| CODE | ABBREVIATION |
|
N
| Normal |
|
N/A
| Not Acceptable |
|
N/A
| Not Acceptable / Not Applicable |
|
NA
| Next Address / Not Acceptable / Not Applicable / Numerical Aperture |
|
NAA
| Newspaper Association of America |
|
NAA!
| Not Another Acronym! |
|
NAC
| Network Access Controller / Network Administration Center / Network Applications Consortium / Networks And Communications / New Age Crackers |
|
NACHA
| National Automated Clearing House Association |
|
NACK
| Negative Acknowledgement |
|
NACM
| Networks and Communications Marketing |
|
NACOMEX
| National Computer Exchange |
|
NACS
| NetWare Asynchronous Communications Server / Novell As |
|
NADF
| North American Directory Forum |
|
NADT
| Not A Darn Thing |
|
NAEB
| North American EDIFACT Board |
|
NAEC
| Novell Authorized Education Center |
|
NAG
| Network Architecture Group |
|
NAK
| Negative AcKnowledgment (ASCII) |
|
NAL
| Netware Application Launcher |
|
NALOPKT
| Not A Lot Of People Know That |
|
NAM
| Network Access Method / Number Assignment Module |
|
NAMAS
| National Measurement Accreditation Services |
|
NAMS
| Network Analysis and Management System |
|
NAMTUG
| North American MAP/TOP Users' Group |
|
NAN
| National Area Network |
|
NAND
| Not-And Gate |
|
NANP
| North American Numbering Plan |
|
NAP
| Network Access Point |
|
NAPE
| National Pirate Exchange (usually as NaPE) |
|
NAPL
| National Association of Printers and Lithographers |
|
NAPLPS
| North American Presentation Level Protocol Syntax |
|
NAPPA
| Northern American Phreakers/Piraters Association |
|
NARC
| Nuclear Phreakers/Hackers/Carders |
|
NARUC
| National Association of Regulatory Utilities Commissio |
|
NAS
| Network Application Support / Numerical and Atmospheric Sciences (network) |
|
NASA
| National Aeronautics and Space Administration |
|
NASI
| NetWare Asynchronous Services Interface |
|
NASM
| Named Account Sales Manager |
|
NASTD
| National Association of State Telecommunications Direc |
|
NAT
| Network Address Translation |
|
NATA
| National Association of Testing Authorities |
|
NATD
| National Association of Telecommunications Dealers |
|
NATOA
| National Association of Telecommunication Officers and |
|
NAU
| Network Access Unit / Network Addressable Unit |
|
NAUN
| Nearest Active Upstream Neighbor / Nearest Addressable |
|
NBB
| Number of Bytes of Binary |
|
NBD
| No Big Deal |
|
NBEC
| Non-Bell Exchange Carrier |
|
NBEUI
| Network BIOS Extended User Interface |
|
NBIF
| No basis in fact |
|
NBL
| Not bloody likely |
|
NBMA
| Non-Broadcast Multiple Access |
|
NBNS
| NetBIOS Name Server |
|
NBP
| Name Binding Protocol / NetBIOS Protocol |
|
NBS
| National Bureau of Standards |
|
NC
| Network Channel / Network Computer / Network Connection / no comment |
|
NCA
| Network Computing Architecture |
|
NCAIR
| National Center for Automated Information Research |
|
NCB
| Network Control Block |
|
NCC
| National Computing Center / Network Control Center / Norwegian Cracking Company |
|
NCCF
| Network Communications Control Facility |
|
NCF
| NetWare Command File |
|
NCI
| Network Channel Interface |
|
NCIA
| Native Client Interface Architecture |
|
NCIC
| National Crime Information Center/Computer / Network Control Interface Channel |
|
NCL
| Network Control Language |
|
NCM
| Network Connection Management / Node Controller Module |
|
NCMOS
| N-channel Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor |
|
NCMS
| Network Control and Management System |
|
NCP
| NetWare Core Protocol / Network Control Point/Program |
|
NCPS
| Netware Cross-Platform Services / Novell Cross Platform Services |
|
NCR
| National Cash Register |
|
NCS
| National Communications System / Network Computing System / Network Control System |
|
NCSA
| National Center for Supercomput(er)(ing) Applications / National Computer Security Association |
|
NCSC
| National Computer Security Center |
|
NCSI
| Network Communications Services Interface |
|
NCSL
| National Computer Systems Laboratory |
|
NCT
| Network Control Terminal |
|
NCTE
| Network Channel Terminating/Termination Equipment |
