N + 1  -  A configuration of clustered servers or storage subsystems that provides redundancy for improved reliability by using multiple primary systems and one backup system. This provides for improved scalability and reduced cost compared to two-times (1+1) configurations.

 

N to M Matches (oth) -  A menu item that allows the user to search for a pattern A to be represented in pattern B between N and M times. Patterns could be strings, characters, etc. N.T. dollar (n) -  The official currency of Taiwan.

 

n/a (oth) -  Pertaining to something for which an answer is not available or appropriate. N/A (oth) -  Pertaining to something for which an answer is not available or appropriate. NACHA (PN) -  An organization that operates the Automated Clearing House (ACH)

 

Network.

 

nagling (n) -  An optimization process for HTTP over TCP that increases efficiency by trying to minimize the number of packets that are required before data is sent.

 

NAK (n) -  A control code, ASCII character 21 (hexadecimal 15), transmitted to a sending station or computer by the receiving unit as a signal that transmitted information has arrived incorrectly.

 

Name AutoCorrect (n) -  A feature that automatically corrects common side effects that occur when you rename forms, reports, tables, queries, fields, or controls on forms and reports. However, Name AutoCorrect cannot repair all references to renamed objects. name devolution (n) -  The process by which a DNS resolver attempts to resolve a name by appending the DNS search suffix to the name and, if that query fails, by iteratively querying for the name in the next higher level of the domain hierarchy.

 

name registration request (n) -  A message sent to a NetBIOS name server when a TCP/IP host begins an attempt to register the domain name.

 

name release (n) -  A message sent to a NetBIOS server to indicate that a domain name has been released and is available for use by another server.

 

name resolution (n) -  The process of having software translate between names that are easy for users to work with and numerical IP addresses, which are difficult for users but necessary for TCP/IP communications. Name resolution can be provided by software components such as DNS or WINS.

 

name server (n) -  A server that maintains information about a portion of the DNS database and that responds to and resolves DNS queries.

 

name/value pair (n) -  The name of a form field and the value of the field at the time the form is submitted.

 

named argument (n) -  An argument that has a name that is predefined in a field. Instead of providing values for arguments in the order expected by the syntax, you can use named arguments to assign values in any order.

 

named binding (n) -  A way of binding to a directory where users may be able to set attributes and may have access to more areas of the directory, if the administrator allows it.

 

named cache (n) -  A configurable unit of in-memory storage that has policies associated with it and that is available across all cache hosts in a cache cluster. named entity (n) -  A code that's used in HTML to describe symbols, international letters, and other special characters. Character entities are maintained by the International Standards Organization (ISO).

 

named instance (n) -  An installation of SQL Server that is given a name to differentiate it from other named instances and from the default instance on the same computer. named item view (PN) -  A Web Part that renders named objects or named items in a workbook, such as tables, charts, slicers or a named range of cells.

 

named object (n) -  A list, PivotTable-® report, chart, or range that can be referenced by name. A sheet is not a type of named object.

 

named pipe (n) -  A portion of memory that can be used by one process to pass information to another process, so that the output of one is the input of the other. The second process can be local (on the same computer as the first) or remote (on a networked computer).

 

named set (n) -  A grouping of dimension members or items from a data source that are named and treated as a single unit and can be referenced or reused multiple times. named skin (n) -  A control skin with a SkinlD property set.

 

named stream (n) -  Binary data that is associated with an entry in an Open Data Protocol (OData) feed, but that is not a media resource as defined by the Atom Publishing Protocol (AtomPub).

 

named update (n) -  A custom service operation that performs an action which is different than a simple query, update, insert, or delete operation.

 

named update method (n) -  A custom service operation that performs an action which is different than a simple query, update, insert, or delete operation.

 

Named Users (PN) -  A unit of measure for the Remote App' service type of the ‘App Services' Service where accounts are associated to each individual who will have access to the software in such a way as to identify that individual and bill the customer either per user or consumption.'

 

Nameserver  -  An internet server which translates the alphabetic web addresses favoured by humans into the numeric ones used by computers.

 

namespace (n) -  A collection of names, identified by a URI reference, that are used in XML documents as element types and attribute names.

 

namespace (n) -  A naming convention that defines a set of unique names for resources in a network. For DNS, a hierarchical naming structure that identifies each network resource and its place in the hierarchy of the namespace. For WINS, a flat naming structure that identifies each network resource using a single, unique name. For DFS Namespaces, a virtual tree of folders that begins with \ServerOrDomainName\RootName.

 

namespace (n) -  In Distributed File System (DFS), a virtual grouping of shared folders potentially located on different servers that appears to users as a single shared folder with a series of subfolders. The underlying structure of the namespace can consist of multiple shared folders that are located on different servers and in multiple sites.

 

namespace (n) -  A grouping of one or more names that represent individual objects within the group in a shared computing environment.

 

namespace root (n) -  The top-level folder in a Distributed File System (DFS) namespace. namespace server (n) -  A server that hosts a namespace. You can increase the availability of a domain-based namespace by specifying additional namespace servers to host the namespace.

 

name-value pair (n) -  The name of a form field and the value of the field at the time the form is submitted.

 

naming container (n) -  Any ASP.NET control that implements the INamingContainer interface. This is a marker interface that enables a control to create a new naming scope under itself so that ID attributes assigned to its child controls are unique within the entire ASP.NET page that contains the control.

 

naming context (n) -  A specific subtree of a directory information tree that is identified by its distinguished name (also known as DN). In Sun ONE Directory Server 4.0 and 5.1, specific types of directory information are stored in naming contexts.

 

naming convention (n) -  Any standard used more or less universally in the naming of objects, etc.

 

NaN (n) -  A value that represents the result of an invalid calculation.

 

NAP (n) -  A set of operating system components that can help protect access to a private network by enforcing health policies. System administrators establish health policies which NAP enforces by inspecting and assessing the health of client computers, restricting network access when client computers are deemed noncompliant, and remediating noncompliant client computers for full network access. NAP also provides ongoing health compliance enforcement while a client computer is connected to a network.

 

NAP EC (n) -  A component in a NAP client architecture that integrates with network access technologies, such as DHCP, VPN, 802.1X, IPsec, and RD Gateway. The NAP enforcement client requests access to a network, communicates a client computer's health status to the NAP server that is providing the network access, and communicates the restricted status of the client computer to other components of the NAP client architecture. NAP enforcement client (n) -  A component in a NAP client architecture that integrates with network access technologies, such as DHCP, VPN, 802.1X, IPsec, and RD Gateway. The NAP enforcement client requests access to a network, communicates a client computer's health status to the NAP server that is providing the network access, and communicates the restricted status of the client computer to other components of the NAP client architecture.

 

NAP enforcement point (n) -  A server or network access device that uses NAP or can be used with NAP to require the evaluation of a NAP client's health state and provide restricted network access or communication. HRA servers, 802.1X switches and wireless access points, NAP-enabled VPN, DHCP, and RD Gateway servers are examples of NAP enforcement points.

 

NAP enforcement server (n) -  A component of the NAP architecture that enforces restricted network access for noncompliant NAP clients. Depending on the NAP enforcement method, the NAP enforcement server can be a component of a NAP enforcement point.

 

NAP ES (n) -  A component of the NAP architecture that enforces restricted network access for noncompliant NAP clients. Depending on the NAP enforcement method, the NAP enforcement server can be a component of a NAP enforcement point.

 

NAP-capable client (n) -  A Windows-based client that supports Network Access Protection.

 

Napster  -  A pioneering- peer-to-peer- internet file-sharing system. Because much of the data shared was copyrighted, and thus being distributed illegally, the operators of Napster were hit with a number of large lawsuits by the music industry, and later closed down. The name was bought and is now used by a legal pay-to-download service.

 

narcissus  -  A defect in infrared systems that appears as a dark circular area on a displayed image, caused by radiation reflecting into a detector. It can be reduced by low-reflective coatings or by altering the lens surface.

 

narration (n) -  A recording that can be added to a presentation.

 

Narrator (PN) -  A feature that audibly reads the text on the screen aloud and describes some events to users.

 

narrowband  -  A low information capacity, equivalent to one speech channel (4kHz analogue or 64kbit/s digital signal).

 

narrowband audio (n) -  Audio transmission that uses conventional telephony bandwidths for voice.

 

narrowband audio codec (n) -  An audio codec that provides voice by using a sampling rate of 8 kHz.

 

narrowband codec (n) -  An audio codec that provides voice by using a sampling rate of 8 kHz.

 

nary (adj) -  Pertaining to an operator that can hold an arbitrary number of arguments, or to a function that can hold an arbitrary number of operators.

 

n-ary (adj) -  Pertaining to an operator that can hold an arbitrary number of arguments, or to a function that can hold an arbitrary number of operators.

 

n-ary association (n) -  In a static structure diagram, an association among three or more classes (a single class may appear more than once). Each instance of the association is an ordered set of values from the respective classes.

 

NAS (n) -  The device that accepts Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) connections and places clients on the network that the NAS serves.

