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- (from the article "metalogic") In order to clarify the abstract concepts of metalogic, a formal system N (with its formal language) may be considered for illustration.
- n'dama cattle
- (from the article "Congo") ...corn (maize), peanuts (groundnuts), and fruit. Livestock consists of sheep, goats, pigs, and poultry. The government has sponsored the raising of cattle since the introduction in the 1960s of n'dama cattle-a breed resistant to the tsetse fly.
- N'Djamena
- capital of Chad, on the southwestern border, adjacent to Cameroon. It lies on the east bank of the Chari (Shari) River at its confluence with the Logone River in an alluvial plain that is flooded during the rainy season (July-September). ... [5 Related Articles]
- N'Dour, Youssou
- (from the article "Performing Arts") ...and nine other cities to call attention to world poverty on the eve of the G-8 meeting. The London Live 8 event included such notables as U2, Madonna, Paul McCartney, and Pink Floyd. Senegal's Youssou N'Dour appeared there too before ...
- n'dragheta
- (from the article "Calabria") Despite these changes the local Calabrian Mafia, called the n'dragheta, persists, and its long-established practice of kidnapping was a model for similar acts by others which plagued Italy during the 1970s. The region's economic development is still hindered by rugged ...
- N'ko alphabet
- (from the article "Bambara") The Bambara, like other West African peoples, use the distinctive N'ko alphabet, which reads from right to left. They have a remarkable system of metaphysics and cosmology, encompassing associated animistic cults, prayers, and myths. Their religious sculptures in wood and ...
- N-1
- (from the article "Energia") ...N1-L3 program, designed to compete with the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Apollo program to land humans on the Moon. After four consecutive failures of the giant multistage N1 rocket, a counterpart to the American Saturn V, the Soviet ...
- N-156
- (from the article "Northrop Grumman Corporation") In the 1950s Northrop Aircraft-which became Northrop Corporation in 1958-successfully applied the concept of low life-cycle cost to the development and marketing of the N-156 (first flown in 1959), a lightweight, supersonic jet fighter built for simple maintenance and economy ...
- n-body problem
- (from the article "celestial mechanics") The general problem of n bodies, where n is greater than three, has been attacked vigorously with numerical techniques on powerful computers. Celestial mechanics in the solar system is ultimately an n-body problem, but the special configurations and relative smallness ...
- n-butyl alcohol
- (from the article "liquid") ...often depending strongly on temperature. In most cases, rising temperature produces enhanced solubility, but this is not always so. For example, at 50° C the solubility (weight percent) of n-butyl alcohol in water is 6.5 percent, whereas that of water ...
- N-methyl-D-aspartic acid receptor
- (from the article "nervous system") ...receptor sites glutamate depolarizes the membrane by opening nonspecific cation channels, which allow a net influx of Na+ and Ca2+. Of the excitatory amino acid receptors, the N-methyl-D-aspartic acid (NMDA) receptor has been thoroughly characterized. Patch-clamp studies show that this ...
- n-p-n transistor
- (from the article "electronics") A transistor is constructed with two p-n junctions parallel and very close to one another. A typical configuration is the n-p-n transistor (see figure), which has different levels of doping in the two n-type regions and other features that improve ...
- n-propyl alcohol
- (from the article "chemical industry") In the alcohols with three carbon atoms, there are two possible structures, or isomers. One is called n-propyl alcohol (or 1-propanol), the other isopropyl alcohol (or 2-propanol).
- N-square law
- (from the article "naval warfare") ...reach most of the ships on the opposite side, making concentration of firepower by a whole fleet feasible and expected. The advantage was worked out mathematically in what were called the "N-square law" and the "square law of attrition": success ...
- N-Town plays
- an English cycle of 42 scriptural (or "mystery") plays dating from the second half of the 15th century and so called because an opening proclamation refers to performance "in N. town." Since evidence suggests that the cycle was not peculiar ...
- n-type semiconductor
- (from the article "crystal") ...may have a high density of impurities that cause holes, and a high electrical conductivity is created by their motion. A p-type semiconductor is one with a preponderance of holes; an n-type semiconductor has a preponderance of conduction electrons. The ...
- N-type star
- (from the article "stellar classification") Supplementary classes of cool stars include R and N (often called C-type, or carbon stars: less than 3,000 K), and S, which resemble class M stars but have spectral bands of zirconium oxide prominent instead of those of titanium oxide.
