3-letter words starting with n
- nlx — (hardware, standard) A low-profile, low TCO motherboard design created jointly by Intel Corp., IBM, DEC and other PC vendors. In contrast to the traditional single-board design, NLX uses a riser card to carry PCI, ISA and AGP bus data (despite Intel's stated intent to rid PC motherboards of the ISA bus by 2000). Version 1.2 of NLX is the final specification, and was frozen in March 1997. Minor modifications appear in the form of "Engineering Change Requests".
- nmi — Non-Maskable Interrupt
- nml — (language) A specification language for instruction sets, based on attribute grammars, for back-end generators.
- nmr — nuclear magnetic resonance
- nmu — Non-Maintainer Upload
- nne — north-northeast
- nni — Network Node Interface
- nnp — net national product
- nnw — north-northwest
- no1 — no-one
- noa — (NZ, among the Maori) Non-sacred; such that it must be kept separate from what is tapu.
- nob — a person of wealth or social importance.
- noc — Network Operations Center
- nod — to make a slight, quick downward bending forward of the head, as in assent, greeting, or command.
- noe — Noah (def 1).
- nog — a block of wood, as one inserted into brickwork to provide a hold for nails.
- noh — classic drama of Japan, developed chiefly in the 14th century, employing verse, prose, choral song, and dance in highly conventionalized formal and thematic patterns derived from religious sources and folk myths.
- noi — Nation of Islam
- nol — Never Offline
- nom — Nomination.
- non — notwithstanding.
- noo — (Geordie) now.
- nop — (programming) A no-op; a CPU instruction that does nothing.
- nor — a Boolean operator that returns a positive result when both operands are negative.
- nos — network operating system
- not — (used to express negation, denial, refusal, or prohibition): You must not do that. It's not far from here.
- nov — November
- now — at the present time or moment: You are now using a dictionary.
- nox — the Roman goddess of the night
- noy — (obsolete, UK, dialect) To annoy; to vex.
- npa — Newspaper Publishers' Association
- npc — a character in a tabletop role-playing game who is controlled by the Game Master.
- npd — new product development
- npl — (in the UK) National Physical Laboratory.
- npr — National Public Radio
- npv — net present value
- nqa — National Qualifications Authority
- nqs — Batch processing software for Unix systems.
- nra — National Rifle Association
- nrc — National Research Council
- nri — Non-Resident Indian: an Indian citizen or person of Indian origin living abroad
- nrl — National Rugby League
- nrn — no reply necessary
- nrt — nicotine replacement therapy: a type of treatment designed to help people give up smoking in which gradually decreasing doses of nicotine are administered through patches on the skin etc to avoid the effects of sudden withdrawal from the drug
- nrv — net realizable value
- nsa — National Security Agency: a US federal defence bureau established in 1972 that specializes in cryptography
- nsb — National Savings Bank
- nsc — National Security Council
- nse — Network Software Environment: a proprietary CASE framework from Sun Microsystems.
- nsf — (body) (NSF) A US government agency that promotes the advancement of science by funding science researchers, scientific projects and infrastructure to improve the quality of scientific research. The NSFNET is funded by NSF.