Nusa Tenggara
— Noun
– English
~ a chain of islands forming a province of Indonesia to the east of Java; includes Bali and Timor
normal tension glaucoma
— Noun
– English
~ glaucoma that results from damage to the optic nerve although the intraocular pressure is normal
Norfolk terrier
— Noun
– English
~ English breed of small terrier with a straight wiry grizzled coat and dropped ears
Norwich terrier
— Noun
– English
~ English breed of small short-legged terrier with a straight wiry red or grey or black-and-tan coat and erect ears
Northwest Territories
— Noun
– English
~ a large territory in northwestern Canada; part is now Nunavut
Northern Territory
— Noun
– English
~ a territory in north central Australia
night terror
— Noun
– English
~ an emotional episode (usually in young children) in which the person awakens in terror with feelings of anxiety and fear but is unable to remember any incident that might have provoked those feelings
nuclear terrorism
— Noun
– English
~ the use of a nuclear device by a terrorist organization to cause massive devastation or the use (or threat of use) of fissionable radioactive materials; "assaults on nuclear power plants is one form of nuclear terrorism"
Nikola Tesla
— Noun
– English
~ United States electrical engineer and inventor (born in Croatia but of Serbian descent) who discovered the principles of alternating currents and developed the first alternating-current induction motor and the Tesla coil and several forms of oscillators (1856-1943)
New Testament
— Noun
– English
~ the collection of books of the Gospels, Acts of the Apostles, the Pauline and other epistles, and Revelation; composed soon after Christ's death; the second half of the Christian Bible
n-th
— Adjective
– English
~ last or greatest in an indefinitely large series; "to the nth degree"
Nguyen Tat Thanh
— Noun
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~ Vietnamese communist statesman who fought the Japanese in World War II and the French until 1954 and South Vietnam until 1975 (1890-1969)
Noah and the Flood
— Noun
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~ (Biblical) the great deluge that is said in the Book of Genesis to have occurred in the time of Noah; it was brought by God upon the earth because of the wickedness of human beings
new phase of the moon
— Noun
– English
~ the time at which the Moon appears as a narrow waxing crescent
now and then
— Adverb
– English
~ sporadically and infrequently; "he was arrogant and occasionally callous"; "open areas are only occasionally interrupted by clumps of trees"; "they visit New York on occasion"; "now and again she would take her favorite book from the shelf and read to us"; "as we drove along, the beautiful scenery now and then attracted his attention"
natural theology
— Noun
– English
~ a theology that holds that knowledge of God can be acquired by human reason without the aid of divine revelation
number theorist
— Noun
– English
~ a mathematician specializing in number theory
Newton's theory of gravitation
— Noun
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~ (physics) the theory that any two particles of matter attract one another with a force directly proportional to the product of their masses and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them
near thing
— Noun
– English
~ something that barely avoids failure or disaster