 

NAS (n) -  A storage unit directly connected to the network using standard protocols such as Ethernet and TCP/IP for providing file access services.

 

NAT (n) -  An Internet Protocol (IP) translation process that allows a network with private addresses to access information on the Internet.

 

NAT editor (n) -  A component of a network address translator that performs additional translation and payload adjustment beyond the IP, TCP, and UDP headers. A NAT editor is an installable component that can properly modify otherwise non-translatable payloads so that they can be forwarded across a NAT.

 

National Automated Clearing House Association (PN) -  An organization that operates the Automated Clearing House (ACH) Network.

 

National Folk (n) -  One of the music genres that appears under Genre classification in Windows Media Player library. Based on ID3 standard tagging format for MP3 audio files. Winamp genre ID # 82.

 

national language support API (n) -  Set of system functions in 32-bit Windows containing information that is based on language and cultural conventions.

 

National Register of Legal Entities (PN) -  A 14-digit identification number issued to Brazilian companies by the Brazilian Ministry of Revenue for tax purposes. native (adj) -  Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of something that is in its original form. Native American (n) -  One of the music genres that appears under Genre classification in Windows Media Player library. Based on ID3 standard tagging format for MP3 audio files. ID3v1 genre ID # 64.

 

native boot (n) -  An operating-system installation and configuration that uses a virtual hard disk as the running operating system. There is no host operating system or hypervisor in a native-boot configuration.

 

native code (n) -  Code that has been compiled to processor-specific machine code. native format (n) -  A data format that maintains the native data types of a database.

 

Native format is recommended when you bulk transfer data between multiple instances of Microsoft SQL Server using a data file that does not contain any extended/double-byte character set (DBCS) characters.

 

native image generation (n) -  A pre-compilation technology for managed code that compiles Common Intermediate Language (CIL) to native code on the end-user computer prior to application run time. It is an alternative to JIT compilation.

 

native integration (n) -  In Silverlight, the use of platform-specific functionality in a Silverlight-based application.

 

native language (n) -  The machine language of a CPU.

 

native mode (n) -  In Windows2000 domains, the domain mode in which all domain controllers in a domain are running Windows2000 and a domain administrator has switched the domain operation mode from mixed mode to native mode. Native mode supports universal groups and nesting of groups. In native mode, domain controllers running WindowsNT4.0 or earlier are not supported. In Windows Server2003 domains, native mode is referred to as ‘Windows2000 native', and it is one of three domain functional levels available.

 

native resolution (n) -  The resolution a display is designed to use. Unlike cathode ray tube technology, liquid crystal displays cannot stretch or shrink images gracefully. The pixels are either stretched or shrunk over greater or fewer cells, so upsizing or downsizing images to non-native resolutions degrades visual quality.

 

native-activity (n) -  A sample provided with Android NDK based on an abstract base class for custom activities that implement execution logic using the Execute method, which has full access to the runtime's features.

 

natural account code segment (n) -  A segment of a general ledger account code that corresponds to the type of account (for example, cash, sales, or travel expense). natural hierarchy (n) -  A hiearchy in which at every level there is a one-to-many relationship between members in that level and members in the next lower level. natural key (n) -  A primary key or alternate key whose values identify objects in the real world.

 

natural language (n) -  A language spoken or written by humans, as opposed to a language used to program or communicate with computers.

 

natural language searching (n) -  A search method that lets you direct your search using conversational language.

 

natural pencil (n) -  A pencil tool that works with texture and simulates a real life pencil in stroke.

 

Natural Persons Register (PN) -  An 11-digit identification number issued to Brazilians and resident aliens by the Brazilian Ministry of Revenue for identification and tax purposes.

 

natural query syntax (n) -  A search method that lets you direct your search using conversational language.

 

natural segment (n) -  A segment of a general ledger account code that corresponds to the type of account (for example, cash, sales, or travel expense). natural sizing (n) -  The default layout and sizing of a collection of elements, as determined by MSHTML.

 

nav bar (n) -  An app bar that appears along the top edge of the screen and may include app commands or navigation.

 

nav bar (n) -  A surface that appears on the phone screen with a -Crsoft-C? key for the Back, Start and Search button. User gets to choose whether it should be visible or not. nav bar control (n) -  A control that developers use to create a navigation bar. navigate (v) -  To move around in a document.

 

Navigate  -  To find one's way around the Internet.

 

Navigation & maps (PN) -  An app category that contains apps with maps, GPS, or other tools to help you find your way.

 

navigation bar (n) -  On a Web page, a grouping of hyperlinks for getting around in that particular Web site.

 

Navigation Bar (n) -  A control bar in Outlook that enables the user to navigate quickly to different areas or views within the application.

 

navigation bar (n) -  An app bar that appears along the top edge of the screen and may include app commands or navigation.

 

navigation bar (n) -  A surface that appears on the phone screen with a -Crsoft-C? key for the Back, Start and Search button.

 

navigation bar control (n) -  A control that developers use to create a navigation bar. navigation button (n) -  A button that is used to move through records or through the pages of a document.

 

navigation connection (n) -  The connection between two navigation nodes in the Application Flow panel in SketchFlow.

 

navigation frame (n) -  A framework that all navigation places are built on that allows users to move throughout the application. The basic elements of the navigation frame are the Address bar, travel buttons, menu bar, navigation pane and a status bar.

 

Navigation mode (n) -  The mode in Microsoft Access in which an entire field is selected and the insertion point is not visible. In Navigation mode, you can move between fields by using the arrow keys.

 

navigation node (n) -  A node in the Application Flow panel of a SketchFlow prototype that represents a point in the application flow.

 

navigation pane (n) -  An area of an application window that enables the user to navigate quickly to different parts of the program.

 

navigation pane (n) -  A section of the window displayed to the user, to the right side of the workspace shortcuts area, that provides access to the overview area and additional items for each workspace through a tree view of the hierarchy for the workspace, except for the System Overview and Software workspaces.

 

navigation place (n) -  A window that is part of the navigation layer in the Dynamics NAV application.

 

navigation property (n) -  A property of entity types that uses an association to reference related entities.

 

navigational flick (n) -  A gesture you can make with a tablet pen to quickly navigate and perform shortcuts. Navigational pen flicks include scroll up, scroll down, page back, and page forward.

 

navigational pen flick (n) -  A gesture you can make with a tablet pen to quickly navigate and perform shortcuts. Navigational pen flicks include scroll up, scroll down, page back, and page forward.

 

NBV (n) -  The value of a fixed asset calculated as the difference between the original cost of the fixed asset minus its accumulated depreciations.

 

NCB (n) -  NetBIOS data structures that contain information about the command to perform an optional post routine, an optional event handle, and a pointer to a buffer that is used for messages or other data.

 

nchar (PN) -  The fixed-length data type with a maximum of 4,000 Unicode characters. NDA (n) -  A contract that restricts disclosure of confidential information or proprietary knowledge.

 

NDR (n) -  A notification that an e-mail message was not delivered to the recipient.

 

NDS (n) -  On networks running Novell NetWare 4.x and higher, a distributed database that maintains information about every resource on the network and that provides access to these resources.

 

near clipping plane (n) -  The near boundary of a viewing frustum or camera. Any object closer to the camera than this clipping plane is not rendered.

 

near field communication (n) -  A communication technology based on short range (4cm or less) wireless data exchange.

 

near field communication sensor (n) -  A type of sensor (such as a proximity sensor) that uses near field communication (NFC).

 

nearest neighbor (n) -  A rendering method used to map a source image to a target image. This method uses only the nearest source pixel to define a target pixel.

 

Nederlandse Taxonomie Project (n) -  A standard taxonomy (v1.0 based on XBRL 2.1 and IFRS) that is defined for all businesses operating in the Netherlands for reporting financial, tax, and statistical data to government agencies.

 

Need of Delivery (n) -  The formula used to determine the time and frequency with which a piece of content is delivered. This formula takes into account the total quantity of content to be delivered, and the length of time over which the quantity must be delivered. needle cap (n) -  One of the two appearance properties that can be applied to a radial gauge.

 

negative acknowledgment (n) -  A control code, ASCII character 21 (hexadecimal 15), transmitted to a sending station or computer by the receiving unit as a signal that transmitted information has arrived incorrectly.

 

negative balance (n) -  A quantity or amount that has fallen below zero.

 

negative goodwill (n) -  The difference between the fair market value and purchase price of an asset, when the fair market value is higher than the price paid. negative indent (n) -  An indent where the text is displaced into the left margin if text direction is set to left-to-right, or toward the right margin if text direction is set to right-to- left.

 

negative inventory (n) -  A temporary negative quantity of an item, such as may occur when items have been purchased and received but for which a packing slip has not yet been processed.

 

neglected account (n) -  A Business Contact with whom there has been no interaction with for over 30 days.

 

neglected business contact (n) -  A Business Contact with whom there has been no interaction with for over 30 days.

 

neglected contact (n) -  A Business Contact with whom there has been no interaction with for over 30 days.

