Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

np

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.57 in modern English

Syllables: np
IPA

4

Scrabble Score

2

Letters

1

Syllables

2

Unique Chars

Meaning

name

Initialism of National Party.

name

Initialism of Nacionalista Party.

phrase

Initialism of no problem.

phrase

Initialism of now playing.

noun

Initialism of notary public.

Countable; Uncountable

noun

Initialism of nurse practitioner.

Countable; Uncountable

noun

Initialism of national park.

Countable; Uncountable

noun

Initialism of noun phrase.

Countable; Uncountable

Example Sentences

"Another class, P, is a subset of NP, and includes all decision problems that can be solved by a (deterministic) Turing machine in polynomial time."

Usage

Inflected Forms

NPs (plural)

Phrases

co-NP NP-complete NP-easy NP-hard NP time

Frequently Paired Words

VP PP

Synonyms

HAP nurse practitioner nurse clinician neptunium atomic number 93

Questions

What does np mean?: Initialism of National Party.

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