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Nitin Saxena
Nitin Saxena, born 1981 in Prayagraj, India, is an Indian computer scientist who co-created the AKS primality test as an IIT Kanpur undergraduate, winning the 2006 Gödel Prize.
Nitish Padmanaban
Nitish Padmanaban is a computational imaging and near-eye display researcher at Sesame working on eye tracking, who co-founded Zinn Labs and earned a Stanford PhD in 2020.
Nitish Srivastava
Nitish Srivastava is a computer scientist and machine learning researcher who co-invented dropout, the neural network regularization technique, as lead author of the 2014 JMLR paper.
Nitridation
Nitridation is the treatment of silicon or silicon dioxide surfaces in a nitrogen-bearing ambient, such as ammonia, to form silicon nitride or nitrided gate oxides in semiconductor manufacturing.
Nitriding
Nitriding is a thermochemical heat treatment that diffuses nitrogen into the surface of steel to form hard nitrides, developed in the early 20th century by Machlet and Fry.
Nitrogen generator
A nitrogen generator is equipment that separates nitrogen from ambient air at the point of use, by pressure swing adsorption or membranes, replacing delivered cylinders and liquid nitrogen.
Nitrogen rejection unit
A nitrogen rejection unit (NRU) is a gas processing plant that removes excess nitrogen from natural gas so it meets pipeline heating-value specifications or stricter LNG limits.
Nitrous oxide engine
A nitrous oxide engine, or nitrous oxide system, is an internal combustion engine fitted with nitrous oxide injection to increase power, first developed for aircraft in the 1940s.
Nitrox
Nitrox, formally enriched air nitrox (EANx), is a scuba breathing gas with 22 to 40 percent oxygen; common blends EANx32 and EANx36 extend no-decompression limits at a shallower depth cap.
Nivagalskoye Oil Field
The Nivagalskoye Oil Field (Нивагальское месторождение) is an oil field in Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug, Western Siberia, Russia, discovered in 1982 and producing since 1985 under LUKOIL-West Siberia.
Nivea
Nivea is a skin and body care brand owned by the Hamburg-based company Beiersdorf, launched in 1911 as NIVEA Creme, the world's first stable oil-and-water cream, and now the world's top skin care brand.
Nix (package manager)
Nix is a purely functional package manager created by Eelco Dolstra that builds software reproducibly from declarative instructions and underlies NixOS, a Linux distribution configured entirely in its language.
Nixon White House tapes
The Nixon White House tapes, also called the Watergate tapes, are roughly 3,700 hours of secret Oval Office recordings made between 1971 and 1973, whose disclosure led to Nixon's 1974 resignation.
NixOS
NixOS is a Linux distribution built with the Nix package manager, using declarative configuration files. Each rebuild creates an immutable system generation allowing for full rollbacks.
Nizhnekamsk 1 power station
Nizhnekamsk 1 power station (Nizhnekamsk TPP-1, PTK-1) is a combined heat and power plant in Nizhnekamsk, Tatarstan, Russia, with 880 MW capacity, serving the Nizhnekamskneftekhim petrochemical complex.
Nizhnekamsk hydroelectric plant
The Nizhnekamsk hydroelectric plant (Нижнекамская ГЭС) is a 1,205 MW hydroelectric station on the Kama River at Naberezhnye Chelny in Tatarstan, Russia, the only one in the republic.
Nizhnevartovsk-Kurgan-Kuibyshev Oil Pipeline
The Nizhnevartovsk–Kurgan–Kuibyshev oil pipeline (МН НКК) is a Russian trunk oil pipeline carrying West Siberian crude through Kurgan to the Kuibyshev (Samara) hub, built between 1974 and 1976.
Nizhnevartovskaya power station
Nizhnevartovskaya power station (Нижневартовская ГРЭС), also called Nizhnevartovskaya GRES or TPP, is a 2,031 MW gas-fired power station near Nizhnevartovsk, Russia, serving the oil and gas industry.
NJ Transit
NJ Transit, formally the New Jersey Transit Corporation, is the public transportation system of New Jersey, operating bus, rail, and light rail service since 1979.
Njord Oil and Gas Field
Njord is an oil and gas field in the Norwegian Sea, 30 kilometers west of Draugen, discovered in 1986 and on stream since 1997, operated by Equinor.
Njoy
Njoy is the name of two unrelated American companies: a stainless steel sex toy manufacturer founded in 2005, and NJOY, an e-vapor company owned by Altria.
NK Neftisa JSC
NK Neftisa JSC (АО «НК «Нефтиса») is a Russian oil production holding founded in 2008 by Mikhail Gutseriev, uniting more than 20 enterprises across seven regions of Russia.
NK-33
The NK-33, also known as the NK-43 in its high-altitude version, is a Soviet oxygen-rich staged combustion rocket engine developed by Kuznetsov for the N1 moon rocket.
NLAW
The NLAW (Next Generation Light Anti-tank Weapon), also known as MBT LAW or Robot 57, is a disposable anti-tank missile developed by Saab Bofors Dynamics for British and Swedish armies.
NLC India Limited
NLC India Limited, formerly Neyveli Lignite Corporation, is a Navratna government-owned Indian company founded in 1956 to mine Neyveli lignite and generate power, now also in renewables and coal.
nLIGHT
nLIGHT (恩耐激光) is an American laser manufacturer of high-power semiconductor and fiber lasers for metal cutting and directed-energy weapon systems for defense, trading under the ticker LASR.
NLTK
NLTK, the Natural Language Toolkit, is a free, open-source Python library for natural language processing. It was created in 2001 at the University of Pennsylvania as teaching courseware.
NLX (motherboard form factor)
NLX (New Low Profile Extended) is a low-profile motherboard form factor for desktop PCs, announced by Intel with IBM in 1996 as a standardized replacement for the semi-proprietary LPX design.
nm (Unix)
nm is a Unix command that displays the symbol table of an object file, executable, or library, showing each symbol's value, type code, and name.
Nmap
Nmap (Network Mapper) is a free, open source utility for network discovery and security auditing, best known as a port scanner used by system administrators and penetration testers since 1997.