NFT
- 1Initialism of non-fungible token.
Collectors traded the rare NFT for far more than its original price.
He minted an NFT to prove he owned the original recording.
Note
The sense that made the letters famous. Non-fungible means not interchangeable: one unit of a cryptocurrency can replace another, but each token records ownership of one particular thing, such as a kitten in the CryptoKitties game. The boom came in 2021, when Christie's sold "Everydays" as its first purely digital NFT. By 2022, writers were mocking a market of low demand and high supply.
- 2To associate a non-fungible token with something, typically a digital file or asset.
The musician chose to NFT his new album cover.
Several galleries now NFT their limited prints before releasing them.
Similarmint
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A verb made straight from the token, and still new enough that its spelling wavers. The past tense is written both NFTed and NFT'd, as in Blake Gopnik's "the art object that gets NFT'd" (2022). It is transitive and sits comfortably in the passive. Mint is the established synonym and the safer choice in formal writing.
- 3Initialism of not for trade.
He labeled the limited-edition card NFT so no one would offer to swap it.
Half the stickers in her album are listed as NFT.
Note
A label rather than a noun: collectors and fan traders write it beside an item they will show but not swap, separating keepers from duplicates. Because it stands for a whole phrase, it takes no plural and no verb endings, unlike the digital-token sense, which shares the spelling. On a trading-card page, only context tells you whether NFT marks a keepsake or a token.
- 4Initialism of Nutrient Film Technique.
The hydroponic farm relies on NFT to feed the plant roots.
Growers favor NFT for fast-maturing leafy crops.
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A hydroponic grower's initialism that names a method, not a product. A shallow film of nutrient solution flows down a sloped channel over bare roots, while the upper roots stay in the air. Like the phrase it shortens, it works both as a mass noun (crops grown in NFT) and as a count noun. Outside hydroponics the same letters usually mean the blockchain token, so context decides.
- 5Initialism of neurofibrillary tangle.
The autopsy revealed significant NFT throughout the cortex.
Higher NFT density correlated with greater cognitive decline.
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Pathologists use this abbreviation in autopsy findings and in research on cognitive decline. The tangles are made of neurofibrils, the fine threads inside nerve cells, which is what neurofibrillary means. It can be counted when individual tangles are meant (NFTs in the cortex). It can also be used as a mass noun when the overall burden is measured, as in NFT density or significant NFT.
- 6Initialism of non-functional test.
QA scheduled an NFT to measure the app's response time under load.
The release plan required an NFT for both scalability and security.
Note
In testing, non-functional does not mean broken. It means the test is not about what a feature does. Instead it checks how the system performs: its speed under load, its scalability, its security. It stands opposite functional testing, which checks whether results are correct. The expansion is spelled both non-functional and nonfunctional, but the initialism is the same either way.
- 7Initialism of Norfolk Island Time.
The flight is scheduled to land just after noon NFT.
Residents adjusted their meeting to 10 a.m. NFT for the visiting delegation.
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A time-zone label, and it behaves like one. It follows a clock reading, as in noon NFT or 10 a.m. NFT, and takes no article. Its use is Australian, tied to the island in its name. The same three letters also stand for the blockchain token and several technical terms. Readers outside the region may not recognize it, so spell it out once in writing.
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