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NN

Date "NN" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1904. (references)

"NN" is a common misspelling or typo for: an, in, inn, nine, no, none, nun, on.


Crosswords: NN

Specialty definitions using "NN": Network News Transfer Protocol, news reader. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Specialty Definition: NN

DomainDefinition

Computing

Nn A terminal based program for reading Usenet news by Kim F. Storm , Texas Instruments A/S, Denmark. nn lets you decide which of the many news groups you are interested in, and unsubscribe to those which don't interest you. nn lets you select articles to read from a menu in each of the groups you subscribe. nn sorts and presents new articles very quickly because it uses its own local database to maintain all the necessary information (this database is built and maintained by the nnmaster program). The NNTP support was designed and implemented by Ren'e Seindal, Institute of Datalogy, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. E-mail: (bugs, fixes, suggestions, etc.) Usenet newgroup: news:news.software.nn. (1995-12-04) NNI Network Node Inte. Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing.

Geological

When correcting image data points, the nearest neighbor technique assigns for each new pixel that pixel value which is closest in relative location to the newly computed pixel location. (Nearest Neighbor Resampling). (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: NN

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
EntrySourceExpressionField

NN

DutchNeuraal netwerkmodelComputing

NN

EnglishNewport NewsN/A

NN

GermanVgl. Normal-NullMilitary & Defense, Geography

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Modern Usage: NN

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

NN ese soy yo Jorge Giannoni (2000)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: NN

DomainTitle

References

  • NN, Inc.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

    (more reference examples)

  

Books

  • Approaches to Teaching Shelley's Frankenstein Nn (reference)

  • Fragments from Hellenistic Jewish Author Nn Ypha Series, No. 20, 30, No. 10, 12) (reference)

  • Nn (Alphabet Set Ii) (reference)

  • Nn 200 Navigation: Student Note Taking Guide (reference)

  • NN BALL & ROLLER, INC.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (Financial Performance Series) (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: NN

"NN" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 92.31% of the time. "NN" is used about 104 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (proper)92.31%9633,456
Lexical Verb (infinitive)3.85%4175,879
Noun (common)1.92%2245,945
Lexical Verb (base form)0.96%1339,140
Noun (singular)0.96%1339,140
                    Total100.00%104N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: NN

Hypenated Usage

Ending with "NN": meaning-nn.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: NN

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

nn teen

448

nn inc

14

nn

396

nn picture

14

girl nn

201

nn talk

14

gallery nn

122

free nn pic

14

boards nn

67

board nn

13

model nn

66

100 nn top

12

girl.com nn

61

movie nn

12

model nn teen

58

nn preteens

11

model nn preteen

44

nn script

10

gallery nn teen

43

cuestionario likert nn tt

10

nn pic teen

34

nn pantie teen

9

nn preteen

32

asian nn

9

nn portal

30

cam nn

9

nn pic

27

girl nn young

9

nn tgp

23

nn picture stone tawnee

9

asian nn pre teen

21

nn teen young

9

nn pantie

18

babe nn

9

girl model nn

18

nn picture post

9

girl nn teen

16

forum nn teen

9

angel nn

15

child model nn

9
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Derivations: NN

Derivations

Words ending with "NN": bunn, conn, djinn, inn, jinn, linn, sunn, wynn. (additional references)

Words containing "NN": aginner, aginners, alienness, aliennesses, anna, annal, annalist, annalistic, annalists, annals, annas, annates, annatto, annattos, anneal, annealed, annealer, annealers, annealing, anneals, annelid, annelidan, annelidans, annelids, annex, annexation, annexational, annexationist, annexationists, annexations, annexe, annexed, annexes, annexing, annihilate, annihilated, annihilates, annihilating, annihilation, annihilations, annihilator, annihilators, annihilatory, anniversaries, anniversary, annotate, annotated, annotates, annotating, annotation, annotations. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: NN

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

 Words containing the letters "n-n"
 

+1 letter: inn, nan, nun.

 

+2 letters: anna, anon, bunn, conn, inns, jinn, linn, naan, nana, nans, nene, neon, nine, nona, none, noon, noun, nuns, sunn, wynn.

 

+3 letters: ancon, anent, anion, annal, annas, annex, annoy, annul, banns, benne, benni, benny, bonne, bonny, bunns, bunny, canna, canny, canon, conin, conns, djinn, donna, donne, ennui, fanny, fanon, fenny, finny, funny, ginny, gnawn, gunny, henna, hinny, honan, inane, inion, inned, inner, inurn, jenny, jinni, jinns, jnana, kinin, known, linen, linin, linns, manna, minny, naans, nanas, nance, nancy, nanny, nenes, neons, nines, ninja, ninny, ninon, ninth, niton, nomen, nonas, nonce, nones, nonet, nonyl, noons, nouns, numen, nylon, onion, panne, penna, penne, penni, penny, pinna, pinny, pinon, punny, renin, runny, senna, sonny, sunna, sunns, sunny, tenon, tinny, tonne, tunny, unban, union, unman, unpen, unpin, unwon, venin, wenny, wynns, xenon.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: NN


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4E 4E

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

=

Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-.    -.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001110 01001110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#78 &#78

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004E 004E

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

4848

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Usage Frequency
6. Expressions
7. Expressions: Internet
8. Abbreviations
9. Acronyms
10. Derivations
11. Anagrams
12. Orthography
13. Bibliography


  

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