NPL
Britishabbreviation
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In 1955, the NPL invented the first atomic clock of the sort that is used today, based on the frequency of radiation from an atom of the element caesium.
From BBC • Mar. 2, 2025
But the spectroscopic analysis at NPL also showed evidence of an independent blue-light sensing.
From Science Daily • Sep. 21, 2023
But he sees Nubank keeping its NPL ratios below the market average due to its advanced use of data for underwriting policies.
From Reuters • Feb. 2, 2022
When the Depression came, NPL Gov. William "Wild Bill" Langer not only issued, with little resistance, a moratorium on all property foreclosures, but literally seceded from the Union.
From Salon • Oct. 30, 2021
“We’ll have to wait longer about the NPL listing,” said George Martin, one of the assistant U.S. attorneys who prosecuted Gilbert and Roberson.
From Washington Post • Apr. 24, 2019
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