Usually means: Nanosecond, one billionth of second.
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We found 39 dictionaries that define the word NS:

General (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. NS, Ns, n's, ns: Merriam-Webster
  2. NS, NS, N's, Ns, ns: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. NS, n.s, ns: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. N's, ns: Collins English Dictionary
  5. N'S, NS, N's, Ns, n's, ns, ns, ns, ns, nS: Wordnik
  6. n's, ns: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. N.S, NS, N's, Ns, n's, n.s: Wiktionary
  8. ns: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. NS: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. n.s, ns: Dictionary.com
  11. ns: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  12. NS (Sons of Anarchy), NS, N.s, Ns (simulator), Ns: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. N.S, NS, Ns, ns: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  14. NS, n's, n.s: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Crop Abbreviations (No longer online)
  2. Abbreviations in shipping (No longer online)
  3. n's, ns: Financial dictionary
  4. Glossary of Trade and Shipping Terms (No longer online)

Computing (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. ns: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. NS: Netlingo
  3. ns: CCI Computer
  4. BABEL: Computer Oriented Abbreviations and Acronyms (No longer online)
  5. Ns, n's, n.s: Encyclopedia

Medicine (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. ns: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. NS: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  4. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Hepatitis C Information Central (No longer online)
  6. n's, n.s, ns: Medical dictionary
  7. NS: Drug Medical Dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. NS, NS, NS: Terminology and Descriptions of Geneaological Words
  2. NS: Acronym Finder
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. ns: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  2. NS: A Dictionary of Quaternary Acronyms and Abbreviations

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. N.S, NS, n's: Urban Dictionary

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. NS: GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS, CARTOGRAPHY, AND REMOTE SENSING
  2. DOD Dictionary of Military Terms: Joint Acronyms and Abbreviations (No longer online)
  3. National Weather Service Glossary (No longer online)

Definitions from Wiktionary (NS)

noun:  (rail transport) Norfolk Southern (Railroad)
adjective:  negative-strand
adjective:  National Socialist
noun:  Initialism of Nova Scotia. [A province in eastern Canada. Capital: Halifax.]
noun:  Initialism of New Style. (of dates) [(historical) The Gregorian calendar system.]
noun:  (Internet, historical) Initialism of Netscape.
noun:  Initialism of Noble Sanctuary. [(Islam) The Temple Mount, when viewed as an Islamic holy site (specifically, the third holiest site).]
noun:  (rail transport) Initialism of Nederlandse Spoorwegen. (Dutch Railways)
noun:  (Malaysia) Initialism of Negeri Sembilan [A state in western Malaysia. Capital: Seremban.]
noun:  Initialism of nervous system. [An organ system whose principal constituent is nervous tissue that coordinates the activities of muscles, monitors organs, constructs and processes data received from the senses, and initiates actions.]
noun:  Initialism of nuclear ship, a nuclear-powered ship.
noun:  Initialism of native speaker. [(linguistics) A person who grew up with a particular language as their mother tongue.]
noun:  Initialism of neutron star. [(astronomy) A degenerate star that has been so collapsed by gravity that its electrons and protons have been merged into neutrons by the intense pressure. The solid mass of neutrons is sometimes called neutronium.]
noun:  Initialism of neutral spirit (“alcohol”). [Synonym of rectified spirit]
noun:  (Ireland, usually as part of a name) Initialism of National School.
noun:  (informal) Initialism of NATO state.
noun:  Initialism of no show.
noun:  Initialism of namespace. [(programming) A conceptual space that groups classes, identifiers, etc. to avoid conflicts with items in unrelated code that have the same names.]
noun:  Initialism of Nintendo Switch.
noun:  (politics, Internet slang) Initialism of National Socialism. [The ideology of the Nazi Party, including an authoritarian government, ethnic nationalism (including but not limited to Pan-Germanism) and adequate territory (Lebensraum), and economic cooperation between the state and capital.]
noun:  (Singapore) Initialism of national service. [Service, especially compulsory service, either in military service or in non-military service, on behalf of one's nation.]
noun:  Initialism of name server. [(Internet) A program or server that maps human-readable names to computer addresses, especially as part of the Domain Name System.]

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