narco-state
— Navneord
– Engelsk
~ 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
— Navneord
– Engelsk
~ a New England state; one of the original 13 colonies
nonparametric statistic
— Navneord
– Engelsk
~ a statistic computed without knowledge of the form or the parameters of the distribution from which observations are drawn
nonparametric statistics
— Navneord
– Engelsk
~ the branch of statistics dealing with variables without making assumptions about the form or the parameters of their distribution
nude statue
— Navneord
– Engelsk
~ a statue of a naked human figure
nickel steel
— Navneord
– Engelsk
~ an alloy steel containing nickel
Nymphaea stellata
— Navneord
– Engelsk
~ blue lotus of India and southeastern Asia
negative stimulation
— Navneord
– Engelsk
~ something causing antagonism or loss of interest
negative stimulus
— Navneord
– Engelsk
~ a stimulus with undesirable consequences
negative reinforcing stimulus
— Navneord
– Engelsk
~ a reinforcing stimulus whose removal serves to decrease the likelihood of the response that produced it
no-par stock
— Navneord
– Engelsk
~ stock with no par value specified in the corporate charter or on the stock certificate
nylon stocking
— Navneord
– Engelsk
~ women's stockings made from a sheer material (nylon or rayon or silk)
New Stone Age
— Navneord
– Engelsk
~ latest part of the Stone Age beginning about 10,000 BC in the Middle East (but later elsewhere)
night-stop
— Navneord
– Engelsk
~ a break in a journey for the night
nonvolatile storage
— Navneord
– Engelsk
~ computer storage that is not lost when the power is turned off
northern storm petrel
— Navneord
– Engelsk
~ sooty black petrel with white markings; of the northern Atlantic and Mediterranean
news story
— Navneord
– Engelsk
~ an article reporting news
nervous strain
— Navneord
– Engelsk
~ (psychology) nervousness resulting from mental stress; "his responsibilities were a constant strain"; "the mental strain of staying alert hour after hour was too much for him"
narrow-leaved strap fern
— Navneord
– Engelsk
~ fern with shorter and narrower leaves than Florida strap fern; Florida to West Indies and Mexico and south to Argentina