game in which matchsticks are arranged in rows and players alternately remove one or more of them; in some versions the object is to take the last remaining matchstick on the table and in other versions the object is to avoid taking the last remaining matchstick on the table
To steal; pilfer. A game in which players in turn remove small objects from a collection, such as matchsticks arranged in rows, and attempt to take, or avoid taking, the last one
Net-user Identifier Module The Global Chip-card Alliance's NIM project is a collaborative effort by member organisations to design a single application that will enable smart card terminals worldwide to identify and grant access to "foreign" application providers
Nuclear instrumentation module NIM-standard logic is widely used in photon counting applications for the transmission of fast timing pulses (typically 5ns duration) over coaxial cable NIM logic is essentially ground-referenced ECL with logic levels of 0V (low) and -0 8V (high) NIM signals must be terminated in 50-ohms