PPP or ppp may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

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Para Para Paradise is an arcade and PlayStation 2 dance game made by the Japanese company Konami and released under the Bemani moniker following the Para Para fad. Konami would later release ''Dance Evolution'' for the Xbox 360, a game that shares many similari ...

'', a rhythm section video game * , a Philippine film festival * '' Potter Puppet Pals'', a web series created by Neil Cicierega * ''ppp'', a dynamic marking in music for pianississimo * ''PPPasolini'', a 2015 drama based on the life of

Pier Paolo Pasolini Pier Paolo Pasolini (; 5 March 1922 – 2 November 1975) was an Italian poet, film director, writer, actor and playwright. He is considered one of the defining public intellectuals in 20th-century Italian history, influential both as an artist ...

(1922–1975) * Preston is My Paris, a multidisciplinary arts project * PPP, the production code for the 1973 ''Doctor Who'' serial ''

Carnival of Monsters ''Carnival of Monsters'' is the second serial of the tenth season of the British science fiction television series ''Doctor Who'', which was first broadcast in four weekly parts on BBC1 from 27 January to 17 February 1973. In the serial, set o ...

'' * "PPP" (song), a single from the album ''Depression Cherry'' by Beach House released in 2015 * JoJo's Pitter Patter Pop!, a tile matching puzzle video game * Purple Pebble Pictures, Indian film production company founded by Priyanka Chopra * ''

Plan Panni Pannanum ''Plan Panni Pannanum'' () is a 2021 Indian Tamil-language romantic comedy film directed by Badri Venkatesh, produced by Rajesh Kumar and Sinthan L from Positive Print Studios. The story is written by A. C. Karunamurthy (Karnamurthy), dialogue ...

'', a 2021 Indian Tamil-language film

Business, economics, and law

Purchasing power parity Purchasing power parity (PPP) is a measure of the price of specific goods in different countries and is used to compare the absolute purchasing power of the countries' currency, currencies. PPP is effectively the ratio of the price of a market bask ...

, a technique used to determine the relative value of different currencies *

Personal pension scheme A personal pension scheme (PPS), sometimes called a personal pension plan (PPP), is a UK tax-privileged individual investment vehicle, with the primary purpose of building a capital sum to provide retirement benefits, although it will usually al ...

(also known as Personal Pension Plan), a type of UK individual pension contract *

Public–private partnership A public–private partnership (PPP, 3P, or P3) is a long-term arrangement between a government and private sectors, private sector institutions.Hodge, G. A and Greve, C. (2007), Public–Private Partnerships: An International Performance Revie ...

, the operation of a service in the partnership of government and the private sector * Plant Protection Product (pesticide) * Progress, plans, problems, a reporting methodology * Prepayment penalty, sometimes assessed when a loan is paid off ahead of schedule *

Paycheck Protection Program The Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) is a $953-billion business loan program established by the United States federal government during the First presidency of Donald Trump, Trump administration in 2020 through the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and ...

, a loan program for small businesses in the United States introduced during the Covid-19 pandemic *

Polluter pays principle In environmental law, the polluter pays principle is enacted to make the Party (law), party responsible for producing pollution responsible for paying for the damage done to the natural environment. This principle has also been used to put the cos ...

, a principle of environmental law

People

* Parley P. Pratt (1807–1857), an early leader of the Latter Day Saint movement, or his ''Autobiography'', both commonly cited as "PPP" *

(1922–1975), Italian film director and intellectual best known for ''Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom''

Politics

Pakistan Peoples Party The Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) is a political party in Pakistan and one of the three major List of political parties in Pakistan, Pakistani political parties alongside the Pakistan Muslim League (N) and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf. With a Cent ...

** Pakistan Peoples Party (Shaheed Bhutto) **

Pakistan Peoples Party (Sherpao) Qaumi Watan Party ( or ; ), abbreviated as QWP and formerly called Pakistan Peoples Party–Sherpao (PPP–S), is one of the prominent political parties in Pakistan, that split away from the Pakistan Peoples Party just before the 2002 general elec ...

