non-standard speech
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– Engelsk
~ speech that differs from the usual accepted, easily recognizable speech of native adult members of a speech community
neutron star
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~ a star that has collapsed under its own gravity; it is composed of neutrons
North Star
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~ the brightest star in Ursa Minor; at the end of the handle of the Little Dipper; the northern axis of the earth points toward it
natural state
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~ a wild primitive state untouched by civilization; "he lived in the wild"; "they collected mushrooms in the wild"
narco-state
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~ an area that has been taken over and is controlled and corrupted by drug cartels and where law enforcement is effectively nonexistent; "this Mexican town has become a narco-state that ships 100 pounds of cocaine to the United States every day"
Nutmeg State
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~ a New England state; one of the original 13 colonies
nonparametric statistic
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~ a statistic computed without knowledge of the form or the parameters of the distribution from which observations are drawn
nonparametric statistics
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~ the branch of statistics dealing with variables without making assumptions about the form or the parameters of their distribution
nude statue
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~ a statue of a naked human figure
nickel steel
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~ an alloy steel containing nickel
Nymphaea stellata
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~ blue lotus of India and southeastern Asia
negative stimulation
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~ something causing antagonism or loss of interest
negative stimulus
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~ a stimulus with undesirable consequences
negative reinforcing stimulus
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~ a reinforcing stimulus whose removal serves to decrease the likelihood of the response that produced it
no-par stock
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~ stock with no par value specified in the corporate charter or on the stock certificate
nylon stocking
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~ women's stockings made from a sheer material (nylon or rayon or silk)
New Stone Age
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~ latest part of the Stone Age beginning about 10,000 BC in the Middle East (but later elsewhere)
night-stop
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~ a break in a journey for the night
nonvolatile storage
— Navneord
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~ computer storage that is not lost when the power is turned off