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NPC
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An agency that serves as the focal point for all Intelligence Community activities related to nonproliferation of weapons of mass destruction and their missile delivery systems
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("NPC" is a kind of...):
agency; authority; bureau; federal agency; government agency; office (an administrative unit of government)
Holonyms ("NPC" is a part of...):
Central Intelligence Agency; CIA (an independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest; headed by the Director of Central Intelligence under the supervision of the President and National Security Council)
Context examples:
Signal-mediated nuclear import and export proceed through the nuclear pore complex (NPC).
(Nuclear Pore Complex, NCI Thesaurus)
Encoded by human NUP98 Gene (GLFG Nucleoporin Family), 937-amino acid Nucleoporin 98 kD (NUP98) is up regulated by interferon and generated through proteolytic cleavage of a 186 kD precursor yielding NUP98 and NUP96, both associated with the nuclear pore complex (NPC).
(Nucleoporin 98kD, NCI Thesaurus)
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