- N.W. Ayer & Son
- (from the article "Ayer, Francis Wayland") U.S. advertising pioneer who founded N.W. Ayer & Son and revolutionized that industry by making the advertising firm an active agent for the advertiser, rather than a middleman selling a newspaper's space to the advertiser.
- N.W.A.
- (from the article "gangsta rap") ...music was the subject of outrage in some corners. But gangsta rap became a national phenomenon in California, where a distinct school of West Coast hip-hop began with Eazy E's Los Angeles group N.W.A. (Niggaz With Attitude).hip-hop
- Na Chul
- (from the article "New Religious Movement") ...century, Korea had been heavily influenced by Christian missionaries, both Catholic and Protestant. In the late 19th century the millenarian Tajong-gyo, or the Tangun Cult, was formulated by Na Chul. The postwar period sparked not only Christian churches-almost 50 percent ...
- Na'imah, Mikha'il
- Lebanese literary critic, playwright, essayist, and short-story writer who helped introduce modern realism into Arabic prose fiction.
- Na-Dene languages
- major grouping (phylum or superstock) of North American Indian languages, consisting of three language families-Athabascan (or Athapascan), Haida, and Tlingit-with a total of 22 languages. Of these languages 20 belong to the Athabascan family; they are spoken in the Northwest ...
- Na-mu, Lake
- (from the article "Tibet") Among the province's lakes, the three largest are located in central Tibet, northwest of Lhasa: Lakes T'ang-ku-la-yu-mu (Tibetan Tangra Yum), Na-mu (Nam), and Ch'i-lin (Ziling). South of Lhasa lie two large lakes, Yang-cho-yung (Yamdrok) and P'u-mo (Pomo). In western Tibet ...
- Naab River
- (from the article "Germany") ...Danube draws upon a series of right-bank Alpine tributaries, which, through reliance on spring and summer snowmelt, make its regime notably uneven. Further exceptions are the Altmuhl and the Naab, which follow a southerly direction until becoming north-bank tributaries of ...
- NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund
- (from the article "National Association for the Advancement of Colored People") ...of education and public information to win popular support, and direct action to achieve specific goals. In 1939 the NAACP established as an independent legal arm for the civil rights movement the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund, which litigated ...
- Naas
- market and garrison town (urban district) and county seat of County Kildare, Ireland. Naas was one of the royal seats of the ancient province of Leinster, and St. Patrick, the patron saint of Ireland, is said to have visited it. ...
- Nabahani
- (from the article "eastern Africa, history of") During the 15th century, Shirazi families continued to rule in Malindi, Mombasa, and Kilwa and at many lesser places along the coast. They also dominated Zanzibar and Pemba. The Nabahani, who were of Omani origin, ruled at Pate and were ...
- Nabarro, F. R. N.
- (from the article "solids, mechanics of") ...ground displacement and deformation induced by tectonic faulting. Also, the first elastodynamic solutions for the rapid motion of crystal dislocations, developed by South African materials scientist F.R.N. Nabarro in the early 1950s, were quickly adapted by seismologists to explain the ...
- Nabataean
- member of a people of ancient Arabia whose settlements lay in the borderlands between Syria and Arabia, from the Euphrates River to the Red Sea. Little is known about them before 312 BC, when they were unsuccessfully attacked by Demetrius ... [6 Related Articles]
- Nabataean
- (from the article "Aramaic language") In the early centuries AD, Aramaic divided into East and West varieties. West Aramaic dialects include Nabataean (formerly spoken in parts of Arabia), Palmyrene (spoken in Palmyra, which was northeast of Damascus), Palestinian-Christian, and Judeo-Aramaic. West Aramaic is still spoken ...
- Nabataean alphabet
- writing system used between approximately 150 BC and AD 150 in the Nabataean kingdom of Petra in the Arabian Peninsula. Used by the Nabataeans to write the Aramaic language, this alphabet was related to the Aramaic alphabet, one of the ... [2 Related Articles]
- nabati
- (from the article "Saudi Arabia") Native Bedouin poetry, known as nabati, is extremely popular. It has similarities to the classical qasidah, or ode, of which the central and eastern regions of the country are the traditional birthplace. Many of ...
- Nabatiyyah al-Tahta, Al-
- town, southern Lebanon. It is the major centre of tobacco growing in Lebanon. Other agricultural products are grapes, olives, figs, and grains. Most of the inhabitants of the town are Shi'ite Muslims. A main road crosses the region connecting Al-Nabatiyyah ...
- Nabbes, Thomas
- English dramatist and writer of verse, one of a number of lesser playwrights of the period. He is perhaps best known for his masques.
