KP may refer to:
Businesses and organizations
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Komsomolskaya Pravda
''Komsomolskaya Pravda'' (; ) is a daily Russian tabloid newspaper that was founded in 1925. Its name is in reference to the official Soviet newspaper '' Pravda'' (English: 'Truth').
History and profile
During the Soviet era, ''Komsomolskaya ...
'', a daily Russian newspaper
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''KP'' (newspaper), a Ukrainian newspaper
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KP Snacks
KP Snacks Limited 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.
History
The company was founded ...
, a United Kingdom food manufacturer
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Kaiser Permanente
Kaiser Permanente (; KP) is an American integrated delivery system, integrated managed care consortium headquartered in Oakland, California. Founded in 1945 by industrialist Henry J. Kaiser and physician Sidney Garfield, Sidney R. Garfield, the ...
, 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 Temperament, ...
, 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 of Serbia
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Kamphaengphet Pittayakom School, a public secondary school in Kamphaeng Phet Province, Thailand
People
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Katy Perry
Katheryn Elizabeth Hudson (born October 25, 1984), known professionally as Katy Perry, is an American singer, songwriter, and television personality. She is one of the List of best-selling music artists, best-selling music artists in hist ...
, American singer
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Kawan Prather
Kawan Kawmi "KP" Prather (born March 30, 1973) is an American record executive. He began his career as a DJ for the Atlanta-based hip hop group Parental Advisory (P.A.) in 1991, which were part of the larger collective Dungeon Family. The grou ...
, American record executive
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Kevin Pietersen
Kevin Peter Pietersen (born 27 June 1980) is a former England international cricketer. He is regarded as one of the greatest England batsmen to have played the game, and renowned for his competitive, and often controversial nature. He was a ri ...
, English cricketer
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Ko Wen-je
Ko Wen-je ( zh, c=柯文哲; born 6 August 1959), also known by his nickname, Ko P, is a Taiwanese politician and physician who served as the Mayor of Taipei, mayor of Taipei from 2014 to 2022. He founded the Taiwan People's Party (TPP) in 201 ...
, Taiwanese politician, physician and professor
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KP Sharma Oli
Khadga Prasad Sharma Oli (; born 22 February 1952), commonly known as K. P. Sharma Oli or simply K. P. Oli (English pronunciation: , ), is a Nepalese politician who is serving as the prime minister of Nepal since 15 July 2024.
Chairman of the ...
, Nepalese politician and current Prime Minister of Nepal
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Kumaran Pathmanathan
Shanmugam Kumaran Tharmalingam (; alias Selvarasa Pathmanathan, Kumaran Pathmanathan, or simply KP; born 6 April 1955) is a former prominent member of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). Pathmanathan was on Interpol's most wanted list ...
, member of the LTTE
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Kristaps Porziņģis
Kristaps Porziņģis (; born 2 August 1995) is a Latvian professional basketball player for the Boston Celtics of the National Basketball Association (NBA). Nicknamed "The Unicorn" for his ability to make plays and shoot 3-pointers as a Center ...
, Latvian basketball player
Places
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Cambodia
Cambodia, officially the Kingdom of Cambodia, is a country in Southeast Asia on the Mainland Southeast Asia, Indochinese Peninsula. It is bordered by Thailand to the northwest, Laos to the north, and Vietnam to the east, and has a coastline ...
, WMO country code
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Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (; ; , ; abbr. KP or KPK), formerly known as the North West Frontier Province (NWFP), is a Administrative units of Pakistan, province of Pakistan. Located in the Northern Pakistan, northwestern region of the country, Khyber ...
, 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 Korea, Korean Peninsula and borders China and Russia to the north at the Yalu River, Yalu (Amnok) an ...
(ISO 3166 country code KP)
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Kensington Palace
Kensington Palace is a royal residence situated within Kensington Gardens in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea in London, England. It has served as a residence for the British royal family since the 17th century and is currently the ...
, office and residence of some of the British royal family
* Castletown KP, a common name for
Castletown-Kilpatrick, a village in County Meath, Ireland
In science, technology, and mathematics
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.kp, 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 Kadomtsev, Boris Borisovich Kadomtsev and Vladimir Iosifovi ...
, 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, goosefl ...
, a human genetic disorder, also known as "chicken skin"
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keratic precipitate
Keratic precipitate (KP) is an inflammatory cellular deposit seen on corneal endothelium. Acute KPs are white and round in shape whereas old KPs are faded and irregular in shape. Mutton-fat KPs are large in shape and are greasy-white in color an ...
, 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 ), is a non-standard Gravitational metric system, gravitational metric unit of force. It is not accepted for use with the International System of Units (SI) and is deprecated for most uses. T ...
("kilopond"), a unit measure of force
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Kilopascal
The pascal (symbol: Pa) is the unit of pressure
Pressure (symbol: ''p'' or ''P'') is the force applied perpendicular to the surface of an object per unit area over which that force is distributed. Gauge pressure (also spelled ''gage'' pre ...
(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 graphics, raster image, or the smallest addressable element in a dot matrix display device. In most digital display devices, p ...
(1,000 pixels), a measure of image resolution
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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 Zermelo–Fraenkel set theory (ZFC) and is considerably weak ...
, 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 kernel panic (sometimes abbreviated as KP) is a safety measure taken by an operating system's Kernel (operating system), kernel upon detecting an internal Fatal system error, fatal error in which either it is unable to safely recover or con ...
, a computer stopping in response to an unrecoverable error
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k·p perturbation theory, for calculating properties of crystalline solids
* k͡p, the
voiceless labial–velar plosive
The voiceless labial–velar plosive or stop is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. It is a and pronounced simultaneously and is considered a double articulation. To make this sound, one can say ''Coe'' but with the lip ...
Other uses
* KP, a recording released by American performer
Kyle Patrick
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Kp (digraph), 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)
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Kim Possible
''Kim Possible'' is an American animated Action comedy TV series, action comedy television series created by Bob Schooley and Mark McCorkle for Disney Channel. The Kim Possible (character), title character is a teenage girl tasked with saving ...
, American animated television series
See also
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KP4 (disambiguation)
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