NCP may refer to:

Science and medicine

* Novel Coronavirus Pneumonia (a temporary name for

COVID-19 Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a contagious disease caused by the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2. In January 2020, the disease spread worldwide, resulting in the COVID-19 pandemic. The symptoms of COVID‑19 can vary but often include fever ...

), an

outbreak In epidemiology, an outbreak is a sudden increase in occurrences of a disease when cases are in excess of normal expectancy for the location or season. It may affect a small and localized group or impact upon thousands of people across an entire ...

that was officially identified in late 2019. * HIV-1 nucleocapsid protein 7 (NCp7), a target of zinc finger inhibitors * Nucleosome core particle, part of DNA packaging in the

nucleosome A nucleosome is the basic structural unit of DNA packaging in eukaryotes. The structure of a nucleosome consists of a segment of DNA wound around eight histone, histone proteins and resembles thread wrapped around a bobbin, spool. The nucleosome ...

* NCP, a protein in involved in chloroplast biogenesis *

National Centre for Physics The National Centre for PhysicsPreviously known as Riazuddin Centre for Physics. (NCP) is a federally funded research institute and national laboratory co-located near Quaid-i-Azam University in Islamabad, Pakistan. Founded in 1999, the site ...

, a physics research laboratory and facility in Pakistan

Computing and mathematics

IBM Network Control Program The IBM Network Control Program, or NCP, was software that ran on a IBM 37xx, 37xx communications controller and managed communication with remote devices. NCP provided services comparable to the data link layer and Network Layer functions in the ...

, a program run on IBM programmable communications controllers * NCP Engineering, a company that produces software for secure data communication *

NetWare Core Protocol The NetWare Core Protocol (NCP) is a network protocol used in some products from Novell, Inc. It is usually associated with the client-server operating system Novell NetWare which originally supported primarily MS-DOS client stations, but later s ...

, a network protocol used in Novell NetWare *

Network Control Protocol (ARPANET) The Network Control Protocol (NCP) was a communication protocol for a computer network in the 1970s and early 1980s. It provided the transport layer of the protocol stack running on host computers of the ARPANET, the predecessor to the modern In ...

, the original protocol suite of the ARPANET *

Network Control Program (ARPANET) The Network Control Protocol (NCP) was a communication protocol for a computer network in the 1970s and early 1980s. It provided the transport layer of the protocol stack running on host computers of the ARPANET, the predecessor to the modern Int ...

, the software in the hosts which implemented that protocol suite * Network Control Protocol, a protocol that runs atop the

Point-to-Point Protocol In computer networking, Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) is a data link layer (layer 2) communication protocol between two routers directly without any host or any other networking in between. It can provide loop detection, authentication, transmissio ...

* New Cross Pacific Cable System, a submarine cable system in the North Pacific Ocean * Nonlinear complementarity problem, a kind of a mathematics problem

Politics

* National Centrist Party, a Libyan political party *

National Christian Party The National Christian Party () was a far-right authoritarian and strongly antisemitic political party in Romania active between 1935 and 1938. It was formed by a merger of Octavian Goga's National Agrarian Party and A. C. Cuza's National-Chr ...

, a former Romanian political party *

National Citizen Party The National Citizen Party (NCP; ), is a List of political parties in Bangladesh, political party in Bangladesh. Initiated by the Students Against Discrimination and the Jatiya Nagorik Committee, it was established on 28 February 2025 as the f ...

, a Bangladeshi political party *

National Coalition Party The National Coalition Party (NCP; , Kok; , Saml) is a liberal conservatism, liberal-conservative List of political parties in Finland, political party in Finland. It is the current governing political party of Finland. Founded in 1918, the ...

, a Finnish political party *

National Congress (Sudan) The National Congress Party (NCP; , ') was a major political party of ousted President Omar Al-Bashir, it dominated domestic politics in Sudan from its foundation until it was dissolved following the Sudanese Revolution. After the split of ...

or National Congress Party, a Sudanese political party *

Nationalist Congress Party The Nationalist Congress Party is one of the List of political parties in India#State parties, state parties in India and is one of the major political parties in Maharashtra Legislative Assembly, Maharashtra with a recognised state party statu ...

, an Indian political party *

Nepal Communist Party The Nepal Communist Party, abbreviated NCP (, ) was a communist party in Nepal that existed from 2018 to 2021. It was founded on 17 May 2018, from the unification of two Left-wing politics, leftist parties, Communist Party of Nepal (Unified M ...

New Communist Party of Britain The New Communist Party of Britain is an anti-revisionist Marxist–Leninist communist party in Britain. The origins of the NCP lie in the Communist Party of Great Britain from which it split in 1977. Opposed to Eurocommunism, the party was ...

Other uses

National Car Parks National Car Parks (NCP) is a private car park operator, with car parks in towns, cities, airports, London Underground and National Rail stations. History NCP was founded in 1931 by Colonel Frederick Lucas. In October 1948 Sir Ronald Hobson ...

, a private car park operator in United Kingdom *

North celestial pole The north and south celestial poles are the two points in the sky where Earth's axis of rotation, indefinitely extended, intersects the celestial sphere. The north and south celestial poles appear permanently directly overhead to observers at ...

, an imaginary point in the sky in the Northern Hemisphere * National climate projections, climate (change) projections relevant to (and typically produced by) an individual country * National Consumer Panel, a market research company * National Contingency Plan, the United States federal government's blueprint for responding to oil spills and hazardous substance releases * North Central Positronics, a fictional company in ''The Dark Tower'' series * Northside College Preparatory High School, a high-school in Chicago * IATA code for

Naval Air Station Cubi Point U.S. Naval Air Station Cubi Point was a United States Navy aerial facility located at the edge of Naval Base Subic Bay and abutting the Bataan Peninsula in the Philippines. When the base closed, the air station became Subic Bay International ...

* National Check Professional, an expert in check processing rules and regulations, as designated by the Electronic Check Clearing House Organization *

Noncustodial parent A noncustodial parent is a parent who does not have physical custody of his or her minor child as the result of a court order. When the child lives with only one parent, in a sole custody arrangement, then the parent with which the child lives is t ...

, a parent who does not have custody of their child. * New customer pricing, in call centers {{disambiguation