KP may refer to:
Businesses and organizations
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Komsomolskaya Pravda'', a daily Russian newspaper
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''KP'' (newspaper), a Ukrainian newspaper
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KP Snacks
KP Snacks is a British producer of branded and own-label maize-, potato-, and nut-based snacks, "Choc Dips" and nuts. The ''KP'' stands for “Kenyon Produce”. The company is based in Slough, England, UK.
History
The company was founded in ...
, a United Kingdom food manufacturer
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Kaiser Permanente
Kaiser Permanente (; KP), commonly known simply as Kaiser, is an American integrated managed care consortium, based in Oakland, California, United States, founded in 1945 by industrialist Henry J. Kaiser and physician Sidney Garfield. Kaiser ...
, a U.S. health maintenance organization
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Kerala Police
The Kerala Police is the law enforcement agency for the Indian state of Kerala. Kerala Police has its headquarters in Thiruvananthapuram, the state capital. The motto of the force is "Mridhu Bhave Dhrida Kruthye" which means "Soft in Temperamen ...
, the law enforcement agency for the state of Kerala, India
* Kings Point, the
US Merchant Marine Academy
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Communist Party (Serbia)
The Communist Party ( sr, Комунистичка партија, Komunistička partija; or KP) was a Titoist political party in Serbia.
History
It was founded in Belgrade on 28 November 2010, after two smaller communist parties (the Ne ...
, the communist party of Serbia
People
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Kawan Prather
Kawan "KP" Prather (born March 30, 1973) is an American record executive, songwriter, record producer and member of first generation Dungeon Family group P.A. He started his career at LaFace Records and has worked with TLC, OutKast, Goodie Mo ...
, American record executive
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Kevin Pietersen
Kevin Peter Pietersen (born 27 June 1980) is a cricket commentator, conservationist, and former England international cricket player. He is a right-handed batsman and occasional off spin bowler who played in all three formats for England betw ...
, English cricketer
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Ko Wen-je
Ko Wen-je (; born 6 August 1959), also known by his nickname, Ko P (), is a Taiwanese politician and physician. Ko was mayor of Taipei from 2014 to 2022, and Chairman of the Taiwan People's Party since 2019. Before becoming mayor, he was a docto ...
, Taiwanese politician, physician and professor
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KP Sharma Oli
Khadga Prasad Sharma Oli ( ne, खड्गप्रसाद शर्मा ओली, ; born 22 February 1952) is a Nepalese politician and former Prime Minister of Nepal. He served three terms as prime minister from 11 October 2015 to 3 Augu ...
, Nepalese politician and current Prime Minister of Nepal
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Kumaran Pathmanathan
Shanmugam Kumaran Tharmalingam ( ta, செல்வராசா பத்மநாதன்; alias Selvarasa Pathmanathan, Kumaran Pathmanathan or simply KP) (born 6 April 1955) is a former prominent member of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eel ...
, member of the LTTE
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Kristaps Porzingis
Kristaps is a Latvian masculine given name. It is a cognate of the German name Christoph and may refer to:
* Kristaps Blanks (born 1986), Latvian football striker
* Kristaps Dārgais (born 1990), Latvian basketball player
* Kristaps Grebis (bor ...
, Latvian basketball player
Places
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Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (; ps, خېبر پښتونخوا; Urdu, Hindko: خیبر پختونخوا) commonly abbreviated as KP or KPK, is one of the Administrative units of Pakistan, four provinces of Pakistan. Located in the Geography of Pakistan, ...
, a province in Pakistan
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North Korea
North Korea, officially the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), is a country in East Asia. It constitutes the northern half of the Korean Peninsula and shares borders with China and Russia to the north, at the Yalu (Amnok) and T ...
(ISO 3166 country code KP)
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Kensington Palace, office and residence of some of the British royal family
In science, technology, and mathematics
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.kp
.kp is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK). It was created on 24 September 2007.
History
The DPRK applied for the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) in 2004. ICANN, ...
