Haida

the Na-Dene language of the Haida

— Princeton's WordNet

Tlingit

the Na-Dene language spoken by the Tlingit

— Princeton's WordNet

Melanism

a disease; black jaundice. See Mel/na

— Webster Dictionary

viitaniemiite

A mineral, Na(Ca,Mn++)Al(PO)(F,OH).

— Wiktionary

ajoite

A turquoise mineral with triclinic crystals, (K,Na)CuAlSiO(OH)u00B73HO.

— Wiktionary

nanoamp

One thousand millionth ( 10 ) of an ampere. Symbol: nA.

— Wiktionary

kogarkoite

A pale blue monoclinic mineral with the chemical formula Na(SO)F.

— Wiktionary

Nikolayevsk

A city in Primorsky Krai, Russia, also called Nikolayevsk-na-Amure

— Wiktionary

Sarcee

A native Canadian language of the Na-Dene family, spoken in Alberta.

— Wiktionary

Serve

to make legal service opon (a person named in a writ, summons, etc.); as, to serve a witness with a subp/na

— Webster Dictionary

zircophyllite

A complex mineral with the chemical formula (K,Na)(Mn,Fe)(Zr,Ti,Nb)SiO(OH,F).

— Wiktionary

zimbabweite

A yellow-brown mineral with chemical formula (Na,K)PbAs(Nb,Ta,Ti)O, generally classed as an arsenite.

— Wiktionary

Rostov

Rostov Oblast in Russia, its centre is Rostov-na-Donu.

— Wiktionary

sogdianite

A mineral of the osumilite group: (K,Na)Li(Li,Fe,Al)ZrSiO

— Wiktionary

jadeite

A pyroxene mineral, a sodium aluminium silicate with the chemical formula Na(Al,Fe)SiO, found in metamorphic rocks.

— Wiktionary

Numeric

any number, proper or improper fraction, or incommensurable ratio. The term also includes any imaginary expression like m + nÃ-1, where m and n are real numerics.

— Webster Dictionary

pyrochlore

A mineral whose composition is that of a mixed niobate mostly of sodium, calcium and cerium, (Na,Ca)NbO(OH,F).

— Wiktionary

osumilite

A hexagonal mineral with the chemical formula (K,Na)(Mg,Fe)(Al,Fe)(Si,Al)Ou00B7HO.

— Wiktionary

Rostov

a large city in Russia, centre of Rostov oblast, normally called Rostov-na-Donu or Rostov-on-Don (u0420u043Eu0441u0442u043Eu0432-u043Du0430-u0414u043Eu043Du0443).

— Wiktionary

glaucophane

A mixed aluminate of sodium, magnesium and aluminium that has a characteristic blue colour, and exhibits pleochroism, with the chemical formula Na(Mg,Fe)AlSiO(OH).

— Wiktionary

Service

the act of bringing to notice, either actually or constructively, in such manner as is prescribed by law; as, the service of a subp/na or an attachment

— Webster Dictionary

burkeite

A saline evaporite, consisting of mixture of sodium carbonate and sodium sulphate with the chemical formula Na(CO)(SO), found at Searles Lake, California.

— Wiktionary

Komsomolsk

Komsomolsk-na-Amure or Komsomolsk-on-Amur - a city in Khabarovsk Krai, Russia on the Amur river.

— Wiktionary

Dene-Yeniseian

A proposed language family linking the Na-Dene languages of North America and the Yeniseian languages of Siberia.

— Wiktionary

Rostov

a city in Russia, in Yaroslavl oblast, also called Rostov Veliky (u0420u043Eu0441u0442u043Eu0432 u0412u0435u043Bu0438u043Au0438u0439 literally: Rostov the Great) officially and to distinguish from Rostov-na-Donu.

— Wiktionary

heulandite

A common mineral of the zeolite group with monoclinic crystals, the most usual form being heulandite-Ca (Ca,Na)Al(Al,Si)SiOu00B712HO.

— Wiktionary

sodium

A soft, waxy, silvery reactive metal that is never found unbound in nature, and a chemical element (symbol Na) with an atomic number of 11 and atomic weight of 22.98977.

— Wiktionary

Navajo

An Apachean (Southern Athabaskan) language of the Athabascan language family belonging to the Na-Denu00E9 phylum. It is spoken by 149,000 people in the American Southwest (Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, and Colorado).

