NPL

See also: npl

Translingual

Etymology

Abbreviation of English Nepal, from Nepali नेपाल (nepāl).

Symbol

NPL

1. (international standards) ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 country code for Nepal.

   Synonym: NP (alpha-2)

English

Proper noun

NPL

1. Initialism of National Physical Laboratory.
   • 2018 November 13, Matthew Robinson and Lianne Kolirin, “The world has just redefined the kilogram”, in CNN‎:

     The Planck constant is, in turn, measured using an instrument known as the Kibble balance, first developed at NPL by the late physicist Bryan Kibble.

Noun

NPL (plural NPLs)

1. Initialism of non-performing loan.
   • 2025 July 3, Elena Fabrichnaya, “Russian central bank sees no risk of looming banking crisis”, in Reuters‎:

     VTB’s First Deputy CEO, Dmitry Pyanov, said the share of NPLs could rise to between 6% and 7% within the next few months, but stressed that this was still far from peak levels. VTB estimated the share of restructured corporate loans at 3%.

Anagrams

• L/NP, LNP, LPN, NLP, PNL