 

negotiable instrument (n) -  A formal written document that unconditionally promises to pay money and that can be transferred from one person to another. nest (v) -  To embed one construct inside another. For example, a database may contain a nested table (a table within a table), a program may contain a nested procedure (a procedure declared within a procedure), and a data structure may include a nested record (a record containing a field that is itself a record).

 

nested frames page (n) -  A frames page containing another frames page inside one of its frames.

 

nested loops join (n) -  A join algorithm which compares each row from one source (known as the outer source) to each row from the other source (known as the inner source) looking for rows that satisfy the join predicate. A source could be a table.

 

nested query (n) -  A SELECT statement that contains one or more subqueries. nested table (n) -  A table inserted within a table cell. If you use a table to lay out a page, and you want to use another table to arrange the information, you can insert a nested table. Nested Target (PN) -  A SmartArt graphic layout used to show containment relationships. Each of the first three lines of Level 1 text correspond to the upper left text in the shapes, and Level 2 text corresponds to the smaller shapes. Works best with minimal Level 2 lines of text. Unused text does not appear, but remains available if you switch layouts. nested type (n) -  A type defined within the scope of another type. A nested type is typically used for encapsulating implementation details of the top-level type. nesting (n) -  A media entry in a Web playlist that references another Web playlist file. nesting  -  programming commands that are inside of another command. The term does not lend itself to any single language but generally to all that support nesting. Not all commands can be nested and not all combinations of commands can be nested. net (adj) -  Pertaining to the remainder after all deductions, charges, or losses are subtracted from a total.

 

net amount (n) -  The amount including all deductions, charges, and adjustments. net book value (n) -  The value of a fixed asset calculated as the difference between the original cost of the fixed asset minus its accumulated depreciations.

 

net change master scheduling (n) -  A master scheduling principle in which net requirements are calculated only for items that have had a change in demand since the last master schedule was calculated.

 

Net Logon service (n) -  A user-mode service that runs in the Windows security subsystem. The Net Logon service passes the user's credentials through a secure channel to the domain database and returns the domain security identifiers and user rights for the user. In addition, the Net Logon service performs a variety of other functions related to the user logon process, such as periodic password updates for computer accounts and domain controller discovery.

 

Netbeans  -  Open-source application development tools,- www.netbeans.org

 

NetBEUI (n) -  A network protocol native to Microsoft Networking. It is usually used in small, department-size local area networks (LANs) of 1 to 200 clients. NetBEUI can use Token Ring source routing as its only method of routing. NetBEUI is the Microsoft implementation of the NetBIOS standard.

 

NetBIOS (n) -  An application programming interface (API) that can be used by programs on a local area network (LAN). NetBIOS provides programs with a uniform set of commands for requesting the lower-level services required to manage names, conduct sessions, and send datagrams between nodes on a network.

 

NetBIOS Extended User Interface (n) -  A network protocol native to Microsoft Networking. It is usually used in small, department-size local area networks (LANs) of 1 to 200 clients. NetBEUI can use Token Ring source routing as its only method of routing. NetBEUI is the Microsoft implementation of the NetBIOS standard.

 

NetBIOS name (n) -  A 16-byte name of a process using network basic input/output system (NetBIOS). The NetBIOS name is a name that is recognized by WINS, which maps the name to an IP address.

 

NetBIOS Node Type (n) -  A designation of the exact mechanisms by which network basic input/output system (NetBIOS) names are resolved to IP addresses.

 

NetBIOS over TCP/IP (n) -  A feature that provides the NetBIOS programming interface over the TCP/IP protocol. It is used for monitoring routed servers that use NetBIOS name resolution.

 

netbook (n) -  A small, affordable laptop that is designed to perform a limited number of tasks such as web browsing and e-mail.

 

Netbook  -  A smaller version of the popular laptop computer format.

 

netbook  -  basically a small, inexpensive yet Internet-ready computer with less computing power than a standard laptop.

 

NetBT (n) -  A feature that provides the NetBIOS programming interface over the TCP/IP protocol. It is used for monitoring routed servers that use NetBIOS name resolution. netgroup (n) -  The Unix industry standard for grouping computers (hosts) based on NIS domain name and host name. Netgroups can be defined both on a NIS server (UNIX) or on LDAP server (e.g. Active Directory) which are called netgroup sources. netgroup source (n) -  A NIS server (UNIX) or a LDAP server (e.g. Active Directory) that is used by the Microsoft Services for Network File System (NFS) to define and grant permissions to netgroups.

 

Netgroup Source Wizard (PN) -  A wizard that allows you to configure a netgroup source and review your settings.

 

Netherlands Taxonomy Project (n) -  A standard taxonomy (v1.0 based on XBRL 2.1 and IFRS) that is defined for all businesses operating in the Netherlands for reporting financial, tax, and statistical data to government agencies.

 

Net-Library (PN) -  A SQL Server communications component that isolates the SQL Server client software and the Database Engine from the network APIs.

 

NetView (PN) -  A reporting system that runs on an IBM host mainframe system. NetView forwards alerts and other information between the host, personal computers, and other network addressable units connected to the host.

 

NetView alert (n) -  A message sent to the NetView reporting system, indicating an abnormal event or a failure.

 

NetWare  -  Novell-developed NOS. Provides file and printer sharing among networks of PCs. Each network must have at least one file server, and access to other resources is dependent on connecting to and logging into file server.

 

NetWare Directory Services (n) -  On networks running Novell NetWare 4.x and higher, a distributed database that maintains information about every resource on the network and that provides access to these resources.

 

network (n) -  A group of computers or other devices, such as printers and scanners, that communicate either wirelessly or by using a physical connection, such as an Ethernet cable or a phone line.

 

network (n) -  A group of people someone communicates and shares with on Windows Live. Someone's network includes people they've added to their profile, to their Messenger contacts, or both. People in someone's network can see information about their latest activities in the what's new list, and may see other information, depending on permissions settings.

 

network (n) -  A system of dividing up territory into independent areas for mobile telephony (voice and data connections), managed by mobile operators.

 

Network  -  A way of linking several computers together so that their users can share resources such as printers and documents, often via a central computer called a- server.

 

See also- LAN,- WAN,Ethernet.

 

Network & Internet (PN) -  The UI label for network and Internet settings in Windows desktop.

 

Network & wireless (PN) -  The UI label for network and wireless (mobile) settings in Windows 10 Mobile.

 

Network Access Protection (n) -  A set of operating system components that can help protect access to a private network by enforcing health policies. System administrators establish health policies which NAP enforces by inspecting and assessing the health of client computers, restricting network access when client computers are deemed noncompliant, and remediating noncompliant client computers for full network access. NAP also provides ongoing health compliance enforcement while a client computer is connected to a network.

 

network access server (n) -  The device that accepts Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP)

 

connections and places clients on the network that the NAS serves.

 

network adapter (n) -  An expansion card or other device used to provide network access

 

to a computer or other device, such as a printer. Mediates between the computer and

 

physical media, such as cabling, over which transmissions travel.

 

network adapter driver (n) -  A device driver that works directly with the network

 

adapter, acting as an intermediary between the adapter and the protocol driver.

 

network address translation (n) -  An Internet Protocol (IP) translation process that

 

allows a network with private addresses to access information on the Internet.

 

network administrator (n) -  A person responsible for planning, configuring, and

 

managing the day-to-day operation of the network.

 

network agent (n) -  A background process within a virtual machine that updates the network configuration of that machine in order to support network isolation.

 

Network and Sharing Center (PN) -  A task page in the Windows Control Panel from where customers can get real-time status information about their network, and also make changes to settings.

 

network architecture (n) -  The underlying structure of a computer network, including hardware, functional layers, interfaces, and protocols, used to establish communication and ensure the reliable transfer of information. Network architectures are designed to provide both philosophical and physical standards for the complexities of establishing communications links and transferring information without conflict. Various network architectures exist, including the internationally accepted seven-layer ISO Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) model and IBM's Systems Network Architecture (SNA).

 

Network Awareness (n) -  A service of Windows Vista that collects network information available to Windows on behalf of applications and enables them to easily and effectively adapt to changes in network environments.

 

network bandwidth throttling (n) -  The process of setting the maximum portion of total network capacity that a service is allowed to use. An administrator can deliberately limit a servers Internet workload by not allowing it to receive requests at full capacity, thus saving resources for other programs, such as e-mail.

 

network bandwidth usage throttling (n) -  A performance optimization in DPM that limits the percentage of network bandwidth that protection and recovery jobs can consume.

 

network basic input/output system (n) -  An application programming interface (API) that can be used by programs on a local area network (LAN). NetBIOS provides programs with a uniform set of commands for requesting the lower-level services required to manage names, conduct sessions, and send datagrams between nodes on a network. network bridge (n) -  Software or hardware that connects two or more networks so that they can communicate, and that operates at the data-link layer (layer 2) of the OSI model. network card driver (n) -  A device driver that works directly with the network card, acting as an intermediary between the card and the protocol driver.

