NPL

NPL can stand for:

• Nepal – ISO 3166-1 (alpha-3) code for Nepal
• National Priorities List – a list of hazardous waste sites in the USA
• Non-Patent Literature – used before the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO)
• Non Performing Loan (Financial Theory)

In computing:

• Netscape Public License
• NPL programming language – functional programming language by Rod Burstall and John Darlington in 1977
• New Programming language – the original name of the PL/I by IBM in 1964
• Nonprocedural language by T.D. Truitt et al. in 1980
• NORD Programming Language – an internal systems language used at Norsk Data

In football:

• Namibia Premier League – the top tier of Namibian football
• Nigerian Premier League – the top tier of Nigerian football
• Northern Premier League – at the seventh and eighth tier of English football
• Northern Premier League (Tasmania) – at the second tier of Australian football
• Norwegian Premier League – the top tier of Norwegian footbal
• National Premier League – the top tier of Jamaican football

In organisations:

• National Puzzlers' League – the oldest puzzlers' organization in the world
• Non-Partisan League – an american socialist political organization

In pool (pocket billiards):

• National Pool League – an amateur pool league (defunct; evolved into the American Poolplayers Association)

In science:

• National Physical Laboratory, India
• National Physical Laboratory, UK
• Nuclear Pumped Laser
• NPL – a type of dark material, see "Super black"

In transport:

• New Plymouth Airport – on the west coast of New Zealand's North Island
• Nauru Pacific Line – a shipping lane located in Nauru