KP explained

KP may refer to:

Businesses and organizations

• 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

• 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

• 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

• .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
• K_P, 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

• 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

See also

• KP4 (disambiguation)