Programming terms starting with N

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  1. named pipe A "pipe" with a name embedded in the "filesystem" so that it can be accessed by two unrelated processes.
  2. namespace A prefix applied to URIs, URNs, and XML entities to prevent naming conflicts.
  3. naming context A set of associations between unique, atomic, people-friendly identifiers and objects.
  4. naming environment A mechanism that allows a component to be customized without the need to access or change the component's source code.
  5. Native A Java keyword that is used in method declarations to specify that the method is not implemented in the same Java source file, but rather in another…
  6. native method A method written in a language other than Java, but accessible to a Java program.
  7. nested class A class defined inside an enclosing class. See inner class.
  8. network address The most important attribute of a socket, like your telephone's telephone number. Typically an IP address. See also "port".
  9. NEW Nuclear Weapons Effect.
  10. new operator The operator used to create instances {instance} of a class.
  11. newline The \n character.
  12. NFS Network File System, which allows you to mount a remote filesystem as if it were local.
  13. no-arg constructor A constructor that takes no arguments. By default, all classes without an explicit constructor have a default no-arg constructor with public access.
  14. non-modal A dialog is non-modal if its parent application is not blocked from further activity while the dialog is being shown. See modal.
  15. non-static nested class See inner class.
  16. normalization A conceptual database design task that involves applying data dependency to a data model to avoid data inconsistencies by prohibiting redundancy.
  17. North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) A classification system developed jointly by the U.S., Canada, and Mexico to provide improved comparability in industrial statistics across North America.
  18. notation A mechanism for defining a data format for a non-XML document referenced as an unparsed entity. This is a holdover from SGML.
  19. null The null type has one value, the null reference, represented by the literal null, which is formed from ASCII characters.
  20. null character The \u0000 character. Care should be taken not to confuse this with the null reference.
  21. null list A "list value" with zero elements, represented in Perl by ().
  22. null reference A value used to mean, `no object'. Used when an object reference variable is not referring to an object.
  23. null string A "string" containing no characters, not to be confused with a string containing a "null character", which has a positive length and is "true".
  24. number base The base used to interpret numerical characters. Decimal notation is base 10 and binary notation is base 2, for instance.
  25. numeric context The situation in which an expression is expected by its surroundings (the code calling it) to return a number. See also "context" and "string context".
  26. NV Short for Nevada, no part of which will ever be confused with civilization. NV also means an internal floating-point Numeric Value of the type a "scalar"…
  27. nybble Half a "byte", equivalent to one "hexadecimal" digit, and worth four bits.