NPO
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NPO may refer to:
- Non-profit organizationNon-profit organizationNonprofit organization is neither a legal nor technical definition but generally refers to an organization that uses surplus revenues to achieve its goals, rather than distributing them as profit or dividends...
- Nil per osNil per osNil per os is a medical instruction meaning to withhold oral food and fluids from a patient for various reasons. It is a Latin phrase which translates as "nothing through the mouth". In the United Kingdom it is translated as nil by mouth .Typical reasons for NPO instructions are the prevention...
, Latin for "nothing by mouth", a medical instruction to withhold oral intake of food and fluids from a patient - NP optimization problem, optimization problems that are NP-hard
- North Pacific OscillationNorth Pacific OscillationThe North Pacific Oscillation is a teleconnection pattern first described by Walker and Bliss and characterized by a north-south seesaw in sea level pressure over the North Pacific.Rogers, using surface atmospheric temperature from St...
, an atmospheric teleconnection pattern
Britain
- National Preservation OfficeNational Preservation OfficeThe National Preservation Office was established by the British Library Board in 1984. In 2009 it was renamed the British Library Preservation Advisory Centre...
, part of the British Library - NPO UK Ltd., a company which had stationery and book shops around Northern Ireland, bought by and rebranded Eason & SonEason & SonEason & Son is a group involved in the wholesale, distribution and retail of books, newspapers, magazines, stationery and cards on the island of Ireland ....
N.I. Ltd.
Netherlands
- Netherlands Public Broadcasting
- Netherlands Pathfinder Organisation , one of the organisations that evolved into Scouting NederlandScouting NederlandScouting Nederland is the national Scout organisation of the Netherlands with approximately 110,000 members Scouting Nederland is the national Scout organisation of the Netherlands with approximately 110,000 members Scouting Nederland is the national Scout organisation of the Netherlands with...
, the national Scouting organisation of the Netherlands
Russia
- Nauchno-Proizvodstvennoye Obyedineniye (Научно-производственное объединение), Russian for "Scientific and Production Establishment", often found in the names of successors to the Experimental Design Bureaux (OKBOKBOKB is a transliteration of the Russian acronym for "Опытное конструкторское бюро" - Opytnoe Konstructorskoe Byuro, meaning Experimental Design Bureau...
) of Communist times