| product introduction | the introduction (usually by an advertising campaign) of a new product or product line |
| product development | improving an existing product or developing new kinds of products |
| Royal National Eisteddfod | an eisteddfod with competitions in music and drama and poetry and the fine arts |
| national service | compulsory service in the military during peacetime |
| product research | marketing research that yields information about desired characteristics of the product or service |
| national censorship | censorship under civil authority of communications entering or leaving of crossing the borders of the United States or its territories or possessions |
| national insurance | social insurance program in Britain, based on contributions from employers and employees, provides payments to unemployed and sick and retired people as well as medical services |
supplementary benefit
social assistance
national assistance | benefits paid to bring incomes up to minimum levels established by law |
by-product
byproduct
spin-off | a product made during the manufacture of something else |
end product
output | final product, the things produced |
line product line
line of products
line of merchandise
business line
line of business | a particular kind of product or merchandise, a nice line of shoes |
merchandise
ware product | commodities offered for sale, good business depends on having good merchandise, that store offers a variety of products |
National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations
NASDAQ | a computerized data system to provide brokers with price quotations for securities traded over the counter |
| National Baseball Hall of Fame | a Hall of Fame and museum in Cooperstown, New York, honoring great baseball players |
National Library of Medicine
United States National Library of Medicine
U.S. National Library of Medicine | the world's largest medical library |
| national monument | memorial consisting of a structure or natural landmark of historic interest, set aside by national government for preservation and public enjoyment |
product
production | an artifact that has been created by someone or some process, they improve their product every year, they export most of their agricultural production |
software package
software product | merchandise consisting of a computer program that is offered for sale |
product
mathematical product | a quantity obtained by multiplication, the product of and is |
vector product
cross product | a vector that is the product of two other vectors |
scalar product
inner product
dot product | a real number (a scalar) that is the product of two vectors |
product-moment correlation coefficient
Pearson product-moment correlation coefficient | the most commonly used method of computing a correlation coefficient between variables that are linearly related |
gross anatomy
macroscopic anatomy | the study of the structure of the body and its parts without the use of a microscope |
bar code
Universal Product Code | code consisting of a series of vertical bars of variable width that are scanned by a laser, printed on consumer product packages to identify the item for a computer that provides the price and registers inventory information |
Higher National Diploma
HND | a diploma given for vocational training that prepares the student for a career in a particular area, good students may progress to a course leading to a degree |
sale in gross
contract of hazard | a sale of a tract of land as a whole without a warranty as to the acreage |
trade policy
national trading policy | a government's policy controlling foreign trade |
national flag
ensign | an emblem flown as a symbol of nationality |
| national anthem | a song formally adopted as the anthem for a nation |
| Grand National | an annual steeplechase run in Liverpool, England |
foodstuff
food product | a substance that can be used or prepared for use as food |
| dairy product | milk and butter and cheese |
intersection
product
Cartesian product | the set of elements common to two or more sets, the set of red hats is the intersection of the set of hats and the set of red things |
Irish National Liberation Army
INLA
People's Liberation Army
People's Republican Army
Catholic Reaction Force | a radical terrorist group dedicated to the removal of British forces from Northern Ireland and the unification of Ireland |
National Liberation Army
ELN
Nestor Paz Zamora Commission
CNPZ | a terrorist organization in Bolivia that acts as an umbrella for numerous small indigenous subversive groups, a revival of a group with Marxist-Leninist ideologies originally established by Che Guevara in the s |
| National Liberation Army ELN | a Marxist terrorist group formed in by Colombian intellectuals who were inspired by the Cuban Revolution, responsible for a campaign of mass kidnappings and resistance to the government's efforts to stop the drug trade, ELN kidnappers target foreign employees of large corporations |
National Liberation Front of Corsica
FLNC | a terrorist group formed in to work for Corsican independence, attacks on Corsica are aimed at sabotaging public infrastructure and symbols of colonialism |
National Trust
NT | an organization concerned to preserve historic monuments and buildings and places of historical interest or natural beauty, founded in and supported by endowment and private subscription |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NASA | an independent agency of the United States government responsible for aviation and spaceflight |
National Archives and Records Administration
NARA | the independent agency that oversees management of federal government records including presidential libraries and historic collections |
National Labor Relations Board
NLRB | an independent agency of the United States government charged with mediating disputes between management and labor unions |
National Science Foundation
NSF | an independent agency of the federal government responsible for the promotion of progress in science and engineering by supporting programs in research and education |
National Security Council
NSC | a committee in the executive branch of government that advises the president on foreign and military and national security, supervises the Central Intelligence Agency |
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
NOAA | an agency in the Department of Commerce that maps the oceans and conserves their living resources, predicts changes to the earth's environment, provides weather reports and forecasts floods and hurricanes and other natural disasters related to weather |
National Climatic Data Center
NCDC | the part of NOAA that maintains the world's largest active archive of weather data |
| National Weather Service | the federal agency in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration that is responsible for weather forecast and preparation of weather maps |
National Institute of Standards and Technology
NIST | an agency in the Technology Administration that makes measurements and sets standards as needed by industry or government programs |
National Technical Information Service
NTIS | an agency in the Technology Administration that is a primary resource for government-funded scientific and technical and engineering and business related information |
National Institutes of Health
NIH | an agency in the Department of Health and Human Services whose mission is to employ science in the pursuit of knowledge to improve human health, is the principal biomedical research agency of the federal government |
| National Park Service | an agency of the Interior Department responsible for the national parks |