Meanings
np1
- InternetabbreviationAbbreviation of no problem.
- no pagination
- no place (of publication)
NP2
- South AfricaabbreviationinitialismInitialism of National Party.
- PhilippinesabbreviationinitialismInitialism of Nacionalista Party.
- InternetabbreviationinitialismInitialism of no problem.
- InternetabbreviationinitialismInitialism of now playing.
plural NPs
- abbreviationcountableinitialismuncountableInitialism of notary public.
- abbreviationcountableinitialismuncountableInitialism of nurse practitioner.
- abbreviationcountableinitialismuncountableInitialism of national park.
- abbreviationcountableinitialismuncountablehuman sciencesInitialism of noun phrase.
- abbreviationcountableinitialismuncountableengineeringInitialism of nanoparticle.
- abbreviationcountableuncountablecomputingAbbreviation of nondeterministic polynomial, the complexity class of computational problems that a nondeterministic Turing machine can solve in polynomial time.
Another class, P, is a subset of NP, and includes all decision problems that can be solved by a (deterministic) Turing machine in polynomial time.
2017, Arlindo Oliveira, The Digital Mind: How Science Is Redefining Humanity, MIT Press, →ISBN, page 81
Synonyms & antonyms
More synonyms by meaning
nouna registered nurse who has received special training and can perform many of the duties of a physician
nouna radioactive transuranic metallic element; found in trace amounts in uranium ores; a by-product of the production of plutonium
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Translations
French SN
- SNnoun phrase
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