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n_s
NS
See also: Appendix:Variations of "ns"
English
Alternative forms
- N.S. (Nova Scotia, New Style)
Abbreviation
NS
- Nova Scotia, a province of Canada
- nervous system
- New Style
- Netscape (Internet Browser)
- no show
- (video games, first-person shooters) nice shot
- (slang) Abbreviation of NATO state.
- Noble Sanctuary
- (Ireland) (Usually as part of a name) National School
- nuclear ship - nuclear-powered ship
- Norfolk Southern (Railroad)
- no smoking
- negative-strand
- native speaker
Derived terms
(negative-strand):
- NNS (nonsegmented negative-strand)
- NS RNA virus (negative-strand RNA virus)
Anagrams
Dutch
Pronunciation
Abbreviation
NS
- (rail transport) Nederlandse Spoorwegen (Dutch railway company)
German
Abbreviation
NS
- Nervensystem – nervous system (NS)
- Nachsatz, Nachschrift
- Nukleinsäure
- Nebensatz – contrary: Hauptsatz (HS)
- (mathematics) Nullstelle
- Niederschlesien – Lower Silesia
- Niedersachsen – official, politically correct: NI – Lower Saxony
- Neues Serbien, Nova Srbija – New Serbia, Nova Srbija (NS)
- Nationalsozialismus
Derived terms
1.
- ANS (autonomes Nervensystem)
- PNS (peripheres Nervensystem)
- VNS (vegetatives Nervensystem)
- ZNS (zentrales Nervensystem, Zentralnervensystem)
3.
- DNS (Desoxyribonukleinsäure)
- RNS (Ribonukleinsäure)
9.
- NS-Kult, NS-Verbot, NS-Zeit