Dictionary

HAP en · NOUN

Meanings

1. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, uncountable) Abbreviation of hospital-acquired pneumonia.
   alt of hospital-acquired pneumonia
2. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable) Initialism of hazardous air pollutant.
   alt of hazardous air pollutant
   • The purpose of this program is to reduce 75% of the cancer incidence resulting from area sources (defined as stationary sources which emit less than 10 tons of a single HAP or 25 tons of a combination of HAPs) of hazardous air pollutants in urban areas. 1993, Frank T. Princiotta, Douglas G. McKinney, “Air Toxics: The Research Challenge of the 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments”, in Winston Chow, Katherine K. Connor, editors, Managing Hazardous Air Pollutants: State of the Art, CRC Press, published 2019, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 59:

Forms

Hypernyms

pneumonia (hospital-acquired pneumonia) · HCAP (hospital-acquired pneumonia)

Hyponyms

VAP (hospital-acquired pneumonia) · VIP (hospital-acquired pneumonia)

Synonyms

NP (hospital-acquired pneumonia)

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