"NPI" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: NPIs [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} NPI (plural NPIs)
  1. (linguistics) Initialism of negative polarity item: a word that requires the sentence to be negated. Tags: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism Alternative form of: negative polarity item (extra: a word that requires the sentence to be negated) Categories (topical): Linguistics
    Sense id: en-NPI-en-noun-W-qeFNZp Categories (other): English links with manual fragments, English links with redundant wikilinks, English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 69 31 Topics: human-sciences, linguistics, sciences
  2. (medicine) Initialism of non-pharmaceutical intervention. Tags: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism Alternative form of: non-pharmaceutical intervention Categories (topical): Medicine
    Sense id: en-NPI-en-noun-hfznzMax Topics: medicine, sciences

Inflected forms

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