— Wiktionary

nonpermeable

Having the same magnetic permeability as that of free space, so that the material in question has a magnetic permeability (where = 410 NA exactly in SI units).

— Wiktionary

Cairbre Nia Fer

The king of Tara during the Ulster Cycle of Irish mythology, who was killed by Cu00FAchulainn in the Battle of Ros na Ru00EDg. Son-in-law of Conchobar mac Nessa and cousin-in-law of Conall Cernach. Husband of Fedelm Nou00EDchrothach. Father of Erc and Achall.

— Wiktionary

Sodium Radioisotopes

Unstable isotopes of sodium that decay or disintegrate emitting radiation. Na atoms with atomic weights 20-22 and 24-26 are radioactive sodium isotopes.

— U.S. National Library of Medicine

adjectival noun

In Japanese grammar, a specific part of speech, categorized in Japanese as u5F62u5BB9u52D5u8A5E (keiyu014D du014Dshi). Some of these words can be used as regular nouns, and all can be used as adjectives when followed by the postfix u306A (na), in contrast to Japanese common adjectives, u5F62u5BB9u8A5E (keiyu014Dshi).

— Wiktionary

Symbol

an abbreviation standing for the name of an element and consisting of the initial letter of the Latin or New Latin name, or sometimes of the initial letter with a following one; as, C for carbon, Na for sodium (Natrium), Fe for iron (Ferrum), Sn for tin (Stannum), Sb for antimony (Stibium), etc. See the list of names and symbols under Element

— Webster Dictionary

quasi-adjective

adjectival noun, a specific Japanese part of speech. Some of these words can be used as regular nouns, and all can be used as adjectives when followed by the postfix u306A (na), in contrast to Japanese common adjectives, u5F62u5BB9u8A5E (keiyu014Dshi). In Japanese grammar, these words are categorized as u5F62u5BB9u52D5u8A5E (keiyu014Ddu014Dshi).

— Wiktionary

Photoreceptor Cells, Invertebrate

Specialized cells in the invertebrates that detect and transduce light. They are predominantly rhabdomeric with an array of photosensitive microvilli. Illumination depolarizes invertebrate photoreceptors by stimulating Na+ influx across the plasma membrane.

— U.S. National Library of Medicine

Sodium Isotopes

Stable sodium atoms that have the same atomic number as the element sodium, but differ in atomic weight. Na-23 is a stable sodium isotope.

— U.S. National Library of Medicine

Amiodarone

An antianginal and antiarrhythmic drug. It increases the duration of ventricular and atrial muscle action by inhibiting Na,K-activated myocardial adenosine triphosphatase. There is a resulting decrease in heart rate and in vascular resistance.

— U.S. National Library of Medicine

Busa`co

a mountain ridge in the prov. of Beira, Portugal, where Wellington with 40,000 troops beat Masséna with 65,000.

— The Nuttall Encyclopedia

Essling

a village near Vienna, where the French gained a bloody victory over the Austrians in 1809, and which gave the title of prince to Masséna.

— The Nuttall Encyclopedia

Hypoaldosteronism

A congenital or acquired condition of insufficient production of ALDOSTERONE by the ADRENAL CORTEX leading to diminished aldosterone-mediated synthesis of Na(+)-K(+)-EXCHANGING ATPASE in renal tubular cells. Clinical symptoms include HYPERKALEMIA, sodium-wasting, HYPOTENSION, and sometimes metabolic ACIDOSIS.

— U.S. National Library of Medicine

Sodium

a common metallic element of the alkali group, in nature always occuring combined, as in common salt, in albite, etc. It is isolated as a soft, waxy, white, unstable metal, so readily oxidized that it combines violently with water, and to be preserved must be kept under petroleum or some similar liquid. Sodium is used combined in many salts, in the free state as a reducer, and as a means of obtaining other metals (as magnesium and aluminium) is an important commercial product. Symbol Na (Natrium). Atomic weight 23. Specific gravity 0.97

— Webster Dictionary

Ouabain

A cardioactive glycoside consisting of rhamnose and ouabagenin, obtained from the seeds of Strophanthus gratus and other plants of the Apocynaceae; used like DIGITALIS. It is commonly used in cell biological studies as an inhibitor of the NA(+)-K(+)-EXCHANGING ATPASE.

— U.S. National Library of Medicine

Vanadates

Oxyvanadium ions in various states of oxidation. They act primarily as ion transport inhibitors due to their inhibition of Na(+)-, K(+)-, and Ca(+)-ATPase transport systems. They also have insulin-like action, positive inotropic action on cardiac ventricular muscle, and other metabolic effects.

