NP

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NP may stand for:

• Nasal Prongs, used to deliver Oxygen while in Hospital
• National park
• Nobel Prize
• National Post, a Toronto-based newspaper
• Nepal (ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code)
• Neper, Np, "dimensionless unit"
• Neptunium (chemical symbol Np)
• New Process Gear, the name of the Syracuse, New York plant owned by New Venture Gear
• Neyman-Pearson lemma, the NP lemma
• an abbreviation for Newbury Park, California
• Ngee Ann Polytechnic, Singapore
• Non-deterministic polynomial time, the set of decision problems solvable in polynomial time on a non-deterministic Turing machine
• no problem and now playing in Internet slang
• Northern Pacific Railway (AAR reporting marks NP)
• Notary public
• Noun phrase in grammar
• The complexity class, called NP (complexity), meaning "Non-deterministic Polynomial time", in computational complexity theory
• NP Buchverlag, an Austrian publishing company
• Nurse practitioner
• Non-Polarized denotation marked on Electrolytic Capacitors
• Nintendo Power, the official North American Nintendo magazine
• Network processor
• Neopoints, the currency of online gaming website Neopets
• NP, a book by Japanese author Banana Yoshimoto
• Short form for the game Nicktropolis