 

Network card, Network Interface Card  -  An- Expansion card- which lets a PC communicate with anetwork, required for- broadband- Internet access. See alsoEthernet,- NIC.

 

Network Center (n) -  A control panel that provides the status of your network and access to networking activities.

 

network configuration (n) -  The entire interconnected set of hardware, or the way in which a network is laid out—the manner in which elements are connected. network connection (n) -  A link between a user's computer and a group of computers and other devices that enables the user to access printers, servers etc. The link can be through a wire, cable, phone line or wireless transmissions.

 

network control block (n) -  NetBIOS data structures that contain information about the command to perform an optional post routine, an optional event handle, and a pointer to a buffer that is used for messages or other data.

 

network control program (n) -  In a communications network that includes a mainframe computer, a program that usually resides in a communications controller and takes over communications tasks such as routing, error control, line control, and polling (checking terminals for transmissions), leaving the main computer free for other functions. network database (n) -  A database that runs in a network.

 

Network Device Enrollment Service (n) -  A Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) communication protocol that defines the communication between network devices and a Registration Authority (RA) for certificate enrollment.

 

Network Diagram (n) -  A diagram that shows dependencies between project tasks. Tasks are represented by boxes, or nodes, and task dependencies are represented by lines that connect the boxes.

 

Network Discovery method (n) -  An SMS/Configuration Manager discovery method that enables the SMS/Configuration Manager administrator to discover any network resources that are IP addressable.

 

network drive (n) -  On a local area network (LAN), a drive that other computers on the network can connect to. A network drive allows people to access shared files and folders. Network Explorer (n) -  A utility in Windows Vista that presents a view of all PCs, devices, and printers on the network, and is significantly faster and more reliable than My Network Places in Windows XP.

 

network file system (n) -  A distributed file system that allows users to access remote files and directories on a network as if they were local. NFS is compatible with Microsoft Windows and UNIX-based systems, including Linux and Mac OS X.

 

network gateway (n) -  A device that connects networks using different communications protocols so that information can be passed from one to the other. A gateway both transfers information and converts it to a form compatible with the protocols used by the receiving network.

 

network ID (n) -  A number used to identify the systems that are located on the same physical network bounded by routers. The network ID should be unique to the internetwork.

 

Network Information Service (PN) -  A network naming and administration system that was developed by Sun Microsystems and is constructed on the client-server model of computing. Formerly known as Yellow Pages (yp), NIS provides a simple network look­up service that consists of databases and processes.

 

Network Information Service map (n) -  A database served by Network Information Service (NIS). The NIS lookup calls require a map (database) name and an NIS domain name. An NIS domain consists of a collection of such maps.

 

Network Inspection System (PN) -  A detection system that helps guard against intrusion attempts targeting known and newly discovered vulnerabilities in network protocols. network inter-site policy (n) -  Defines bandwidth limitations between sites that are directly linked within a call admission control (CAC) configuration.

 

network isolation (n) -  The use of an IP address pool to enable multiple copies of a lab environment to be run concurrently without causing network conflicts such as conflicts in computer names, DNS registration, and so forth.

 

network isolation environment (n) -  A virtual environment that is run with network isolation, thereby protecting it from network conflicts.

 

network key (n) -  A password that can help protect wireless networks from unauthorized access. A network security key encrypts information sent from one network computer to another so that the information can only be read by someone who has the key. network latency (n) -  The time required for a signal to travel from one point on a network to another.

 

network layer (n) -  Layer three of the OSI model. A layer that addresses messages and translates logical addresses and names into physical addresses. It also determines the route from the source to the destination computer and manages traffic problems, such as switching, routing, and controlling the congestion of data packets.

 

Network Level Authentication (PN) -  An authentication method that completes user authentication before you establish a Remote Desktop connection and the logon screen appears.

 

Network Load Balancing (n) -  A Windows network component that uses a distributed algorithm to load-balance Internet Protocol (IP) traffic across a number of hosts, helping to enhance the scalability and availability of mission-critical, IP-based services, such as Remote Desktop Services, Web services, virtual private networking, and streaming media. It also provides high availability by detecting host failures and automatically redistributing traffic to the surviving hosts.

 

network location (n) -  In a URL, a unique name that identifies an Internet server. A network location has two or more parts, separated by periods, as in microsoft.com. network location awareness service (n) -  A service of Windows Vista that collects network information available to Windows on behalf of applications and enables them to easily and effectively adapt to changes in network environments.

 

network logon (n) -  The process of logging on to a computer by means of a network. Typically, a user first interactively logs on to a local computer, then provides logon credentials to another computer on the network, such as a server, that he or she is authorized to use.

 

network mask (n) -  The bit mask that is used to match a destination IP address to the value in the Destination field in the IP routing table for a host or a router. In the Windows 2000 IP routing table, this column is named Netmask.

 

network mix (n) -  The probability of a virtual user running a given network profile. For example: 75% use LAN and 25% use DSL 56K.

 

network modem (n) -  A modem that is shared by users of a network for calling an online service provider, an ISP, a service bureau, or other online source.

 

Network Monitor (n) -  A packet capture and analysis tool used to view network traffic. Network MOS (n) -  A prediction of the wideband listening quality MOS (MOS-LQ) of audio that is played to the user. This value takes into account only network factors such as codec used, packet loss, packet reorder, packet errors and jitter.

 

network name (n) -  A name identifying an SNA network. The network name is often used in combination with other identifiers, such as a control point name or an LU name. The combination of a network name with a control point name is sometimes called a network qualified control point name.

 

network name (n) -  A resource that Exchange 2007 Setup assigns to a clustered mailbox server. This resource represents the network name of the clustered mailbox server. Network Name resource (n) -  In a Windows Server Failover Clustering (WSFC), a logical server name that is managed as a cluster resource. A network name resource must be used with an IP address resource.

 

Network News Transfer Protocol (n) -  A member of the TCP/IP suite of protocols used to distribute network news messages to NNTP servers and clients (newsreaders) on the

 

Internet. NNTP is designed so that news articles are stored on a server in a central database, thus enabling a user to select specific items to read.

 

network number (n) -  In the Macintosh environment, the routing address or range of addresses assigned to the physical network that AppleTalk Phase 2 routers use to direct information to the appropriate network.

 

network partition (n) -  A state in which one or more of the nodes in a cluster cannot communicate with the other cluster nodes. In this case, the cluster may be split into two or more partitions that cannot communicate with each other.

 

network password (n) -  A password that you use to log on to a network. You can make this the same as your Windows password, so you have only one password to remember. network place (n) -  A folder on a Web server.

 

Network Policy Server (n) -  The Microsoft implementation of a Remote Authentication Dial-In User Service (RADIUS) server and proxy. In the NAP architecture, the NPS server includes the NAP administration server and the system health validator (SHV) components.

 

Network Printer Installation Wizard (PN) -  A wizard that guides the user through installing a printer on their network.

 

network profile (n) -  A specific simulation of network bandwidth at the application layer; for example, LAN and Dialup 56K. The network profile does not simulate latency. network profile (n) -  A profile that determines the network settings for the phone, and then activates or updates that phone.

 

network protocol (n) -  A set of rules and parameters that defines and enables

 

communication through a network.

 

network range (n) -  In the Macintosh environment, the routing address or range of addresses assigned to the physical network that AppleTalk Phase 2 routers use to direct information to the appropriate network.

 

network regions (n) -  The network hubs or backbones that are used in the configuration of call admission control, E9-1-1, and media bypass. They interconnect parts of a network across multiple geographic areas, and every network region must be associated with a central site.

 

network resource (n) -  An individual computer on an internal corporate or private network that users can connect to through an RD Gateway server. The computer can be either a remote desktop server running RemoteApp programs or a computer with Remote Desktop enabled.

 

network scanner (n) -  A scanner that is not connected directly to a computer, but is instead connected directly to a network through a wired or wireless connection. network scanning (n) -  A process of finding, or identifying characteristics of, computers or other resources that are accessible on a network.

 

network security scan (n) -  An examination of servers for viruses, spyware, and malware. network server (n) -  On the Internet or other network, a computer or program that hosts web pages and responds to commands from a client.

 

network service (n) -  A service, such as file and printer sharing on your computer or automatic backup to a network server.

 

network service set identifier (n) -  A unique set of letters or numbers that identifies a wireless network. For a computer or device to connect to a wireless network, it must supply that network's SSID. An SSID can be up to 32 characters.

 

Network Services (PN) -  The family of network services in Microsoft Azure. network share (n) -  A folder or directory on a computer that is set up to be readable or writeable for certain users on other computers.

 

network site (n) -  A collections of subnets with similar bandwidth, for example, a branch office location, a set of buildings, or a campus.

 

network software (n) -  Software that enables groups of computers to communicate, including a component that facilitates connection to or participation in a network. network topology (n) -  The physical layout of computers, cables, switches, routers, and other components of a network.

 

Network Topology  -  The physical and logical relationship of nodes in a network; the schematic arrangement of the links and nodes of a network typically in the form of a star, ring, tree or bus topology.

