Nes
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NES commonly refers to the Nintendo Entertainment System, a video game console.
Nes or NES may also refer to:
Education
[edit]- National Education Service, a proposal for the United Kingdom
- New Economic School, in Russia
- New English School (Jordan)
- New English School (Kuwait)
- NHS Education for Scotland, the educational wing of NHS Scotland
Places
[edit]Faroe Islands
[edit]- Nes, Eysturoy, a village in Nes Municipality on the island of Eysturoy
- Nes Municipality, a municipality on the island of Eysturoy
- Nes, Vágur, a village in Vágur municipality on the island of Suðuroy
Norway
[edit]- Nes, the former name of Nesbyen (municipality), a municipality in Buskerud county
- Nes, Bjugn, a village in Ørland municipality in Trøndelag county
- Nes, Fosen, a former municipality in the old Sør-Trøndelag county
- Nes, Innlandet, a former municipality in the old Hedmark county
- Nes, Hole, a village in Hole municipality in Buskerud county
- Nes, Vest-Agder, a former municipality in the old Vest-Agder county
- Nes, Vestland, a village in Luster municipality in Vestland county
- Nes, Akershus, a municipality in Akershus county
- Nes, Ådal, a village in Ringerike municipality in Buskerud county
- Nes Church (disambiguation)
Netherlands
[edit]- Nes, Ameland, a village in the municipality of Ameland
- Nes (Amsterdam), an old street in central Amsterdam
- Nes, Heerenveen, a village in the municipality of Heerenveen
- Nes, Dongeradeel, a village in the municipality of Dongeradeel
- Nes (Schagen), a village in the municipality of Schagen
- Nes aan de Amstel, a village in the municipality of Amstelveen
- De Nes, a village in the municipality of Texel
Russia
[edit]- Nes, Russia, a village in Nenets Autonomous Okrug
Syria
[edit]- Rojava, officially the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (NES), a de facto autonomous region
Science and technology
[edit]- Nes (fish), a genus of gobies in subfamily Gobiinae
- Natural evolution strategies, a method for numerical optimization
- Natural Earth satellite, a natural satellite of Earth, such as the moon
- Nestin (protein), a human gene and protein
- Nuclear export signal, an amino acid sequence causing a protein to be exported from the nucleus to the cytoplasm
- Night eating syndrome, an eating disorder
- Netscape Enterprise Server, the former name of the Sun Java System Web Server
Organisations
[edit]- Nashville Electric Service, power provider for Nashville, Tennessee
- National Energy Systems, a former name of Eco Marine Power
- Neurootological and Equilibriometric Society, a German medical society
- New England Southern Railroad, which formerly used reporting mark NES, now NEGS
- Voter News Service, also known as News Election Service
People
[edit]- Aert Jansse van Nes (1626–1693), Dutch naval commander, brother of Jan
- Eeke van Nes (born 1969), Dutch rower
- Hadriaan van Nes (born 1942), Dutch rower
- Jan Jansse van Nes (1631–1680), Dutch admiral, brother of Aert
- Johan van Nes (died 1650), Dutch Golden Age painter
- Nuno Espírito Santo (born 1974), Portuguese footballer and coach
Other uses
[edit]- National Election Studies, an academic survey performed after every US election by the University of Michigan
- National Equality Standard, an initiative created by EY
- New Economic System, East German economic policy
See also
[edit]- NESOI (Not Elsewhere Specified or Indicated), used in categorizing cargo items
- Ness (disambiguation)