— U.S. National Library of Medicine

Hemodialysis Solutions

Solutions prepared for hemodialysis. The composition of the pre-dialysis solution may be varied in order to determine the effect of solvated metabolites on anoxia, malnutrition, acid-base balance, etc. Of principal interest are the effect of the choice of buffers (e.g., acetate or carbonate), the addition of cations (Na+, K+, Ca2+), and addition of carbohydrates (glucose).

— U.S. National Library of Medicine

Hemagglutinin Glycoproteins, Influenza Virus

Membrane glycoproteins from influenza viruses which are involved in hemagglutination, virus attachment, and envelope fusion. Fourteen distinct subtypes of HA glycoproteins and nine of NA glycoproteins have been identified from INFLUENZA A VIRUS; no subtypes have been identified for Influenza B or Influenza C viruses.

— U.S. National Library of Medicine

Mull

large island in the NW. of Argyllshire, third of the Hebrides; is mountainous and picturesque, with greatly indented coast-line; the highest peak is Ben More, 3185 ft., the largest inlet Loch-na-Keal; the soil is best adapted for grazing. Tobermory (1), in the N., is the only town.

— The Nuttall Encyclopedia

Jacob

a Hebrew patriarch, younger son of Isaac and Rebecca, the favourite of his mother, and had twelve sons, the fathers of the twelve tribes of Israel; his character and the story of his life are naïvely delineated in the book of Genesis.

— The Nuttall Encyclopedia

Heliodorus

the most noted and earliest of the Greek romancists, born at Emesa, Syria; flourished in the second half of the 3rd century A.D.; his romance "Æthiopica" is a love tale of great beauty and told with naïve simplicity; has had considerable influence over subsequent romance writers, e. g. Tasso.

— The Nuttall Encyclopedia

Burnouf, Eugene

an illustrious Orientalist, born in Paris; professor of Sanskrit in the College of France; an authority on Zend or Zoroastrian literature; edited the text of and translated the "Bhâgavata Purána," a book embodying Hindu mythology; made a special study of Buddhism; wrote an introduction to the history of the system (1801-1852).

— The Nuttall Encyclopedia

Yogin

among the Hindus one who has achieved his yoga, over whom nothing perishable has any longer power, for whom the laws of nature no longer exist, who is emancipated from this life, so that death even will add nothing to his bliss, it being his final deliverance or Nirvâna, as the Buddhists would say.

— The Nuttall Encyclopedia

Cardiac Glycosides

Cyclopentanophenanthrenes with a 5- or 6-membered lactone ring attached at the 17-position and SUGARS attached at the 3-position. Plants they come from have long been used in congestive heart failure. They increase the force of cardiac contraction without significantly affecting other parameters, but are very toxic at larger doses. Their mechanism of action usually involves inhibition of the NA(+)-K(+)-EXCHANGING ATPASE and they are often used in cell biological studies for that purpose.

— U.S. National Library of Medicine

Spontaneous Combustion

A circumstance where a substance or organism takes fire and burns without an exogenous source. Spontaneous human combustion differs from preternatural human combustibility in that in the latter, some spark or trivial flame sets the fire and the body tissues, which have a greatly enhanced inflammability, continue to undergo incineration without any external heat source or combustible materials. (Bergman NA. Spontaneous human combustion: its role in literature and science. Pharos 1988;Fall;51(4):18-21)

— U.S. National Library of Medicine

Sodium

An element that is a member of the alkali group of metals. It has the atomic symbol Na, atomic number 11, and atomic weight 23. With a valence of 1, it has a strong affinity for oxygen and other nonmetallic elements. Sodium provides the chief cation of the extracellular body fluids. Its salts are the most widely used in medicine. (From Dorland, 27th ed) Physiologically the sodium ion plays a major role in blood pressure regulation, maintenance of fluid volume, and electrolyte balance.

— U.S. National Library of Medicine

Haynau, Julius Jakob, Baron von

a notorious Austrian general, born at Cassel, Germany; entered the army in 1801, and while holding a command during the Italian campaigns of 1848-49, crushed the revolt at Brescia with such brutal ferocity as to gain him the name of the "Hyæna of Brescia"; he was for a time dictator of Hungary, but his murderous cruelty towards the subjugate people became a European scandal and led to his removal; in London he was mobbed and narrowly escaped with his life (1786-1853).

