What is "nin"

nin \nin\ [Fr. ne in.] Not in. [Obs.]
--Chaucer.

n. (context dialect Liverpool English) Affectionate name for a grandmother.

NIN ( Serbian Cyrillic: НИН) is a weekly newsmagazine published in Belgrade, Serbia. Its name is an acronym for Nedeljne informativne novine (Недељне информативне новине) which roughly translates into Weekly Informational Newspaper.

Though a current events magazine in its essence, NIN also earned an esteemed reputation due to a long tradition of opening its pages to the best and the brightest within Serbian, and previously Yugoslav society, whether in arts, sciences, or even sports. This reputation has recently somewhat been tarnished as the magazine was forced into commercial competition with numerous political periodicals that sprung up in Serbia after the collapse of socialism. Since then, NIN has adopted a slightly more populist tone, though it is still highly regarded.

, the magazine had 35 employees.

In July 2008, the magazine celebrated the release of its 3000th issue. On March 13, 2009 it was announced that majority stake in the magazine was bought by Swiss media company Ringier AG.

Nin or NIN may refer to:

• Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience, a neuroscience research institute in Amsterdam, the Netherlands
• Nine Inch Nails, an American industrial rock project of Trent Reznor
• NIN (magazine), a Serbian political magazine
• NIN (cuneiform), the Sumerian sign for lady
• NIN (gene), a human gene
• Nion or Nin, a letter in the Ogham alphabet
• National identification number, a system used by governments around the world to keep track of their citizens
• Akira Nishitani (aka NIN), co-creator of the game Street Fighter II
• Nin-Nin, a character in the erotic anime and manga series La Blue Girl
• Nin, Croatia, a town in the Zadar county of Croatia
• National Institute of Nutrition, Hyderabad

The Sumerian word NIN (from the Akkadian pronunciation of the sign EREŠ) was used to denote a queen or a priestess, and is often translated as "lady". Other translations include "queen", "mistress", "proprietress", and "lord".

Many goddesses are called NIN, such as NIN.GAL ("great lady"), É.NIN.GAL ("lady of the great temple"), EREŠ.KI.GAL, and NIN.TI.

The compound form NIN. DINGIR ("divine lady" or "lady of [a] god"), from the Akkadian entu, denotes a priestess.

Ninein is a protein that in humans is encoded by the NIN gene. Ninein, together with its paralog Ninein-like protein is one of the proteins important for centrosomal function. This protein is important for positioning and anchoring the microtubules minus-ends in epithelial cells. Localization of this protein to the centrosome requires three leucine zippers in the central coiled-coil domain. Multiple alternatively spliced transcript variants that encode different isoforms have been reported.