All articles starting with N

Nespamedu

Nespamedu was a southern (Theban) vizier of the late 25th Dynasty of ancient Egypt, known from a granite statue found at Karnak and as the father of the vizier Nespaqashuty.

Nespaqashuty (vizier)

Nespaqashuty, also written Nespakashuty, was a vizier and Overseer of Upper Egypt under Pharaoh Psamtik I, attested in 651 BC and buried in tomb TT 312 at Deir el-Bahri in western Thebes.

Nespaqashuty C

Nespaqashuty C was an ancient Egyptian of the 25th Dynasty, father of the vizier Nespamedu and grandfather of the vizier Nespaqashuty D, who lived in Tanis and was buried at Abydos.

Nespresso: Nestlé single-serve coffee brand founded 1986 by engineer Eric Favre, world's first portioned capsule system with Club, Original 19-bar and Vertuo Centrifusion machines; CHF 6.5 billion 2025 sales.

Nesptah

Nesptah, also rendered Nes-Ptah, was the name of two related Theban officials of the late 25th and early 26th Dynasties, around 650 BC: Montuemhat's father and his eldest son.

Nesquik

Nesquik is Nestlé's milk-flavoring brand, launched in the US in 1948 as Nestlé Quik and renamed Nesquik in Europe in the 1950s; powder, syrup, and ready-to-drink formats, sugar-dominant composition, sold in over 100 countries.

Sep 23, 2026

Neşri

Neşri (نشرى) was an Ottoman historian and poet of the ulema class whose Kitab-i Cihannuma, presented to Bayezid II around 1493, is a fundamental source for early Ottoman history.

Ness Wadia

Ness Wadia is an Indian businessman of the Wadia Group, elder son of Nusli Wadia, who leads Bombay Burmah and National Peroxide and co-owns the Punjab Kings cricket team.

Nessa

Nessa, born Nessa Diab, is an Egyptian American radio and TV host of Hot 97's Nessa On Air in New York, a former MTV Girl Code panelist, and co-founder with Colin Kaepernick of Know Your Rights Camp; distinct from singer Nessa Barrett.

Nessa (ルリナ) (Pokémon)

Nessa (Japanese: ルリナ, Rurina) is the Water-type Gym Leader of Hulbury in Pokémon Sword and Shield, the second gym leader faced, who Dynamaxes Drednaw; also appears in Pokémon Masters EX, Twilight Wings, and Pokémon Adventures.

Nessa Barrett

Nessa Barrett (Janesa Jaida Barrett, born 2002) is an American singer-songwriter from New Jersey who rose to fame on TikTok in 2019, signed with Warner Records, and released the albums young forever, AFTERCARE, and Tough Love.

Nessana

Nessana (Nitzana) is an ancient settlement in the southwestern Negev desert, near the modern Israeli–Egyptian border, known for a cache of about 200 papyri found in 1937.

Nessun dorma

Nessun dorma ('None shall sleep') is the tenor aria sung by Calaf in Act III of Puccini's final opera Turandot (1926), famous for its high B-flat climax and for Pavarotti's 1972 recording, the BBC's 1990 World Cup theme that reached number two in the UK chart.

Nest algebra

A nest algebra is the algebra of bounded operators on a Hilbert space leaving invariant every subspace in a nest, a totally ordered collection of closed subspaces.

Nest architecture and thermoregulation in social wasps

Social wasp nests suspend stacked combs on a pedicel, often with an insulating envelope, and colonies hold nest temperature near 30 °C by metabolic heat, fanning, and evaporative cooling.

Nest Learning Thermostat

The Nest Learning Thermostat is a Wi-Fi smart thermostat, first sold in 2011 by Nest Labs, that programs itself by learning occupants' routines and temperature preferences.

Oct 20, 2026

Nesta Carter

Nesta Carter (born 1985), Jamaican sprinter, 100 m best 9.78, lead-off runner on Jamaica's 36.84 world-record 4x100 m relay; 2008 Beijing relay gold stripped for methylhexaneamine, second 2021 doping ban.

Nesta Cooper

Nesta Cooper (Nesta Marlee Cooper) is a Canadian actress born in 1993 in Mississauga, Ontario, known for Haniwa in Apple TV+'s See, Carly Shannon in Travelers, and Michelle Taylor in Dope Thief.

Oct 21, 2026

Nesta Resort Kobe

Nesta Resort Kobe (ネスタリゾート神戸), Japan's first large-scale nature adventure theme park, in Miki, Hyogo. 2.3 million m², 30+ activities, hotels, onsen, Water Fort pool; opened July 2016.

NestAI

NestAI is a Finnish defense-technology startup founded in 2025 that builds physical AI for unmanned vehicles and command-and-control systems, raising €100 million from Nokia and Tesi in 2025.

Oct 21, 2026

Nestane

Nestane (Νεστάνη) was a fortified town of ancient Arcadia in the Peloponnese, dependent on Mantineia, where Pausanias saw the ruins and the camp of Philip II of Macedon.

Neste

Neste (Neste Oyj) is a Finnish oil refining and renewable fuels company founded in 1948, and the world's leading producer of renewable diesel and sustainable aviation fuel.

Neste Rotterdam refinery

The Neste Rotterdam refinery is a renewable products refinery in the Port of Rotterdam, the Netherlands, producing renewable diesel and sustainable aviation fuel since 2011.

Neste Singapore refinery

The Neste Singapore refinery is a renewable products refinery in Tuas, Singapore, owned by Finland's Neste; opened in 2010, it became the world's biggest renewable diesel refinery after a 2023 expansion.

Nested association mapping

Nested association mapping (NAM) is a quantitative genetics design, introduced for maize in 2008, that crosses many founder lines to one common parent to map genes for complex traits.

Nested case-control study

A nested case-control study is an epidemiological design in which each disease case arising in a cohort is matched with sampled controls from the cohort's remaining risk set.

Nested cross-validation

Nested cross-validation, also called double cross-validation, runs an inner tuning loop within each outer cross-validation fold, avoiding the optimistic bias of scoring a model on data used to tune it.

Nested intervals

Nested intervals are intervals of the real line, each containing the next; the nested interval property says closed, bounded nested intervals share a common point.

Nested logit model

The nested logit model is a discrete choice model grouping alternatives into nests so unobserved utilities may correlate within a group, relaxing the multinomial logit's IIA assumption.