PPM may refer to:

Business in general

Planned preventive maintenance The technical meaning of maintenance involves functional checks, servicing, repairing or replacing of necessary devices, equipment, machinery, building infrastructure, and supporting utilities in industrial, business, and residential installa ...

* Project portfolio management * Public performance measure, UK measure of rail punctuality

Organizations

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 ...

* Parry People Movers, UK flywheel vehicle manufacturer * Pashtun Tahafuz Movement (PTM), also known as the Pashtun Protection Movement (PPM), a human rights movement in Pakistan for the Pashtun people * ''

Partido Popular Monárquico The People's Monarchist Party ( pt, Partido Popular Monárquico, ) is a political party in Portugal. It was founded in 1974 by various groups opposing the Estado Novo, in the context of the Carnation Revolution. Currently it is a small monarchis ...

'' (People's Monarchist Party), Portugal * '' Persekutuan Pengakap Malaysia'', the Scouts Association of Malaysia *

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 ...

* Progressive Party of Maldives

Science and technology

Computing

* Pages per minute, a measurement of printing speed *

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 The stochastic block model is a generative model for random graphs. This model tends to produce graphs containing ''communities'', subsets of nodes characterized by being connected with one another with particular edge densities. For example, edg ...

* Portable pixmap format, a Netpbm format * Prediction by partial matching, a data compression technique

Medicine

* Permanent pacemaker * Persistent pupillary membrane, an eye condition * Physician practice management

Online advertising

* PPM (

Pay per 1000 impressions Cost per mille (CPM), also called cost per thousand (CPT) (in Latin, French and Italian, ''mille'' means ''one thousand''), is a commonly-used measurement in advertising. It is the cost an advertiser pays for one thousand views or impressions of ...

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Other uses in science and technology

* Parts per million, ppm **

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 * Peak programme meter, measuring audio level * PPM Star Catalogue of 378,910 stars *

Proton precession magnetometer A proton magnetometer, also known as a proton precession magnetometer (PPM), uses the principle of Earth's field nuclear magnetic resonance (EFNMR) to measure very small variations in the Earth's magnetic field, allowing ferrous objects on land ...

, measures small magnetic field variations * Pulse-position modulation of a signal.

Other uses

* Pepsi Venezuela Music Awards (''Premios Pepsi Music Venezuela'') * Portable People Meter, to measure radio and TV broadcast audiences * Private Placement Memorandum, offering document for private placements * Peter, Paul and Mary, American folk group