NH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does NH mean? 

• NH (noun)
  The noun NH has 1 sense:

1. a state in New England; one of the original 13 colonies

  Familiarity information: NH used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A state in New England; one of the original 13 colonies

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Granite State; N.H.; New Hampshire; NH

Instance hypernyms:

American state (one of the 50 states of the United States)

Meronyms (parts of "NH"):

Dartmouth; Dartmouth College (a college in New Hampshire)

capital of New Hampshire; Concord (capital of the state of New Hampshire; located in south central New Hampshire on the Merrimack river)

Manchester (largest city in New Hampshire; located in southeastern New Hampshire on the Merrimack river)

Portsmouth (a port town in southeastern New Hampshire on the Atlantic Ocean)

Merrimack; Merrimack River (a river that rises in south central New Hampshire and flows through Concord and Manchester into Massachusetts and empties into the Atlantic Ocean)

Holonyms ("NH" is a part of...):

America; the States; U.S.; U.S.A.; United States; United States of America; US; USA (North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean; achieved independence in 1776)

New England (a region of northeastern United States comprising Maine and New Hampshire and Vermont and Massachusetts and Rhode Island and Connecticut)

 Context examples 

Amino acid with side chain -CH2CH2CH2NH-C(NH)NH2.

(Arginine, NCI Thesaurus/CRCH)

Potentially cancer-causing compound containing amine with an aromatic ring substituted for one or more of its hydrogen atoms, i.e., -NH2, -NH- or nitrogen group(s) attached to an aromatic hydrocarbon, whose structure usually contains one or more benzene rings.

(Carcinogenic Aromatic Amine, NCI Thesaurus)