 

Network Trace (n) -  An SMS Administrator console tool that calculates and diagrams communication routes between an SMS site server and any site system role that you select, based on the discovery data in the SMS site database.

 

Network Traffic report (n) -  A DPS report that provides information about the impact of synchronization jobs on network traffic.

 

network user (n) -  A user that is accessing resources on a remote system. A network user may not have a UI or desktop on the remote computer.

 

network-attached storage (n) -  A storage unit directly connected to the network using standard protocols such as Ethernet and TCP/IP for providing file access services. networked projection (n) -  A feature of Windows Vista that allows a Windows Vista computer to detect a nearby projector that is a network-connected device and lets the user establish a connection through a wired or wireless, ad hoc, or infrastructure network. networking (n) -  The category of services in Microsoft Azure that includes Virtual Networks, Microsoft Azure Connect, and Traffic Manager.

 

Networking (PN) -  The Developer tools subcategory containing apps to help developers with networking aspects of building an app.

 

Networking API (PN) -  The API for networking.

 

networking service (n) -  The category of services in Microsoft Azure that includes Virtual Networks, Microsoft Azure Connect, and Traffic Manager.

 

Networks (PN) -  The networking service in Microsoft Azure that lets customers create and manage virtual private networks in Microsoft Azure and securely link them to other virtual networks or to their own on-premises networking infrastructure.

 

neutral character (n) -  A character that does not have strong right-to-left or left-to-right language attributes.

 

neutral protamine hagedorn insulin (n) -  An intermediate-acting insulin given to lower the blood sugar level of diabetics.

 

New & Rising (PN) -  The category of items (apps or games) that are suggested to users due to their recent popularity.

 

New & rising apps (PN) -  The category of items (apps or games) that are suggested to users due to their recent popularity.

 

New & rising games (PN) -  The category of items (apps or games) that are suggested to users due to their recent popularity.

 

New + Rising Apps (PN) -  The category of items (apps or games) that are suggested to users due to their recent popularity.

 

New + Rising Games (PN) -  The category of items (apps or games) that are suggested to users due to their recent popularity.

 

New Age (n) -  One of the music genres that appears under Genre classification in Windows Media Player library. Based on ID3 standard tagging format for MP3 audio files.

 

ID3v1 genre ID # 10.

 

New albums (PN) -  The collection title for music albums that were recently released.

 

New Calendar (n) -  A UI element that allows the user to create a new Calendar page.

 

New Connection Wizard (PN) -  A tool that helps users sign up for Internet service and automatically handles the software configuration steps necessary for gaining access to the Internet.

 

New episode this week (PN) -  The collection title for TV series episodes that aired this

 

week.

 

New Group (PN) -  The default name for a group of contacts created by the user.

 

New Last Week (n) -  A view that lists all the active opportunities that belonging to the mobile user that were created during previous calendar week.

 

new line character (n) -  A control character that causes the cursor on a display or the

 

printing mechanism on a printer to move to the beginning of the next line.

 

new mail (n) -  A notification on the app bar that appears whenever the user receives a new

 

email.

 

New movies (PN) -  The collection title for movies that were recently released.

 

New music (PN) -  The collection title for music items that were recently released.

 

New Number... (PN) -  The UI element that opens a dialog box where the user can enter a new phone number for call forwarding.

 

New Protection Group Wizard (n) -  A wizard that is used to create a new protection group which will protect data on a user's file servers.

 

New Quick Contact (n) -  UI that allows a user to open a Quick Contact form to create a contact record without opening an entire record form.

 

New releases (PN) -  The category that lists new music or video releases.

 

New releases (PN) -  The category of items that have recently become available.

 

New This Week (n) -  A view that lists all the active opportunities belonging to the mobile user that have been created during the current calendar week.

 

New Ticket Routing Rule (n) -  A Business Rule that fires when a new Ticket is submitted to your Parature Department.

 

New To Do (n) -  A UI element that allows the user to add a new To Do to the To Do list. New toolbar (n) -  The toolbar, in wizards and property sheets for creating hardware configurations for virtual machines and for configuring virtual machine hosts, that contains tools for configuring new hardware components. In hardware configurations, the New toolbar contains tools for configuring SCSI adapters, DVDs, and network adapters for virtual machines. In host properties, the New toolbar contains a tool for configuring a virtual network on the host.

 

New TV shows (PN) -  The collection title for TV episodes or seasons that were recently released.

 

New Virtual Hard Disk Wizard (PN) -  A wizard that is used by advanced users to create custom virtual hard disks for virtual machines. The purpose of the New Virtual Hard Disk Wizard is to gather the basic information from the user necessary to create a new virtual hard disk.

 

New Wave (n) -  One of the music genres that appears under Genre classification in Windows Media Player library. Based on ID3 standard tagging format for MP3 audio files.

 

ID3v1 genre ID # 66.

 

new Windows experience (PN) -  The new way of interacting with Windows introduced in Windows 8.

 

new Windows UI (PN) -  The new way of interacting with Windows introduced in Windows 8.

 

new Windows user interface (PN) -  The new way of interacting with Windows introduced in Windows 8.

 

new+rising (PN) -  The category of items (apps or games) that are suggested to users due to their recent popularity.

 

Newbie  -  (New beginner)- Internet slang for someone who hasn't been using computers or the internet long.

 

Newest (PN) -  The filter for videos within an Office 365 Video channel that allows the user to sort videos according to when they were uploaded.

 

News (PN) -  An application that aggregates news in customized views from a variety of Internet partner news sources, featuring news articles, videos, articles, and photography. News (PN) -  The News & weather subcategory containing apps that help you keep up with current events.

 

News & Weather (PN) -  An app category that provides news or weather information. news + weather (PN) -  An app category that provides news or weather information. news account (n) -  An online account, usually provided by an Internet service provider (ISP), that lets users access newsgroups.

 

News Banner (n) -  A title animation in Windows Movie Maker.

 

news server (n) -  A computer or program that exchanges Internet newsgroups with newsreader clients and other servers.

 

News Updates page (n) -  The page that contains general information, virus updates, and network alerts.

 

News Video, Inset (n) -  A title animation in Windows Movie Maker.

 

newsfeed (n) -  A feed that provides information, notifications and updates based on people, documents, and tags you are following.

 

newsgroup (n) -  A forum on the Internet for discussions on a specified range of subjects. Newsgroup (or just News)  -  A public area where you can read and post messages on a particular topic or theme, allowing public discussion, either on the Internet or a Bulletin Board. Largely replaced by internetforums.

 

newsletter (n) -  A report containing news or information, can be printed or distributed electronically.

 

Newspaper (n) -  A title animation in Windows Movie Maker.

 

newsreader (n) -  A Usenet client program that enables a user to subscribe to Usenet newsgroups, read articles, post follow-ups, reply by e-mail, and post articles. Many Web browsers also provide these functions.

 

next-of-kin process (n) -  A process that allows for the release of contents-€“for example emails and their attachments, address books, and contact lists-€“to the next of kin of a deceased or incapacitated email account holder and/or for the closure of an email account. Nexus  -  Cisco Nexus (introduced 2008), modular network switches designed for data centers

 

Nexus  -  Google Nexus (released 2010), a line of Android Devices produced

 

NFC (n) -  A communication technology based on short range (4cm or less) wireless data exchange.

 

NFC reader (n) -  An external device that interacts with an NFC-enabled phone. These devices exchange data, such as contact details or secure payment information, with NFC- enabled phones through contactless communication.

 

NFC sensor (n) -  A type of sensor (such as a proximity sensor) that uses near field communication (NFC).

 

NFC transaction (n) -  An exchange of information between two devices using NFC, or near field communication. Using NFC transactions, a person can use their phone to make payments in a store or as a bus pass.

 

NFS (n) -  A distributed file system that allows users to access remote files and directories on a network as if they were local. NFS is compatible with Microsoft Windows and UNIX-based systems, including Linux and Mac OS X.

 

NFS client (n) -  A computer running client software to access shared Network File System (NFS) resources.

 

NFS server (n) -  A computer providing Network File System (NFS) disk resources to NFS clients.

 

NGen (n) -  A pre-compilation technology for managed code that compiles Common Intermediate Language (CIL) to native code on the end-user computer prior to application run time. It is an alternative to JIT compilation.

 

NIC  -  (Network Interface Card)- An- Expansion card- which lets a PC communicate with a- network- or use a- broadband- internet connection. Almost all modern NICs are- Ethernet- cards.

 

NIC Teaming (PN) -  A feature that enables users to group two or more physical network adapters into a single logical network device.

 

nickname (n) -  A user-friendly name displayed in place of a network location, e-mail address, contact name, or other, more formal name.

 

nickname (n) -  When used with merge replication system tables, a name for another Subscriber that is known to already have a specified generation of updated data. niladic functions (n) -  Functions that do not have any input parameters.

