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Places

  • North Dakota
    North Dakota
    North Dakota is a state located in the Midwestern region of the United States of America, along the Canadian border. The state is bordered by Canada to the north, Minnesota to the east, South Dakota to the south and Montana to the west. North Dakota is the 19th-largest state by area in the U.S....

    , a state in the United States
  • New Delhi
    New Delhi
    New Delhi is the capital city of India. It serves as the centre of the Government of India and the Government of the National Capital Territory of Delhi. New Delhi is situated within the metropolis of Delhi. It is one of the nine districts of Delhi Union Territory. The total area of the city is...

     (India)
  • Notre Dame (disambiguation)
    Notre Dame (disambiguation)
    * Notre Dame is a French title for the Blessed Virgin Mary.* The most famous church with this name is Notre Dame de Paris.* In the United States, it often refers to the University of Notre Dame and their football team....

    , for a number of churches and colleges

Science and medicine

  • Neodymium
    Neodymium
    Neodymium is a chemical element with the symbol Nd and atomic number 60. It is a soft silvery metal that tarnishes in air. Neodymium was discovered in 1885 by the Austrian chemist Carl Auer von Welsbach. It is present in significant quantities in the ore minerals monazite and bastnäsite...

    , an element with the symbol "Nd"
  • Doctor of Naturopathic Medicine
    Doctor of Naturopathic Medicine
    Doctor of Naturopathic Medicine , in 16 U.S. states and six Canadian provinces refers exclusively to a medical degree granted by an accredited naturopathic medical school...

    , an academic degree in naturopathic medicine
    Naturopathic medicine
    Naturopathy, or Naturopathic Medicine, is a form of alternative medicine based on a belief in vitalism, which posits that a special energy called vital energy or vital force guides bodily processes such as metabolism, reproduction, growth, and adaptation...

  • National Diploma
    National Diploma
    The National Diploma was a three year ab initio specialised higher education qualification in a technology discipline offered by an Institute of Technology or other HETAC designated institution in Ireland....

    , an academic qualification in the Republic of Ireland
  • "not determined" or "not detected", "n.d." instead of a numerical value in listings
  • n.d., "no date" in bibliographies
  • Non-Distended, particularly in reference to abdominal distension
    Abdominal distension
    Abdominal distension is a sensation of elevated abdominal pressure and volume. It is estimated that close to 25% of the US population has some degree of abdominal distension on a regular basis. Some describe it as belching, others claim they feel nausea and yet others say they pass excessive gas...

     during a clinical examination in medicine
  • NADH dehydrogenase
    NADH dehydrogenase
    NADH dehydrogenase is an enzyme located in the inner mitochondrial membrane that catalyzes the transfer of electrons from NADH to coenzyme Q...

    , an enzyme that catalyzes the transfer of electrons from NADH to coenzyme Q
  • nD, the refractive index
    Refractive index
    In optics the refractive index or index of refraction of a substance or medium is a measure of the speed of light in that medium. It is expressed as a ratio of the speed of light in vacuum relative to that in the considered medium....

     of a medium at a wavelength of 589.8 nm (the Fraunhofer
    Fraunhofer lines
    In physics and optics, the Fraunhofer lines are a set of spectral lines named for the German physicist Joseph von Fraunhofer . The lines were originally observed as dark features in the optical spectrum of the Sun....

     "D" lines of Natrium)
  • Nth dimension
    Dimension
    In physics and mathematics, the dimension of a space or object is informally defined as the minimum number of coordinates needed to specify any point within it. Thus a line has a dimension of one because only one coordinate is needed to specify a point on it...

  • The Notitia Dignitatum
    Notitia Dignitatum
    The Notitia Dignitatum is a unique document of the Roman imperial chanceries. One of the very few surviving documents of Roman government, it details the administrative organisation of the eastern and western empires, listing several thousand offices from the imperial court down to the provincial...

    , a unique document of the Roman imperial chanceries

Politics

  • New Democracy (Canada)
    New Democracy (Canada)
    New Democracy was a political party in Canada founded by William Duncan Herridge in 1939. Herridge, a former Conservative party adviser who was Canada's Envoy to the United States from 1931-35 during the government of R. B. Bennett....

    , a former political party in Canada
  • New Democracy (Greece)
    New Democracy (Greece)
    New Democracy is the main centre-right political party and one of the two major parties in Greece. It was founded in 1974 by Konstantinos Karamanlis and formed the first cabinet of the Third Hellenic Republic...

    , one of the main center-right liberal political parties in Greece
  • National Democrats (Sweden)
    National Democrats (Sweden)
    The National Democrats is a minor political party in Sweden, formed by a faction of the Sweden Democrats in October 2001. The party describes itself as a democratic nationalist and ethnopluralist party....

    , a far-right political party in Sweden

Creative work

  • Nate Dogg
    Nate Dogg
    Nathaniel Dwayne Hale , better known by his stage name Nate Dogg, was an American musician. He is noted for his membership of rap trio 213 and his solo career in which he collaborated with Dr. Dre, Warren G, Tupac and Snoop Dogg on many hit releases. Nate Dogg released three solo albums, G-Funk...

    , an American Rapper
  • No Doubt
    No Doubt
    No Doubt is an American rock band from Anaheim, California that formed in 1986. The ska-pop sound of their first album No Doubt , failed to make an impact...

    , an American Rock Band
  • New Divide
    New Divide
    "New Divide" is a song by American rock band Linkin Park. The song is released as a single and was recorded specifically for Michael Bay's film Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. The song serves as the film's theme, and was released as a single on May 18, 2009...

    , a song by the American Hard Rock band Linkin Park
    Linkin Park
    Linkin Park is an American rock band from Agoura Hills, California. Formed in 1996, the band rose to international fame with their debut album, Hybrid Theory, which was certified Diamond by the RIAA in 2005 and multi-platinum in several other countries...

  • Nuclear Dawn
    Nuclear Dawn
    Nuclear Dawn is a post-apocalyptic first-person shooter real-time strategy hybrid video game. It was originally announced in February 2006 as an amateur mod for the Source engine, but in April 2009 was revealed to have become a commercial project, still using Source, aimed at Windows PCs, Mac OS X...

    , a mod for the game Half-Life 2
  • nD, a type of alien in the United Kingdom TV series Invasion Earth
    Invasion: Earth (TV series)
    Invasion: Earth is a BBC science fiction TV series. It was made in collaboration with the Sci Fi Channel, and released in 1998 as six fifty minute episodes.-Creation and production:...

    .

Technology

  • Norsk Data
    Norsk Data
    Norsk Data was a computer manufacturer located in Oslo, Norway. Existing from 1967 to 1992, it had its most active period in the years from the early 1970s to the late 1980s...

    , a defunct Norwegian computer manufacturer
  • Neutral density filter
    Neutral density filter
    In photography and optics, a neutral density filter or ND filter can be a colorless or grey filter. An ideal neutral density filter reduces and/or modifies intensity of all wavelengths or colors of light equally, giving no changes in hue of color rendition.The purpose of standard photographic...

    , a type of filter used in photography
  • Contax N Digital
    Contax N Digital
    The Contax N Digital was a six-megapixel digital SLR camera produced by Contax in Japan. The camera was announced in late 2000, and began to be sold in spring 2002, after several delays...

    , a digital SLR camera
    Single-lens reflex camera
    A single-lens reflex camera is a camera that typically uses a semi-automatic moving mirror system that permits the photographer to see exactly what will be captured by the film or digital imaging system, as opposed to pre-SLR cameras where the view through the viewfinder could be significantly...

     made by Contax
    Contax
    Contax was a camera brand noted for its unique technical innovation and a wide range of Zeiss lenses, noted for their high optical quality. Its final incarnation was a line of 35 mm, medium format and digital cameras engineered and manufactured by Kyocera, and featuring modern Zeiss optics...

  • NetDocuments
    NetDocuments
    NetDocuments is a content management company that provides cloud document management and collaboration solutions for law firms, financial services and other businesses...

    , a SaaS
    Saas
    SAAS is an abbreviation for* Social Accountability Accreditation Services* Software as a service * Student Awards Agency for Scotland* Seattle Academy of Arts and Sciences* South Australian Ambulance Service...

     document management service provider based in Utah.

Other

  • Nd (digraph), a digraph present in many African languages
  • The ISO 639-1 code for Northern Ndebele language
    Northern Ndebele language
    The Northern Ndebele language, isiNdebele, or Ndebele is an African language belonging to the Nguni group of Bantu languages, and spoken by the Ndebele or Matabele people of Zimbabwe. It is commonly known as Sindebele....


  • Negligent discharge
    Negligent discharge
    A negligent discharge is a discharge of a firearm involving culpable carelessness. In judicial and military technical terms, a negligent discharge is a chargeable offence. A number of armed forces automatically consider any accidental discharge to be negligent discharge, under the assumption that...

    , an accidental discharge of a firearm involving culpable carelessness
  • Nuclear disarmament
    Nuclear disarmament
    Nuclear disarmament refers to both the act of reducing or eliminating nuclear weapons and to the end state of a nuclear-free world, in which nuclear weapons are completely eliminated....

    , the dismantlement and proposed dismantling of nuclear weapons
  • Norrlands dragonregemente
    Norrlands dragonregemente
    Norrlands dragonregemente , also K 4 or K 8, was a Swedish Army cavalry regiment located in the province of Lappland that traces its origins back to the 17th century. It is still in active service.- History :...

    , a cavalry regiment of the Swedish Army
    Swedish Army
    The Swedish Army is one of the oldest standing armies in the world and a branch of the Swedish Armed Forces; it is in charge of land operations. General Sverker Göranson is the Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the Army.- Organization :...

  • Nancy Drew
    Nancy Drew
    Nancy Drew is a fictional young amateur detective in various mystery series for all ages. She was created by Edward Stratemeyer, founder of the Stratemeyer Syndicate book packaging firm. The character first appeared in 1930. The books have been ghostwritten by a number of authors and are published...

    , a character in the series of books and video games with the same name
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