title: NTP
text: # NTP
  
  NTP is a three-letter initialism which may stand for:
  
  ## Politics
  
  * Nation Transformation Party, a political party in Papua New Guinea
  * National Toxicology Program, part of the United States Department of Health and Human Services
  * National Transport Plan, a ten-year plan of Norway
  * Ninh Thuận Province, a province in Vietnam
  * Northern Territory Police, the police force in the Northern Territory of Australia
  
  ## Science and technology
  
  ### Aerospace
  
  * Nuclear thermal propulsion, a rocket technology
  
  ### Chemistry
  
  * Normal temperature and pressure, in chemistry
  * Nucleoside triphosphate, an organic compound and building block of nucleic acids
  
  ### Computing
  
  * Network Time Protocol, a means of synchronizing clocks over a computer network
  
  ## Other uses
  
  * New Teacher Project, a US non-profit organization
  * Norsk Teknisk Porselen, Norwegian ceramics manufacturer
  * NTP, Inc., an American company founded by inventor Thomas J. Campana Jr. that licensed its patents to BlackBerry for US$612.5 million
  