Uncategorized Acronyms

Alphabetical Listing of Uncategorized Acronyms

NQ — Dronning Maud Land (ISO 3166 Digram; Obsolete 1983)
NQOCD — Not Quite Our Class
NR — Nauru (ISO 3166 And FIPS 10-4 Country Code Digram)
NR — Southern Ndebele Language (ISO 639-1 Code)
NRA — National Rifle Association
NRAO — National Radio Astronomy Observatory
NRC — National Research Council (U.S.) – Nuclear Regulatory Commission (U.S.)
NRDC — (U.S.) Natural Resources Defense Council
NREL — U.S. National Renewable Energy Laboratory
NRK — Norsk Rikskringkasting (Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation)
NRO — U.S. National Reconnaissance Office
NRT — Near Real Time
NRTA — National Thoroughbred Racing Association – National Rat Terrier Association – National Retail Tenants Association – National Retired Teachers Association – Northwest Regional Transmission Association
NRU — Nauru (ISO 3166 Trigram)
NS — Nanosecond
NS — Nanosiemens
NS — Nova Scotia (postal Symbol) – Suriname (FIPS 10-4 Country Code)
NSA — U.S. National Security Agency – Naval Support Activity – No Strings Attached
NSABB — National Science Advisory Board For Biosecurity
NSAID — Non-Steroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drug
NSB — Norges Statsbaner (Norwegian State Railways)
NSDAP — Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (German: German National Socialist Workers Party
NSG — National System For Geospatial-Intelligence
NSN — National Stock Number
NSO — National Standardization Office (ABCA)
NSS — (U.S.) Naval Simulation System
NST — (UK) Nimrod Software Team
NSTAC — National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee
NSW — New South Wales (postal Symbol)
NT — Iraq-Saudi Arabia Neutral Zone (ISO 3166 Digram; Obsolete 1993) – Northern Territory (Australia) (postal Symbol) – Northwest Territories (Canada) (postal Symbol) – National Trust (UK)
NT — Nanotesla
NTC — National Training Center – Negative Temperature Coefficient (thermistor)
NTDS — Naval Tactical Data System
NTP — Network Time Protocol
NTR — Network Time Reference
NTSB — National Transportation Safety Board
NTSC — National Television Standards Committee (colloquially
NTV — Non-Tactical Vehicle
NTZ — Iraq-Saudi Arabia Neutral Zone (ISO 3166 Trigram; Obsolete 1993)
NU — Nicaragua (FIPS 10-4 Country Code) – Niue (ISO 3166 Digram) – Nunavut (postal Symbol)
NUCC(C) — Nordic University Computer Club (Conference)
NUL — Null Character (ASCII Code of Control Character) – National Urban League
NUTS — Nuclear Utilization Target Selection
NUWC — U.S. Naval Undersea Warfare Center
NV — Nanovolt
NV — Navajo Language (ISO 639-1 Code)
NV — Nevada (postal Symbol)
NVEOL — Night Vision And Electro-Optics Laboratory
NVESD — Night Vision And Electronic Sensors Directorate
NVG — Night Vision Goggles
NVL — Night Vision Laboratory
NW — Nuclear Weapon
NW — Nanowatt
NW — North-West
NWA — National Wrestling Alliance
NWF — National Wildlife Federation
NWFZ — Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone
NWHN — U.S. National Women’s Health Network
NWO — New World Order (see Article For Explanation of Idiosyncratic Capitalization)
NWRA — National Wildlife Rehabilitators Association
NWT — North-West Territories
NY — Chichewa Language (ISO 639-1 Code)
NY — New York (postal Symbol)
NYA — Chichewa Language (ISO 639-2 Code)
NYHA — New York Heart Association
NYO — National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain
NYRA — National Youth Rights Association -New York Racing Association (horse Racing)
NYSE — New York Stock Exchange
NYT — New York Times
NZ — New Zealand (ISO 3166 And FIPS 10-4 Country Code Digram)
NZC — New Zealand Cricket
NZD — New Zealand Dollar (ISO 4217 Currency Code)
NZL — New Zealand (ISO 3166 Trigram)
NZL — Noze Looan (online/event Listings)
O — Oberst – Observer – Obstacle – Octal – Officer – Official – Oh – Operational – Operator – Oprah (magazine) – Outstanding -Oxygen
OA — Operational Analysis
OAC — On Approved Credit
OARSI — Osteoarthritis Research Society International
OAS — Organization of American States
OASIS — Objects And Agents For Information Systems And Simulation – Organization For The Advancement of Structured Information Standards
OASIS — Ontario Agencies Supporting Individuals With Special Needs
OASIS — Ontario Association of Sewage Industry Services
OASP — Operational Analysis Support Paper/Plan
OAU — Organization For African Unity
OB — Obedience – Obligation – Obligatory – Obsolete – Obstetrics -Ocean Beach (California) – Off Break (cricket) – Old Bryanstonian – Order of Battle – Outlet Box (electrical) -Overbought (stock Market) -Oversight Board
OB — Obiit (Latin
OBE — Officer of The Order of The British Empire
OBJ — Objective (military Parlance)
OBS — Observation/Observer – Obsolete – Obstacle -Off Balance Sheet – Optical Burst Switching (IEEE) – Organic Brain Syndrome – Organization(al) Breakdown Structure
OBSS — Off Board Sensor Systems – Ordo Byantinus Sancti Sepulchri (Byzantine Order of The Holy Sepulchre) – Orbiter Boom Sensor System (space Shuttle) – Origins Billion Star Survey
OBX — Outer Banks (North Carolina)
OC — Observer/Controller
OC — Occitan Language (ISO 639-1 Code)
OCA — Observatoire De La C?te D’Azur – Offensive Counter-Air
OCD — Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
OCFS — Oracle Cluster File System
OCFS2 — Oracle Cluster File System Release 2
OCI — Occitan Language (ISO 639-2 Code)
OCIDS — Optical Combat Identification System
OCN — Oncology Certified Nurse