NPT
Encyclopedia

Codes

  • NPT, the reporting mark of Portland Terminal Railroad of Oregon, United States
  • NPT, the former postcode of Newport
    Newport
    Newport is a city and unitary authority area in Wales. Standing on the banks of the River Usk, it is located about east of Cardiff and is the largest urban area within the historic county boundaries of Monmouthshire and the preserved county of Gwent...

    , Wales, United Kingdom
  • NPT, an IATA code of Newport State Airport
    Newport State Airport (Rhode Island)
    Newport State Airport is a public use airport in Newport County, Rhode Island, United States. It serves the city of Newport and is located two nautical miles northeast of its central business district. There is no scheduled airline service available, but it once was served by Air New...

    , Middletown, Rhode Island, United States

Law enforcement

  • Neighbourhood Policing Team
    Neighbourhood Policing Team
    Neighbourhood Policing Teams are a concept developed by the United Kingdom police. It involves small teams of police officers who are dedicated to policing a certain community or area. There are 3,600 NPTs throughout the United Kingdom...

    , UK Police term for a group of officers dedicated to policing specific neighbourhoods

Organizations

  • Norwegian Post and Telecommunications Authority
    Norwegian Post and Telecommunications Authority
    Norwegian Post and Telecommunications Authority is a Norwegian government agency responsible for controlling and regulating the telecommunication and postal sector of Norway...

    , a Norwegian government agency responsible for controlling and regulating the telecommunication and postal services
  • NTP, Inc., a Virginia-based patent holding company, best known for its patent case against Research in Motion

Places

  • Neath Port Talbot
    Neath Port Talbot
    Neath Port Talbot is a county borough and one of the unitary authority areas of Wales. Neath Port Talbot is the 8th most populous county in Wales and the third most populous county borough....

    , a county borough and one of the principal areas of Wales, United Kingdom
  • Northville-Placid Trail
    Northville-Placid Trail
    The Northville-Lake Placid Trail, also known as the NPT, is a lightly travelled foot trail that runs 133 mi through the Adirondack Park in northern New York State. It was laid out by the Adirondack Mountain Club in 1922 and 1923, and is now maintained by the New York State Department of...

    , a lightly travelled foot trail in the Adirondack Park in northern New York, United States

Technology

  • National pipe thread
    National pipe thread
    National Pipe Thread Tapered Thread is a U.S. standard for tapered threads used on threaded pipes and fittings. The taper rate for all NPT threads is measured by the change of diameter over distance. The angle between the taper and the center axis of the pipe is 1° 47′ 24″...

    , a United States standard for tapered threads used to join pipe and fittings
  • Nested Page Tables, the former name of Rapid Virtualization Indexing
    Rapid Virtualization Indexing
    Rapid Virtualization Indexing is an AMD second generation hardware-assisted virtualization technology for the processor memory management unit ....

    , a hardware-assisted virtualization technology by AMD (Advanced Micro Devices)
  • Nissan NPT-90
    Nissan NPT-90
    The Nissan NPT-90 was a racing car developed in 1990 for Nissan Motors by Nissan Performance Technology Incorporated , formerly known as Electramotive Engineering. It was a replacement for the highly successful GTP ZX-Turbo that had won the IMSA GT Championship in 1989...

    , a racing car developed for Nissan Motors by Nissan Performance Technology Incorporated
  • Non-pneumatic tire, another name for an airless tire
    Airless tire
    Non-pneumatic tires , or Airless tires, are tires that are not supported by air pressure. They are used on some small vehicles such as riding lawn mowers and motorized golf carts. They are also used on heavy equipment such as backhoes, which are required to operate on sites such as building...


Miscellaneous

  • Nepal Time
    Nepal Time
    Nepal Standard Time is the time zone for Nepal, with a time offset from Coordinated Universal Time of +05:45. Nepal Standard Time, is one of only two official time zones with a 45-minute increment from UTC. The Chatham Islands, which uses Chatham Island Standard Time also has a 45-minute...

    , the time zone of UTC +5:45, used in the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal in the Himalayas
  • Nocturnal Penile Tumescence
    Nocturnal penile tumescence
    Nocturnal penile tumescence is the spontaneous occurrence of an erection of the penis during sleep. All men without physiological erectile dysfunction experience this phenomenon, usually three to five times during the night...

    , a nighttime erection of the penis, an established accompaniment of Rapid Eye Movement sleep
  • Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty
    Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty
    The Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, commonly known as the Non-Proliferation Treaty or NPT, is a landmark international treaty whose objective is to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons and weapons technology, to promote cooperation in the peaceful uses of nuclear energy and to...

    , an international treaty, opened for signature on July 1, 1968 to limit the spread of nuclear weapons
  • No-Plane Theory, the theory that no airplanes flew into the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001
  • NPT ensemble, a name for the isothermal–isobaric ensemble where the number of particles (N), pressure (P), and temperature (T) of the system are in equilibrium
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