NPC

NPC may stand for:

Computing

• Non-deterministic polynomial-time complete (NP-complete)
• Non-printing character
• Nearest prototype classifier

Corporations

• National Petrochemical Company of Iran
• Nauru Phosphate Corporation
• Nevada Power Company
• non-profit company^[1]

Games

• Non-player characters in video games and role-playing games
• The compilation Nintendo Puzzle Collection
• New Play Control!, a series of Nintendo GameCube games rebranded for the Wii
• Non-playing captain in Duplicate bridge (see Sports below)

Medical

• Niemann–Pick disease, type C
• Nasopharyngeal carcinoma, a common tumour of the nasopharynx
• Near point of convergence (optometry), a measure of the eyes ability to converge on a close object

Political organizations

• Northern People's Congress, a political party in Nigeria
• Nobel Peace Center in Oslo, Norway
• National Peace Council in the United Kingdom
• National People's Congress of the People's Republic of China
• Nationalist People's Coalition, a political party in the Philippines
• National Petroleum Council in the United States

Research centers

• Netherlands Proteomics Centre in the Netherlands

Student organizations

• National Panhellenic Conference, an umbrella organization for college sororities
• National Postgraduate Committee, the representative body for postgraduates in the United Kingdom

Sports

• Nam Pai Chuan, a style of kung fu
• National Paralympic Committee
• The National Physique Committee, a bodybuilding organization in the United States
• National Provincial Championship, a former domestic rugby competition in New Zealand
• Non-playing captain of a team in various sports, including Golf, Tennis and Bridge

Miscellaneous

• National Paralegal College
• NATO Programming Centre of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization
• Neighbourhood Police Centre, a mid-sized police station in Singapore
• Niagara Parks Commission
• Non Paying Customer, a euphemism for shoplifter
• Northern Provincial Council, provincial council for the Northern Province in Sri Lanka
• Not politically correct
• NPC (cable system), underwater cable connecting Japan and the United States
• Nuclear pore complex, in molecular biology
• Network Parameter Control (in ATM networks)
• Neutral Point Clamped, a topology used in power supplies and active filters

See also

• Fujicolor Pro 160C, a photographic film formerly known as Fujicolor NPC 160

References

1. "Register a non-profit company". Government of South Africa. For your civil society organisation to be recognised as a legal entity, you must register it as a non-profit company (NPC) with the Companies and Intellectual Property Commission (CIPC).