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Navka Planitia
Navka Planitia is a 2,100 km-wide volcanic lowland plain in the southern hemisphere of Venus, named in 1982 for an East-Slavic mermaid, site of the Venera 13 and 14 landings and home to the Laufey Regio rise.
Navlab
Navlab (Navigation Laboratory) is a series of eleven experimental autonomous vehicles built at Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute since 1986, ranging from vans and HMMWVs to transit buses and a Jeep Wrangler.
Navlekhan Puraskar
Navlekhan Puraskar (नवलेखन पुरस्कार, "new writing award") is an annual literary prize given by the Bharatiya Jnanpith to young Hindi authors, below forty, for their first ever creations.
Navneet Arora
Navneet Arora is a quantitative financier who heads Global Quantitative Strategies at Citadel, which he joined in 2013 and has led since 2019, also serving on its Portfolio Committee.
Navneet Kaur Dhillon
Navneet Kaur Dhillon (born 1992, Ambala, Haryana) is an Indian actress and model, Femina Miss India World 2013 and Miss World 2013 Top 20 finalist who won the Miss Multimedia award; debuted in films with Loveshhuda and Ambarsariya in 2016.
Navneet Kaur Rana
Navneet Kaur Rana, also Navneet Ravi Rana, is an Indian politician and former Telugu-cinema actress. Independent MP from Amravati (SC) in 2019, later BJP; lost the 2024 election to Congress's Balwant Wankhade by 19,731 votes.
Navodaya
Navodaya (Kannada: ನವೋದಯ, "new dawn") was the first phase of modern Kannada literature, generally dated 1900 to the 1940s, beginning with B. M. Srikantaiah's English Geetagalu of 1921.
Navoi power station
Navoi power station (Navoi TPP) is a gas-fired thermal power plant near Navoi, Uzbekistan, built from 1960 to 1981 for the Navoi Mining and Metallurgical Combine.
Navoiy Region
Navoiy Region (Navoiy viloyati) is a region of central Uzbekistan, second-largest by area (110,800 km²), mostly Kyzylkum desert, capital Navoiy city, formed 1982, restored 1992, centered on gold and uranium mining.
Navolga Corona
Navolga Corona is a 170-km-diameter corona on Venus at 48.6°S, 296.5°E, IAU-named in 1997 after the Ganda (Uganda) goddess of childbirth; one of 740 known Venusian coronae, mapped in quadrangle v53.
NaVorro Bowman
NaVorro Bowman is a former NFL linebacker who spent most of eight seasons as an All-Pro inside linebacker for the San Francisco 49ers, retiring in 2019.
Navotas, National Capital Region
Navotas City, a highly urbanized city in Metro Manila's National Capital Region, Philippines; the Fishing Capital of the Philippines, home to the 49-hectare Navotas Fish Port Complex supplying over 70% of Metro Manila's fish; 18 barangays, 252,878 residents (2024).
Navra Maza Navsacha (नवरा माझा नवसाचा)
Navra Maza Navsacha (नवरा माझा नवसाचा) is a 2004 Marathi comedy road film directed and produced by Sachin Pilgaonkar, about a couple traveling from Mumbai to Ganpatipule to fulfill a vow; its sequel released in 2024.
Navra Maza Navsacha 2 (नवरा माझा नवसाचा 2)
Navra Maza Navsacha 2 (नवरा माझा नवसाचा 2), 2024 Marathi comedy sequel to Navra Maza Navsacha, directed by Sachin Pilgaonkar; released 20 September 2024, a Konkan railway vow-fulfillment journey to Ganpatipule starring Pilgaonkar, Supriya Pilgaonkar, Swapnil Joshi, and Ashok Saraf.
Navsari
Navsari is a city and district headquarters in southern Gujarat, India, a historic center of Parsi Zoroastrianism: 1142 fire temple, Meherjirana Library (1872), Desai Atash Behram, Jamsetji Tata's birthplace.
Navtej Singh Johar v. Union of India
Navtej Singh Johar v. Union of India (2018): Supreme Court of India five-judge bench decision that read down Section 377 IPC, decriminalizing consensual same-sex relations among adults and overruling Suresh Koushal (2013).
Navtemadlin
Navtemadlin, formerly AMG-232 and KRT-232, is an investigational oral MDM2 inhibitor that restores p53 activity in cancer cells, developed by Amgen and now held by Kartos Therapeutics.
Navua Valles
Navua Valles: IAU-named (2015, after a Fijian river) system of discontinuous 1–2 km wide fluvial channels on the northeastern inner rim of Mars' Hellas Basin, north of Dao Vallis, with paleo-discharges of 100 to 1.5 million m³/s.
NavVis
NavVis is a Munich-based indoor spatial intelligence company founded in 2013 as a spin-off from the Technical University of Munich, building mobile laser scanners and the IVION cloud platform.
Navvis & Company, LLC
Navvis & Company, LLC is a St. Louis, Missouri-based value-based care enablement company that partners with health systems, physician enterprises, and health plans nationwide.
Navy
Navy: a nation's maritime armed force for sea control, power projection, and maritime security. Covers US Navy force structure (296 battle force ships), China's 234-warship fleet, shipbuilding and maintenance challenges, and allied navies.
Navy Aerosol Analysis and Prediction System
The Navy Aerosol Analysis and Prediction System (NAAPS) is a global aerosol forecast model developed by the US Naval Research Laboratory, predicting dust, smoke, and sea salt.
Navy and Marine Corps Medal
Navy and Marine Corps Medal: Department of the Navy decoration for heroism not involving conflict with an enemy, under 10 USC 8296; ninth in Navy personal decoration precedence, one award maximum, three-year recommendation limit.
Navy bean
Navy bean, also called pea bean or Yankee navy bean, a small white-seeded market class of Phaseolus vulgaris; Mesoamerican race, named in the War of 1812 era, grown around the Great Lakes, 263 million pounds produced in the U.S. in 2024.
Navy blue
Navy blue is a very dark blue named for the dark blue officer uniforms the British Royal Navy introduced in April 1748, based on indigo-dyed fashionable dress; standard digital value #000080, distinct from midnight blue (#191970).
Navy Cross
The Navy Cross is the second-highest decoration for valor awarded to US Navy and Marine personnel, for extraordinary heroism just short of the Medal of Honor.
Navy Distinguished Service Medal
Navy Distinguished Service Medal: U.S. Navy and Marine Corps decoration created by Congress in February 1919 for exceptionally meritorious service in a duty of great responsibility; originally ranked second behind the Medal of Honor, ahead of the Navy Cross.
Navy Federal Credit Union
Navy Federal Credit Union is a member-owned, not-for-profit credit union in Vienna, Virginia, serving the US military community. Founded in 1933, it is the world's largest.
Navy General Staff
The Navy General Staff (軍令部) was the Imperial Japanese Navy's organ of military command, established in 1893 and independent of the Navy Ministry, until its abolition in 1945.
Navy Global Environmental Model
The Navy Global Environmental Model (NAVGEM) is the United States Navy's global numerical weather prediction model, replacing NOGAPS as the Navy's prime forecast model in February 2013.