NOV

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Nov mean? 

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

1. the month following October and preceding December

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• NOV (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The month following October and preceding December

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

Nov; November

Hypernyms ("Nov" is a kind of...):

Gregorian calendar month (a month in the Gregorian calendar)

Meronyms (parts of "Nov"):

November 5 (anniversary of the discovery of the Gunpowder Plot)

11 November; Martinmas; St Martin's Day (the feast of Saint Martin; a quarter day in Scotland)

All Saints' Day; Allhallows; Hallowmas; Hallowmass; November 1 (a Christian feast day honoring all the saints; first observed in 835)

All Souls' Day; November 2 (a day of supplication for all the souls in purgatory)

Armistice Day; November 11; Veterans' Day; Veterans Day (a legal holiday in the United States; formerly Armistice Day but called Veterans' Day since 1954)

Thanksgiving; Thanksgiving Day (fourth Thursday in November in the United States; second Monday in October in Canada; commemorates a feast held in 1621 by the Pilgrims and the Wampanoag)

mid-November (the middle part of November)

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

Gregorian calendar; New Style calendar (the solar calendar now in general use, introduced by Gregory XIII in 1582 to correct an error in the Julian calendar by suppressing 10 days, making Oct 5 be called Oct 15, and providing that only centenary years divisible by 400 should be leap years; it was adopted by Great Britain and the American colonies in 1752)

 Context examples 

But the upcoming supermoon — on Monday, Nov. 14 — will be especially “super” because it’s the closest full moon to Earth since 1948.

(November Supermoon a Spectacular Sight, NASA)

The numbers indicate when the first signal was discovered, on Nov. 2, 2012.

(Mysterious Radio Signals Detected from Deep Space, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

A polyether antibiotic isolated from Streptomyces conglobatus sp. nov.

(Ionomycin, NCI Thesaurus)

InSight will operate on the surface for one Martian year, plus 40 Martian days, or sols, until Nov. 24, 2020.

(NASA InSight Lander Arrives on Martian Surface, NASA)

Cassini began its new mission phase, called its Ring-Grazing Orbits, on Nov. 30.

(Over Saturn's Turbulent North, NASA)

The image combines two separate exposures taken on Nov. 20, 2016, by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.

(Earth and Its Moon, as Seen From Mars, NASA)

On Wednesday, Nov. 29, they learned the TCM thrusters worked perfectly — and just as well as the attitude control thrusters.

(Voyager 1 Fires Up Thrusters After 37 Years, NASA)

Since the Mass Vaccination Campaign on 20 Nov 2019, the Ministry has successfully vaccinated 58,150 individuals.

(Samoan government temporarily shuts down for nationwide measles vaccination drive, Wikinews)

NEUROFIBROMATOSIS 1 (generalized neurofibromatosis) accounts for approximately 95% of cases, although multiple additional subtypes (e.g., NEUROFIBROMATOSIS 2, neurofibromatosis 3, etc.) have been described. (From Neurochirurgie 1998 Nov;44(4):267-72)

(Neurofibromatosis, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

They were taken between Nov. 24 and Dec. 1, when the mission team was out for the Thanksgiving holiday.

(Curiosity Mars Rover Snaps Its Highest-Resolution Panorama Yet, NASA)