PPM may refer to:
Business in general
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Planned preventive maintenance
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Project portfolio management
Project portfolio management (PPM) is the centralized management of the processes, methods, and technologies used by project managers and project management offices (PMOs) to analyze and collectively manage current or proposed projects based on num ...
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Public performance measure
The public performance measure (PPM) is a measure of the punctuality and reliability of passenger trains in Britain. It is the percentage of scheduled trains which successfully run their entire planned route, calling at all timetabled stations, a ...
, UK measure of rail punctuality
Organizations
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Mauritanian People's Party
Mauritanian People's Party (PPM, French ''Parti du peuple mauritanien''; Arabic: حزب الشعب الموريتاني ''Hizb Al-Sha'ab Al-Muritaniy'') was the sole legal party of Mauritania from 1961 to 1978. It was headed by President Moktar ...
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Parry People Movers
Parry People Movers Ltd. (PPM) is a British company manufacturing lightweight trams and railcars that use flywheel energy storage (FES) to store energy for traction, allowing electric systems to operate without overhead wires or third rails, a ...
, UK flywheel vehicle manufacturer
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Pashtun Tahafuz Movement
The Pashtun Tahafuz Movement (PTM; ps, پښتون ژغورنې غورځنګ ''Paṣtūn Zhghōrənē Ghōrźang''; ur, , lit=Pashtun Protection Movement) is a social movement for Pashtun human rights based in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan ...
(PTM), also known as the Pashtun Protection Movement (PPM), a human rights movement in Pakistan for the Pashtun people
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Partido Popular Monárquico'' (People's Monarchist Party), Portugal
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Persekutuan Pengakap Malaysia
Persekutuan Pengakap Malaysia (Scouts Association of Malaysia) is the largest youth organisation in Malaysia and member of World Organization of the Scout Movement (WOSM).
History
Scouting in Malaya (now Malaysia) was first introduced in Penang ...
'', the Scouts Association of Malaysia
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People's Progressive Movement (Cayman Islands)
The People's Progressive Movement is a political party in the Cayman Islands currently headed by Roy McTaggart.
History
The People's Progressive Movement was founded in 2002. The founding members of the Party, which included Parliamentarians ...
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Progressive Party of Maldives
The Progressive Party of Maldives ( dv, ޕްރޮގްރެސިވް ޕާރޓީ އޮފް މޯލްޑިވްސް), also known by its PPM, is an Islamist political party in Maldives with a total membership of 37,093 as of 11 July 2021. The stated goal ...
Science and technology
Computing
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Pages per minute
In computing, a printer is a peripheral machine which makes a persistent representation of graphics or text, usually on paper. While most output is human-readable, bar code printers are an example of an expanded use for printers. Differ ...
, a measurement of printing speed
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Perl package manager Perl Package Manager (''PPM'') is a Perl utility intended to simplify the tasks of locating, installing, upgrading and removing software packages. It can determine if the most recent version of a software package is installed on a system, and can in ...
, for software packages
*Planted partition model, a special case of
Stochastic block model
* Portable pixmap format, a
Netpbm format
Netpbm (formerly Pbmplus) is an open-source package of graphics programs and a programming library. It is used mainly in the Unix world, where one can find it included in all major open-source operating system distributions, but also works on Micr ...
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Prediction by partial matching
Prediction by partial matching (PPM) is an adaptive statistical data compression technique based on context modeling and prediction. PPM models use a set of previous symbols in the uncompressed symbol stream to predict the next symbol in the st ...
, a data compression technique
Medicine
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Permanent pacemaker
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Persistent pupillary membrane
Persistent pupillary membrane (PPM) is a condition of the eye involving remnants of a fetal membrane that persist as strands of tissue crossing the pupil. The pupillary membrane in mammals exists in the fetus as a source of blood supply for the l ...
, an eye condition
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Physician practice management
Online advertising
* PPM (
Pay per 1000 impressions)
Other uses in science and technology
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Parts per million
In science and engineering, the parts-per notation is a set of pseudo-units to describe small values of miscellaneous dimensionless quantities, e.g. mole fraction or mass fraction. Since these fractions are quantity-per-quantity measures, they ...
, ppm
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Carbon dioxide in Earth's atmosphere
Carbon dioxide in Earth's atmosphere is a trace gas that plays an integral part in the greenhouse effect, carbon cycle, photosynthesis and oceanic carbon cycle. It is one of several greenhouse gases in Earth's atmosphere that are contributing t ...
, ppm
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Peak programme meter
A peak programme meter (PPM) is an instrument used in professional audio that indicates the level of an audio signal.
Different kinds of PPM fall into broad categories:
*True peak programme meter. This shows the peak level of the waveform no ...
, measuring audio level
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PPM Star Catalogue The PPM Star Catalogue (Positions and Proper Motions Star Catalogue) is the successor of the SAO Catalogue. It contains precise positions and proper motions of 378,910 stars on the whole sky in the J2000/ FK5 coordinate system.
It is designed to r ...
of 378,910 stars
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Proton precession magnetometer, measures small magnetic field variations
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Pulse-position modulation
Pulse-position modulation (PPM) is a form of signal modulation in which ''M'' message bits are encoded by transmitting a single pulse in one of 2^M possible required time shifts. This is repeated every ''T'' seconds, such that the transmitted bi ...
of a signal.
Other uses
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Pepsi Venezuela Music Awards
The Pepsi Venezuela Music Awards ( es, Premios Pepsi Music Venezuela, links=no; PPM) are honors for the best music in Venezuela in various genres.
Its first edition took place on 29 March 2012 in Caracas and was broadcast on Venevisión. Since ...
(''Premios Pepsi Music Venezuela'')
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Portable People Meter
The Portable People Meter (PPM), also known as the Nielsen Meter, was a system developed by Arbitron (now Nielsen Audio) to measure how many people are exposed or listening to individual radio stations and television stations, including cable tel ...
, to measure radio and TV broadcast audiences
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Private Placement Memorandum
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A prospectus, in finance, is a disclosure document that describes a financial security for potential buyers. It commonly provides investors with material information about mutual funds, stocks, bonds and other i ...
, offering document for private placements
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Peter, Paul and Mary
Peter, Paul and Mary was an American folk group formed in New York City in 1961 during the American folk music revival phenomenon. The trio consisted of tenor Peter Yarrow, baritone Paul Stookey, and contralto Mary Travers. The group's repertoir ...
, American folk group
See also
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Temperature coefficient
A temperature coefficient describes the relative change of a physical property that is associated with a given change in temperature. For a property ''R'' that changes when the temperature changes by ''dT'', the temperature coefficient α is def ...
, in parts per million per Kelvin (ppm/K) or per degree Celsius (ppm/C)
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