NPR (disambiguation)
Appearance
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NPR (officially National Public Radio) is a media organization that serves as a national syndicator to most public radio stations in the US.
NPR may also refer to:
Arts, entertainment and media
[edit]- National Philharmonic of Russia, a Russian orchestra
- Natural Product Reports, a British peer-reviewed scientific journal published by the Royal Society of Chemistry
- Natural Product Radiance, an Indian scientific journal
- Nevada Public Radio, a public corporation operating several radio stations in Nevada
Government
[edit]- National Partnership for Reinventing Government (originally the National Performance Review), an interagency task force, an effort to reform the way the US federal government works
- Nuclear Posture Review, the periodic assessment carried out by the US Department of Defense
- National Population Register, a database of residents in India with Unique Identification Authority of India numbers
- National Police Reserve, a lightly armed national police force during the Allied occupation of Japan and a predecessor to the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force (JGSDF)
Rail transportation
[edit]- Nippori Station, JR East station code
- North Pennsylvania Railroad, a former railroad company that served areas around Philadelphia
- Northern Pacific Railway, former railroad from Wisconsin to Washington State
- Northern Plains Railroad, a short-line railroad that operates in Minnesota and North Dakota
- Northern Powerhouse Rail, a proposed railway in northern England
Technology
[edit]- Non-photorealistic rendering, a computer-graphics-rendering technique that does not aim toward photorealism
- nPr, a function for computing permutations in some calculators
Other uses
[edit]- Nepalese rupee, by ISO 4217 currency code
- Isuzu Elf, known as the Isuzu NPR in North America
See also
[edit]- National Petroleum Reserve–Alaska (NPRA), an area of land on the Alaska North Slope owned by the US federal government
- Notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM), a public notice issued by a federal agency when it wishes to add, remove, or modify a regulation