, the Internet domain name for North Korea
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KP-bil, or ''Terrängbil m/42 KP'', a Swedish armoured vehicle
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Kadomtsev–Petviashvili equation
In mathematics and physics, the Kadomtsev–Petviashvili equation (often abbreviated as KP equation) is a partial differential equation to describe nonlinear wave motion. Named after Boris Borisovich Kadomtsev and Vladimir Iosifovich Petviash ...
, describing waves
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Keratosis pilaris
Keratosis pilaris (KP; also follicular keratosis, lichen pilaris, or colloquially chicken skin) is a common, autosomal- dominant, genetic condition of the skin's hair follicles characterized by the appearance of possibly itchy, small, goosefle ...
, a human genetic disorder, also known as "chicken skin"
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keratic precipitate, an inflammatory cellular deposit on the cornea of the eye
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Kilogram-force
The kilogram-force (kgf or kgF), or kilopond (kp, from la, pondus, lit=weight), is a non-standard gravitational metric unit of force. It does not comply with the International System of Units (SI) and is deprecated for most uses. The kilogram- ...
("kilopond"), a unit measure of force
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Kilopascal
The pascal (symbol: Pa) is the unit of pressure in the International System of Units (SI), and is also used to quantify internal pressure, stress, Young's modulus, and ultimate tensile strength. The unit, named after Blaise Pascal, is defined a ...
(kP), a unit of pressure
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Kilopixel
In digital imaging, a pixel (abbreviated px), pel, or picture element is the smallest addressable element in a raster image, or the smallest point in an all points addressable display device.
In most digital display devices, pixels are the sma ...
(1,000 pixels), a measure of image resolution
* K
P, the
equilibrium constant
The equilibrium constant of a chemical reaction is the value of its reaction quotient at chemical equilibrium, a state approached by a dynamic chemical system after sufficient time has elapsed at which its composition has no measurable tendency ...
expressed in terms of partial pressures
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Kp index
The ''K''-index quantifies disturbances in the horizontal component of earth's magnetic field with an integer in the range 0–9 with 1 being calm and 5 or more indicating a geomagnetic storm. It is derived from the maximum fluctuations ...
, a measure of the global average geomagnetic potential
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Kripke–Platek set theory
The Kripke–Platek set theory (KP), pronounced , is an axiomatic set theory developed by Saul Kripke and Richard Platek.
The theory can be thought of as roughly the predicative part of ZFC and is considerably weaker than it.
Axioms
In its fo ...
, a mathematical axiom system
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Pentax KP
The Pentax KP is a 24 megapixel compact APS-C AA-filterless digital SLR camera announced by Ricoh on January 25, 2017. It features a PRIME IV image processor with an "image accelerator unit" that supports its operation up to ISO 819,200. It has ...
, a 2017 digital SLR camera
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Kernel panic, a computer stopping in response to an unrecoverable error
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k·p perturbation theory
In solid-state physics, the k·p perturbation theory is an approximated semi-empirical approach for calculating the band structure (particularly effective mass) and optical properties of crystalline solids.
It is pronounced "k dot p", and is ...
, for calculating properties of crystalline solids
Other uses
* KP, a recording released by American performer
Kyle Patrick
Kyle Patrick Dickherber (born May 20, 1986) is an American singer, songwriter and producer. He has earned multiple gold records as an artist, and over 100 million streams as a producer & songwriter. He was formerly the lead singer of Boston pow ...
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Kp (digraph)
This is a list of digraphs used in various Latin alphabets. Capitalisation involves only the first letter (''ch'' becomes ''Ch'') unless otherwise stated (''ij'' becomes ''IJ'').
Letters with diacritics are arranged in alphabetic order accordin ...
, in written language
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KP duty
KP duty means "kitchen police" or "kitchen patrol" work under the kitchen staff assigned to junior U.S. enlisted military personnel. "KP" can be either the work or the personnel assigned to perform such work. In the latter sense it can be used ...
"kitchen police" or "kitchen patrol", U.S. military slang for mess-hall duties
* Knight of the
Order of St. Patrick (postnomial KP)
See also
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KP4 (disambiguation)
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