Appendix Acronyms N

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Acronyms - N

N North

N Notice

NA Narcotics Anonymous

NA North America

NA Not Applicable

NAACP National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People

NAAS North American Automated Systems co.

NAB National Association of Broadcasters

NABISCO NAtional BIScuit COmpany [Corporate name]

NACCIRN North American Coordinating Committee for Intercontinental Research Networking (see also CCIRN)

NACS National Advisory Committee on Semiconductors

NAD Network Access Device

NADGE NATO Air Defense Ground Environment

NAG Numerical Algorithms Group

NAGE National Association of Government Employees

NAK Negative AcKnowledge

NAM Name and Address Module [Telephony] (cellular phone changeable ROM)

NAM National Account Manager [Telephony, AT&T]

NAM Number Assignment Module [Telephony] (cellular phone changeable ROM)

NANP North American Numbering Plan

NAPAP National Acid Precipitation Assessment Program

NAR Nuclear Acoustic Resonance

NARDAC NAvy Regional Data Automation Center

NAS National Academy of Sciences

NAS National Advanced Systems

NASA National (US) Aeronautics and Space Administration [Space]

NASDA NAtional (Japan) Space Development Agency [Space]

NASM National (US) Air and Space Museum [Space]

NASP National (US) AeroSpace Plane [Space]

NATO North Atlantic Treaty Organization

NAVDAC NAVal Data Automation Command

NAVSWC NAVal Surface Weapons Center

NB New Brunswick

NB Nota Bene

NBA National (US) Basketball Association

NBC National (US) Broadcasting Company [Corporate name]

NBFM NarrowBand Frequency Modulation

NBO Network Build Out

NBS National Bureau of Standards (renamed NIST) [US Government]

NBVM Narrow Band Voice Modulation

NC No Charge

NC No Connection

NC North Carolina

NCA Network Control Analysis

NCC National (US) Computer Conference

NCC National (US) Council of Churches

NCDC National (US) Climatic Data Center

NCE New Catholic Edition

NCGA National (US) Computer Graphics Association

NCI National (US) Cancer Institute [US Government]

NCIC National (US) Cartographic Information Center

NCO Non-Commissioned Officer

NCP Network Control Program

NCR National (US?) Cash Register [Corporate name]

NCS Network Computing System

NCSA National (US) Center for Supercomputing Applications

NCSC National (US) Computer Security Center [NSA]

NCTL National Computer and Telecommunications Laboratory

NCV No Commercial Value

ND No Date

ND North Dakota

NDA Non-Disclosure Agreement

NDDL Neutral Data Definition Language

NDE News Development Environment

NDEA National (US) Defense Education Act

NDL Network Database Language

NDP New Democratic Party (Canada)

NDSL National (US) Defense Student Loan

NDSL National (US) Direct Student Loan

NDT Newfoundland Daylight Time

NDV NASP Derived Vehicle

NDV NASP Derived Vehicle [Space]

NE New England

NE North East

NEAR National Electronic Accounting and Reporting system

NEARnet New England Academic and Research Network

NEB New English Bible

NEC Nippon Electric Company [Corporate name]

NEI Not Elsewhere Included

NES National Energy Strategy

NES Not Elsewhere Specified

NESC National Energy Software Center

NET National (US) Educational Television

NET NETwork

NET New England Telephone

NEWS Network extensible Window System

NEXRAD NEXt generation weather RADar

NF No Funds

NFC National (US) Football Conference

NFFE National (US) Federation of Federal Employees

NFL National (US) Football League

NFS Network File System

NG National Guard

NG No Good

NGC New General Catalog [Space]

NH New Hampshire

NHI National Health Insurance

NHL National (Canada) Hockey League

NHLBI National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (Bethesda, MD)

NIC Network Information Center ("The NIC" is NIC.DDN.MIL)

NICMOS Near Infrared Camera / Multi Object Spectrometer (HST upgrade) [Space]

NIFTP (a file transfer network in the UK)

NIH National (US) Institutes of Health

NIH Not Invented Here

NIM Nuclear Instrumentation Module (an electronic instr. standard)

NIMH National Institute of Mental Health (Rockville, MD)

