MNP
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MNP is a three letter acronym that can stand for several things:
- Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (in Dutch:Milieu en Natuur Planbureau; MNP)
- MNP an abbreviation for the Northern Mariana Islands
- Meyers Norris Penny LLP, a Western Canadian chartered accounting firm
- Microcom Networking Protocol a communications protocols developed by Microcom Systems for use in modems
- The spin trap 2-methyl-2-nitrosopropane (MNP). This diamagnetic molecule forms adducts with unstable free radicals to form a more stable paramagnetic nitroxide radical that can be detected by electron spin resonance spectroscopy. It is particularly useful for trapping carbon-centered tyrosyl radicals [eg. see J. Biol. Chem. 271 (1996), 15498-15503].
- Mobile number portability, a service that allows one to take a cellphone number from one provider to another.
- The Soviet space station Mir, whose writing in Cyrillic letters (Мир) look like the letters MNP.