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NEC SX series
The NEC SX series is a family of vector supercomputers developed by NEC since 1983, including the Earth Simulator, the world's fastest supercomputer from 2002.
Necar Zadegan
Necar Zadegan, Iranian-American actress and producer born 1982 in Heidelberg, Germany; known for Hannah Khoury in NCIS: New Orleans, Delia Banai in Girlfriends' Guide to Divorce, Evelyn Foley in Mayor of Kingstown, and Nikki Reynard in CBS's CIA.
Necati
Necati (نجاتى), real name Isa, was an Ottoman poet who died in Istanbul in 1509, remembered for pure, un-Iranized Turkish idiom in Divan poetry under Mehmed II and Bayezid II.
Necati Arabaci
Necati Arabaci (Coşkun Necati Arabacı, "Neco", "Cehennem Necati", "Godfather of Cologne"), born 1972 in Cologne, is a Turkish-German Hells Angels figure convicted in Germany in 2004, deported to Turkey in 2007, and detained in Izmir since October 2025 facing a 35-year sentence request.
Necati Cumalı
Necati Cumalı (1921–2001) was a Turkish poet, novelist, playwright, and lawyer, best known for his tobacco-growing novels of the Aegean, beginning with Tütün Zamanı (1959).
Necator americanus
Necator americanus, the New World hookworm, is a blood-feeding intestinal nematode infecting humans via skin-penetrating larvae; the predominant human hookworm worldwide, distinguished from Ancylostoma duodenale by cutting plates, smaller size, and 10,000 eggs per day.
Necatoriasis
Necatoriasis, or uncinariasis, is human hookworm infection caused by Necator americanus, transmitted by skin-penetrating larvae from contaminated soil, causing iron-deficiency anemia, treated with albendazole or mebendazole.
Necaxa (TV series)
Necaxa is a 2025 FX and Disney+ Latin America bilingual docuseries, a Welcome to Wrexham spinoff, following Eva Longoria, Rob Mac, and Ryan Reynolds as investors reviving Mexico's Club Necaxa in Aguascalientes; premiered August 7, 2025, 10 episodes.
Necco Wafers
Necco Wafers are an American candy of small pressed-sugar disks in eight flavors, first made in 1847 by Oliver Chase and now produced by Spangler Candy.
Necessaries doctrine
The necessaries doctrine is a common-law rule holding one spouse responsible for debts the other incurred for essential goods and services, now used almost exclusively for unpaid medical bills.
Necessary and Proper Clause
Necessary and Proper Clause (Elastic Clause, Sweeping Clause), Article I, Section 8, Clause 18 of the U.S. Constitution, letting Congress pass laws to execute federal powers; source of implied powers, defined by McCulloch v. Maryland (1819) and limited by Printz (1997).
Necessary condition analysis
Necessary condition analysis (NCA) is a statistical method that identifies conditions that must be present for an outcome to occur and estimates how strongly each constrains it.
Necessary Roughness (film)
Necessary Roughness is a 1991 American sports comedy about college football, directed by Stan Dragoti, following the Texas State Armadillos as ordinary students rebuild a banned team.
Necessity (tort)
Necessity (tort) is a common law defense to trespass, split into private necessity, a qualified privilege requiring compensation for actual damages (Vincent v Lake Erie), and public necessity, a complete defense protecting the community.
Necessity and proportionality (international law)
Necessity and proportionality are twin requirements of customary international law limiting a state's use of force in self-defense, applied alongside Article 51 of the UN Charter.
Necessity and sufficiency
Necessity and sufficiency, also called necessary and sufficient conditions, are concepts in logic and mathematics: a sufficient condition guarantees a statement, and a necessary condition must hold for it.
Necessity is the mother of invention
"Necessity is the mother of invention" is an anonymous English proverb (Mater artium necessitas) meaning pressing need drives ingenuity, first printed in full in Richard Franck's 1658 Northern Memoirs and commonly misattributed to Plato's Republic.
Nechaev trial
The Nechaev trial (Дело Нечаева) was the 1871 prosecution of 77 members of Narodnaya rasprava in St Petersburg, the first public political trial in Russia.
Nechemia (Chemi) J. Peres (נחמיה (חמי) פרס)
Chemi Peres, also known as Nechemia (Chemi) J. Peres, is an Israeli venture capitalist who co-founded Pitango Venture Capital in 1996 and chairs the Peres Center for Peace and Innovation.
Neches River Terminal
The Neches River Terminal is an NGL export terminal on the Neches River in Orange County, Texas, owned by Enterprise Products Partners, which began ethane exports in July 2025.
Necho I
Necho I, also written Nekau I, ruled Sais in the Nile Delta from 672 to 664 BC as an Assyrian vassal and founded Egypt's 26th dynasty.
Necho II
Necho II, also known as Nekau II or Wehemibre, was a pharaoh of Egypt's Twenty-sixth Dynasty who reigned from 610 to 595 BC, fought Josiah at Megiddo, and was defeated by Nebuchadnezzar at Carchemish.
Necho II's circumnavigation of Africa
Necho II's circumnavigation of Africa was a three-year Phoenician voyage around Africa ordered by the Egyptian pharaoh Necho II (r. 610–595 BCE), known only from Herodotus and disputed by scholars.
Necip Fazıl Kısakürek
Necip Fazıl Kısakürek (1904–1983) was a Turkish poet, playwright, and ideological writer whose Kaldırımlar shaped Republican-era literature and whose magazine Büyük Doğu led an Islamic movement.
Necitumumab
Necitumumab (Portrazza, IMC-11F8), a fully human IgG1 anti-EGFR monoclonal antibody; FDA-approved 2015 with gemcitabine-cisplatin for first-line squamous NSCLC, adding 1.6 months median survival; EU authorization lapsed 2021.
Neck
The neck (cervical spine): seven vertebrae C1–C7, atlas and axis, eight cervical nerves, discs and facet joints, supporting the head, enabling motion, and protecting the spinal cord.
Neck Deep
Neck Deep are a Welsh pop-punk band from Wrexham, formed in 2012 by Ben Barlow and Lloyd Roberts. Hopeless Records act behind Wishful Thinking, Life's Not Out to Get You (UK No. 8), The Peace and the Panic, All Distortions Are Intentional, and the self-titled 2024 album.
Neck pain
Neck pain (cervicalgia): pain between the skull base, first thoracic vertebra, and trapezius insertions. Affects about 203 million people globally (2020); usually caused by posture, sleeping position, pinched nerve, or whiplash, and mostly improves with self-care in 2–3 weeks.
Neck ring
Neck ring: rigid band worn around the neck, best known as the Celtic and Iron Age torc; also Kayan brass coils up to 3 kg, Miao silver rings, and Viking twisted rings.
Neckarau
Neckarau, a district of Mannheim, Germany, first documented 871 as Villa Naucravia; Neolithic settlement, a late Roman burgus bridgehead for Altrip, Kurpfalz village, incorporated into Mannheim 1899, about 35,000 residents.