The guillotine is a machine used to execute people by decapitation (chopping off their heads). A guillotine is made of a heavy blade attached to a rack, which moves up and down on a vertical frame. When the rack is let go, it will fall down and the blade will cut the convict's head off.
A national producer number, or NPN, is a tool to protect individual insurance agents and agencies from identity theft and fraudulent representations made to the National Insurance Producer Registry, or NIPR.
What is an NPI? A National Provider Identifier, or NPI, is a unique, ten-digit identifier that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issues to all health care providers as mandated by the federal government in the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA).