The letter N

• N /N/ quant. 1. A large and indeterminate number of objects
• nadger /nad'jr/ [Great Britain] v. Of software or hardware (not
• nagware /nag'weir/ [USENET] n. The variety of shareware
• nailed to the wall [like a trophy] adj. Said of a bug finally
• nailing jelly vi. See like nailing jelly to a tree.
• naive adj. Untutored in the perversities of some particular
• naive user n. A luser. Tends to imply someone who is
• NAK /nak/ [from the ASCII mnemonic for 0010101] interj.
• nano /nan'oh/ [CMU from `nanosecond'] n. A brief period of
• nano- [SI the next quantifier below micro-; meaning *
• nanoacre /nan'oh-ay`kr/ n. A unit (about 2 mm square) of real
• nanobot /nan'oh-bot/ n. A robot of microscopic proportions,
• nanocomputer /nan'oh-k*m-pyoo'tr/ n. A computer with
• nanofortnight [Adelaide University] n. 1 fortnight * 10^-9,
• nanotechnology /nan'-oh-tek-no`l*-jee/ n. A hypothetical
• nasal demons n. Recognized shorthand on the USENET group
• nastygram /nas'tee-gram/ n. 1. A protocol packet or item of
• Nathan Hale n. An asterisk (see also splat, ASCII). Oh,
• nature n. See has the X nature.
• neat hack n. 1. A clever technique. 2. A brilliant practical
• neats vs. scruffies n. The label used to refer to one of the
• neep-neep /neep neep/ [onomatopoeic, from New York SF fandom]
• neophilia /nee`oh-fil'-ee-*/ n. The trait of being excited and
• net.- /net dot/ pref. [USENET] Prefix used to describe people and
• net.god /net god/ n. Accolade referring to anyone who satisfies
• net.personality /net per`sn-al'-*-tee/ n. Someone who has made a name
• net.police /net-p*-lees'/ n. (var. `net.cops') Those USENET
• NetBOLLIX [from bollix to bungle] n. IBM's NetBIOS, an
• netburp [IRC] n. When netlag gets really bad, and delays
• netdead [IRC] n. The state of someone who signs off IRC,
• nethack /net'hak/ [UNIX] n. A dungeon game similar to
• netiquette /net'ee-ket/ or /net'i-ket/ [portmanteau from "network
• netlag [IRC, MUD] n. A condition that occurs when the delays in
• netnews /net'n[y]ooz/ n. 1. The software that makes USENET
• netrock /net'rok/ [IBM] n. A flame; used esp. on VNET,
• netsplit n. Syn. netburp.
• netter n. 1. Loosely, anyone with a network address. 2. More
• network address n. (also `net address') As used by hackers,
• network meltdown n. A state of complete network overload; the
• network, the n. 1. The union of all the major noncommercial,
• New Jersey [primarily Stanford/Silicon Valley] adj. Brain-damaged
• New Testament n. [C programmers] The second edition of K&R's
• newbie /n[y]oo'bee/ n. [orig. from British public-school and
• newgroup wars /n[y]oo'groop worz/ [USENET] n. The salvos of
• newline /n[y]oo'lin/ n. 1. [techspeak, primarily UNIX] The
• NeWS /nee'wis/, /n[y]oo'is/ or /n[y]ooz/ [acronym; the
• news n. See netnews.
• newsfroup // [USENET] n. Silly synonym for newsgroup,
• newsgroup [USENET] n. One of USENET's huge collection of
• nick [IRC] n. Short for nickname. On IRC, every user must
• nickle /ni'kl/ [from `nickel', common name for the U.S.
• night mode n. See phase (of people).
• Nightmare File System n. Pejorative hackerism for Sun's Network
• NIL /nil/ No. Used in reply to a question, particularly one
• Ninety-Ninety Rule n. "The first 90% of the code accounts
• NMI /N-M-I/ n. Non-Maskable Interrupt. An IRQ 7 on the PDP-11
• no-op /noh'op/ alt. NOP /nop/ [no operation] n. 1. (also v.)
• noddy /nod'ee/ [UK from the children's books] adj.
• NOMEX underwear /noh'meks uhn'-der-weir/ [USENET] n. Syn.
• Nominal Semidestructor n. Soundalike slang for `National
• non-optimal solution n. (also `sub-optimal solution') An
• nonlinear adj. [scientific computation] 1. Behaving in an erratic
• nontrivial adj. Requiring real thought or significant computing
• not ready for prime time adj. Usable, but only just so; not very
• notwork /not'werk/ n. A network, when it is acting flaky
• NP- /N-P/ pref. Extremely. Used to modify adjectives
• nroff /N'rof/ [UNIX, from "new roff" (see troff)] n. A
• NSA line eater n. The National Security Agency trawling program
• nude adj. Said of machines delivered without an operating system
• nuke /n[y]ook/ vt. 1. To intentionally delete the entire
• number-crunching n. Computations of a numerical nature, esp.
• numbers [scientific computation] n. Output of a computation that
• NUXI problem /nuk'see pro'bl*m/ n. Refers to the problem of
• nybble /nib'l/ (alt. `nibble') [from v. `nibble' by analogy
• nyetwork /nyet'werk/ [from Russian `nyet' = no] n. A network,

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