|
NCUG
| National Centrex Users' Group |
|
ND
| Network Digit |
|
NDA
| National Directory Assistance / Network Delivery Access / NonDisclosure Agreement |
|
NDC
| Network Data Collection |
|
NDCC
| Network Data Collection Center |
|
NDD
| NetWare Directory Database |
|
NDIAG
| Norton Diagnostics |
|
NDIS
| Network Device Interface Specification |
|
NDL
| Network Database Language |
|
NDM
| Network Database Managment |
|
NDMP
| Network Data Management Protocol |
|
NDMS
| NetWare Distributed Management Services |
|
NDN
| National Distribution Network / Non-Delivery Notification |
|
NDPS
| NetWare Distributed Printing Services |
|
NDR
| Network Data Representation |
|
NDS
| NetWare Directory Services / Network Data System / Novell Directory Service |
|
NDT
| Net Data Throughput / No Dead Trees |
|
NDTS
| Network Diagnostic and Test System |
|
NDU
| Network Device Utility |
|
NE
| Network Element |
|
NEAP
| Novell Education Academic Partner |
|
NEARNET
| New England Academic and Research Network |
|
NEAS
| North East Atlantic States |
|
NEAT
| Novell Easy Administration Tool |
|
NEBS
| New/Network Equipment Building System |
|
NEC
| National Electric Code / Nippon Electronic Company |
|
NEF
| Network Element Function |
|
NEMA
| National Electrical Manufacturers Association |
|
NEP
| Noise Equivalent Power |
|
NERC
| Natural Environment Research Council |
|
NERD
| National Establishment for Real Dorks |
|
NES
| Net Equipment Sales |
|
NESAC
| National Electronic Switching Assistance Center |
|
NESC
| National Electric Safety Code |
|
NESS
| Network of European Ship-building Students |
|
NET
| (The) Inter(sometimes as The NET) / Network (as high level domain .net) / Network Entity Title / Norme Europeenne de Telecommunications (European) |
|
NETBEUI
| Network Basic input/output system Extended User Interface |
|
NETBIOS
| Network Basic Input/Output System |
|
NETDDE
| Network Dynamic Data Exchange (usually as NetDDE) |
|
NETIPC
| Network InterProcess Communication |
|
NEUA
| National Elite Underground Alliance |
|
NEWS
| Network Error Warning System / Novell Electronic Webcasting Service |
|
NEXT
| Near End X-Talk / Near-End Cross Talk |
|
NF
| Not Finished |
|
NFA
| No Flaming Allowed |
|
NFF
| No Form Feed |
|
NFI
| no friggin' idea |
|
NFS
| Network File System |
|
NFSP
| National Federation of Software Pirates |
|
NFT
| Network File Transfer |
|
NFW
| No F**king Way |
|
NFWM
| No Fu**ing Way Man! |
|
NFX
| (The) New Fone Express (magazine) |
|
NGI
| Next-Generation Internet |
|
NH
| Nazi Hackers / Non-busy Hour |
|
NHAS
| New Hampshire Administrative Services |
|
NHOB
| Non-specific Hierarchical Operational Binding |
|
NHR
| Non Hierarchical Routing |
|
NHRP
| Next Hop Resolution Protocol / Next Hop Routing Protocol / Non-Hierarchical Routing Protocol |
|
NHTSA
| National Highway Traffic Safety Administration |
|
NI
| National ISDN (sometimes as NI-1) / Network Interconnect / Network Interface |
|
NI-1
| National ISDN 1 |
|
NIA
| Network Information Access (newsletter) |
|
NIC
| Network Information Center / Network Interface Card |
|
NICAD
| Nickel Cadmium (usually as NiCad) |
|
NICD
| NIckel CaDium (usually NiCd) |
|
NICE
| Network Information and Control Exchange |
|
NID
| Network Interface Device |
|
NIDL
| Network Interface Definition Language |
|
NIFOC
| Nude In Front Of Computer |
|
NIFOK
| Naked In Front of the Keyboard |
|
NIGGER
| now I've gotto go eveict Racists |
|
NIH
| National Institutes of Health |
|
NII
| National Information Infrastructure |
|
NIIT
| National Information Infrastructure Testbed (coalition |
|
NIM
| Network Interface Module |
|
NIMBY
| Not in My Back Yard |
|
NiMH
| Nickel Metal Hydride |
|
NIMH
| Nickel Metal Hydride (usually as NiMH) |
|
NIMH
| NIckel Metal Hydroxide |
|
NIMS
| Near Infrared Mapping Spectrometer |
|
NIOD
| Network Inward/Outward Dialing |
|
NIOS
| NetWare Input/Output System |
|
NIPS
| Neural Information Processing Systems |
|
NIR
| Networked Information Retrieval |
|
NIRF
| Near Infrared Fluorophores |
|
NIS
