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NumFOCUS

NumFOCUS is an American 501(c)(3) nonprofit founded in 2012 in Austin, Texas, serving as the legal home of open source projects including NumPy, pandas, and Project Jupyter.

NUMMI

NUMMI (New United Motor Manufacturing) was a General Motors and Toyota joint venture that assembled cars in Fremont, California, from 1984 to 2010, producing 7.74 million vehicles.

Nuna field

Nuna is an oil field on Alaska's North Slope operated by ConocoPhillips, which achieved first oil in 2024 with an expected peak of 20,000 barrels per day.

Nunn–Lugar Cooperative Threat Reduction Program

The Nunn–Lugar Cooperative Threat Reduction Program is a US Defense Department effort created by Congress in 1991 that funds the dismantlement of Soviet weapons of mass destruction.

Nuno Vasconcelos

Nuno Vasconcelos is a Portuguese computer vision researcher, professor at UC San Diego since 2003, and head of the Statistical Visual Computing Laboratory, known for Cascade R-CNN.

Nunzio J. Palladino

Nunzio Joe Palladino was an American nuclear engineer who led the Nautilus and Shippingport reactor core designs and chaired the Nuclear Regulatory Commission from 1981 to 1986.

Nuon (DVD technology)

Nuon was a multimedia processor platform developed by VM Labs of Mountain View, California, built into DVD players from 2000 to add games and interactive features, but it failed commercially.

Nuozhadu hydroelectric plant

The Nuozhadu hydroelectric plant (糯扎渡水电站) is a 5,850 MW hydropower station on the upper Mekong in Yunnan, China, whose dam is the largest of its kind in Asia.

nuPlan

nuPlan is a large-scale dataset and closed-loop benchmark for motion planning in autonomous driving, released by Motional in 2021 from 1,300 hours of human driving in Las Vegas, Boston, Pittsburgh, and Singapore.

NUREG-1150

NUREG-1150 is a 1990 US Nuclear Regulatory Commission report, Severe Accident Risks, that quantified severe accident risks at five representative nuclear power plants using probabilistic risk assessment.

Nurek Dam

The Nurek Dam, also known as Nurek Hydro-electric Station, is a 300-meter embankment dam on the Vakhsh River in Tajikistan, the tallest embankment dam in the world.

Nurek hydroelectric plant

The Nurek hydroelectric plant (Нурекская ГЭС) is a 3,000 MW power station on the Vakhsh River in Tajikistan, home to the world's tallest embankment dam at 300 meters.

Nusantara Regas Satu Terminal

Nusantara Regas Satu Terminal is a floating storage and regasification terminal in Jakarta Bay, Indonesia, built around a converted LNG carrier and operating since 2012 as the country's first LNG receiving terminal.

NuScale Power

NuScale Power is an Oregon-based company that makes small modular reactors; in 2020 its design became the first SMR approved by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

nuScenes

nuScenes is a public, large-scale autonomous driving dataset developed by Motional, released in full in March 2019 with 1,000 annotated scenes collected in Boston and Singapore.

NuSTAR

NuSTAR (Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array) is a NASA Small Explorer X-ray space telescope launched in 2012 and the first in orbit to focus high-energy X-rays for imaging.

NuStar Energy

NuStar Energy was an American midstream energy partnership headquartered in San Antonio, Texas, operating about 9,490 miles of pipeline for petroleum products, renewable fuels, and ammonia.

Nut (hardware)

A nut, also called a hex nut, is a usually hexagonal or square metal fastener with internal threads that mate with a bolt's threads to clamp parts together.

Nut rage incident

The nut rage incident was a 2014 event in which Korean Air executive Cho Hyun-ah ordered a flight to return to the gate over the service of macadamia nuts.

Nutanix

Nutanix is an American enterprise cloud software company based in San Jose, California. Founded in 2009, it pioneered hyperconverged infrastructure combining compute, storage, and virtualization.

Nutcracker

A nutcracker is a tool that cracks nut shells to free the kernel, using lever, screw, or percussion designs, often made as decorative German figures.

Nuuk Airport

Nuuk Airport (IATA: GOH), also known as Godthåb Airport, is the international airport of Nuuk, Greenland's capital, opened in November 2024 with a new 2,200-meter runway.

Nuvistor

The Nuvistor is a miniature metal-and-ceramic vacuum tube introduced by RCA in 1959 to compete with the transistor, used chiefly in TV tuners and in military, industrial, and spacecraft equipment.

Nuvoton

Nuvoton is a Taiwanese semiconductor company making microcontrollers and audio ICs, spun off from Winbond Electronics in 2008; its NuMicro platform spans over 600 parts.

Nuvoton Technology Corporation Japan

Nuvoton Technology Corporation Japan (NTCJ) is a Japanese semiconductor company in Nagaokakyo, Kyoto, formed in 2014 as Panasonic Semiconductor Solutions and renamed in 2020 after Nuvoton acquired Panasonic's semiconductor business.

Nuvve Holding Corp.

Nuvve Holding Corp. is a San Diego, California green energy technology company whose vehicle-to-grid platform lets electric vehicle batteries store and resell energy to the grid.

Nuward

Nuward, short for Nuclear Forward, is a French small modular reactor project led by EDF with the CEA and Framatome, unveiled in 2019 and redesigned in 2024.

Nuxt

Nuxt is a free, open source full-stack web framework built on Vue.js, created by brothers Sébastien and Alexandre Chopin in 2016 and backed by Vercel since 2025.

NV Bekaert

NV Bekaert is a Belgian materials technology company, founded in 1880 in Zwevegem, that transforms steel wire and applies coating technologies, reinforcing about 25% of the world's tires.

NV-Embed

NV-Embed is a family of generalist text embedding models built by NVIDIA on Mistral-7B, released in 2024 and best known for ranking No. 1 on the MTEB benchmark.