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1. NP
nurse-practitioner.
2. Np
neptunium.
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| Definition of 'np' |
Princeton's WordNet |
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1. (noun) neptunium, Np, atomic number 93
a radioactive transuranic metallic element; found in trace amounts in uranium ores; a by-product of the production of plutonium
2. (noun) nurse practitioner, NP, nurse clinician
a registered nurse who has received special training and can perform many of the duties of a physician
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The New Hacker's Dictionary |
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1. np
Extremely. Used to modify adjectives describing a level or quality
of difficulty; the connotation is often ‘more so than it should
be’. This is generalized from the computer-science terms NP-hard and NP-complete; NP-complete problems all seem to
be very hard, but so far no one has found a proof that they are. NP is the
set of Nondeterministic-Polynomial problems, those that can be completed
by a nondeterministic Turing machine in an amount of time that is a
polynomial function of the size of the input; a solution for one
NP-complete problem would solve all the others. “Coding a BitBlt
implementation to perform correctly in every case is
NP-annoying.”Note, however, that strictly speaking this usage is misleading; there
are plenty of easy problems in class NP. NP-complete problems are hard not
because they are in class NP, but because they are the hardest problems in
class NP.
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