(cartography) A value relating to distance north of a standard latitude but with a constant added to make the numbers convenient. For instance, in UTM, the Southern Hemisphere is assigned negative degrees of latitude, but to avoid negative numbers in northings, a constant value of 10,000,000 is added so that negative numbers for northings do not occur.

plural of false northing

The former name of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, a province in north-west Pakistan renamed in 2010.

A kiwi, Apteryx mantelli or Apteryx australis.

(obsolete or rare) The United States.

plural of North Island brown kiwi

Alternative form of North-West Frontier Province

(geopolitics, derogatory) The North Atlantic Treaty Organization.

(cryptozoology) A large hairy apelike, though upright walking, creature of North America; a Bigfoot.

Any of the species of catfish native to North America, of the family Ictaluridae