PNP may refer to:

Government

Provincial Nomination Program The Provincial Nominee Program (PNP) is a set of Immigration to Canada, Canadian immigration programs operated by the Government of Canada in partnership with individual Provinces and territories of Canada, provinces, each of which having its own ...

, an immigration scheme by the Government of Canada

Organizations

New Progressive Party (Puerto Rico) The New Progressive Party (, PNP) is a political party in Puerto Rico that advocates for statehood.Partido Nashonal di Pueblo Partido, partidista and partidario may refer to: * Spanish for a political party, people who share political ideology or who are brought together by common issues Territorial subdivision * Partidos of Buenos Aires, the second-level administrative ...

, a Curaçaoan political party *

National Popular Party (Romania) The National Popular Party (, PNP) was an Antifascism, antifascist political party in Romania, founded during World War II as the underground Union of Patriots (''Uniunea Patrioților'', UP). The latter had defined itself as a spontaneous movement ...

Parti national populaire The Parti national populaire (; PNP; ) was a minor political party in Quebec, Canada that operated in the 1970s. The PNP was created by a split in the Ralliement créditiste du Québec after Fabien Roy was expelled from the party. Roy was one of ...

, a 1970s political party in Quebec, Canada *

People's New Party The People's New Party (国民新党 ''Kokumin Shintō'', PNP) was a Japanese political party formed on August 17, 2005, in the aftermath of the defeat of Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's Japan Post privatisation bills which led to a 2005 Japan ...

, Japan *

Peoples National Party (disambiguation) People's National Party or Peoples National Party may refer to: Current *People's National Party in Jamaica *People's National Party (Russia) *People's National Party (Tonga) *United Kashmir People's National Party *Awami National Party, in Pakista ...

Peruvian National Police The National Police of Peru (, PNP) is the national police force of Peru. Its jurisdiction covers the nation's land, sea, and air territories. Formed from the merger of the Investigative Police, the Civil Guard, and the Republican Guard in 1988 ...

''Policía Nacional del Perú'') *

Peruvian Nationalist Party Peruvian Nationalist Party (Spanish language, Spanish: ''Partido Nacionalista Peruano;'' PNP) is a Centre-left politics, centre-left to left-wing politics, left-wing political party in Peru. History The Nationalist Party had as its antecedent t ...

Philippine National Police The Philippine National Police (PNP; ) is the national police force of the Philippines. Its national headquarters is located at Camp Crame in Bagong Lipunan ng Crame, Quezon City. Currently, it has approximately 228,000 personnel to police a pop ...

* Princess Naoko Planning,

Naoko Takeuchi is a Japanese manga artist. She is best known as the author of ''Sailor Moon'', one of the most popular manga series of all time. She has won several awards, including the 1993 Kodansha Manga Award for ''Sailor Moon''. Takeuchi is married to ...

's studio *

Progressive National Party (disambiguation) Progressive National Party can refer to the following political party, political parties *Progressive National Party (Panama) *Progressive National Party (Suriname) *Progressive National Party (Turks and Caicos Islands) See also

*PNP (disambi ...

Princeton Newport Partners Convertible Hedge Associates (CHA) was an early alternative investment management company founded by Edward O. Thorp and a partner, Jay Regan, in November 1969. Based in Long Beach, California, CHA was said by Thorp to have been the first market ...

, a hedge fund * Press Network of Pakistan,

Islamabad Islamabad (; , ; ) is the capital city of Pakistan. It is the country's tenth-most populous city with a population of over 1.1 million and is federally administered by the Pakistani government as part of the Islamabad Capital Territory. Bu ...

based media house

Science and technology

Purine nucleoside phosphorylase Purine nucleoside phosphorylase, PNP, PNPase or inosine phosphorylase () is an enzyme that in humans is encoded by the ''NP'' gene. It catalyzes the chemical reaction :purine nucleoside + phosphate \rightleftharpoons purine + alpha-D-ribose 1-p ...

, an enzyme *

4-Nitrophenol 4-Nitrophenol (also called ''p''-nitrophenol or 4-hydroxynitrobenzene) is a phenolic compound that has a nitro group at the opposite position of the hydroxyl group on the benzene ring. Properties 4-nitro phenol is a slightly yellow, crystalline ...

or ''p''-nitrophenol * Pyridoxine phosphate, a form of vitamin B₆ *

PNP transistor A bipolar junction transistor (BJT) is a type of transistor that uses both electrons and electron holes as charge carriers. In contrast, a unipolar transistor, such as a field-effect transistor (FET), uses only one kind of charge carrier. A ...

P versus NP problem The P versus NP problem is a major unsolved problem in theoretical computer science. Informally, it asks whether every problem whose solution can be quickly verified can also be quickly solved. Here, "quickly" means an algorithm exists that ...

Plug and play In computing, a plug and play (PnP) device or computer bus is one with a specification that facilitates the recognition of a hardware component in a system without the need for physical device configuration or user intervention in resolving reso ...

, not requiring configuration **

Legacy Plug and Play The term Legacy Plug and Play, also shortened to Legacy PnP, describes a series of specifications and Microsoft Windows features geared towards operating system configuration of devices, and some device IDs are assigned by UEFI Forum. The stand ...

or Legacy PnP *

Perspective-n-Point Perspective-''n''-Point is the problem of estimating the pose of a calibrated camera given a set of 3D points in the world and their corresponding 2D projections in the image. The camera pose consists of 6 degrees-of-freedom (DOF) which are made u ...

in computer vision *

Pick-and-place machine Surface-mount technology (SMT) component placement systems, commonly called pick-and-place machines or P&Ps, are robotic machines which are used to place surface-mount devices (SMDs) onto a printed circuit board (PCB). They are used for high ...

for assembling electronic circuit boards * Print-and-play,

board games A board game is a type of tabletop game that involves small objects () that are placed and moved in particular ways on a specially designed patterned game board, potentially including other components, e.g. dice. The earliest known uses of the ...

with parts designed to be printed by players

Other uses

Party and play Party and play (PnP), also known as chemsex or wired play, refers to the practice of consuming drugs to enhance sexual activity. This sexual subculture involves recreational drug users engaging in high-risk sexual behaviors under the influence ...

(PnP), sex with drug use