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Nambung National Park
Nambung National Park, Western Australia: a 19,268-hectare park about 200 km north of Perth, home of the Pinnacles Desert limestone pillars, Lake Thetis stromatolites, and Yued Traditional Owner country.
Namburbi
A namburbi is an Akkadian apotropaic ritual text of the first millennium BC, performed by an exorcist to avert the evil foretold by an omen, with over 140 tablets known.
Namche Bazaar
Namche Bazaar (Nauje), a Sherpa trading town at 3,440 m in Khumbu, Nepal, gateway to Everest and Sagarmatha National Park; historic Tibet trade hub, Saturday market, acclimatization stop, seat of Khumbu Pasang Lhamu Rural Municipality.
Namco (ナムコ)
Namco (ナムコ), founded 1955 as Nakamura Manufacturing by Masaya Nakamura, was a Japanese arcade and video game company behind Pac-Man, Galaga, Xevious, Ridge Racer, and Tekken; it merged with Bandai in 2005 to form Bandai Namco.
Namco Museum (ナムコミュージアム)
Namco Museum (ナムコミュージアム) is Namco and Bandai Namco's classic arcade compilation franchise, 1995 to 2020, distinguished by its polygonal virtual museum presentation; notable entries include the six PlayStation volumes and the best-selling 2001 GBA release.
NAMD
NAMD (Nanoscale Molecular Dynamics) is a parallel, object-oriented molecular dynamics code for simulating large biomolecular systems, developed at the University of Illinois and distributed free of charge with source code.
Namdeo Dhasal
Namdeo Dhasal (नामदेव ढसाळ), 1949 to 2014, was a Marathi poet and Dalit activist from Maharashtra, India, whose 1972 collection Golpitha broke with Marathi poetic conventions.
Namdev (नामदेव)
Namdev (नामदेव), also rendered Namdeo or Sant Namdev, was a Marathi-speaking sant of the late 1200s and 1300s, remembered as a low-caste tailor whose devotional songs are central to Hindu bhakti and Sikhism.
Namdevachi Gatha
Namdevachi Gatha (नामदेव गाथा), also called the Namdev Gatha, is the collected Marathi devotional verse of the Varkari sant Namdev of Maharashtra, a foundational text of Marathi sant literature.
Namdhari
The Namdharis (ਨਾਮਧਾਰੀ), also called Kukas, are a Sikh sect founded by Baba Balak Singh in the early nineteenth century, rejecting British rule in Punjab.
Namdhari sect
The Namdhari sect (कूका), also called the Kuka movement, is a reformist Sikh sect founded in the Punjab by Baba Balak Singh, who died in 1862.
Namdi Obiazor
Namdi Obiazor is an American football linebacker for the New England Patriots, drafted in the sixth round of the 2026 NFL Draft after playing college football at TCU.
Namdrik Atoll
Namdrik Atoll (Namdik, Namorik) is a two-islet coral atoll in the Ralik Chain, Marshall Islands, with an enclosed lagoon lacking navigable passes, a 2012 Ramsar designation, black-lip pearl farming, and a noted community-based adaptation program.
Name
Name (proper name, proper noun): a word identifying one individual person, place, or thing, studied by onomastics. Covers anthroponymy, toponymy, etymological opacity, and names as historical linguistic evidence.
Name change
Name change: replacing a person's or entity's name, informally or through legal procedure. Contrasts common law freedom (UK deed poll) with civil law restrictions (Germany), historical origins, and gendered deed poll trends.
Name day
Name day: a tradition, mainly in Catholic and Orthodox Europe and Latin America, of celebrating the calendar date attached to one's given name, usually a saint's feast day; distinct from a birthday, with country-specific calendars such as Finland's four official lists.
Name days in Greece
A name day in Greece (onomastiki giorti) is the feast day of the saint a person is named after, celebrated in preference to the birthday.
Name days in Hungary
Name days in Hungary, called névnap, are fixed dates when bearers of a given name are greeted with 'Boldog névnapot', a custom recorded since 1542.
Name days in Poland
Name days (imieniny) in Poland: the calendar day of a name's patron saint, celebrated annually instead of or alongside birthdays, with multiple dates per name and the first date after one's birthday as the traditional rule.
Name Festival
The Name Festival (Nord Art Musique Electronique) is an electronic-music festival in the Lille region of northern France, created in 2005 by Art Point M.
Name mangling
Name mangling, also called name decoration, is a compiler technique that encodes a function's name, parameter types, and class or namespace scope into the symbol the linker matches.
Name of Canada
Name of Canada: from the Huron-Iroquois word kanata (village), recorded by Jacques Cartier at Stadacona in 1535; official from 1791, and the Dominion's name under the Constitution Act, 1867.
Name of Greece
Name of Greece: Greeks call their country Hellas (Ellada) and themselves Hellenes, while most of the world uses "Greece" from Latin Graecia, derived from the Graikoi tribe; eastern languages use Ionian-based names like Yauna and Yavana.
Name of Iran
Name of Iran: native name Iran (Ērān, land of the Aryans/Iranians) versus the Greek-derived exonym Persia; Darius's ariya inscriptions, Sasanian Ērān, and Reza Shah's 1935 renaming.
Name of the Czech Republic
Name of the Czech Republic: formal political name "the Czech Republic" (Česká republika) and official short geographical name Czechia (Česko), standardized 1993 and entered in UN databases after government Resolution No. 403 of 2 May 2016.
Name of the Goths
The name of the Goths: the ethnonym of a Germanic people, self-designation gutþiuda (Gutans/Gutōs), recorded by classical writers as Gutones, Gothones, Gothi, and Γότθοι, and by Jordanes as Getae in the Getica; etymology unknown, later giving Gothic architecture, fiction, and the goth subculture their name.
Name of Turkey
Name of Turkey: the English exonym Turkey versus Türkiye (Türkiye Cumhuriyeti), official Turkish name since 1923; the UN, NATO, and US State Department adopted Türkiye in 2022-2023 after Ankara's request, though AP and UK usage retain Turkey.
Name of Ukraine
Name of Ukraine (Україна, Ukraina): official country name and toponym first recorded in the 1187 Kyiv Chronicle. Originally a borderland term, it became a political name of the Cossack Hetmanate, displaced Rus' and Little Russia in the 19th century, and was formally adopted on 24 August 1991.
Name server
A name server, also called a domain name server, is a server in the Domain Name System that holds domain data and answers queries, acting either authoritatively for specific zones or recursively for clients.
Name suffix
Name suffix: elements added after a person's name, from generational suffixes like Jr. to patronymic surname endings like -son, -sen, -ez, -ski, and -ov, which mark descent and regional naming systems.