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KP may refer to:
Businesses and organizations
edit- Komsomolskaya Pravda, a daily Russian newspaper
- KP (newspaper), a Ukrainian newspaper
- KP Snacks, a United Kingdom food manufacturer
- Kaiser Permanente, a U.S. health maintenance organization
- Kerala Police, the law enforcement agency for the state of Kerala, India
- Kings Point, the US Merchant Marine Academy
- Communist Party (Serbia), the communist party of Serbia
- Kamphaengphet Pittayakom School, a public secondary school in Kamphaeng Phet Province, Thailand
People
edit- Katy Perry, American singer
- Kawan Prather, American record executive
- Kevin Pietersen, English cricketer
- Ko Wen-je, Taiwanese politician, physician and professor
- KP Sharma Oli, Nepalese politician and current Prime Minister of Nepal
- Kumaran Pathmanathan, member of the LTTE
- Kristaps Porziņģis, Latvian basketball player
Places
edit- Cambodia, WMO country code
- Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, a province in Pakistan
- North Korea (ISO 3166 country code KP)
- Kensington Palace, office and residence of some of the British royal family
- Castletown KP, a common name for Castletown-Kilpatrick, a village in County Meath, Ireland
In science, technology, and mathematics
edit- .kp, the Internet domain name for North Korea
- KP-bil, or Terrängbil m/42 KP, a Swedish armoured vehicle
- Kadomtsev–Petviashvili equation, describing waves
- Keratosis pilaris, a human genetic disorder, also known as "chicken skin"
- keratic precipitate, an inflammatory cellular deposit on the cornea of the eye
- Kilogram-force ("kilopond"), a unit measure of force
- Kilopascal (kP), a unit of pressure
- Kilopixel (1,000 pixels), a measure of image resolution
- KP, the equilibrium constant expressed in terms of partial pressures
- Kp index, a measure of the global average geomagnetic potential
- Kripke–Platek set theory, a mathematical axiom system
- Pentax KP, a 2017 digital SLR camera
- Kernel panic, a computer stopping in response to an unrecoverable error
- k·p perturbation theory, for calculating properties of crystalline solids
Other uses
edit- KP, a recording released by American performer Kyle Patrick
- Kp (digraph), in written language
- k͡p, the voiceless labial–velar plosive
- KP duty "kitchen police" or "kitchen patrol", U.S. military slang for mess-hall duties
- Knight of the Order of St. Patrick (postnomial KP)
- Kim Possible, American animated television series