| Names Infomation Socket / National Information System / Network Information Service |
|
NISDN
| Narrowband Integrated Services Digital Network |
|
N-ISDN
| Narrowband Integrated Services Digital Network |
|
NISE
| Network Installation Service Engineer |
|
NISO
| National Information Standards Organization |
|
NISP
| Networked Information Services Project |
|
NISS
| National Information Services and Systems |
|
NIST
| National Institute of Standards and Technology |
|
NIST-APP
| National Institute of Standards and Technology Applica |
|
NIU
| Network Interface Unit |
|
NIUF
| North american ISDN Users' Forum |
|
NJE
| Network Job Entry |
|
NJTH
| Not Just Thinking Here |
|
NL
| Network Layer |
|
NLB
| Number of Lines of Binary |
|
NLDM
| Network Logical Data Manager |
|
NLM
| NetWare Loadable Module(s) |
|
NLP
| Name Lookup Protocol / Natural Language Processing |
|
NLPID
| Network Layer Protocol IDentifier |
|
NLQ
| Near-Letter Quality |
|
NLS
| National Language Support / oNLine Service / Online System |
|
NLSP
| NetWare Link Service Protocol |
|
NM
| Never mind / Nanometer (usually as Nm) / Network Management / Network Module |
|
NMA
| NetWare Management Agent / Network Management Architecture |
|
NMC
| Network Management Center |
|
NMCC
| Network Management Control Center |
|
NME
| Network Management Entity |
|
NMF
| Network Management Forum |
|
NMI
| Nautilus Memory Interconnect / Nonmaskable Interrupt / Non-Maskable Interrupt |
|
NMO
| Network Management Option |
|
NMOS
| Negative-channel Metal Oxide Semiconductor |
|
NMP
| Network Management Protocol |
|
NMR
| NetWare Management Responder / Normal Mode Rejection |
|
NMS
| NetWare Management System / Network Management System |
|
NMSIG
| Network Management Special Interest Group |
|
NMVT
| Network Management Vector Transport |
|
NN
| Negative Notification |
|
NND
| National Number Dialing |
|
NNF
| National Nanofabrication Facility |
|
NNI
| Netherlands Normatization Institute / Network Node Interface / Network to Network Interface |
|
NNM
| Network Node Manager |
|
NNS
| NetWare Name Service |
|
NNTP
| Network News Transport/Transfer Protocol |
|
NNX
| Network Numbering Exchange |
|
NOAA
| National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration |
|
NOC
| Network Operations Center |
|
NOCS
| Network Operations Center System |
|
NOF
| Network Operations Forum / Not On File |
|
NOMS
| Not on MY System |
|
NOOP
| Network OSI OPerations |
|
NOR
| Net Operating Revenue |
|
NORAD
| North American Defense Command |
|
NORGEN
| Network Operations Report GENerator |
|
NOS
| Network Operating System |
|
NOT
| Nation Of Thieves (usually as NOT!) |
|
NOT!
| Nation Of Thieves |
|
NOTIS
| Network Operator Trouble Information System |
|
NOYB
| #NAME? |
|
NP
| No Problem / Network Performance / Network Provider / New Project |
|
NPA
| National Phreaker's Alliance / Northern Phreaker's Alliance / NetWare Peripheral Architecture / Network Professional Association / No Power Alarm / Number Planning Area / Numbering Plan Area |
|
NPAI
| Network Protocol Address Information |
|
NPAP
| Network Printing Alliance Protocol |
|
NPC
| Network Parameter Control / North Pacific Cable / Northern Phun (Phreaker Hacker Underground Network) Company |
|
NPDA
| Network Problem Determination Application |
|
NPDU
| Network Protocol Data Unit |
|
NPF
| Network Partitioning Facility |
|
NPIP
| New Product Integration Process |
|
NPL
| National Physical Laboratory |
|
NPM
| NetView Performance Monitor |
|
NPN
| Notes Public Network |
|
NPO
| New Product Operations |
|
NPR
| National Performance Review / Network Process Engineering / Normal Priority Request |
|
NPRM
| Notice of Proposed Rule Making |
|
NPSI
| Network Packet Switch Interface |
|
NPSS
| NASA Packet Switching System |
|
NPSU
| New Product Start Up |
|
NPTN
| National Public Telecomputing Network |
|
NPV
| Net Present Value |
|
NRC
| National Research Council / No-Read Checking |
|
NRCS
| National Replacement Character Set |
|
NREN
| National Research and Education Network |
|
NRM
| Network Resource Management |
|
NRN
