PPM may refer to:

Business in general

Project portfolio management Project portfolio management (PPM) is the centralized management of the processes, methods, and technologies used by project managers and project management offices (PMOs) to analyze and collectively manage current or proposed projects based on n ...

* Public performance measure, UK measure of rail punctuality

Organizations

Malaysian Scouts Association Malaysian Scouts Association, officially known as the Scouts Association of Malaysia (), is the largest informal youth and educational organisation in Malaysia, and member of World Organization of the Scout Movement (WOSM). History Scouting in ...

() *

Mauritanian People's Party Mauritanian People's Party (PPM, ; ) was the sole legal party of Mauritania from 1961 to 1978. It was headed by President Moktar Ould Daddah. Daddah founded the party shortly after Mauritania's independence from France in November 1960 by mergi ...

(, 1960–1978) *

Parry People Movers Parry People Movers Ltd. (PPM) was a small British manufacturer of lightweight railcars that use flywheel energy storage for traction, allowing electric systems to operate without overhead wires or third rails. The company built one prototype ...

, UK flywheel vehicle manufacturer *

Pashtun Tahafuz Movement The Pashtun Tahafuz Movement (PTM; , ''Paṣtūn Zhghōrənē Ghōrźang''; , ''Pashtūn Tahaffuz Tehreek'' ) is a social movement for Pashtuns, Pashtun human rights based in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan provinces of Pakistan. It was found ...

, a human rights movement in Pakistan for the Pashtun people *

People's Monarchist Party (Portugal) The People's Monarchist Party (, ) is a political party in Portugal. It was founded in 1974 by various groups opposing the Estado Novo (Portugal), Estado Novo, in the context of the Carnation Revolution. The party seeks the restoration of the Li ...

(), a Portuguese political party *

People's Progressive Movement (Cayman Islands) The People's Progressive Movement is a major political party in the Cayman Islands The Cayman Islands () is a self-governing British Overseas Territories, British Overseas Territory, and the largest by population. The territory comprises ...

Progressive Party of Maldives The Progressive Party of Maldives (, PPM), was a political party in the Maldives. The stated goal of the party was driving Maldives towards an independent and democratic, safe and secure, high income, high human capital, developed nation state w ...

Science and technology

Computing

Pages per minute A printer is a peripheral machine which makes a durable representation of graphics or text, usually on paper. While most output is human-readable, bar code printers are an example of an expanded use for printers. Different types of printer ...

, a measurement of printing speed *

Perl package manager Perl Package Manager (''PPM'') is a Perl utility intended to simplify the tasks of locating, installing, upgrading and removing software packages. It can determine if the most recent version of a software package is installed on a system, and can in ...

, for software packages * Planted partition model, a special case of

Stochastic block model The stochastic block model is a generative model for random graphs. This model tends to produce graphs containing ''communities'', subsets of nodes characterized by being connected with one another with particular edge densities. For example, e ...

* Portable pixmap format, a

Netpbm format Netpbm (formerly Pbmplus) is an open-source software, open-source package of graphics programs and a programming library. It is used primarily in Unix, where it is found in all major open-source operating system distributions, but also works on M ...

Prediction by partial matching Prediction by partial matching (PPM) is an adaptive statistical data compression technique based on context modeling and prediction. PPM models use a set of previous symbols in the uncompressed symbol stream to predict the next symbol in the str ...

, a data compression technique

Medicine

* Permanent pacemaker *

Persistent pupillary membrane Persistent pupillary membrane (PPM) is a condition of the eye involving remnants of a fetal membrane that persist as strands of tissue crossing the pupil. The pupillary membrane in mammals exists in the fetus as a source of blood supply for the len ...

, an eye condition *

Physician practice management In the United States, managed care or managed healthcare is a group of activities intended to reduce the cost of providing health care and providing health insurance while improving the quality of that care. It has become the predominant system o ...

Other uses in science and technology

Parts-per-million In science and engineering, the parts-per notation is a set of pseudo-units to describe the small values of miscellaneous dimensionless quantity, dimensionless quantities, e.g. mole fraction or mass fraction (chemistry), mass fraction. Since t ...

Peak programme meter A peak programme meter (PPM) is an instrument used in professional audio that indicates the level of an audio signal. Different kinds of PPM fall into broad categories: *True peak programme meter. This shows the peak level of the waveform n ...

, measuring audio level * Planned Preventative Maintenance of equipment *

PPM Star Catalogue The PPM Star Catalogue (Positions and Proper Motions Star Catalogue) is the successor of the SAO Catalogue. It contains precise positions and proper motions of 378,910 stars on the whole sky in the J2000/FK5 coordinate system. It is designed to r ...

* Proton precession magnetometer, measures small magnetic field variations *

Pulse-position modulation Pulse-position modulation (PPM) is a form of signal modulation in which ''M'' message bits are encoded by transmitting a single pulse in one of 2^M possible required time shifts. This is repeated every ''T'' seconds, such that the transmitted b ...

of a signal

Other uses

Pepsi Venezuela Music Awards The Pepsi Venezuela Music Awards (; PPM) are honors for the best music in Venezuela in various genres. Its first edition took place on 29 March 2012 in Caracas and was broadcast on Venevisión. Since its second edition in 2013, it has been broad ...

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Peter, Paul and Mary Peter, Paul and Mary were an American Contemporary folk music, folk group formed in New York City in 1961 during the American folk music revival. The trio consisted of Peter Yarrow (guitar, tenor vocals), Paul Stookey (guitar, baritone vocals), ...

, American folk group *

Portable People Meter The Portable People Meter (PPM), also known as the Nielsen Meter, is a system developed by Arbitron (now Nielsen Audio) to measure how many people are exposed to individual Radio broadcasting, radio stations and television stations. This also ...

, to measure radio and TV broadcast audiences *

Precision Performance Motorsports Precision Performance Motorsports (PPM) is an American professional sports car racing and former stock car racing team that currently competes full-time in the WeatherTech SportsCar Championship using a GT Daytona-class Lamborghini Huracán, Lam ...

, an American auto racing team * Prince Philip movement, a religious sect in Vanuatu *

Private Placement Memorandum A prospectus, in finance, is a disclosure document that describes a Security (finance), financial security for potential buyers. It commonly provides investors with material information about mutual funds, Share capital, stocks, Bond (finance), b ...

, offering document for private placements * Pay per 1000 impressions