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Neckarsulm plant
The Neckarsulm plant is Audi's second German automobile factory, in Neckarsulm, Baden-Württemberg, building the A5, A6, A8, and e-tron GT with about 15,500 employees and hosting major parts of Audi's technical development.
Neckarwestheim nuclear power plant
The Neckarwestheim nuclear power plant (Kernkraftwerk Neckarwestheim) was a German station with two pressurized water reactors near Heilbronn, shut down by 2023 and now being dismantled by EnBW.
Necker cube
Necker cube: an isometric wire-frame cube drawing (Necker, 1832) that is bistable, with perception spontaneously alternating between two 3D interpretations of the unchanged image; a classic tool for studying conscious perception.
Necker Island (British Virgin Islands)
Necker Island: 74-acre private island in the North Sound, British Virgin Islands, owned by Richard Branson since 1979 ($180,000 purchase) and run by Virgin Limited Edition as a buyout-only luxury resort, about $105,000 a night.
Necker Island (Hawaii)
Necker Island (Mokumanamana) is a small basalt island in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands, 155 miles northwest of Nihoa, with 52 pre-contact Hawaiian religious sites, solstice-aligned heiau, named by La Pérouse in 1786.
Necking (engineering)
Necking is a plastic instability in which tensile deformation of a ductile specimen localizes into a small region of reduced cross-section, starting at maximum load and ending in fracture.
Necking down
Necking down is the process of shrinking a cartridge case's neck so it holds a smaller-caliber bullet, done with a resizing die and common in wildcat cartridges.
Necklace
Necklace: ornament worn around the neck as chains or strands of beads, pearls, or stones, often with a pendant; includes chokers, dog collars, torques, and sautoirs; Getty AAT 300046001.
Necklace (combinatorics)
A necklace in combinatorics is an equivalence class of fixed-length strings over a finite alphabet, where two strings count as the same if one is a cyclic rotation of the other.
Necklace splitting problem
The necklace splitting problem asks how to cut a multicolored necklace so several thieves each get an equal share of every color; Alon proved (k − 1) · t cuts always suffice.
Necklacing
Necklacing: extrajudicial killing by forcing a gasoline-filled tire around a victim's neck and igniting it; originated in 1980s apartheid South Africa townships against suspected collaborators, later used against criminals, also documented in Nigeria.
Necktie
The necktie is a long strip of fabric knotted at the collar, descending from the cravat worn by Croatian mercenaries in seventeenth-century France. Jesse Langsdorf's 1922 bias-cut patent fixed its modern construction; it has declined as workwear and revived as fashion.
Neckwear
Neckwear is the class of accessories worn about the neck, including the cravat, ruff, collar, stock, tie, and scarf, with the necktie the best-known form.
Necmeddin Okyay
Necmeddin Okyay, full name Mehmed Necmeddin Okyay, was a Turkish master of calligraphy, ebru, and book arts who invented written and floral marbling, known as Necmeddin ebrusu.
Neco Williams
Neco Shay Williams, Welsh full-back and wing-back; Liverpool academy 2019-2022 (33 apps, Premier League, Club World Cup, League Cup medals), Fulham loan, then Nottingham Forest from July 2022, contract to 2029, Wales international.
Necro (rapper)
Necro (Ron Raphael Braunstein, born 1976, Brooklyn) is an American rapper, producer, and Psycho+Logical Records founder who coined "death rap," fusing death metal with ultraviolent hip hop; brother of Ill Bill, debut I Need Drugs (2000).
Necrobiosis lipoidica
Necrobiosis lipoidica (NLD, necrobiosis lipoidica diabeticorum) is a rare chronic granulomatous skin disease causing yellow-brown atrophic shin plaques, associated with diabetes, ulcerating in up to a third of cases, with no approved treatment.
Necrobiotic xanthogranuloma
Necrobiotic xanthogranuloma (NXG) is a rare, chronic non-Langerhans cell histiocytosis with yellow-orange, often periorbital plaques, strongly associated with paraproteinemia, MGUS, and multiple myeloma; first described 1980.
Necrobutcher
Necrobutcher, born Jørn Stubberud in 1968, is the Norwegian bassist who co-founded Mayhem in 1984 with Euronymous and Manheim; sole surviving original member, left after Dead's 1991 suicide, returned 1995, author of The Death Archives.
Necrogenic protein Nec1
Nec1 (nec1 gene) is a 16-kDa secreted necrogenic virulence protein of plant-pathogenic Streptomyces causing potato common scab; distinct from Nep1-like proteins and from HCMV or PC1 NEC1 namesakes.
Necromancy
Necromancy (Greek nekros + manteia) is divination by consulting the dead, known from Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, Rome, and the Bible (Witch of Endor); in medieval Europe nigromantia came to mean demonic conjuring, and modern fantasy redefined it as corpse reanimation.
Necromantia
Necromantia was a black metal band from Athens, Greece, formed in 1989 by The Magus and Baron Blood, part of the Greek scene's "Unholy Trinity" and active until 2021.
Necromunda
Necromunda is Games Workshop's skirmish wargame of Underhive gang warfare on the hive world Necromunda in the Warhammer 40,000 setting, known for its campaign system, injury and progression rules, and the new Necromunda Skirmish edition with Escher versus Goliath starter gangs.
Necromys
Necromys (synonym Bolomys), bolo mice or akodonts, is a South American sigmodontine rodent genus ranging over 5,400 km from Trinidad and Tobago to central Argentina, with about eight living species including N. lasiurus.
Necronomicon
The Necronomicon (Al Azif) is H.P. Lovecraft's fictional grimoire, attributed to the mad Arab Abdul Alhazred, first appearing in "The Hound" (1922); hoax editions like the 1977 Simon Necronomicon fueled beliefs it is real.
Necrophilia
Necrophilia: sexual attraction to or abuse of corpses; a rare paraphilia classified as an other specified paraphilic disorder in DSM-5, with Rosman and Resnick's 122-case typology and varied laws across jurisdictions.
Necropoli de La Petrina
Necropoli de La Petrina, also called La Petrina necropolis, is the principal Faliscan cemetery of ancient Narce at Mazzano Romano, Italy, used from the 8th to the 3rd centuries B.C., excavated 1890–1894, with finds in Villa Giulia and Philadelphia.
Necropoli del Fusco
Necropoli del Fusco, the main ancient Greek necropolis of Syracuse, Sicily, in Contrada Fusco near Ortigia; used from the late 8th to 3rd century BCE, key for proto-Corinthian pottery chronology and Orsi's excavations.
Necropoli di San Placido
Necropoli di San Placido (San Placido necropolis) is a Roman necropolis in Messina, Sicily, with over 200 tombs from the Augustan period to the 2nd-3rd century AD, excavated by Paolo Orsi in 1914 during construction of the Palazzo della Prefettura.
Necropoli Fondo Scataglini
Necropoli Fondo Scataglini, Tarquinia: Hellenistic-Roman sector (late 4th century BC to 1st century AD) of the Monterozzi necropolis, with 175 rock-cut tombs on a disused Etruscan quarry, excavated by the Lerici Foundation.