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Nixie

ˈnɪksi
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
  1. Nixie
    (U. S. Mail Service) A piece of mail matter which cannot be delivered, either because no post office exists at the place to which is it addressed, or because there is no place of the name mentioned in the designated State, Territory, or the like.
  2. Nixie
    Nothing. "Doth Job fear God for naught ?"
  3. Nixie
    See Nix.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  1. (n) nixie
    Same as nix.
  2. (n) nixie
    Same as nix.
Usage in the news

Human 'Nixie' Clerks Divine Addresses. online.wsj.com

Readers Al and Mercia Hobson, with granddaughter Nixie Fae, 5, used a savvy blend of salvage and sweat equity to redo their kitchen. thisoldhouse.com

Nixie tubes gave way to LED displays in the 1970s. pcmag.com

Today, using old tubes and modern chips, some people build their own Nixie tube clocks such as this one. pcmag.com

Usage in scientific papers

So P ⊂ P ′ × P ′′ , P ′ ⊂ Bn−k , P ′′ ⊂ B k , and ϑ(P ′′ ) is a single point of C k , while ϑ(P ′ ) is not contained in any proper hypersurface P nixi = constant with ni ∈ Z.
Integration in valued fields

Since the fundamental class of u(C ) is a multiple of the null class βn , and C is connected, ρn ◦ u is a constant map; we i=1 nixi , where ni ∈ N+ such that P ni = n, and xi are distinct.
The Cohomological Crepant Resolution Conjecture for the Hilbert-Chow morphisms

Here the formal summation P di [nixi ] is sub ject to the constraints di ∈ N, P di = d, ni ∈ N+ and P ni = n.
The Cohomological Crepant Resolution Conjecture for the Hilbert-Chow morphisms

Also, [nixi ] represents the multiplicity-ni 0-cycle supported at xi , and di is its weight; thus di [nixi ] 6= [dinixi ] and 0[xi ] is non-trivial.
The Cohomological Crepant Resolution Conjecture for the Hilbert-Chow morphisms

Let ξ = ([u, C, pi ], (ya )) ∈ (β ,η) , with hc([u]) = Pl i=1 di [nixi ].
The Cohomological Crepant Resolution Conjecture for the Hilbert-Chow morphisms

Usage in literature

While he hesitated the nixy spoke, called him by his name, and asked him why he was so sad. "The Yellow Fairy Book" by Various

Though he regarded Nils's desire to record the Nixy's strains as absurd, he offered to teach him to play. "Boyhood in Norway" by Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen

One day she says she will; the same evenin' she says nixy. "The Four Million" by O. Henry

BEOWULF SEEKS THE MONSTER IN THE HAUNTS OF THE NIXIES. "Beowulf" by Unknown

The teasing motive of the nixie returns while the trumpet sounds a shadowy echo of its phrase, again to dying peal of bells. "Symphonies and Their Meaning; Third Series, Modern Symphonies" by Philip H. Goepp

Next day his body was found floating on the lake by some woodcutters, and the nixie of the Mummel-lake was seen no more. "Hero Tales and Legends of the Rhine" by Lewis Spence

Nine of these water nixies I killed. "Northland Heroes" by Florence Holbrook

While he hesitated the nixy spoke, called him by his name, and asked him why he was so sad. "The Yellow Fairy Book" by Leonora Blanche Alleyne Lang

Well, come out of the water, you little Nixies, and let us see about our grand feast! "Five Mice in a Mouse-trap" by Laura E. Richards

Her face was flushed and her nixie eyes were dancing to the mischief she contemplated. "An Orkney Maid" by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr