KP may refer to:
Businesses and organizations
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Komsomolskaya Pravda
''Komsomolskaya Pravda'' (russian: link=no, Комсомольская правда; lit. "Komsomol Truth") is a daily Russian tabloid (newspaper format), tabloid newspaper, founded on 13 March 1925.
History and profile
During the Soviet era, ...
'', a daily Russian newspaper
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''KP'' (newspaper), a Ukrainian newspaper
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KP Snacks, a United Kingdom food manufacturer
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Kaiser Permanente, a U.S. health maintenance organization
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Kerala Police, the law enforcement agency for the state of Kerala, India
* Kings Point, the
US Merchant Marine Academy
The United States Merchant Marine Academy (USMMA or Kings Point) is a United States service academy in Kings Point, New York. It trains its midshipmen (as students at the academy are called) to serve as officers in the United States Merchant ...
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Communist Party (Serbia), the communist party of Serbia
People
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Kawan Prather, American record executive
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Kevin Pietersen, English cricketer
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Ko Wen-je, Taiwanese politician, physician and professor
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KP Sharma Oli, Nepalese politician and current Prime Minister of Nepal
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Kumaran Pathmanathan, member of the LTTE
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Kristaps Porzingis
Kristaps is a Latvian masculine given name. It is a cognate of the German name Christoph and may refer to:
*Kristaps Blanks (born 1986), Latvian football striker
*Kristaps Dārgais (born 1990), Latvian basketball player
*Kristaps Grebis (born 19 ...
, Latvian basketball player
Places
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Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, a province in Pakistan
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North Korea (ISO 3166 country code KP)
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Kensington Palace
Kensington Palace is a royal residence set in Kensington Gardens, in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea in London, England. It has been a residence of the British royal family since the 17th century, and is currently the official L ...
, office and residence of some of the British royal family
In science, technology, and mathematics
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.kp
.kp is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK). It was created on 24 September 2007.
History
The DPRK applied for the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) in 2004. ICANN, ...
, the Internet domain name for North Korea
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KP-bil, or ''Terrängbil m/42 KP'', a Swedish armoured vehicle
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Kadomtsev–Petviashvili equation, describing waves
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Keratosis pilaris, a human genetic disorder, also known as "chicken skin"
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keratic precipitate
Keratic precipitate (KP) is an inflammatory cellular deposit seen on corneal endothelium. Acute KPs are white and round in shape whereas old KPs are faded and irregular in shape. Mutton-fat KPs are large in shape and are greasy-white in color an ...
, an inflammatory cellular deposit on the cornea of the eye
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Kilogram-force ("kilopond"), a unit measure of force
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Kilopascal (kP), a unit of pressure
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Kilopixel (1,000 pixels), a measure of image resolution
* K
P, the
equilibrium constant expressed in terms of partial pressures
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Kp index, a measure of the global average geomagnetic potential
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Kripke–Platek set theory, a mathematical axiom system
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Pentax KP, a 2017 digital SLR camera
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Kernel panic
A kernel panic (sometimes abbreviated as KP) is a safety measure taken by an operating system's kernel upon detecting an internal fatal error in which either it is unable to safely recover or continuing to run the system would have a higher ...
, a computer stopping in response to an unrecoverable error
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k·p perturbation theory, for calculating properties of crystalline solids
Other uses
* KP, a recording released by American performer
Kyle Patrick
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Kp (digraph)
This is a list of digraphs used in various Latin alphabets. Capitalisation involves only the first letter (''ch'' becomes ''Ch'') unless otherwise stated (''ij'' becomes ''IJ'').
Letters with diacritics are arranged in alphabetic order accordin ...
, in written language
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KP duty
KP duty means "kitchen police" or "kitchen patrol" work under the kitchen staff assigned to junior U.S. enlisted military personnel. "KP" can be either the work or the personnel assigned to perform such work. In the latter sense it can be used ...
"kitchen police" or "kitchen patrol", U.S. military slang for mess-hall duties
* Knight of the
Order of St. Patrick
The Most Illustrious Order of Saint Patrick is a dormant British order of chivalry associated with Ireland. The Order was created in 1783 by George III of the United Kingdom, King George III at the request of the then Lord Lieutenant of Irelan ...
(postnomial KP)
See also
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KP4 (disambiguation) KP4, Kp4 or kp4 may refer to
* Killer toxin Kp4 family, a family of killer toxins, which includes the Kp4 killer toxin from the smut fungus ''Ustilago maydis''
* KP4, an amateur radio call sign assigned to operators in Puerto Rico, see Amateur ra ...
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