Palestinian People's Party The Palestinian People's Party (PPP; ''Hizb ash-Sha'b al-Filastini''), founded in 1982 as the Palestinian Communist Party, is a socialist political party in Palestine and among the Palestinian diaspora. History The original Palestine Com ...

* Partido Pilipino sa Pagbabago, Philippines *

People's Party of Panama The People's Party of Panama (, PPP) is an unregistered communist party in Panama. It was founded on 4 April 1930 as the Communist Party of Panama (''Partido Comunista de Panamá'', PCP), after Panamanian communists broke away from the Labor Party ...

* People's Party of Punjab (India) * People's Pioneer Party, Myanmar * People's Political Power of Canada *

People's Political Party (Saint Vincent and the Grenadines) The People's Political Party was a political party in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. It was established in 1952 as a breakaway from the ruling Eighth Army of Liberation, and was the country's first lasting nationwide political party.Dieter Nohle ...

People Power Party The People Power Party (PPP; ) is a Conservatism in South Korea, conservative and Right-wing politics, right-wing List of political parties in South Korea, political party in South Korea. It is the second-largest party in the National Ass ...

People's Power Party (Malaysia) The Parti Kuasa Rakyat () is a political party that is based on Marhaenism. It is in favour of abolishing the Perbadanan Tabung Pendidikan Tinggi Nasional (PTPTN) and replacing it with scholarships involving the B40 and M40 groups, as well as f ...

People's Power Party (Singapore) The People's Power Party (PPP) is a political party in Singapore. History and political development 2015 : Formation and first election contest The PPP was formed by veteran politician Goh Meng Seng on 16 July 2015 just a few months prior t ...

People's Power Party (Thailand) The People's Power Party (PPP; , , ) was a Thai political party. The party leader was Somchai Wongsawat, the Party Secretary General was Surapong Suebwonglee, and the Party Spokesperson was Kuthep Saikrajarng. Most MPs of the party originally hail ...

People's Progressive Party (disambiguation) There are several parties named People's Progressive Party: *People's Progressive Party (Anguilla) *People's Progressive Party (Gambia) *People's Progressive Party (Guyana) (and previously British Guiana) *People's Progressive Party (Malaysia) *Peo ...

, a common name for a political party used in several countries *

Polish Underground State The Polish Underground State (, also known as the Polish Secret State) was a single political and military entity formed by the union of resistance organizations in occupied Poland that were loyal to the Government of the Republic of Poland ...

(), the Polish Underground State during World War II * Polska Partia Pracy, literally the "Polish Labour Party" *

Progressive People's Party (disambiguation) Progressive People's Party may refer to: *Progressive People's Party (Germany), in the late German Empire *Progressive People's Party (Ghana) * Progressive People's Party (Liberia) *Progressive People's Party (Namibia) * Progressive People's Party ...

, a common name for a political party used in several countries *

Public Policy Polling Public Policy Polling (PPP) is an American polling firm affiliated with the Democratic Party. Founded in 2001 by businessman Dean Debnam, the firm is based in Raleigh, North Carolina. Debnam died in 2024. Tom Jensen serves as the firm's directo ...

, a polling company * Puebla-Panama Plan (), an economic development and integration initiative in Mexico and Central America *

United Development Party The United Development Party (, PPP) is an Islam-based Al-Hamdi, Ridho (February 2017). ''Moving towards a Normalised Path: Political Islam in Contemporary Indonesia''. Jurnal Studi Pemerintahan (Journal of Government & Politics). Vol. 8 No. 1, p ...

(), an Indonesian Islamic political party

Science and technology

Medicine

Pearly penile papules Pearly penile papules (PPP; also known as hirsutoid papillomas or as , Latin for 'papillae of the corona of the glans') are benign, small bumps or spots on the human penis. They vary in size from 0.5-1 mm, are pearly or flesh-colored, smo ...

, a condition that occurs on male genitalia * Platelet-poor plasma, blood plasma with very low number of platelets *

Postpartum psychosis Postpartum psychosis (PPP), also known as puerperal psychosis or peripartum psychosis, involves the abrupt onset of psychotic symptoms shortly following childbirth, typically within two weeks of delivery but less than 4 weeks postpartum. PPP is ...

