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Nritya-natya
Nritya-natya (নৃত্যনাট্য, dance-drama) is a Bengali theatrical genre conveying complete stories through dance with song and music, introduced by Rabindranath Thakur, whose chief works are Chitrangada, Chandalika, and Shyama.
NRJ Music Award
NRJ Music Awards: annual French music awards by radio NRJ and TF1, first held 22 January 2000 in Cannes; public-voted trophies for Francophone and international artists, most won by M. Pokora (16).
NRK
NRK (Norsk Rikskringkasting) is Norway's state-owned public broadcaster, founded 1933 with a radio monopoly; TV from 1960, licence fee to 2019, state-budget funded since, about 3,500 employees.
NRL Grand Final
The NRL Grand Final, the National Rugby League's championship decider, is played each October in Sydney, with the 2025 final drawn by 4.55 million viewers.
NRLA
The New Rail Link through the Alps (NRLA), also known as Alptransit, is a Swiss railway project comprising the Lötschberg, Gotthard, and Ceneri base tunnels, completed in 2020.
NRM
N.R.M. (Незалежная Рэспубліка Мроя, "Independent Republic of Mroya") is a Belarusian rock band formed in 1994 as a continuation of the band Mroya, singing almost exclusively in Belarusian.
NRMA
NRMA, or National Roads and Motorists' Association, is an Australian mutual company with over 3.6 million members, providing roadside assistance, EV charging, and holiday parks, separate from NRMA Insurance.
NRP D. João II
NRP D. João II is a multifunctional naval platform built for the Portuguese Navy by Damen Shipyards in Romania, named for the 15th-century Portuguese king and due for delivery in 2027.
NRP1
NRP1 (neuropilin-1, CD304) is a single-pass transmembrane coreceptor binding class 3 semaphorins and VEGF family ligands, guiding axons and angiogenesis, acting as an immune checkpoint and cancer target, and an auxiliary SARS-CoV-2 entry factor.
Nrpativallabha rasa
Nṛpativallabha rasa (नृपतिवल्लभ रस), an Ayurvedic herbo-mineral formulation from Bhaishajya Ratnavali containing purified mercury, sulphur, iron, and copper, dosed 500 mg, indicated for grahaṇī and digestive disorders.
NRQCD
NRQCD, or nonrelativistic QCD, is an effective field theory describing heavy quark-antiquark bound states such as charmonium and bottomonium, introduced by Caswell and Lepage in 1986.
NRS social grade
NRS social grade is a UK classification that grades households A to E by the Chief Income Earner's occupation, developed for the National Readership Survey in 1956.
NRSurrogate waveform models
NRSurrogate waveform models are fast, data-driven models of gravitational waves from binary black hole mergers, built by interpolating directly on numerical relativity simulations rather than analytic approximations.
NRTL
NRTL (non-random two-liquid) is a semi-empirical local-composition activity-coefficient model for liquid mixtures, published by Renon and Prausnitz in 1968 and widely used for phase-equilibrium calculations.
NRXN1
NRXN1 (neurexin 1), a large gene at 2p16.3 encoding a presynaptic adhesion molecule with thousands of splice isoforms; its deletions raise risk of autism, schizophrenia, and developmental delay with incomplete penetrance.
NS Class 1100
The NS Class 1100 was a series of 60 electric locomotives of the Dutch national railway NS, built by Alsthom in France and used from 1950 to 1999.
NS Class 1200
The NS Class 1200 was a series of 25 six-axle electric locomotives of the Dutch national railway, built to an American design between 1951 and 1953.
NS Savannah
The NS Savannah, launched in 1959 under Eisenhower's Atoms for Peace program, was the world's first nuclear-powered merchant ship, serving from 1962 to 1970 and now awaiting decommissioning in Baltimore.
NSA artificial intelligence security center
The NSA Artificial Intelligence Security Center (AISC) is a National Security Agency organization, announced in September 2023, serving as the focal point for securing AI systems in US national security and defense.
Nsala of Wala in the Nsongo District
Nsala of Wala in the Nsongo District is a 1904 photograph by missionary Alice Seeley Harris showing a Congolese father with the severed hand and foot of his young daughter, killed over a rubber quota.
NSB B5
NSB B5 is a Norwegian steel-bodied second-class passenger carriage built by Strømmens Værksted from 1977, seating 68 and numbered 26001–26063, later refurbished by Bombardier and used chiefly on the Bergen Line.
NSB Class 69
NSB Class 69, also known as NSB BM69, is a two- or three-car electric multiple unit built for the Norwegian State Railways between 1970 and 1993.
NSB El 18
The NSB El 18 is a class of 22 electric locomotives delivered to the Norwegian State Railways in 1996 and 1997, built by Adtranz and SLM.
NSB WLAB-2
The NSB WLAB-2 is a Norwegian sleeping carriage type built by Strømmen Værksted, with 20 cars delivered between 1986 and 1987 for NSB night trains, now scheduled for replacement.
Nscale
Nscale is a London-based AI infrastructure company founded in 2024 as a spin-out of the bitcoin mining firm Arkon Energy, building GPU data centers for Microsoft and OpenAI.
NSD2
NSD2 (WHSC1, MMSET) is a human histone methyltransferase that mono- and dimethylates H3K36; haploinsufficiency causes Wolf-Hirschhorn syndrome and t(4;14) overactivation drives 15-20% of multiple myeloma, with KTX-1001 in phase 1 trials.
NSF Convergence Accelerator
The NSF Convergence Accelerator is a National Science Foundation program launched in 2019 that funds multidisciplinary teams to turn use-inspired research on national-scale challenges into sustainable solutions, expanding to ten regional accelerators since 2024.
NSF International
NSF International, formerly the National Sanitation Foundation, is a not-for-profit Ann Arbor, Michigan-based public health standards and certification body founded in 1944, unrelated to the U.S. National Science Foundation.
NSFNET
NSFNET (National Science Foundation Network) was a US government-funded network launched by the National Science Foundation in 1985, serving as the backbone of the early internet until 1995.
NSFW (Tyga album)
NSFW is Tyga's eighth studio album, released February 7, 2025 on Last Kings/Empire, his first solo LP since 2019's Legendary; 17 tracks with Lil Wayne, Big Sean, Cher, and Shenseea; singles "Slave" and "Pop It Off".