— The Nuttall Encyclopedia

Gesta Romanorum

a collection of short didactic stories, not however solely Roman, written in the Latin tongue, probably towards the close of the 13th century, the authorship of which is uncertain, though it is generally recognised as of English origin; the stories are characterised by naïve simplicity, and have served as materials for many notable literary productions; thus Shakespeare owes to this work the plot of Pericles and the incidents of the caskets and the pound of flesh in the "Merchant of Venice," Parnell his "Hermit," Byron his "Three Black Crows," and Longfellow his "King Robert of Sicily."

— The Nuttall Encyclopedia

Froissart, Jean

a French chronicler and poet, born at Valenciennes; visited England in the reign of Edward III., at whose Court, and particularly with the Queen, he became a great favourite for his tales of chivalry, and whence he was sent to Scotland to collect more materials for his chronicles, where he became the guest of the king and the Earl of Douglas; after this he wandered from place to place, ranging as far as Venice and Rome, to add to his store; he died in Flanders, and his chronicles, which extend from 1322 to 1400, are written without order, but with grace and naïveté (1337-1410).

— The Nuttall Encyclopedia

Clough, Arthur Hugh

a lyric poet, born at Liverpool; son of a cotton merchant; educated at Rugby under Dr. Arnold, whom he held in the highest regard; was at Oxford, as a Fellow of Oriel, at the time of the Tractarian movement, which he arrayed himself against, and at length turned his back upon and tore himself away from by foreign travel; on his return he was appointed examiner in the Education Office; falling ill from overwork he went abroad again, and died at Florence; he was all alive to the tendencies of the time, and his lyrics show his sense of these, and how he fronted them; in the speculative scepticism of the time his only refuge and safety-anchor was duty; Matthew Arnold has written in his "Thyrsis" a tribute to his memory such as has been written over few; his best-known poem is "The Bothie of Tober-na-Vuolich" (1819-1861).

— The Nuttall Encyclopedia

Soult, Nicolas-Jean de Dieu

duke of Dalmatia and marshal of France, born at St. Amans-la-Bastide, department of Tarn; enlisted as a private in 1785, and by 1794 was general of a brigade; gallant conduct in Swiss and Italian campaigns under Masséna won him rapid promotion, and in 1804 he was created a marshal; served with the emperor in Germany, and led the deciding charge at Austerlitz, and for his services in connection with the Treaty of Tilsit received the title of Duc de Dalmatia; at the head of the French army in Spain he outmanoeuvred the English in 1808, conquered Portugal, and opposed to Wellington a skill and tenacity not less than his own, but was thwarted in his efforts by the obstinate incompetence of Joseph Bonaparte; turned Royalist after the abdication of Napoleon, but on his return from Elba rallied to the emperor's standard, and fought at Waterloo; was subsequently banished, but restored in 1819; became active in the public service, and was honoured as ambassador in England in 1838; retired in 1845 with the honorary title of "Marshal-General of France" (1769-1851).

— The Nuttall Encyclopedia

Buddhism

the religion of Buddha, a religion which, eschewing all speculation about God and the universe, set itself solely to the work of salvation, the end of which was the merging of the individual in the unity of being, and the "way" to which was the mortification of all private passion and desire which mortification, when finished, was the Buddhist Nirvâna. This is the primary doctrine of the Buddhist faith, which erelong became a formality, as all faiths of the kind, or of this high order, ever tend to do. Buddha is not answerable for this, but his followers, who in three successive councils resolved it into a system of formulæ, which Buddha, knowing belike how the letter killeth and only the spirit giveth life, never attempted to do. Buddha wrote none himself, but in some 300 years after his death his teachings assumed a canonical form, under the name of Tripitaka, or triple basket, as it is called. Buddhism from the first was a proselytising religion; it at one time overran the whole of India, and though it is now in small favour there, it is, in such form as it has assumed, often a highly beggarly one, understood to be the religion of 340 millions of the human race.

