| 1. | noun phrase. |
| 2. | nurse-practitioner. |
| neper; nepers. |
| neptunium. |
| 1. | new paragraph. |
| 2. | nisi prius. |
| 3. | no protest. |
| 4. | notary public. |
| 1. | net proceeds. |
| 2. | new paragraph. |
| 3. | nisi prius. |
| 4. | no pagination. |
| 5. | no place of publication. |
| 6. | no protest. |
| 7. | notary public. |
[nurs-prak-tish-uh-ner] 
| a registered nurse who has received special training for diagnosing and treating routine or minor ailments. Abbreviation: NP |
| nep·tu·ni·um (něp-tōō'nē-əm, -tyōō'-) n. Symbol Np A silvery, metallic, naturally radioactive element, atomic number 93, the first of the transuranium elements. Its longest-lived isotope is Np-237 with a half-life of 2.1 million years. Found in trace quantities in uranium ores, it is produced synthetically by nuclear reactions. See Table at element. [After the planet Neptune (from the fact that it follows uranium in the periodic table).] |
| notary public n. pl. notaries public Abbr. NP A person legally empowered to witness and certify the validity of documents and to take affidavits and depositions. |
| noun phrase n. Abbr. NP A phrase whose head is a noun, as our favorite restaurant. |
| Np The symbol for the element neptunium. |
| NP abbr.
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| nurse practitioner n. Abbr. NP A registered nurse with special training for providing primary health care, including many tasks customarily performed by a physician. |
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Np
The symbol for the element neptunium.
NP abbr.
nurse practitioner neuropsychiatry
neptunium (něp-t 'nē-əm) Pronunciation Key
Symbol Np A silvery, radioactive metallic element of the actinide series. It occurs naturally in minute amounts in uranium ores and is produced artificially as a byproduct of plutonium production. Its longest-lived isotope is Np 237 with a half-life of 2.1 million years. Atomic number 93. See Periodic Table. |
| Np
The symbol for neptunium. |
NP complexity
nondeterministic polynomial time.
[The Jargon File]
np networking
The country code for Nepal.
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| Np neptunium |
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Np
radioactive chemical element of the actinoid series of the periodic table, first transuranium element to be artificially produced, atomic number 93. Though traces of neptunium have subsequently been found in nature, where it is not primeval but produced by neutron-induced transmutation reactions in uranium ores, Edwin M. McMillan and Philip H. Abelson first found neptunium in 1940 after uranium had been bombarded by neutrons from the cyclotron at Berkeley, Calif. Neptunium has been produced in weighable amounts in breeder reactors as a by-product of plutonium production from uranium-238 (about one part neptunium is produced for every 1,000 parts plutonium). All neptunium isotopes are radioactive; the stablest is neptunium-237, with a half-life of 2,140,000 years, and among the most unstable is neptunium-232, with a half-life of 13 minutes.
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