All articles starting with N

Normet Charmec

Normet Charmec is a range of purpose-built underground explosives charging vehicles made by the Finnish manufacturer Normet, carrying bulk emulsion and ANFO to drilled boreholes.

Normie is English slang, dated to the 1950s, for a normal person with mainstream tastes; used as a mild insult, ironically, and as an in-group marker on 4chan, in incel and alt-right spaces, and in disability and recovery communities.

Normocytic anemia

Normocytic anemia: anemia with normal red cell size (MCV 80-100 fL), also called normochromic normocytic anemia; most often from anemia of chronic disease, renal failure, endocrine or marrow failure, or acute blood loss.

Sep 29, 2026

Normothermic regional perfusion

Normothermic regional perfusion (NRP) is a procurement technique in donation after circulatory death that restores oxygenated circulation to a deceased donor's abdominal organs, and sometimes the heart, using ECMO.

Norn language

Norn, an extinct North Germanic language descended from Old West Norse, was spoken in Orkney, Shetland and Caithness from Viking settlement until around 1800; its main texts are the Hildina ballad and Lord's Prayers, documented by Jakob Jakobsen.

Norn9

Norn9 (Norn9: Var Commons) is an Idea Factory/Otomate otome visual novel series set on a floating airship in Taisho-era Japan, with three heroines, nine romance routes, a 2015 Vita English release, a 2023 Switch port, and the Last Era fan disc.

Norna Tesserae

Norna Tesserae is a 700-km-wide tessera, heavily deformed terrain, on Venus at 50°S, 263°E in southeast Helen Planitia, named for the Norse fate goddesses (Norns) and IAU-approved in 1997.

Norne Oil and Gas Field

Norne is an oil and gas field in the Norwegian Sea off Nordland, Norway, discovered in 1992 and producing since 1997 through subsea wells tied to an FPSO vessel.

Norne oil field

Norne is an oil and gas field in the Norwegian Sea, discovered in 1992 and produced since November 1997 through subsea wells tied to an FPSO vessel.

Nornickel

Nornickel is a Russian metals and mining company in Moscow that produces nickel, copper, cobalt, and platinum group metals, including the most palladium in the world.

Nornorm

Nornorm is a Copenhagen startup founded in 2020 with Inter IKEA Development that furnishes office space to businesses on a circular furniture subscription, raising €110 million in 2022.

Norns

The Norns (Old Norse Nornir) are the fate-determining female beings of Norse mythology; the three named Urðr, Verðandi, and Skuld dwell by Urðarbrunnr under Yggdrasil, water the tree daily, and carve fates, while many lesser norns attend every birth.

Noro-Moseley Partners

Noro-Moseley Partners is an Atlanta, Georgia venture capital firm founded in 1983 that has invested about $800 million in 200 information technology and healthcare companies, primarily outside the West Coast.

Oct 22, 2026

Norodom

Norodom, personal name Ang Voddey, was King of Cambodia from 1860 until his death in 1904, the monarch under whom Cambodia became a French protectorate by treaty in 1863.

Oct 22, 2026

Norodom Ranariddh

Norodom Ranariddh (1944-2021), Cambodian prince, son of King Sihanouk, FUNCINPEC leader and First Prime Minister 1993-1997; ousted in Hun Sen's July 1997 coup, later National Assembly president 1998-2006 and FUNCINPEC president again from 2015.

Norodom Sihamoni (នរោត្តម សីហមុនី)

Norodom Sihamoni (នរោត្តម សីហមុនី), King of Cambodia since October 2004, eldest son of Norodom Sihanouk; former ballet dancer and UNESCO ambassador; ceremonial constitutional monarch treated for prostate cancer in Beijing in 2026.

Norodom Sihanouk (នរោត្តម សីហនុ)

Norodom Sihanouk (នរោត្តម សីហនុ), Cambodian king 1941–1955 and 1993–2004, won independence from France in 1953, ruled through the Sangkum until the 1970 coup, and died in Beijing in 2012.

Oct 22, 2026

Norodom Suramarit

Norodom Suramarit (នរោត្តម សុរាម្រិត; 1896–1960) was King of Cambodia from 1955 until his death in 1960, succeeding his son Norodom Sihanouk, who abdicated in his favor.

Noroeste Amotapes-Manglares Biosphere Reserve

The Noroeste Amotapes-Manglares Biosphere Reserve (Reserva de Biosfera del Noroeste Amotapes-Manglares) is a UNESCO biosphere reserve in Tumbes and Piura, Peru, designated in 1977 and expanded in 2016.

Noroi: The Curse (ノロイ)

Noroi: The Curse (ノロイ) is a 2005 Japanese found-footage horror film by Koji Shiraishi, presented as the final documentary of vanished paranormal journalist Masafumi Kobayashi investigating the demon Kagutaba.

Sep 24, 2026

Noron

Noron (노론, 老論, "Old Doctrine") was a political faction of late Joseon Korea, formed after the Seoin split in 1680 and dominant at court until the dynasty's end.

Sep 24, 2026

Noron–Soron split

The Noron–Soron split (노론·소론 분립) divided Joseon Korea's dominant Westerner faction into the Noron and Soron parties after 1680, ending with complete Noron dominance by 1755.

Norovirus

Norovirus (Norwalk virus, winter vomiting disease) is a highly contagious Caliciviridae RNA virus causing acute gastroenteritis; 12–48 hour incubation, 1–3 day illness, no licensed vaccine, GII.4 and rising GII.17 strains.

Norpipe Gas Pipeline

Norpipe is a natural gas pipeline carrying gas from the Ekofisk field in the North Sea to Emden, Germany, and the first pipeline linking Norway to the continent, in service since 1977.

Norpipe Oil Pipeline

The Norpipe Oil Pipeline (Norpipe Oljeledning) is a 354-kilometer crude oil pipeline from the Ekofisk field in the Norwegian North Sea to Teesside, England, operational since 1975.

Norrbotten County

Norrbotten County (Norrbottens län), Sweden's largest and northernmost county, created 21 May 1810 from Västerbotten. 97,239 km², quarter of Sweden, ~249,000 people, 14 municipalities, seat Luleå, borders Norway and Finland, 90% of Europe's iron ore.

Norrie disease

Norrie disease, also called Norrie-Warburg or Anderson-Warburg syndrome, is a rare X-linked recessive disorder caused by NDP gene mutations, causing congenital blindness, retinal detachment, and often progressive hearing loss and developmental delay in boys.

Norrington Table

Norrington Table: annual Oxford college league table ranking undergraduates' finals results, devised by Sir Arthur Norrington of Trinity College in the 1960s; scored 5/3/2/1 points per degree class as a percentage; discontinued by Oxford in November 2024 as not fit for purpose.

Norris Bradbury

Norris Bradbury (Norris Edwin Bradbury, 1909–1997) was an American physicist who directed the Los Alamos Laboratory from 1945 to 1970, succeeding J. Robert Oppenheimer and leading its postwar transformation.