— The Nuttall Encyclopedia

Fenians

an Irish political organisation having for its object the overthrow of English rule in Ireland and the establishment of a republic there. The movement was initiated in the United States soon after the great famine in Ireland of 1846-47, which, together with the harsh exactions of the landlords, compelled many Irishmen to emigrate from their island with a deeply-rooted sense of injustice and hatred of the English. The Fenians organised themselves so far on the model of a republic, having a senate at the head, with a virtual president called the "head-centre," and various "circles" established in many parts of the U.S. They collected funds and engaged in military drill, and sent agents to Ireland and England. An invasion of Canada in 1866 and a rising at home in 1867 proved abortive, as also the attack on Clerkenwell Prison in the same year. Another attempt on Canada in 1871 and the formation of the Skirmishing Fund for the use of the Dynamitards and the institution of the Clan-na-Gael leading to the "Invincibles," and the Phoenix Park murders (1882) are later manifestations of this movement. The Home Rule and Land League movements practically superseded the Fenian. The name is taken from an ancient military organisation called the Fionna Eirinn, said to have been instituted in Ireland in 300 B.C.

— The Nuttall Encyclopedia

Kool Aid

[from a kid's sugar-enriched drink in fruity flavors] When someone who should know better succumbs to marketing influences and actually begins to believe the propaganda being dished out by a vendor, they are said to have drunk the Kool-Aid. Usually the decortication process is slow and almost unnoticeable until one day the victim emerges as a True Believer and begins spreading the faith himself. The term originates in the suicide of 914 followers of Jim Jones's People's Temple cult in Guyana in 1978 (there are also resonances with Ken Kesey's Electric Kool-Aid Acid Tests from the 1960s). What the Jonestown victims actually drank was cyanide-laced Flavor-Aid, a cheap knockoff, rather than Kool-Aid itself. There is a FAQ on this topic.

This has live variants. When a suit is blithering on about their latest technology and how it will save the world, that's ‘pouring Kool-Aid’. When the suit does not violate the laws of physics, doesn't make impossible claims, and in fact says something reasonable and believable, that's pouring good Kool-Aid, usually used in the sentence “He pours good Kool-Aid, doesn't he?” This connotes that the speaker might be about to drink same.

— The New Hacker's Dictionary

Jainas

sects of Hindus scattered up and down India, allied to the Buddhists, though ecclesiastically in open antagonism to them; they reject the Veda of the Brahmans, and oppose to it another of their own, as also their caste and their sacerdotalism, though they observe the rules of caste among themselves; like the Buddhists, they are divided into an ascetic class and a lay, but monasticism is not developed to the same degree among them. There are two principal sects, "the white-gowns" and "the air-clad," i. e. naked, though it is only at meals, which they eat in common, that the latter strip naked; "Not only do they abstain from animal food, but they drink only filtered water, breathe only through a veil, and go sweeping the ground before them for fear of swallowing or crushing any smallest animalcule." In religion they are atheists, and admit of no Creator or of any perfection of being at the beginning, only at the end. They distinguish between soul and body, and regard the former as eternal; evil is not in mere existence, but in life, and their Nirvâna is a blessedness without break or end. We know little or nothing of the history of these sects; with them conduct is everything; their origin is of later date than that of the Buddhists. See Barth's "Religions of India," translated by the Editor.

— The Nuttall Encyclopedia

ASCII

[originally an acronym (American Standard Code for Information Interchange) but now merely conventional] The predominant character set encoding of present-day computers. The standard version uses 7 bits for each character, whereas most earlier codes (including early drafts of ASCII prior to June 1961) used fewer. This change allowed the inclusion of lowercase letters — a major win — but it did not provide for accented letters or any other letterforms not used in English (such as the German sharp-S ß. or the ae-ligature æ which is a letter in, for example, Norwegian). It could be worse, though. It could be much worse. See EBCDIC to understand how. A history of ASCII and its ancestors is at http://www.wps.com/tex/definition/index.

Computers are much pickier and less flexible about spelling than humans; thus, hackers need to be very precise when talking about characters, and have developed a considerable amount of verbal shorthand for them. Every character has one or more names — some formal, some concise, some silly. Common jargon names for ASCII characters are collected here. See also individual entries for bang, excl, open, ques, semi, shriek, splat, twiddle, and Yu-Shiang Whole Fish.

This list derives from revision 2.3 of the Usenet ASCII pronunciation guide. Single characters are listed in ASCII order; character pairs are sorted in by first member. For each character, common names are given in rough order of popularity, followed by names that are reported but rarely seen; official ANSI/CCITT names are surrounded by brokets: <>. Square brackets mark the particularly silly names introduced by INTERCAL. The abbreviations “l/r” and “o/c” stand for left/right and “open/close” respectively. Ordinary parentheticals provide some usage information.