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NB en · ADJ

Meanings

  1. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, not-comparable) Initialism of northbound.
    alt of northbound
    • Prior to rubblization, severely distressed joints and / or cracks were documented in the NB lanes. 2011, Irene K. Battaglia, Investigation of Early Distress in Wisconsin Rubblized Pavements, page 23:
    • Park Avenue and 42nd Street Prohibit parking on the NB lanes to provide 2 RT / 1 LT lanes; adjust signal timing to provide protected NB movement. 2001, East Side Access in New York, Queens, and Bronx Counties, New York, and Nassau and Suffolk Counties, New York: Environmental Impact Statement, page 50:
  2. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, not-comparable) Initialism of non-binary.
    alt of non-binary
    • 'If I come up with an idea in a meeting, it gets ignored until one of the guys says the exact same thing and then everybody listens to him. And don't even get me started on how hard it is to get promoted.' 'Being an NB person, I get very used to being misgendered.' 2017, Alex Iantaffi, Meg-John Barker, How to Understand Your Gender: A Practical Guide for Exploring Who You Are, Jessica Kingsley Publishers, →ISBN, page 75:
    • Sexual health for trans/non-binary people / Service provision It is important for all sexual health services to consider how appropriate their set-up is for trans and NB people who may need to attend for care. 2019, Laura Mitchell, Bridie Howe, D. Ashley Price, Babiker Elawad, K. Nathan Sankar, Oxford Handbook of GUM and HIV, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 46:
  3. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, not-comparable) Initialism of nonblack.
    alt of nonblack
    • Perhaps stress-strain testing appears to be superior to ODC testing in between-lab operations, because it is an older and more established test technique. Part 2 of Table 10.A9 allows a comparison for non-black (NB) and black (B) testing. 2003, Basic Rubber Testing, ASTM International, page 202:
    • 1972, Savannah State College (Ga.), Faculty Research Edition of the Savannah State College Bulletin The number lying to the right of a given income class indicates the probability of a family, Black (B) and non-Black (NB), living in the designated census tract, earning an income within that income class.
    • Plaintiffs could argue that their position vis-a-vis the non-black (NB) casuals was discriminatory, […] 1994, Employment Practices Decisions:

Coordinates

WB · EB · SB

Deriveds

NBPOC · TGNB · enby

Source: en.wiktionary, “NB” (adj), dump 20260902, contributors via the page history. Text licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

NB en · ADV

Meanings

  1. (abbreviation, alt-of, not-comparable) Abbreviation of northbound.
    alt of northbound

Coordinates

SB · WB · EB

Translations (1)

pl NB (northbound)

Source: en.wiktionary, “NB” (adv), dump 20260902, contributors via the page history. Text licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

NB en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (US, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism) Initialism of NASA research bomber plane, a prefix code in designations.
  2. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism) Initialism of national best.
  3. (abbreviation, alt-of) Abbreviation of newborn.
    alt of newborn
    • Newborns (NBs) with a birth weight between […] An NB is considered large-for-gestational age (LGA) when its weight is greater than the 90th percentile for […] 2006, Asim Kurjak, Frank A. Chervenak, Textbook of Perinatal Medicine, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 1348:
  4. (abbreviation, alt-of) Abbreviation of neuroblast.
    alt of neuroblast
    • For quotations using this term, see Citations:NB.
  5. (abbreviation, alt-of) Abbreviation of neuroblastoma.
    • NBs are also seen in newborns and may be detected in the fetus by antenatal imaging, most often associated with favourable prognostic features. Common sites for primary NB are the adrenal glands (48%), extraadrenal retroperitoneum […] 2014, Andy Adam, Adrian K. Dixon, Jonathan H Gillard, Cornelia Schaefer-Prokop, Ronald G. Grainger, David J. Allison, Grainger & Allison's Diagnostic Radiology E-Book, Elsevier Health Sciences, →ISBN, page 1972:
  6. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism) Initialism of nuclear body.
  7. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism) Initialism of negative binomial.
  8. (abbreviation, alt-of) Abbreviation of non-binary.
    alt of non-binary
    • […] instructors could ask students a question Darwin addresses in her research: “how do NBs (nonbinary people) visually convey their gender identity, so as to achieve their desired gender attribution?” […] 2023, Sergio A. Cabrera, Stephen Sweet, Handbook of Teaching and Learning in Sociology, page 141:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
NBs Number=Plur lexicographic

Coordinates

OB · NR · SB · PB · PR · WB · SR · OR · WR · CB · CR

Source: en.wiktionary, “NB” (noun), dump 20260902, contributors via the page history. Text licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

NB en · PROPN

Meanings

  1. (Canada, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism) Initialism of New Brunswick: a province of Canada.
  2. (abbreviation, alt-of) Abbreviation of West Nusa Tenggara: a province of Indonesia (from Indonesian Nusa Tenggara Barat).
  3. (Hong-Kong, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism) Initialism of Narcotics Bureau.
  4. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism) Initialism of Numberblocks.

Coordinates

QC · ON · PE · MB · NL · BC · YT · SK · NU · AB · NS · NT

Translations (2)

fr NB (New Brunswick) · pl NB (New Brunswick)

Source: en.wiktionary, “NB” (name), dump 20260902, contributors via the page history. Text licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

NB en · X

Meanings

  1. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism) Initialism of nota bene; used in written English to introduce something to be noted.
    alt of nota bene
    • NB: Do not write below this line.

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
N.B. alternative lexicographic
n.b. alternative lexicographic

Translations (11)

fi Huom (nota bene) · sv observera (nota bene) · sv obs (nota bene) · fi HUOM (nota bene) · no Notabene (nota bene) · pl nb (nota bene) · cs pozn. (nota bene) · fo GG (nota bene) · da NB (nota bene) · no NB (nota bene) · cmn 注意 (nota bene)