 

NIS (n) -  A network naming and administration system that was developed by Sun Microsystems and is constructed on the client-server model of computing. Formerly known as Yellow Pages (yp), NIS provides a simple network look-up service that consists of databases and processes.

 

NIS (PN) -  A detection system that helps guard against intrusion attempts targeting known

 

and newly discovered vulnerabilities in network protocols.

 

NIS map (n) -  A database served by Network Information Service (NIS). The NIS lookup calls require a map (database) name and an NIS domain name. An NIS domain consists of a collection of such maps.

 

NLA2 (n) -  A service of Windows Vista that collects network information available to Windows on behalf of applications and enables them to easily and effectively adapt to changes in network environments.

 

NLB (n) -  A Windows network component that uses a distributed algorithm to load- balance Internet Protocol (IP) traffic across a number of hosts, helping to enhance the scalability and availability of mission-critical, IP-based services, such as Remote Desktop Services, Web services, virtual private networking, and streaming media. It also provides high availability by detecting host failures and automatically redistributing traffic to the surviving hosts.

 

NLS API (n) -  Set of system functions in 32-bit Windows containing information that is based on language and cultural conventions.

 

NMI (n) -  A hardware interrupt that bypasses and takes priority over interrupt requests generated by software and by the keyboard and other such devices. A nonmaskable interrupt cannot be overruled (masked) by another service request and is issued to the microprocessor only in disastrous circumstances, such as severe memory errors or impending power failures.

 

NNTP (n) -  A member of the TCP/IP suite of protocols used to distribute network news messages to NNTP servers and clients (newsreaders) on the Internet. NNTP is designed so that news articles are stored on a server in a central database, thus enabling a user to select specific items to read.

 

No Charge (oth) -  A shipping method that means the business pays for the cost of shipping the order, rather than making the customer pay.

 

No Control (oth) -  A quantity selling option that specifies that a product can be sold only in existing units in the product catalog. A salesperson cannot create new units for sale.

 

No longer in CRM UI.Help Visor (PN) -  A UI element that contains links to Help topics, videos, and wizards that guide the customer through basic Dynamics CRM concepts and procedures.

 

No service (PN) -  A status notification that the device is not within the wireless service range.

 

No watermark (oth) -  An option the user can click to remove any existing watermark in the document. If there is no watermark already in the document, clicking this option activates the OK button.

 

no-bar fraction (n) -  A fraction that is written vertically with the numerator on top and denominator below, with no fraction bar between them.- - - -

 

NOD (n) -  The formula used to determine the time and frequency with which a piece of content is delivered. This formula takes into account the total quantity of content to be delivered, and the length of time over which the quantity must be delivered. node (n) -  A fundamental unit of data structures which can be labeled and which can have data stored in it.

 

node (n) -  For local area networks (LANs), a device that is connected to the network and

 

is capable of communicating with other network devices.

 

node (n) -  For failover clusters or server clusters, a computer system that is an active or inactive member of the cluster.

 

Node  -  A collection of modems that provide local access to a system. When you dial your local access number, you are dialing into a generally local node which then connects you to the main ISP system.

 

Node  -  a single station on a network.

 

node group (n) -  A named collection of nodes in an HPC cluster.

 

NOIDMIF file (n) -  A custom Management Information Format (MIF) file that SMS/Configuration Manager administrators can use to modify or append object classes and properties to existing client inventory data.

 

NOIDMIF file (n) -  A custom Management Information Format (MIF) file that Configuration Manager administrators can use to modify or append object classes and properties to existing client inventory data.

 

Noise (n) -  One of the music genres that appears under Genre classification in Windows Media Player library. Based on ID3 standard tagging format for MP3 audio files. ID3v1 genre ID # 39.

 

noise  -  Unplanned energy introduced onto a communications path, resulting in transmission errors. Undesirable signals bearing no desired information noise  -  The unpredictable difference between the observed data and the true process. noise word (n) -  A word such as ‘the' or ‘an' that is not useful for searches, or that a crawler should ignore when creating an index.

 

NOK (n) -  The official currency of Norway.

 

nominal account (n) -  An account that is closed out each fiscal period and whose balance is transferred to retained earnings account.

 

nonadjacent selection (n) -  A selection of two or more cells or ranges that don't touch each other.

 

non-authoritative recovery (n) -  A restore operation performed on an Active Directory domain controller in which the objects in the restored directory are not treated as authoritative. The restored objects are updated with changes held on other domain controllers in the domain.

 

nonauthoritative restore (n) -  A restore operation performed on an Active Directory domain controller in which the objects in the restored directory are not treated as authoritative. The restored objects are updated with changes held on other domain controllers in the domain.

 

nonbreaking hyphen (n) -  A hyphen that is used to prevent a hyphenated word, number, or phrase from breaking if it falls at the end of a line.

 

non-broadcast network (n) -  An Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 802.11 wireless network in which Service Set Identifier (SSID) suppression is enabled. nonce (n) -  A key used only once in a cryptographic communication.

 

nonchargeable transaction (n) -  A transaction that cannot be included on an invoice and charged to a customer.

 

nonclustered hash index (n) -  A hash-table-based index, available only for memory- optimized tables, in which rows are not ordered.

 

nonclustered index (n) -  A B-tree-based index in which the logical order of the index key values is different than the physical order of the corresponding rows in a table. The index contains row locators that point to the storage location of the table data.

 

non-compliant card (n) -  An SD card that does not meet the requirements for use in a Windows Phone.

 

nonconformance (n) -  Describes an item that has a quality problem and does not comply with predefined performance or quality standards.

 

non-contained database (n) -  A SQL Server database that stores database settings and metadata with the instance of SQL Server Database Engine where the database is installed, and requires logins in the master database for authentication.

 

noncontiguous namespace (n) -  A namespace based on different DNS root domain names, such as that of multiple trees in the same forest.

 

non-customizable component (n) -  A component that, once protected and installed, cannot be modified.

 

nondefault drag-and-drop operation (n) -  A drag (transfer) operation whose

 

interpretation is determined by a user's choice of command. These commands are included in a shortcut menu displayed at the destination where the object is dropped. non-delivery report (n) -  A notification that an e-mail message was not delivered to the recipient.

 

non-direct item (n) -  An item that is not calculated by Master Planning.

 

Nondirectional Cycle (PN) -  A SmartArt graphic layout used to represent a continuing sequence of stages, tasks, or events in a circular flow. Each shape has the same level of importance. Works well when direction does not need to be indicated.

 

NONE member (n) -  A dimension member that is used for information that has no defined relationship to a specific member.

 

non-enterprise project (n) -  A project that has not been published to Project Server, either because it is being saved by someone who is not a project manager on the project, or because there is not a valid connection to the server.

 

Nonfiction (PN) -  The Books & reference subcategory containing apps with true-life stories and other content.

 

non-generalized image (n) -  A software image that you can apply and restore only to the computer where the image was taken.

 

nonhubbed mode (n) -  A mode in which (ATM) Address Resolution Protocol/multicast address resolution service (ARP/MARS) does not forward multicast and broadcast traffic for multicast group clients. In this mode, the service returns a dynamic listing of ATM hosts currently registered for the multicast group address to requesting clients. Clients then use this list to initiate and establish their own point-to-multipoint virtual connections with each of the members in the multicast list.

 

Nonkey index column (n) -  Column in a nonclustered index that does not participate as a key column. Rather, the column is stored in the leaf-level of the index and is used in conjunction with the key columns to cover one or more queries.

 

nonleaf member (n) -  A member with one or more descendants.

 

nonmaskable interrupt (n) -  A hardware interrupt that bypasses and takes priority over interrupt requests generated by software and by the keyboard and other such devices. A nonmaskable interrupt cannot be overruled (masked) by another service request and is issued to the microprocessor only in disastrous circumstances, such as severe memory errors or impending power failures.

 

non-negotiable check (n) -  A non-negotiable instrument ordering a drawee organization to pay a specified amount of money to the holder.

 

non-negotiable instrument (n) -  A document of title or written order that cannot be bought, sold, exchanged, or transferred.

 

nonnullable parameter (n) -  A parameter which cannot take a NULL value.

 

nonoperating income (n) -  Income that includes profits or losses from activities that are not related to an organization's core operations. Examples of nonoperating income include revenue from dividend income, profits and losses from investments and foreign exchanges, and asset write-down income.

 

nonpaged memory (n) -  Memory that cannot be paged to disk.

 

nonpaged pool (n) -  Operating system memory that is never paged to disk.

 

non-peak power plan (n) -  A Configuration Manager power plan that you can configure with power settings that are applied outside peak hours or business hours.

 

Non-Plug and Play (adj) -  Pertaining to a device, such as a game controller or printer, that does not automatically work when you plug it in to your computer. After connecting it to your computer, you have to install the necessary drivers and configure the hardware settings.

 

non-printable character (n) -  A character used to control the format of displayed or printed information, rather than to represent a particular letter, digit, or other special character. The space is one of the more important nonprinting characters. nonprinting character (n) -  A character used to control the format of displayed or printed information, rather than to represent a particular letter, digit, or other special character.

