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Net-Zero Asset Owner Alliance

The Net-Zero Asset Owner Alliance is a United Nations-convened group of institutional investors committed to net-zero portfolios by 2050, with 88 members managing $9.5 trillion in 2024.

Net-Zero Banking Alliance

The Net-Zero Banking Alliance (NZBA) was a UN-convened, bank-led alliance committed to aligning lending and investment with net-zero emissions by 2050; it dissolved in October 2025.

Net-Zero Industry Act

The Net-Zero Industry Act (NZIA) is a European Union regulation adopted in June 2024 to expand EU manufacturing of net-zero technologies like solar panels, wind turbines, batteries, and heat pumps.

Net4Gas

NET4GAS is a Czech company holding the exclusive license for natural gas transmission, operating more than 4,000 km of high-pressure pipelines and owned by ČEPS since 2023.

Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport

Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport, also known as Dum Dum Airport or Kolkata Airport, serves Kolkata, India, and handled about 21.8 million passengers in 2024-25.

NetApp

NetApp, formerly Network Appliance, is an American enterprise data storage and cloud services company in San Jose, California, founded in 1992 and known for ONTAP.

NetApp AFF A-Series

NetApp AFF A-Series is a family of all-flash enterprise storage arrays from NetApp, running ONTAP and serving block, file, and object workloads like databases and AI.

NetApp AFX

NetApp AFX is a disaggregated all-flash storage system from NetApp, announced in October 2025, which separates controller nodes from storage shelves and is certified for NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD AI computing.

NetApp ONTAP

NetApp ONTAP, formerly Data ONTAP, is NetApp's proprietary storage operating system, first released in 1992, which is built around the patented WAFL file system and provides unified file, block, and object access.

Netback pricing

Netback pricing is a method of setting a commodity price, most commonly crude oil, from the sales value of its refined products minus refining and transportation costs.

NetBeans

NetBeans, now Apache NetBeans, is a free and open-source IDE for Java, begun in the Czech Republic in 1996 and owned by Sun, Oracle, and Apache.

NetBIOS

NetBIOS (Network Basic Input/Output System) is a software interface and naming convention for local area networking, developed by Sytec Inc. for IBM in 1983 and standardized over TCP/IP by RFC 1001 and RFC 1002 in 1987.

Netbook

A netbook, also called a mini-notebook, is a small, inexpensive laptop designed mainly for internet use, which peaked in 2009 and ended when Asus and Acer stopped making them in 2013.

NetBurst

NetBurst is the Intel microarchitecture that powered the Pentium 4 from 2000 to 2006, using a deeply pipelined design to reach clock speeds far beyond the earlier P6.

Netcat

Netcat (GNU netcat is one of its variants), usually invoked as nc, is a command-line utility that reads and writes data across TCP and UDP network connections, first released in 1996.

NetCDF

NetCDF (network Common Data Form) is a set of software libraries and machine-independent data formats for array-oriented scientific data, developed at Unidata and widely used in the atmospheric and oceanic sciences.

Netcode

Netcode is the networking code of a multiplayer video game, synchronizing state and input between machines, usually through a client-server model with latency-hiding techniques like prediction and rollback.

Netcompany

Netcompany is a Danish IT services company headquartered in Copenhagen, founded in 2000, that builds digital platforms for government and enterprise clients and listed on Nasdaq Copenhagen in 2018.

NETCONF

NETCONF (Network Configuration Protocol) is an IETF protocol for installing, manipulating, and deleting the configuration of network devices, using XML encoding and RPCs; its current version is RFC 6241 of 2011.

NetConnect Germany

NetConnect Germany (NCG) was the German natural gas market area for the south and west from 2011 until 2021, when it merged with GASPOOL to form Trading Hub Europe.

Netfilter

Netfilter is a framework inside the Linux kernel that lets modules observe and act on network packets, forming the foundation for Linux firewalls through the iptables and nftables tools.

Netflix Prize

The Netflix Prize was a machine learning competition run by Netflix from 2006 to 2009, awarding $1 million for improving its movie recommendation algorithm by 10 percent.

NetFlow

NetFlow is a Cisco network protocol that groups packets passing through a router into flows and exports traffic statistics for monitoring, planning, and security analysis.

Netgear

Netgear, legally NETGEAR, Inc., is an American networking-hardware company incorporated in Delaware in 1996 that sells Nighthawk routers and Orbi mesh Wi-Fi systems to homes and businesses.

NetHack Learning Environment

The NetHack Learning Environment is a reinforcement learning benchmark wrapping the roguelike game NetHack, built at Facebook AI Research and released in June 2020 to test long-horizon planning.

Netizen

A netizen is a person who uses the internet for social and political life, a term coined in the early 1990s by Michael Hauben while studying the internet's implications.

NetJets

NetJets, formerly Executive Jet Aviation, is an American private aviation company in Columbus, Ohio, that pioneered fractional jet ownership. It has been owned by Berkshire Hathaway since 1998.

Netley Abbey

Netley Abbey is a ruined Cistercian monastery near Netley in Hampshire, England, founded in 1239 by monks from Beaulieu Abbey and converted into a Tudor mansion after 1536.

Netlify

Netlify is a San Francisco-based web hosting platform that builds and deploys web applications directly from a Git repository, founded in 2014 by Mathias Biilmann and Christian Bach.

Netlist

A netlist is a textual description of an electronic circuit listing its components and their connections, or nets, produced by synthesis and used in digital, analog, and PCB design.