NPC may refer to any of the following:

  1. Short for non-player character, a NPC or vendor is a character or monster who is controlled by the computer and not a real person. A NPC helps add life to a game by creating artificial players, each with specific abilities and personalities. If you’re playing an online game and encounter another character controlled by a real person, that type of character is called a PC.

  2. NPC is also an acronym for non-printing character.

  3. NPC is another name for NP-Complete.

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