 

The space is one of the more important nonprinting characters.

 

nonprinting region (n) -  The area along the edges of a page that cannot be printed on. Different printers have different nonprinting regions.

 

non-printing row (n) -  A row that is included in the data of a report but that is not printed or displayed when the report is generated, such as for complex calculations, or the graphic design of a report.

 

non-recoverable sales tax (n) -  A sales tax levied on purchased products that is not deducted from the sales tax levied on the sale of the purchased products when both sales taxes are paid by the same party.

 

nonrepeatable read (n) -  An inconsistency that occurs when a transaction reads the same row more than once, and a separate transaction modifies that row between reads. nonrepudiation (n) -  The use of cryptography to ensure that someone performing an action on a computer cannot falsely deny that they performed that action. A system with nonrepudiation provides undeniable proof that a user took a specific action such as transferring money, authorizing a purchase, or sending a message.

 

non-spacing character (n) -  A character, such as diacritic, that has no meaning by itself, but overlaps a base character to modify it.

 

nonsquare pixel (n) -  A pixel that generally has an aspect ratio of 3:4, 32:27, or 8:9, meaning that it is slightly less tall than it is wide, or vice versa. Nonsquare pixels are standard in digital video.

 

non-transacted pipeline (n) -  A pipeline that does not support COM+ transactions. MtsPipeline and PooledPipeline are the only objects that support non-transacted pipelines. nontransitive trust (n) -  A trust relationship in a multiple-domain environment that is restricted to just two domains. For example, if domain A has a nontransitive trust with domain B, and domain B trusts domain C, then there is no trust relationship between domain A and domain C. Nontransitive trusts can be one-way or two-way.

 

non-uniform memory access (n) -  Access by a CPU of local as well as foreign memory. This process, which is enabled by NUMA architecture, results in different access speeds. nonvolatile memory (n) -  A storage system that does not lose data when power is removed from it.

 

nonvolatile storage (n) -  A storage system that does not lose data when power is removed from it.

 

nonworking time (n) -  Time devoted to non-work activities. Out-of-office time. Non-Working Time (n) -  Time devoted to non-work activities. Out-of-office time. Normal (adj) -  The name of a device profile that handles incoming calls by always notifying the user.

 

normal (adj) -  Having a font weight that corresponds to a weight class value of 400 according to the OpenType specification.

 

normal award (n) -  The amount of a variable compensation award that is calculated by the plan before company or individual performance is taken into account. The target award is what an employee will receive if all targets are reached.

 

normal backup (n) -  A backup that copies all selected files and marks each file as having been backed up (in other words, the archive attribute is cleared).

 

Normal style (n) -  The default paragraph style used in documents based on the Normal template (Normal.dot).

 

Normal template (n) -  A global template that you can use for any type of document. You can modify this template to change the default document formatting or content. normalization (n) -  The process of taking a single-table database and breaking it into a set of smaller, related tables, with each table focused on a single topic or grouping of information.

 

normalization factor (n) -  A factor that enables comparisons and assessments of disparate subjects on a single rating scale.

 

normalization rule (n) -  A design rule that minimizes data redundancy and results in a database in which the Database Engine and application software can easily enforce integrity.

 

normalize (v) -  To minimize the duplication of information in a relational database through effective table design.

 

normalized value (n) -  A value calculated by dividing the actual value by the weighted target value.

 

North America (PN) -  The US-American geo within the Azure region taxonomy. northbridge  -  the chip or chips that connect a- CPU- to- memory, the- PCI- bus,- Level 2 cache- and- AGPactivities. The Northbridge chips communicate with the CPU through the- FSB. other isSouthbridge.

 

North-South (adj) -  A node placement style that specifies that the nodes are placed north- south in relation to the MOM Management Server.

 

NOT (n) -  A Boolean operator that performs logical negation, effectively reversing the input, if and when its input is false.

 

not a number (oth) -  A value that represents the result of an invalid calculation.

 

not applicable (oth) -  Pertaining to something for which an answer is not available or

 

appropriate.

 

not available (adj) -  A status pertaining to a call or IM recipient, who is signed out of

 

Communicator or who has selected the Do Not Disturb status.

 

not DPI-aware (adj) -  Pertaining to an application that always renders at 96 DPI.

 

Not For Resale (oth) -  A license policy under which software may be used for development and demonstration purposes only.

 

not sufficient funds (n) -  The lack of enough funds in an account to cover a payment or withdrawal.

 

Not Synced view (n) -  The name of a view that shows all new or changed records that the mobile device user has entered, but not yet synchronized.

 

Not Synchronized (adj) -  A view that lists all the new or changed information for a record type that the mobile user has entered, but not yet synchronized. In other words, the information currently resides only on the mobile devices local store.

 

not valid (adj) -  Erroneous or unrecognizable because of a flaw in reasoning or an error in input. Invalid results, for example, might occur if the logic in a program is faulty. note (n) -  An Outlook item that can be attached to a record's history log. Typically a note contains information regarding a conversation with a customer or other people in the company they work for.

 

note (n) -  Text entered by the user that is displayed to contacts.

 

note board (n) -  An area for storing comments about a Web page. A note board can appear on a Web page or in a separate dialog box. The notes can be viewed, managed, and shared by using My Site.

 

note container (n) -  A flexible bounding box that contains the notes that you type or paste on a page.

 

note tag (n) -  A marker that can be applied to content or items (like photos or text) to identify certain types of information. This allows the user to find, view and sort tagged items with ease.

 

notebook (n) -  A group of OneNote sections.

 

Notebook (PN) -  ?The space where Cortana stores all of the information she knows about you.

 

Notebook (PN) -  A web application for interactive authoring of literate computations, in which explanatory text, mathematics, computations and rich media output may be combined, and in which input and output are stored in persistent cells that may be edited in-place, using plain text documents, called notebooks, for recording and distributing the results of the rich computations.

 

Notebook  -  A portable PC, with system unit, screen and keyboard in one portable package. Also called a- laptop.

 

notebook layout view (n) -  A document view in Word that enables users to take notes more easily.

 

Notebook List (n) -  A list of OneNote notebooks stored on OneDrive that you either own or is shared with you, and that is available at OneNote.com/notebooks.

 

Notebook Presence (PN) -  A feature that broadcasts user presence in a OneNote notebook and supports real-time synchronization for users who are editing the same page.

 

Notes (n) -  The heading for a field where users can enter notes about their To Do.

 

Notes E-mailed To Me (oth) -  The name of a folder that contains any .one files that have been sent to you as an e-mail message attachment.

 

notes page (n) -  A printed page that displays author notes beneath the slide that the notes accompany.

 

notes pane (n) -  The pane in normal view in which you type notes that you want to accompany a slide. You print these notes as notes pages or have them display when you save a presentation as a Web page.

 

note-taking tool (n) -  A feature that enables users to capture notes, such as text, images, audio, video and Web content.

 

notice (n) -  A privacy principle that requires reasonable disclosure to a consumer of an entity's personally identifiable information (PII) collection and use practices. This disclosure information is typically conveyed in a privacy notice or privacy policy. Notice is addressed in Fair Information Practices.

 

notification (n) -  A message or announcement sent to the user or administrator of a system. The recipient may be a human or an automated notification manager. notification (n) -  Information displayed to a user about someone else adding him or her to a contact list, a contact's offline or online status, a missed conversation, voice mail message, service problem, or other item.

 

notification (n) -  A communication generated by the occurrence of an event that a system or user asynchronously sends for receipt. A notification message is a communication that is intended to be read by a recipient.

 

notification (n) -  A message or other indicator that informs users of events that are unrelated to their current activity, such as the number of new messages received while their computer is locked.

 

notification activity (n) -  A workflow activity within the action phase of request processing in which ILM 2' sends e-mails to one or more users to notify them of the request.'

 

Notification API (PN) -  A Windows API that is used for sending user notifications to the system, such as telling the system that the user is busy. It provides intelligence regarding when to draw a notification or perform some other custom action, and mechanisms for anchoring these notifications around the system.

 

notification area (n) -  The area on the right side of the Windows taskbar. It contains shortcuts to programs and important status information.

 

Notification bar (n) -  A bar at the bottom of the Internet Explorer view pane that alerts the user to status changes and provides possible actions the user can take. notification channel (n) -  A shareable, server-side object capable of routing notifications from a server to appropriately registered clients.

 

notification count (n) -  A number in the app bar to indicate that the user needs to take

 

some action (such as an alert or a reminder) or that new activity has occurred (such as new mail).

 

notification group (n) -  A list of operators and scheduled availability for receiving page or e-mail responses.

 

Notification Hubs (PN) -  The highly scalable, cross-platform push notification infrastructure that enables users to either broadcast push notifications to millions of users at once or tailor notifications to individual users.

 

Notification Language option (n) -  The option on the Spam Filter page for selecting a language other than English for Spam Quarantine notifications.

 

notification message (n) -  A human-readable message sent by the backend system to the client user.