- Naber, John
- American swimmer who won four gold medals and a silver at the 1976 Olympics in Montreal. [1 Related Articles]
- Naberezhnye Chelny
- city, Tatarstan, west-central Russia, on the left bank of the Kama River. The city is best known for its Kama truck plant, the world's largest. Also located at Naberezhnye Chelny is the Lower Kama hydroelectric station. Because of these developments, ...
- Nabeshima ware
- (from the article "Imari ware") ...Korean craftsmen and by the popularity of Chinese wares; but by the mid-17th century, native Japanese designs began to predominate, especially in the development of such overglaze enameled wares as Nabeshima, Kakiemon, and Old Imari.
Japanese enamelled porcelain
- Nabeul
- town in northeastern Tunisia located on the Gulf of Hammamet. Formerly a Phoenician settlement, it was destroyed by the Romans in 146 BCE and later rebuilt as a Roman colony called Neapolis. It is a noted pottery and ceramics handicraft ...
- Nabha
- city, southeastern Punjab state, northwestern India. It is located some 16 miles (26 km) west and slightly north of Patiala. Nabha (founded 1755) was the capital of the princely state of Nabha, established in 1763 and composed of 12 scattered ...
- Nabi
- (from the article "Turkish literature") The leading poet of the later 17th century was Nabi, a provincial notable who became an intimate of the second vizier, Koprulu Fazil Mustafa Pasa, and eventually served as his chancery secretary. In his youth Nabi attracted the notice of ...
- Nabi Salih
- (from the article "Bahrain") ...and Sitrah, both to the northeast-are joined to Bahrain Island by causeways that have facilitated residential and industrial development; other islands in the group are Nabi Salih, Al-Muhammadiyyah (Umm al-Sabban), Umm al-Na'san (linked by the King Fahd Causeway), and Jiddah. ...
- Nabi Shu'ayb, Mount Al-
- (from the article "Arabia") ...plateau, edged with deeply dissected escarpments on three sides and sloping gently northeastward from the Red Sea to the eastern lowlands adjoining the Persian Gulf. The peninsula's highest peak, An-Nabi Shu'ayb, at 12,008 feet (3,660 metres), is located approximately 20 ...
- Nabighah al-Dhubyani, al-
- pre-Islamic Arab poet, the first great court poet of Arabic literature. His works were among those collected in the Mu'allaqat. [4 Related Articles]
- Nabis
- group of artists who, through their widely diverse activities, exerted a major influence on the art produced in France during the late 19th century. They maintained that a work of art reflects an artist's synthesis of nature into personal aesthetic ... [2 Related Articles]
- Nabis
- last ruler (207-192) of an independent Sparta. Nabis carried on the revolutionary tradition of Kings Agis IV and Cleomenes III. Since ancient accounts of him are mainly abusive, the details of his laws remain obscure, but it is certain that ... [1 Related Articles]
- Nabis
- (from the article "damsel bug") Each foreleg of the damsel bug is slightly thickened and has a double row of spines that act as grasping organs when the leg bends. Nabis is one of the most common genera in this family, which contains about 300 ...
- Nabisco
- former U.S. snack food and bakery product company. The National Biscuit Company was formed in 1898 when the American Biscuit Company merged with the New York Biscuit Company. Better known as Nabisco, it went on to introduce a number of ... [1 Related Articles]
- Nabiyev, Rakhmon Nabiyevich
- Tajik political leader (b. Oct. 5, 1930, Shaykhburhan, Khujand rayon (sector), Tajik S.S.R., U.S.S.R.--d. April 10-11, 1993, Khujand, Tajikistan), was a devout member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) and twice (1982-85, 1991-92) head of a Tajik ... [1 Related Articles]
- Nablus
- city in the West Bank. It lies in an enclosed, fertile valley and is the market centre of a natural oasis that is watered by numerous springs. [6 Related Articles]
- Nabokov, V. D.
- (from the article "Nabokov, Vladimir") Nabokov was born into an old aristocratic family. His father, V.D. Nabokov, was a leader of the pre-Revolutionary liberal Constitutional Democratic Party (Kadets) in Russia and was the author of numerous books and articles on criminal law and politics, among ...
- Nabokov, Vladimir
- Russian-born American novelist and critic, the foremost of the post-1917 emigre authors. He wrote in both Russian and English, and his best works, including Lolita (1955), feature stylish, intricate literary effects. [3 Related Articles]
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