Arabi

Navid Arabi is an Iranian AI engineer and startup co-founder, known for the Gooya Persian speech models and as co-founder of the London fashion-tech startup Luxi.Ai.

Navid Negahban (نوید نگهبان)

Navid Negahban (نوید نگهبان), born 1968 in Mashhad, is an Iranian-American actor known as Abu Nazir in Homeland, the Shadow King in Legion, and the Sultan in Disney's Aladdin, with 160+ credits and Ophir-winning producing work.

Naviduct

A naviduct is a navigable aqueduct with shipping locks built into the waterway itself, so road traffic passes beneath. The only one, at Enkhuizen in the Netherlands, opened in 2003.

Navier–Stokes equations

The Navier–Stokes equations are coupled nonlinear partial differential equations describing how velocity, pressure, and density of a viscous fluid are related, derived in the early 1800s.

Navier–Stokes existence and smoothness

Navier–Stokes existence and smoothness is an open mathematics problem, one of seven Clay Millennium Prize Problems, asking whether 3D viscous fluid equations always admit unique smooth solutions.

Navigable aqueduct

A navigable aqueduct, also called a canal aqueduct, is a bridge that carries a canal with its water and boats over an obstacle, letting vessels cross without locks.

NAVIGATE trial

NAVIGATE (NCT02576431) is Bayer's phase 2 basket trial of larotrectinib in patients 12 and older with advanced NTRK fusion-positive solid tumors; key trial behind Vitrakvi's 2018 tumor-agnostic approval.

Navigation

Navigation is the practice of determining a vessel's position and guiding it safely from one place to another, developed from coastal piloting and celestial navigation to satellite positioning.

Navigation Acts

The Navigation Acts, or Acts of Trade and Navigation, were English and British mercantilist laws, first passed in 1651, restricting colonial trade to English ships until repeal in 1849.

Navigation bronchoscopy

Navigation bronchoscopy is an image-guided bronchoscopic technique combining CT-based airway maps with real-time instrument tracking to reach peripheral lung lesions, with a pooled diagnostic yield of 70.9%.

Navigation canal

Navigation canal: artificial waterway built to carry boats and ships, joining rivers, lakes, or seas. Uses locks, summit-level water supplies, and checks; examples include the Erie, Suez, and Panama canals.

Navigation channel

Navigation channel: a natural or dredged, buoyed lane of water with sufficient depth for vessels, also called a fairway or ship channel; maintained by dredging against shoaling and governed by COLREGs Rule 9 in narrow channels.