, a rare psychiatric condition occurring in the first two weeks after childbirth *

Preputioplasty Preputioplasty or prepuce plasty, also known as limited dorsal slit with transverse closure, is a plastic surgical operation on the prepuce or foreskin of the penis, to widen a narrow non-retractile foreskin which cannot comfortably be drawn back ...

, a plastic surgical operation on the prepuce or foreskin of the penis * Purpura pigmentosa progressiva, better known as Schamberg disease *

Pustulosis palmaris et plantaris Pustulosis palmaris et plantaris is a chronic recurrent pustular dermatosis (that is, a pustulosis or pustular psoriasis) localized on the palms and soles only, characterized histologically by intraepidermal pustules filled with neutrophils.. ...

, a chronic recurrent pustular dermatosis

Chemistry

* Pariser–Parr–Pople method, an approximation in quantum chemistry *

Pentose phosphate pathway The pentose phosphate pathway (also called the phosphogluconate pathway and the hexose monophosphate shunt or HMP shunt) is a metabolic pathway parallel to glycolysis. It generates NADPH and pentoses (five-carbon sugars) as well as ribose 5-ph ...

, a chemical process that generates five-carbon sugars *

Phosphorylation In biochemistry, phosphorylation is described as the "transfer of a phosphate group" from a donor to an acceptor. A common phosphorylating agent (phosphate donor) is ATP and a common family of acceptor are alcohols: : This equation can be writ ...

, such as 5′-ppp RNA * Poly(''p''-phenylene), a conductive polymer

Computing

* Pay per play, a type of internet advertising using audio ads *

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 ...

, a communications protocol * PowerPoint Presentation, a file created using the Microsoft Office application *

PPP (complexity) In computational complexity theory, the complexity class PPP (polynomial pigeonhole principle) is a subclass of TFNP. It is the class of search problems that can be shown to be total by an application of the pigeonhole principle. Christos Papadimit ...

, a computational complexity class *

Precise Point Positioning Precise Point Positioning (PPP) is a global navigation satellite system (GNSS) positioning method that calculates very precise positions, with errors as small as a few centimeters under good conditions. PPP is a combination of several relatively ...

, a GNSS data processing technique * Public Private Protected, in

object-oriented programming Object-oriented programming (OOP) is a programming paradigm based on the concept of '' objects''. Objects can contain data (called fields, attributes or properties) and have actions they can perform (called procedures or methods and impl ...

* Pony Preservation Project, a collaborative effort by 4chan's /mlp/ board to build and curate pony datasets with the aim of creating applications in artificial intelligence

Other uses

Congress-Bundestag Youth Exchange The Congress-Bundestag Youth Exchange (CBYX, German name: ''Parlamentarisches Patenschafts-Programm'' or ''PPP'') is a youth student exchange program founded in 1983. The program, which is jointly sponsored by the United States Congress and the ...

(), a German-American exchange scholarship program * Perfect Prom Project, a charity based in Illinois *

Point Pleasant Park Point Pleasant Park is a large, mainly forested municipal park at the southern tip of the Halifax peninsula. It once hosted several artillery batteries, and still contains the Prince of Wales Tower - the oldest Martello tower in North America (1 ...

, in Halifax, Nova Scotia * Programme for People and Planet, a programme of events at Expo 2020, Dubai * Psychology, Philosophy and Physiology, a degree course at the University of Oxford *

Whitsunday Coast Airport Whitsunday Coast Airport , also known as Proserpine Airport, is located in Gunyarra, Queensland, Australia, south of Proserpine. The airport serves the mainland and offshore islands with flights to Brisbane ( Alliance Airlines, Jetstar, Vir ...

, south of Proserpine, Queensland, Australia (IATA code PPP) *

Poisson point process In probability theory, statistics and related fields, a Poisson point process (also known as: Poisson random measure, Poisson random point field and Poisson point field) is a type of mathematical object that consists of points randomly located ...

, statistical process