| No reply necessary / Novell Remote Network |
|
NRS
| Name Registration Scheme |
|
NRT
| Non-Real Time |
|
NRZ
| Non-Return to Zero (signaling) |
|
NRZI
| Non - Return to Zero Inverted |
|
NRZ-L
| Non - Return to Zero - Level |
|
NRZL
| Non-Return to Zero Level |
|
NS
| Nanosecond (usually as ns) / Network Service |
|
NSA
| National Security Agency / National Security Anarchists / Next Station Addressing |
|
NSAG
| Netskills Advisory Group |
|
NSAI
| National Standards Authority of Ireland |
|
NSAP
| Network Service(s) Access Point |
|
NSAPI
| Netscape Server Application Programming Interface |
|
NSC
| National Security Council / National Semiconductor / Network Service Center |
|
NSCS
| Network Service Center System |
|
NSDD
| National Security Decision Directive |
|
NSE
| (Novell) Network Support Encyclopedia |
|
NSEC
| Network Switching Engineering Center |
|
NSEL
| Network SELector |
|
NSEP
| National Security and Emergency Preparedness |
|
NSF
| National Science Foundation |
|
NSFNET
| National Science Foundation NETwork |
|
NSI
| (RPC) Name Service Independent / NASA Science Internet / Network Solutions Inc. |
|
NSM
| Network Systems Management |
|
NSO
| National Standards Organization |
|
NSP
| National Service Provider / NATO Standardized Profile / Network Service Part (SS7) / Network Services Protocol |
|
NSPMP
| Network Switching Performance Measurement Plan |
|
NSR
| Non-Source Routed |
|
NSS
| No Shit Shylock / Nodal Switching System |
|
NSSDU
| Normal Session Service Data Unit |
|
NSSG
| Netskills Steering Group |
|
NSSII
| Network Supervisory System II |
|
NSSR
| Non - Specific Subordinate Reference |
|
NSTL
| National Software Testing Laboratories |
|
NT
| Nested Task (flag) / Network Termination / New Technology (as in Windows NT) / Network Terminal / Northern Telecom |
|
NTA
| Nokturnal Trading Alliance |
|
NTAS
| (Windows) New Technology Advanced Server |
|
NTD
| Network Tools for Design |
|
NTE
| Network Terminal Equipment |
|
NTEC
| Network Technical Equipment Center |
|
NTFS
| (Windows) NT File System / New Technology File System |
|
NTFS
| NT File System |
|
NTI
| New Technologies/Technology Initiative / Novell Technology Institute |
|
NTIA
| National Telecommunications and Information Administration/Agency |
|
NTIS
| National Technical Information Service |
|
NTISSC
| National Telecommunications and Information Systems Steering |
|
NTK
| Nice To Know |
|
NTL
| Nevertheless |
|
NTLM
| NT Lan Manager |
|
NTM
| Network Traffic Management |
|
NTMP
| Network Training Materials Project |
|
NTN
| Network Terminal Number |
|
NTP
| Network Time Protocol |
|
NTPF
| Number of Terminals Per Failure |
|
NTS
| Network Technical Support / Network Test System / Network Tracking System |
|
NTSA
| Networking Technical Support Alliance |
|
NTSC
| National Television Standards Committee / New Technologies Sub-Committee |
|
NTT
| Nippon Telegraph and Telephone / Numbered Test Trunk |
|
NTTAWWT
| not that there's anything wrong with that |
|
NTU
| Network Terminating Unit |
|
NUA
| Network User Address / Network Users' Association |
|
NUCFS
| NetWare UNIX Client File System |
|
NUI
| NetWare Users International / Network User Identification / Network User Interface |
|
NUMA
| Non-Uniform Memory Access (architecture) |
|
NUNP
| No Users |
|
NUP
| New User Password |
|
NURBS
| NonUniform Rational B-Spline |
|
NUS
| National Union of Students |
|
NVE
| Network Visible Entity |
|
NVLAP
| National Voluntary Laboratory Accreditation Program |
|
NVN
| National Videtex Network |
|
NVP
| Nominal Velocity of Propagation |
|
NVRAM
| Nonvolatile Random Access Memory |
|
NVRAM
| Non-Volatile Random Access Memory |
|
NVT
| Novell Virtual Terminal |
|
NVTS
| Network Virtual Terminal Service |
|
NWG
| Network Working Group |
|
NWI
| New Work Item |
|
NWSS
| Networks & Site Services |
|
NYC
| New York Crackers |
|
NYCTMI
| Now You Come To Mention It |
|
NYNEX
| New York - New England Exchange / New York New England and the unknown (X) |
|
NYSERNET
| New York State Education and Research Network |
|
NYSHII
| New York Safe House II |