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nt

1 American  
Physics.
  1. nit; nits.


Nt 2 American  
Symbol, Chemistry.
  1. niton.


NT 3 American  

abbreviation

  1. Biology, Ecology. near threatened.

  2. neurotypical.

  3. New Testament.

  4. Northwest Territories, Canada (approved for postal use).


-n't 4 American  
  1. a contraction of not.

    didn't; hadn't; couldn't; shouldn't; won't; mustn't.


N.T. 5 American  

abbreviation

  1. New Testament.

  2. Northern Territory.


NT 1 British  

abbreviation

  1. National Trust

  2. New Testament

  3. Northern Territory (of Australia)

  4. (esp in postal addresses) Northwest Territories (of Australia)

  5. (esp in postal addresses) Nunavut

  6. no-trump

  7. (in Ireland) National Teacher (teacher in a National School)

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

-n't 2 British  

contraction

  1. not: used as an enclitic after be and have when they function as main verbs and after auxiliary verbs or verbs operating syntactically as auxiliaries

    can't

    don't

    shouldn't

    needn't

    daren't

    isn't

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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From BBC Aug. 6, 2023

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From The Guardian Sep. 8, 2014

From each library, one lane of data was generated with read lengths of 2 ×54 nt on the GA and 2×50 nt on the HiSeq2000.

From Nature Jan. 22, 2014

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From Forbes Aug. 2, 2012

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From Scandinavian influence on Southern Lowland Scotch by George Tobias Flom

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From The Verge Nov. 22, 2021

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From Opticks or, a Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections, and Colours of Light by Sir Isaac Newton

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From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 6, 2026

It will run through the NT Skills Centre, which the theatre said trains thousands of people across the UK each year in partnership with Bank of America.

From BBC Jul. 30, 2026

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From BBC May 26, 2026

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From BBC Jan. 2, 2025

At the moment, he had NT 5, NT 4, Work Station, Windows 98, and he and Eric had begun fooling around with Linux, the complex, open-source software system rapidly spreading across the world.

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Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce is selling its Caribbean banking arm for roughly $1.6 billion to Bank of N.T.

From The Wall Street Journal May 28, 2026

The three-hour maximalist action epic is one of India’s most expensive and top-grossing films of all time and pairs two of the country’s biggest stars: N.T.

From Seattle Times Mar. 13, 2023

Rajamouli, "Naatu Naatu" begins when the two leads, played by Ram Charan and N.T.

From Reuters Jan. 25, 2023

The movie, which stars two of India’s most popular actors — Ram Charan and N.T.

From New York Times Jan. 24, 2023

His critical edition of the N.T. of a.d.

From Church History, Vol. 3 of 3 by J. H. Kurtz