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
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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, 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 "kitchen police" or "kitchen patrol", U.S. military slang for mess-hall duties
* Knight of the
Order of St. Patrick (postnomial KP)
See also
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KP4 (disambiguation)
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