NSFW
An online abbreviation for “not safe for work” or “not suitable for work,” it is a common slang term most often used to describe websites, email attachments or online posts that feature nudity, sex or sexuality, profanity, graphic violence, and other elements that are not typically suitable for viewing at most places of employment. The term is commonly used on fandom sites or in online conversations whenever users discuss topics that members who are at work, or members who are minors, should participate in only after careful consideration.
Also, mainly in connection with pornography, it can be used to abbreviate “not safe for wife.”
Nth metal
An element unique to the planet Thanagar in the Hawkman storylines of DC Comics books. Sometimes referred to as “Ninth metal,” this metal is capable of governing the four forces of the universe (strong, weak, gravitational and electromagnetic). Around 1300 BC (Earth-time), the Thanagarians used its properties for space travel. One vessel crashed on Earth and was found by Prince Khufu in 19th dynasty Egypt. Calling the substance “night metal,” Khufu created belts that gave him and Princess Chay-Ara to ability to fly. Soon after, they were murdered by the evil Hath-Set, but the metal had created an eternal soul-bond between the two. Through the millennia, the lovers were reincarnated time and again. Meanwhile, the Thanagarians lost the knowledge of the Nth Metal. In Earth’s 1940s, Thanagarian spy Paran Katar befriended Carter Hall, the current incarnation of Khufu, with whom he rediscovered the Nth metal. Carter used it to become the heroic Hawkman, while Paran Katar brought it back to Thanagar and founded a police force of flying Wingmen. When two of the Wingmen, Paran’s son Katar Hol and his companion Shayera Thal, visited Earth, they became known as the new Hawkman and Hawkwoman. Still later, Katar Hol merged with a Hawk Avatar, and all known Nth Metal was made part of his body, until he died in another dimension. More recently, Thanagarian conqueror Onimar Synn returned from oblivion. Synn was one of the few that still knew how to tap into the metal’s true powers and control the fundamental forces of the universe, but was nevertheless defeated by the Justice Society of America, including the reincarnated Hawkman Carter Hall. Hawkman also owns the old Egyptian artifact known as the Claw of Horus, which is made from Nth metal and can utilize a fuller range of the its properties. Drawing its power from the planet, the Claw’s punch has knocked out even Superman.
Nuclide
See Isotope.
Nuklon
A member of Lex Luthor’s Infinity Inc., whose metagene gives him the power to split into two beings. The DC Comics character named himself “Double Trouble.” His alternate personality began to bully his original personality, until eventually his dominant half decided he wanted to become the only personality. He believed that if he killed Jerome, he would be the only one left, free to do what he wanted; however, when he did kill Jerome, he soon found that he could not exist on his own, and he disappeared into non-existence.
“Number One”
In the Star Trek universe, a short name used by a starship captain, in reference to his second-in-command. Initially used only in the original pilot of the first 1966-69 series, it was revived for Star Trek: The Next Generation as a common term that the Enterprise’s Captain Jean-Luc Picard used to refer to Commander William Thomas “Will” Riker.
Nygma, Edward
According to the 8th Annual of Detective Comics, “Questions Multiply The Mystery,” Edward Nashton was very inquisitive as a child, asking every question that popped into his mind. He asked endless questions from adults, who would often get annoyed with him. Years passed, and Nashton found himself in the Gotham City working class, which he described as being in hell. Turning to crime as a means of entertainment, Nashton discovered that he was not satisfied with simply committing a crime. He had to create hype and make himself known to the city and even to Batman. Eventually, he created the persona of The Riddler, even changing his surname to Nygma, to create the inferred name “E. Nygma,” as in “enigma.” On the big screen, Nygma was portrayed by Jim Carrey in 1995’s Batman Forever and on television, he is currently portrayed by Cory Michael Smith on the series Gotham.
Nymph
1. In Greek mythology, a large class of inferior female divinities, represented as beautiful maidens, usually associated with the sea, rivers, woods, trees, mountains, meadows, and other fertile, growing things. They were not immortal, but were extremely long-lived and frequently depicted as attendants of a superior deity. They were distinguished according to the sphere of nature with which they were connected. The Oceanids, for example, were sea nymphs; the Nereids inhabited both saltwater and freshwater; the Naiads presided over springs, rivers, and lakes. The Oreads were nymphs of mountains and grottoes; the Napaeae and the Alseids were nymphs of glens and groves; the Dryads or Hamadryads presided over forests and trees.
2. An immature insect (larva) that undergoes incomplete metamorphosis.
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