"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. Tags: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism Alternative form of: negative polarity item
    Sense id: en-NPI-en-noun-Y4QPunRh Categories (other): English links with manual fragments, English links with redundant wikilinks, Linguistics, English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 2 entries, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 77 23 Disambiguation of Pages with 2 entries: 77 23 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 78 22 Topics: human-sciences, linguistics, sciences
  2. (medicine) Initialism of nonpharmaceutical intervention. Tags: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism Alternative form of: nonpharmaceutical intervention
    Sense id: en-NPI-en-noun-E8dxtKIZ Categories (other): Medicine Topics: medicine, sciences

Inflected forms

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