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Nordseecluster

Nordseecluster is a 1.6-gigawatt offshore wind project in the German North Sea, combining four wind farm sites north of Juist, built by RWE in two phases.

Nordsøfonden

Nordsøfonden, the Danish North Sea Fund, is a state fund established in 2005 holding a 20 percent share in Danish North Sea oil and gas licenses, including DUC.

Nordson

Nordson Corporation is an American precision technology company founded in 1954 by brothers Eric and Evan Nord in Amherst, Ohio, making adhesive dispensing, coating, and testing equipment.

NORDUnet

NORDUnet, the Nordic University Data Network, is the joint research and education network operator for the five Nordic countries, implemented in 1988–89 as the first large-scale IP network in Europe.

NordVPN

NordVPN is a commercial virtual private network service operated by Nord Security and registered in Panama, with over 6,400 servers in 111 countries, RAM-only servers, and independently audited no-logs policies.

Norealis Oil Pipeline

The Norealis Pipeline (Enbridge Line 50) is an Enbridge crude oil pipeline in Alberta carrying blended heavy crude from the Husky Sunrise project to Cheecham Terminal.

Noreste (Escobedo) power station

Noreste (Escobedo) power station is a combined-cycle natural gas power plant near Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico, built by Iberdrola and entering service in 2019 with about 857 MW.

Norfolk & Western Railway Roanoke Shops

The Norfolk & Western Railway Roanoke Shops, also called the East End Shops, built nearly 500 steam locomotives in Roanoke, Virginia, from 1884 to 1953.

Norfolk and Suffolk Aviation Museum

The Norfolk and Suffolk Aviation Museum is a volunteer-run museum at Flixton near Bungay on the Norfolk–Suffolk border, holding more than 60 aircraft and open since 1975.

Norfolk and Western classes Y6, Y6a and Y6b

The Norfolk and Western classes Y6, Y6a and Y6b were 2-8-8-2 compound Mallet steam locomotives built at the railroad's Roanoke Shops in Virginia between 1936 and 1952.

Norfolk and Western Railway

The Norfolk and Western Railway was a Class I railroad headquartered in Roanoke, Virginia, formed in 1870, known for hauling Pocahontas coalfield coal and for its steam locomotives.

Norfolk Southern Railway

Norfolk Southern Railway is a Class I freight railroad in the eastern United States, formed in 1982 from the Southern Railway and Norfolk and Western Railway merger.

Norfolk Southern–Gregson Street Overpass

The Norfolk Southern–Gregson Street Overpass, nicknamed the "Can Opener" and "11foot8 bridge," is a low railroad trestle in Durham, North Carolina, known for crashing into tall trucks.

Norfolk Vanguard

Norfolk Vanguard is a consented offshore wind farm off Norfolk, England, in the southern North Sea, with two sites of 1.4 GW each, expected to operate from 2029.

Norgren

Norgren is a British manufacturer of pneumatic and fluid control components, including valves, actuators, and air preparation equipment, founded by Carl Norgren and part of IMI plc since 1972.

Norilsktransgaz

Norilsktransgaz (Норильсктрансгаз) is a Russian gas pipeline transport company serving the Norilsk Industrial District, with about 1,639 km of pipelines built from 1968 to carry gas to MMC Norilsk Nickel's Arctic operations.

Norinco

Norinco (中国北方工业公司, China North Industries Corporation) is the trading and manufacturing name of China's state-owned ordnance industry, its biggest producer of tanks, artillery, and other land systems.

Norinco CQ

The Norinco CQ, officially the CQ 5.56 and also sold as the CQ-311, is an unlicensed Chinese copy of the American M16A1 assault rifle, offered for export since the early 1980s.

Noritake

Noritake (ノリタケ株式会社, NORITAKE CO., LIMITED) is a Japanese ceramics manufacturer headquartered in Nagoya, founded in 1904 and known for porcelain tableware and industrial grinding products.

Norma B. Clayton

Norma B. Clayton is an American industrial engineer and retired Boeing executive who, over 20 years there, became vice president for Learning, Training, and Development before retiring in 2016.

Normal Distributions Transform

The Normal Distributions Transform (NDT) is a scan-matching algorithm that registers range scans and point clouds, introduced by Peter Biber and Wolfgang Straßer in 2003.

Normalization (machine learning)

Normalization in machine learning is a family of techniques that rescale a neural network's inputs, activations, or weights during training, making gradient-based optimization faster and more stable.

Normalized Advantage Functions

Normalized Advantage Functions (NAF) is a reinforcement learning algorithm making Q-learning applicable to continuous action spaces, introduced by Gu, Lillicrap, Sutskever, and Levine in 2016.

Normalized difference vegetation index

The normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) is a satellite-derived index that quantifies green vegetation density by combining near-infrared and red reflectance, used to monitor crop health, forests, and drought.

Normalizing flow

A normalizing flow is a generative model that transforms a simple distribution, usually a standard normal, into a complex one through invertible transformations, so it can both sample and compute exact likelihoods.

Normalizing flows

Normalizing flows are generative models that transform a simple base distribution, typically a Gaussian, into a complex target distribution through invertible transformations, enabling exact density evaluation and efficient sampling.

Norman A. Abrahamson

Norman A. Abrahamson is an American engineering seismologist and adjunct professor at UC Berkeley known for probabilistic seismic hazard assessment and the Next Generation Attenuation ground motion models.

Norman A. Gjostein

Norman A. Gjostein (1931–2006) was an American metallurgical engineer at Ford Motor Company, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1990 for surface science research.

Norman Brooks (environmental engineer)

Norman Herrick Brooks, born in 1928, is an American environmental engineer and hydraulics researcher at Caltech known for pollutant transport studies and wastewater outfall design.

Norman Foster

Norman Foster, Baron Foster of Thames Bank, is a British architect and leading figure of High Tech architecture who founded Foster + Partners in 1967.