Acronyms Beginning With N
Sales, marketing, and technology acronyms that begin with N
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NIST
A non-regulatory federal agency within the U.S. Department of Commerce. Its mission is to promote innovation and industrial competitiveness by advancing measurement science, standards, and technology in ways that enhance economic security and improve our quality of life. NIST has…
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NL
One of the two leagues that make up Major League Baseball (MLB) in the United States and Canada, the other being the American League (AL). The National League was founded in 1876, making it the older of the two leagues…
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NLA
A security feature in Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) that requires users to authenticate themselves before establishing a remote desktop session. Introduced in Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008, NLA enhances security by preventing unauthorized users from consuming system resources before…
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NLE
A form of video (or audio) editing where the original content is not modified during editing. Instead, the NLE system uses computer software to access and edit the video or audio files. This is a significant advancement from traditional linear…
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NLG
A subfield of artificial intelligence (AI) that focuses on generating natural language text or speech from data or other structured information. It essentially involves transforming structured data into human-readable and understandable text. NLG can be used in a variety of…
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NLP
A field at the intersection of computer science, artificial intelligence (AI), and linguistics, aimed at enabling computers to understand, interpret, and generate human language in a valuable and meaningful way. NLP encompasses various techniques and technologies designed to allow computers…
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NLU
A subset of natural language processing (NLP) that focuses on enabling computers to understand and interpret human language in a way that is similar to how humans do. NLU involves teaching computers to understand the meaning of language, by analyzing…
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NMT
An approach to machine translation (MT) that uses a large neural network, a type of deep learning model, to translate text from one language to another. Unlike Statistical Machine Translation (SMT), which translates phrases or words based on statistical probabilities…
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NMT
A first-generation (1G) analog mobile telephone system used in the Nordic countries (Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden) and some other countries during the 1980s and early 1990s. NMT was developed by the Nordic telecommunications administrations to establish a standardized mobile telephone…
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NNTP
An application-layer protocol used for the distribution, retrieval, and posting of articles on Usenet newsgroups. Developed in the mid-1980s, NNTP was designed to replace the older UUCP (Unix-to-Unix Copy Program) system, which required point-to-point dial-up connections and was less efficient…
