NP
NP may refer to:
Arts and entertainment
- NP (novel), a book by Japanese author Banana Yoshimoto
- Nintendo Power, a magazine published by Future US in North America
- Neopoints, virtual in-game currency for the Neopets website
Organizations
- Nagar Panchayat, a type of city council in India
- Nagar Palika, a type of town council in India
- National Party (disambiguation), various political parties
- Nepal Police (NP)
- Ngee Ann Polytechnic, a school in Singapore
- Nigeria Police Force
- Northern Pacific Railway (AAR reporting mark NP)
Places
- NP postcode area, Newport, Wales, United Kingdom
- Nepal (ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code NP)
- .np, the country code top level domain (ccTLD) for Nepal
- Nichols Point, Australia
Science, technology and mathematics
Biology and medicine
- Nasopharyngeal airway, an adjunct to airway management
- Nucleoside phosphorylase, an enzyme
- Nurse practitioner, a registered nurse who has completed advanced nursing education
- Kallikrein 8, an enzyme
Mathematics and computer science
- NP (complexity), Nondeterministic Polynomial, a computational complexity class
- NP-complete, a class of decision problems
- NP-hard, a class of problems in computational complexity
- Co-NP, a complexity class
- NP lemma, or Neyman–Pearson lemma
Physics and chemistry
- NP junction or PN junction, the simplest electronic device, used to make diodes and transistors
- Neper (Np), a dimensionless logarithmic unit for ratios of measurements of physical field and power quantities
- Neptunium, a chemical element with symbol Np
- Power number (Np), a dimensionless number relating the resistance force to the inertia force
Other uses in science and technology
- .np, the country code top level domain (ccTLD) for Nepal
- Number portability (disambiguation), the ability to retain one's phone number when changing telecommunication carriers
- New Proposal, in the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) standardization process
Other uses
- Noun phrase, in grammar
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