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NPC

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

An agency that serves as the focal point for all Intelligence Community activities related to nonproliferation of weapons of mass destruction and their missile delivery systems

Synonyms:

Nonproliferation Center; NPC

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("NPC" is a kind of...):

agency; authority; bureau; federal agency; government agency; office (an administrative unit of government)

Holonyms ("NPC" is a part of...):

Central Intelligence Agency; CIA (an independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest; headed by the Director of Central Intelligence under the supervision of the President and National Security Council)

Credits

 Context examples: 

Signal-mediated nuclear import and export proceed through the nuclear pore complex (NPC).

(Nuclear Pore Complex, NCI Thesaurus)

Encoded by human NUP98 Gene (GLFG Nucleoporin Family), 937-amino acid Nucleoporin 98 kD (NUP98) is up regulated by interferon and generated through proteolytic cleavage of a 186 kD precursor yielding NUP98 and NUP96, both associated with the nuclear pore complex (NPC).

(Nucleoporin 98kD, NCI Thesaurus)