 

notification message (n) -  An e-mail message that is sent by a notification activity. notification recipient (n) -  The individual, or account, to whom a notification is sent, usually a DPS administrator.

 

Notification Services (PN) -  A Microsoft SQL Server add-in that provides a development framework and hosting server for building and deploying notification applications. notification subscriber (n) -  The user who receives notifications.

 

notification subscriber address (n) -  A package that contains information about how to reach a particular user. It includes items such as the protocol to use and the target address. notification subscription (n) -  A package that contains the notification subscriber, the notification subscriber address, and any additional information, such as when to send specific types of notifications

 

notification threshold (n) -  A threshold set up by the user to determine the event that is triggered, when a quoty limit is reached. Examples are: send e-mail notifications, log an event, run a command or script, or generate storage reports.

 

notifications (n) -  E-mail messages that alert you when new activity has occurred in particular areas of your community.

 

notifications (n) -  A transient message to the user on the app bar, that contains relevant, time-sensitive information, and provides quick access to the subject of that content in an app.

 

Notify (v) -  A permission setting in which Communicator prompts the user to allow or block any person or domain who attempts to add the user to contact lists or send instant messages to the user.

 

notify list (n) -  A list maintained by the primary master for a zone of other DNS servers that should be notified when zone changes occur. The notify list is made up of IP addresses for DNS servers configured as secondary masters for the zone. When the listed servers are notified of a change to the zone, they will initiate a zone transfer with another DNS server and update the zone.

 

Notify when new spam is received option (n) -  The check box that has users receive periodic e-mail reminders to review their newly filtered spam mail.

 

Now Playing (n) -  A tab in Windows Media Player that enables the user to view the digital media item that is currently playing.

 

now playing (PN) -  Currently selected media that is playing.

 

Now Presenting pane (n) -  A client element that displays the name and, optionally, a photograph of the current presenter.

 

NPH insulin (n) -  An intermediate-acting insulin given to lower the blood sugar level of diabetics.

 

NSControl (n) -  The command prompt utility for administering Notification Services instances and applications.

 

ntext (n) -  A variable-length data type that can hold a maximum of 2^A30 - 1

 

(1,073,741,823) characters.

 

NTFS (n) -  An advanced file system designed for use specifically with the Windows NT operating system. It supports long filenames, full security access control, file system recovery, extremely large storage media, and various features for the Windows NT POSIX subsystem. It also supports object-oriented applications by treating all files as objects with user-defined and system-defined attributes.

 

NTFS file system (n) -  An advanced file system designed for use specifically with the Windows NT operating system. It supports long filenames, full security access control, file system recovery, extremely large storage media, and various features for the Windows NT POSIX subsystem. It also supports object-oriented applications by treating all files as objects with user-defined and system-defined attributes.

 

n-tier (adj) -  Pertaining to something with n layers.

 

n-tier architecture  -  n' represents the number of tiers in an application architecture. Often, this will be a two- or three-tier client/server architecture. A three-tier client/server platform architecture is defined such that the server-based applications are separated from the DBMS or data repository.

 

NTLM (n) -  A protocol using a challenge-response mechanism for authentication in which clients are able to verify their identities without sending a password to the server. It consists of three messages, commonly referred to as Type 1 (negotiation), Type 2 (challenge) and Type 3 (authentication).

 

NTP (oth) -  A standard taxonomy (v1.0 based on XBRL 2.1 and IFRS) that is defined for all businesses operating in the Netherlands for reporting financial, tax, and statistical data to government agencies.

 

NTSC (n) -  The dominant television standard in the United States and Japan. The National Television System Committee (NTSC) delivers 30 interlaced frames per second at 525 lines of resolution. It is the sponsor of the NTSC standard for encoding color, a coding system compatible with black-and-white signals, and the system used for color broadcasting in the United States.

 

NTSC DV-AVI (n) -  Movie file format for captured video streams from a DV camera. Uses the NTSC television standard as opposed to PAL format. nudge (v) -  To move an object one pixel at a time.

 

nudge (n) -  A tool that enables a user to get another user's attention by shaking the user's conversation window and playing a sound.

 

Nudge (PN) -  The checkbox that enables or disables the playing of a sound when a nudge is received.

 

Nudity (n) -  A content descriptor developed by the Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB).

 

nuisance call (n) -  Any type of unwanted, unsolicited, telephone call. Common types of nuisance calls include prank calls, telemarketing calls, and silent calls.

 

nuke  -  To intentionally delete the entire contents of a given directory, hard drive, or storage volume.

 

Nuker  -  Now a generic term for several- TCP/IP- DoS- attacks, but originally made (in)famous by the WinNuke DoS attack which crashed Windows machines that had not been suitably patched or firewalled.

 

NUL (n) -  A character code with a null value; literally, a character meaning nothing.' Although it is real in the sense of being recognizable NUL (n) -  A device

 

null (adj) -  Pertaining to a value that indicates missing or unknown data.

 

null  -  When a variable has no value, it considered to be null. Having a null value is different than having a value of 0, since 0 is an actual value. However, when used in a boolean test, both null and zero result in a FALSE value.

 

null character (n) -  A character code with a null value; literally, a character meaning nothing.' Although it is real in the sense of being recognizable

 

null field (n) -  A field containing a Null value. A null field isn't the same as a field that

 

contains a zero-length string ( ‘) or a field with a value of 0.'

 

null key (n) -  A null value that is encountered in a key column.

 

null modem (n) -  Special cabling that eliminates the modem's need for asynchronous

 

communications between two computers over short distances. A null modem cable

 

emulates modem communication.

 

null object (n) -  An object with no members.

 

null pointer (n) -  A pointer to nothing: usually a standardized memory address, such as 0. A null pointer usually marks the last of a linear sequence of pointers or indicates that a data search operation has come up empty.

 

null reference (n) -  In C++, a reference that has not been assigned an object.

 

nullable property (n) -  A property which controls if a field can have a NULL value. nullable type (n) -  In C#, an instance of the System.Nullable struct that can represent the normal range of values for its underlying value type, plus an additional null value. NUMA (n) -  Access by a CPU of local as well as foreign memory. This process, which is enabled by NUMA architecture, results in different access speeds.

 

NUMA architecture (n) -  A multiprocessor architecture that divides a system into nodes. Each node might include one or more processors, some memory, and a bus. A node's memory is local' to its processors

 

NUMA-Aware Scalability (PN) -  An IIS feature that enables a processor to successfully

 

handle growing workloads by using NUMA architecture.

 

number (n) -  A sequence of alphanumeric characters in a number system.

 

number normalization (n) -  The process of converting user phone numbers of differeing

 

formats into numeric strings of uniform format.

 

number of events (oth) -  In consolidated- events, how many events are in the group and therefore related to the same root problem.

 

number of posts (n) -  The total number (the volume) of posts in a set of filters/dataset. Number of Queries report (n) -  A Web analytics report that provides information on the number searches performed.

 

number pattern (n) -  A specific phone number or area code that users enter to restrict the device to fixed dialing.

 

NUMBER SIGN (n) -  The # character. number sign (n) -  The # character.

 

number system (n) -  Any system for representing numbers. The four number systems available are decimal, hexadecimal, octal, and binary.

 

numbered list (n) -  A list in which each item or block of text is preceded by a number. Numbered list (PN) -  The Sway button that allows users to create a numbered list out of their text.

 

numeric array (n) -  An array composed of a collection of keys and a collection of values, where each key is associated with one value. The values can be of any type, but the keys must be numeric.

 

numeric expression (n) -  Any expression that evaluates to a number. The expression can be any combination of variables, constants, functions, and operators. numeric keypad (n) -  A calculator-style block of keys, usually at the right side of a keyboard, that can be used to enter numbers.

 

numeric picture switch (n) -  A switch (\#) or instruction that specifies how Microsoft Word will display the numeric result of a field.

 

nvarchar (PN) -  The variable-length data type with a maximum of 4,000 Unicode characters.

 

NWLink (n) -  The Microsoft implementation of the Internetwork Packet

 

Exchange/Sequenced Packet Exchange (IPX/SPX) protocol used on NetWare networks. NWLink allows connectivity between Windows-based computers and NetWare networks running IPX/SPX. NWLink also provides network basic input/output system (NetBIOS) functionality and the Routing Information Protocol (RIP).

 

NWLink IPX/SPX/NetBIOS Compatible Transport Protocol (n) -  The Microsoft implementation of the Internetwork Packet Exchange/Sequenced Packet Exchange (IPX/SPX) protocol used on NetWare networks. NWLink allows connectivity between Windows-based computers and NetWare networks running IPX/SPX. NWLink also provides network basic input/output system (NetBIOS) functionality and the Routing Information Protocol (RIP).

 

Nx64k  -  This refers to a circuit bandwidth or speed provided by the aggregation of nx64 kbps channels (where n= integer 1).

 

nym (server)  -  A computer that allows a subscribing user to send and receive e-mail messages using a nym, or assumed name, without revealing the user's true identity.

 

NZD (n) -  The official currency of New Zealand.