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| Domain | Definition |
Computing | NPL 1. New Programming Language. IBM's original (temporary) name for PL/I, changed due to conflict with England's "National Physical Laboratory." MPL and MPPL were considered before settling on PL/I. Sammet 1969, p.542. 2. A functional language with pattern matching designed by Rod Burstall and John Darlington in 1977. The language allowed certain sets and logic constructs to appear on the right hand side of definitions, E.g. setofeven(X) <= <:x: x in X & even(x) :> The NPL interpreter evaluates the list of generators from left to right so conditions can mention any bound variables that occur to their left. These were known as set comprehensions. NPL eventually evolved into Hope but lost set comprehensions which were called list comprehensions in later functional languages. [John Darlington, "Program Transformation and Synthesis: Present Capabilities", Research Report No. 77/43, Dept. of Computing and Control, Imperial College of Science and Technology, London September 1977.] 3. NonProcedural Language. A relational database language developed by by T.D. Truitt et al in 1980 for Apple II and MS-DOS. ["An Introduction to Nonprocedural Languages Using NPL", T.D. Truitt et al, McGraw-Hill 1983]. Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing. |
Health | [see National Priorities List for Uncontrolled Hazardous Waste Sites]. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
NPL | English | Non performing loan | Finance |
NPL | French | Royaume du Népal | Geography, Law |
NPL | German | Königreich Nepal | Geography, Law |
NPL | Italian | Regno del Nepal | Geography, Law |
NPL | Portuguese | Nepal-código ISO | Geography, Meteorology & Standards |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Crosswords: NPL |
| Specialty definitions using "NPL": list comprehension ♦ National Physical Laboratory, National Priorities List ♦ TLAs. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "NPL" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Portuguese (Nepal-ISO code). |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Economic History | Thailand | Tarrin's approach focused largely on forcing individual banks to resolve their own NPL problems and to recapitalize on their own. (references) |
Malaysia | On the international standard 3-month basis, NPLs increased from 9.6 percent at end-2000 to 10.6 percent in March 2001. The Central Bank has indicated the NPL figure could go higher, but remain well within manageable proportions, as economic growth slows and loans not yet restructured are classified as non-performing. (references) | |
Thailand | The overall health of the banking sector is affected by the high levels of non-performing loans (NPLs) banks are carrying on their books . After peaking at 47 percent of total lending in May 1999, NPLs slowly declined to stand at 17.6 percent of total lending by April 2001 . The figure may actually approach 30 percent, however, if non-performing loans transferred to banks' private asset management companies are taken into account . The level of NPLs will decline further with debt restructuring, but progress has been slow . As NPL levels fall, however, banks' provisioning requirements will also fall, thus benefiting bottom lines in the sector. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "NPL" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 94.74% of the time. "NPL" is used about 19 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 94.74% | 18 | 82,615 |
| Noun (common) | 5.26% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 19 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
npl | 84 |
2 nokia npl | 5 |
black npl super | 2 |
npl site | 2 |
certificate james npl tad | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words containing "NPL": commonplace, commonplaceness, commonplacenesses, commonplaces, downplay, downplayed, downplaying, downplays, enplane, enplaned, enplanes, enplaning, gunplay, gunplays, nonplanar, nonplastic, nonplastics, nonplay, nonplaying, nonplays, nonplus, nonplused, nonpluses, nonplusing, nonplussed, nonplusses, nonplussing, screenplay, screenplays, shinplaster, shinplasters, tinplate, tinplates, unplaced, unplait, unplaited, unplaiting, unplaits, unplanned, unplausible, unplayable, unplayed, unpleasant, unpleasantly, unpleasantness, unpleasantnesses, unpleased, unpleasing, unpliant, unplowed, unplug. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words containing the letters "l-n-p" | |
+1 letter: plan. | |
+2 letters: lapin, lipin, lupin, nopal, panel, pelon, penal, plain, plane, plank, plans, plant, plena, plink, plonk, plunk, pylon, ulpan. | |
+3 letters: alpine, apneal, caplin, holpen, inclip, lapins, lepton, lineup, linkup, lipins, lippen, loping, loupen, lumpen, lupine, lupins, napalm, nipple, nopals, openly, paling, panels, panful, paulin, pencel, pencil, penial, penile, pensil, pentyl, penult, phenol, phenyl, phonal, phylon, piling, pineal, pinkly, pinnal, pinole, pintle, plains, plaint, planar, planch, planed, planer, planes, planet, planks, plants, platan, platen, plench, plenty, plenum, pliant, plinks, plinth, plonks, plunge, plunks, pluton, plying, poleyn, poling, pollen, pontil, poplin, prolan, puling, pungle, punily, purlin, pylons, replan, spinal, spinel, spleen, splent, spline, splint, ulpans, unclip, unpile, unplug, upland, uplink. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4E 50 4C |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-. .--. .-.. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001110 01010000 01001100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)N P L |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004E 0050 004C |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)485046 |
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