NPL

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NPL can stand for:

• the IATA airport code for New Plymouth Airport, on the west coast of New Zealand's North Island;
• the Naperville Public Library;
• the National Priorities List;
• the National Physical Laboratory, India;
• the National Physical Laboratory, UK;
• the National Puzzlers' League;
• the Nauru Pacific Line, located in Nauru;
• the Non-Partisan League
• a Non Performing Loan (Financial Theory)
• a nuclear pumped laser
• an abbreviation for non-patent literature used before the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

in football:

• the Namibia Premier League (in Namibian soccer);
• the Nigerian Premier League in Nigerian soccer
• the Northern Premier League (in English soccer);
• the Norwegian Premier League (in Norwegian soccer);

in computing:

• the Netscape Public License;
• IBM's New Product Line, a highly influential range of computers released in 1964, including the IBM System/360.
• any of at least five unrelated programming languages:
  • the NPL functional programming language by Rod Burstall and John Darlington in 1977
  • the New Programming language - the original name of the PL/I by IBM in 1964
  • the Nonprocedural language by T.D. Truitt et al in 1980
  • the Niakwa Programming Language by Niakwa Inc. in 1984, former BASIC2C
  • The NORD Programming Language - an internal systems language used at Norsk Data