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Niner (other)
Niner or Niners may refer to: * Niner, the pronunciation of the number nine in the NATO phonetic alphabet * 29er (other) * 49er (other) * Niner_(bike_company), Niner, a bicycle company that exclusively produces 29er (bicycle), 29 inch wheel bikes * Niners, nickname for BV Chemnitz 99, a German basketball club * Niners (Star Trek), fictional baseball team in ''Star Trek: Deep Space Nine'' episode "Take Me Out to the Holosuite" ** Niners, a name for Star Trek fandom#Other names, fans of ''Star Trek: Deep Space Nine'' derived from the baseball team * Sendai 89ers, a Japanese basketball team {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
NATO Phonetic Alphabet
The (International) Radiotelephony Spelling Alphabet, commonly known as the NATO phonetic alphabet, is the most widely used set of clear code words for communicating the letters of the Roman alphabet, technically a ''radiotelephonic spelling alphabet.'' It goes by various names, including NATO spelling alphabet, ICAO phonetic alphabet and ICAO spelling alphabet. The ITU phonetic alphabet and figure code is a rarely used variant that differs in the code words for digits. To create the code, a series of international agencies assigned 26 code words acrophonically to the letters of the Roman alphabet, with the intention of the letters and numbers being easily distinguishable from one another over radio and telephone, regardless of language barriers and connection quality. The specific code words varied, as some seemingly distinct words were found to be ineffective in real-life conditions. In 1956, NATO modified the then-current set of code words used by the International ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
