NP : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: NP	by the DICT Development Group
4 results for NP
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Np n a radioactive transuranic metallic element; found in trace amounts in uranium ores; a by-product of the production of plutonium Synonym(s): neptunium, Np, atomic number 93 a registered nurse who has received special training and can perform many of the duties of a physician Synonym(s): nurse practitioner, NP, nurse clinician
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]:
NP- /N-P/ pref. Extremely. Used to modify adjectives describing a level or quality of difficulty; the connotation is often `more so than it should be' This is generalized from the computer-science terms `NP-hard' and `NP-complete'; NP-complete problems all seem to be very hard, but so far no one has found a proof that they are. NP is the set of Nondeterministic-Polynomial algorithms, those that can be completed by a nondeterministic Turing machine in an amount of time that is a polynomial function of the size of the input; a solution for one NP-complete problem would solve all the others. "Coding a BitBlt implementation to perform correctly in every case is NP-annoying." Note, however, that strictly speaking this usage is misleading; there are plenty of easy problems in class NP. NP-complete problems are hard not because they are in class NP, but because they are the hardest problems in class NP.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
NP {nondeterministic polynomial time}. [{Jargon File}]
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
np The {country code} for Nepal. (1999-01-27)