Ni Explained

Ni, NI or N-I may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

• Ni, or Nishada, the seventh note of the Indian musical scale in raga
• New Internationalist, a magazine
• Knights Who Say "Ni!", characters from the film Monty Python and the Holy Grail

Businesses

• National Instruments, a U.S. producer of automated test equipment and virtual instrumentation software
• National Insurance, a system of taxes and related social security benefits in the United Kingdom
• Native Instruments, a music software production company
• News International, a British newspaper publisher
• Portugália airline (IATA code NI)

Language

• Ni (letter), or Nu, a letter in the Greek alphabet: uppercase Ν, lowercase ν
• Ni (kana), romanisation of the Japanese kana に and ニ
• Ni (cuneiform), a sign in cuneiform writing

Names

• Ni (surname) (倪), a Chinese surname
• Ní, a surname prefix from the shortened form of the Irish word for a daughter
• Ni, female prefix to some Balinese names

Places

• Ni River (New Caledonia), a river of New Caledonia
• Ni River (Virginia), a tributary of the Mattaponi River
• Mount Ni, a hill in Shandong, China
• Nicaragua (ISO 3166 NI)
  • .ni, Nicaragua's internet domain
• Norfolk Island, an external territory of Australia
• North Island, one of the two main islands of New Zealand
• Northern Ireland, a constituent country of the United Kingdom
• Lower Saxony (German: Niedersachsen; ISO 3166 code DE-NI), a state of Germany

Science and technology

• Nickel, symbol Ni, a chemical element
• Ampere-turns, sometimes abbreviated NI
• Natural insemination i.e. sexual intercourse, in contrast to artificial insemination
• Nitrogen Triiodide, a sensitive contact explosive
• Natural intelligence, a term used to contrast intelligence found in nature, particularly in man, from artificial intelligence
• Neonatal isoerythrolysis, a disease when the mother has antibodies against the blood type of the newborn

Other uses

• NI Tank, a Russian military vehicle
• N-I (rocket), a Japanese rocket based on the U.S. Delta/Thor family
• Nishan-e-Imtiaz, a Pakistani civilian decoration
• Nishan-e-Iqbal, a decoration awarded by the Royal House of Rampur, India
• Non-Inscrits (NI), members of the European Parliament not enrolled in any political group of the European Parliament
• Nuevas Ideas (NI), a Salvadoran political party
• Introverted intuition, one of eight cognitive functions postulated by the Myers–Briggs Type Indicator

See also

• Nee (disambiguation)
• NL (disambiguation)
• N1 (disambiguation)