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N 14th letter of the alphabet . It is a usual symbol for a voiced alveolar (or dental) nasal, as in the English not. The diagraph ng represents a different sound, a voiced velar nasal, as in the English sing. The corresponding Greek letter is nu. In chemistry N is the symbol for the element nitrogen .

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N symbol for nitrogen or newton.

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N. The fourteenth letter of the modern English alphabet is represented by nin [Ir., ash] in the ogham alphabet of early Ireland.

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