NIMS Near-Infrared Mapping Spectrometer (on Galileo) [Space]

NIR Near InfraRed [Space]

NIS Network Information System (formerly yp)

NISO National Information Standards Organization

NIST National Institute of Standards and Technology (formerly NBS) [US Government]

NJ New Jersey

NJB New Jersey Bell [Telephony]

NL National League (baseball)

NLM National Library of Medicine

NLP Natural Language Processing

NLRB National Labor Relations Board

NLS Network License Server

NM Nautical Mile

NM New Mexico

NM Night Message

NM No Mark; Not Marked

NMOS N channel Metal Oxide Semiconductor (N-MOS) (see MOS)

NMR Nuclear Magnetic Resonance

NMS Network Monitoring Station

NNE North North East

NNTP Net News Transfer Protocol

NNW North North West

NNX NANP syntax for a three-digit string, N:{2-9}, X:{0-9} [Telephony]

NOA NSWC Office Automation

NOAA National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration [Space, US Government]

NOAO National (Tucson, AZ, US) Optical Astronomical Observatories [Space]

NOC Network Operations Center

NORAD NORth American Defense Command

NORM Naturally Occuring Radioactive Material

NORML National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws

NOS Not Otherwise Specified

NOSC Naval Ocean Systems Center

NOTIS Network Operator Trouble Information System

NOW Negotiable Order for Withdrawal [Banking] (Is this MA or NE specific?)

NOx Nitrogen Oxides

NP No Protest

NP Nondeterministic-Polynomial

NP Notary Public

NP Noun Phrase

NPA Numbering Plan Area (area code) [Telephony]

NPC Non-Player Character (see PC) [Role-playing]

NPL National Physical Laboratory (UK)

NPL Non-Procedural Language

NPN Negative-Positive-Negative (transistor)

NPN NonProtein Nitrogen

NPR National Public Radio

NPR non-Processor Request [PDP11, UNIBUS]

NQS Network Queuing System

NRA National Reconstruction Act (FDR era US)

NRA National Rifle Association

NRAO National Radio Astronomical Observatory [Space]

NRC National Research Council

NRC Nuclear Regulatory Commission

NRE Non-Recurring Engineering (as in NRE costs)

NREN National (US) Research and Education Network

NRL Naval Research Labs

NRO National Reconnaissance Office

NRO National Reconnaissance Organization [Space]

NRZ Non-Return to Zero

NRZI Non-Return to Zero Inverted (magnetic tape, 800 bpi)

NS Neutron Star [Space]

NS Not Specified

NS Nova Scotia

NS Nuclear Ship

NSA National Security Agency [US Government]

NSAP Network Service Access Point [OSI, Networking]

NSC National (US) Security Council [US Government]

NSE Network Software Environment

NSF National (US) Science Foundation [US Government]

NSS Nodal Switching System [NSFnet]

NSSDC National Space Science Data Center [Space]

NST Newfoundland Standard Time

NSTS National Space Transportation System [Space]

NSW New South Wales (Australia)

NSWC Naval Surface Warfare Center

NSWC Naval Surface Weapons Center

NT New Testament

NT Newfoundland Time

NT Northern Territory

NTEU National Treasury Employees Union

NTIS National Technical Information Service

NTN Neutralised Twisted Nematic

NTP Network Time Protocol [Internet]

NTP Normal Temperature and Pressure (see STP)

NTSB National Transportation Safety Board [US Government]

NTSC National Television Standards Committee

NTSC Never Twice Same Colour

NTT New Technology Telescope [Space]

NTT Nippon Telephone & Telegraph

NU Name Unknown

NURBS NonUniform Rational B-Spline

NUSC Naval Underwater Systems Center [US Government]

NV Nevada

NW North West

NWNET NorthWestNet

NWS National Weather Service

NWT North West Territories (Australia)

NXX NANP syntax for a three-digit string, N:{2-9}, X:{0-9} [Telephony]

NY New York

NYC New York City

NYNEX New York and New England (Telephone)

NYPD New York Police Department

NYSE New York Stock Exchange

NYSERNet New York State Educational and Research Network

NZ New Zealand

NZUSUGI New Zealand Unix System User Group, Inc.