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Nei-Teukez Corona

Nei-Teukez Corona is a corona on Venus at 14.20°N, 258.80°E in the Hecate Chasma quadrangle, named for a Micronesian Gilbert Islands mother of gods, IAU-approved 2003, with mapped lava flow units fNT1 and fNT2.

NEID

NEID, named for NN-EXPLORE Exoplanet Investigations with Doppler spectroscopy, is an extreme-precision spectrograph on the WIYN 3.5-meter Telescope at Kitt Peak, Arizona, detecting exoplanets since 2019.

Neidhart von Reuental

Neidhart von Reuental, also der von Riuwental, was a German Minnesänger of the first half of the 13th century, founder of satirical courtly village poetry.

Neidhart-Lieder

The Neidhart-Lieder are the songs of Neidhart, a Minnesänger of the first half of the 13th century, composed as Winterlieder and Sommerlieder set in a comic village-peasant world.

Neidr Facula

Neidr Facula is a 90-km-wide bright pyroclastic deposit (facula) on Mercury near Rachmaninoff crater, named 2018 from Welsh for snake, 300 km west of Nathair Facula, with a compound volcanic vent.

Neighbor (company)

Neighbor is an American peer-to-peer self-storage marketplace based in Lehi, Utah. Co-founded in 2017 by Colton Gardner, Joseph Woodbury, and Preston Alder, it connects renters to unused space in garages and driveways.

Neighbor Discovery Protocol

The Neighbor Discovery Protocol (NDP), also called IPv6 Neighbor Discovery, is an ICMPv6 protocol defined in RFC 4861 that handles IPv6 address resolution, router discovery, and address autoconfiguration.

Neighbor joining

Neighbor joining is a distance-based algorithm that constructs an unrooted phylogenetic tree from a matrix of pairwise evolutionary distances, introduced by Saitou and Nei in 1987.

Neighborhood Associations

Neighborhood associations of Japan, called chōnaikai and burakukai, were local units created nationwide in 1940 to run rationing, savings mobilization, civil defense, and war cooperation, and dissolved in 1947.

Neighborhood Characteristics

Neighborhood characteristics are the demographic, social, built-environment, and economic features of residential areas, also called neighborhood effects or neighborhood disadvantage, studied for their influence on residents' health and well-being.

Neighborhood electric vehicle

A neighborhood electric vehicle, also called a neighborhood electric car, is a small battery-powered vehicle capped at 25 mph, used for short trips in communities and neighborhoods.

Neighborhood of Make-Believe

The Neighborhood of Make-Believe is the puppet kingdom in Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, ruled by King Friday XIII, entered via the Trolley, kept separate from the real neighborhood, with origins in The Children's Corner (1954-1962).

Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre

Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre, founded 1928 by the Lewisohn sisters and Rita Morgenthau, is a two-year NAST-accredited acting conservatory at 340 East 54th Street, New York, and the birthplace of Sanford Meisner's Meisner Technique.

Neighborhood system

A neighborhood system assigns to each point of a topological space the collection of all its neighborhoods; these systems form filters and determine the topology completely.

Neighborhood watch

Neighborhood watch (block watch, community watch) is an organized volunteer program in which residents report suspicious activity to police. NSA launched the US national program in 1972; a 2008 Campbell meta-analysis found a 16-26 percent crime reduction.

Neighborhood Watch (film)

Neighborhood Watch (2025 film), Duncan Skiles crime thriller written by Sean Farley, starring Jack Quaid and Jeffrey Dean Morgan; released April 25, 2025 by RLJE Films, distinct from the Aimee Graham film and the 2012 comedy The Watch.

Neighborhoods (Blink-182 album)

Neighborhoods (Blink-182 album), not the Ernest Hood or Arcade Fire records of similar titles: blink-182's sixth studio album, self-produced, released September 27, 2011, final album with Tom DeLonge before 2015, UK number 6.

Neighborhoods in Atlanta

Neighborhoods in Atlanta: 248 named districts grouped into 25 Neighborhood Planning Units (NPUs), citizen advisory councils created in 1974 by Mayor Maynard Jackson for zoning and planning input.

Neighborhoods in Boston

Neighborhoods in Boston: the officially recognized districts of a city called the "city of neighborhoods," formed largely from annexed towns (Roxbury 1868, Dorchester 1870, Hyde Park 1912). 23 official neighborhoods; Dorchester is the largest.

Neighborhoods in Washington, D.C.

Neighborhoods in Washington, D.C.: over 100 named districts, 127 by one count, shaped by the L'Enfant grid, streetcars, urban renewal, and 70 historic districts, from Georgetown and Capitol Hill to NoMa and Navy Yard.

Neighboring group participation

Neighboring group participation, or anchimeric assistance, is the interaction of a reaction center with a lone pair or bond electrons within the same molecule, accelerating substitution.

Neighboring Sounds

Neighboring Sounds (O som ao redor) is Kleber Mendonça Filho's 2012 debut feature, a 131-minute drama on a middle-class Recife street unsettled by a private security firm; Brazil's 2014 Oscar submission.

Neighbors (1981 film)

Neighbors is a 1981 American black comedy directed by John G. Avildsen, adapted from Thomas Berger's novel and starring John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd, and Cathy Moriarty.

Neighbors (2014 film)

Neighbors, also known as Bad Neighbors, is a 2014 American comedy directed by Nicholas Stoller, in which new parents feud with the fraternity next door, starring Seth Rogen and Zac Efron.

Neighbors (TV series)

Neighbors is HBO's 2026 unscripted docuseries, A24's first non-scripted show, created by Dylan Redford and Harrison Fishman; six episodes of real American neighbor disputes, renewed for season two.

Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising

Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising (Bad Neighbours 2) is a 2016 comedy sequel directed by Nicholas Stoller, starring Seth Rogen, Zac Efron, Rose Byrne, and Chloë Grace Moretz, in which parents battling a new sorority next door recruit their former frat-house enemy.

Neighbourhood

Neighbourhood: a geographically localized urban or rural unit with its own social and functional networks; also called neighborhood. No agreed definition; treated as place, community, or policy unit. Distinguished from community, which extends beyond physical proximity; anchored by Perry's 1929 Neighborhood Unit plan.

Neighbourhood (mathematics)

A neighborhood of a point in a topological space is a set containing the point in its interior, formalizing local closeness without any notion of distance.

Neighbourhood Watch (United Kingdom)

Neighbourhood Watch (UK), also Home Watch, is a volunteer-led community crime prevention movement begun in Mollington, Cheshire, in 1982; 1.4 million households take part, with evidence of 16-26% crime reduction.

Neighbouring group participation

Neighbouring group participation (NGP) is the interaction of a reaction center with a lone pair or bond electrons within the same molecule, coined by Winstein in 1942.