N Definition

en
noun
The fourteenth letter of the English alphabet: from the Greek nu, a borrowing from the Phoenician.
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Any of the speech sounds that this letter represents, as, in English, the (n) of night.
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A type or impression for n or N.
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The 14th in a series.
American Heritage
The fourteenth in a sequence or group.
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Synonyms:
abbreviation
Indefinite number (of)
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Normal.
American Heritage
Nail.
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Name.
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En.
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conjuntion
Contraction of and .
Scratch 'n' sniff.
American Heritage
And.
Fish 'n' chips, fun 'n' games.
Webster's New World
Nonstandard spelling of ’n’.
Fish 'n chips.
Rock 'n roll.
Wiktionary

Eye dialect spelling of than.

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Nonstandard spelling of ’n’.
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adjective
Of n or N.
Webster's New World
Fourteenth in a sequence or group.
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Shaped like N.
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Eye dialect spelling of own.

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symbol
Avogadro constant.
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Nitrogen.
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(computing) The ASCII control character shift out in caret notation.

Wiktionary

(metrology) Symbol for the nanoohm, an SI unit of electrical resistance equal to 10−9 ohms.

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affix
Negative.
Webster's New World
letter

The fourteenth letter of the English alphabet, called en and written in the Latin script.

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numeral

The ordinal number fourteenth, derived from this letter of the English alphabet, called en and written in the Latin script.

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Origin of N

  • Contraction of than.

    From Wiktionary

  • Contraction of and.

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  • Contraction of own.

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N Sentence Examples

  • Nitrogen combines with hydrogen to form ammonia, NH 3, hydrazine, N 2 H 4, and azoimide, N 3 H (qq.v.); the other known hydrides, N 4 H 4 and N5H5, are salts of azoimide, viz.

  • Now if n be any finite cardinal number, it can be proved that the class of those serial relations, which have a field whose cardinal number is n, is a relation-number.

  • If m and n are finite cardinal numbers, the rational number m/n is the relation which any finite cardinal number x bears to any finite cardinal number y when n X x = m X y.

  • Such a number is a "one-many" relation which relates n signed real numbers (or n algebraic complex numbers when they are already defined by this procedure) to the n cardinal numbers I, 2..

  • Xi to n.

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