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Sp or SP may refer to:
Arts and entertainment
[edit]- /sp/, the sports board on the Internet forum 4chan
- SP (TV series), a Japanese TV series
- Game Boy Advance SP, an upgraded version of the Game Boy Advance handheld video game system, released in 2003
- Standard Play, a magnetic tape speed used for VHS
- Story Pirates, a podcast
- Subdominant parallel, a type of musical chord
- SP, producer stage name of Mumzy Stranger (born 1984), British rapper
- SP, stage name of Krisztián Éder (born 1988), Hungarian rapper
- South Park, an animated American television series
- The Smashing Pumpkins, an American alternative rock band
Businesses and organizations
[edit]- SP (magazine), illustrated news magazine in Spain between 1957 and 1972
- SP Technical Research Institute of Sweden
- ScottishPower, Scottish energy company
- Service provider, company that provides organizations with consulting, legal, real estate, education, communications, storage, processing, and many other services
- Silicon Power, Taiwan-based manufacturer of flash memory products and other industrial grade computer products
- Singapore Polytechnic, polytechnic in Dover, Singapore
- Státní podnik ("state business"), former Czechoslovakian entity type
- Story point, term used in agile software development methodologies
- Suara Pembaruan, former Indonesian newspaper
Government and military
[edit]- Superintendent of police (India), a senior rank in the Indian police and law enforcement agencies
- A US Navy hull registration number prefix: Section patrol (SP)
- Security Police (Japan), for VIP protection
- Shore patrol, UK and US naval security personnel
Political parties
[edit]- Centre Party (Norway) (Senterpartiet)
- Socialist Party or Social Democratic Party in many places, including:
- Socialist Party of Albania
- Samajwadi Party, in India
- Socialist Party (Netherlands) (Socialistische Partij)
- Socialistische Partij Anders (Socialistische Partij), a historical name for the sp.a in Belgium
- Socialist Party (Netherlands, interbellum) (Socialistische Partij) 1918–1929
- Social Democratic Party of Switzerland
Religious organizations
[edit]- Piarists or Ordo Clericorum Regularium pauperum Matris Dei Scholarum Piarum, a Catholic order
- Südtiroler Pfadfinderschaft, a Catholic scouting association in Italy
Places
[edit]- SP postcode area, UK, the Salisbury postcode area
- São Paulo (state), a state in Brazil
- São Paulo, capital of the state and the most populous city of Brazil
Science and technology
[edit]- sp orbitals, in physics, an instance of atomic orbital hybridisation
- Self-propelled (disambiguation)
- Soft-point bullet, a type of ammunition
- Spontaneous potential differences in the Earth
- Stated Preference, a choice modelling method
- Surface plasmon, a type of electron oscillation along metallic surfaces
- A Unified Soil Classification System symbol for sand, poorly graded
Biology and medicine
[edit]- Abbreviation for species
- Simulated patient, for medical training
- Substance P, a neuropeptide
- Status post, notes about sequelae with reference to their cause
Computing and telecommunications
[edit]- IBM Scalable POWERparallel (SP), a series of supercomputers
- Service pack, software update
- Stack pointer
- Stored procedure
- Synthetic programming
Mathematics
[edit]- Trace (linear algebra), or "Spur" (German), of a square matrix
- Sp(n) and Sp(2n,F), a symplectic group in mathematics
Transportation
[edit]- SATA Air Acores (IATA code SP)
- Saidapet railway station (station code SP)
- Southern Pacific Railroad (reporting mark SP)
Other uses
[edit]- 25 metre pistol , a shooting sport formerly known as sport pistol
- Aircraft registration prefix for Poland
- s.p., sine prole (Latin: "without issue" (i.e., having no children), full form d.s.p. decessit sine prole, "died without issue")
- Ś.P. Świętej pamięci meaning holy memory is written on many Polish gravestones
- Provincial road (Italy) (Strada Provinciale), a category of provincial roads in Italy
- September
- Seri Pahlawan Gagah Perkasa (S.P.), a Malaysian military decoration
- Spanish language
- Special (disambiguation)
- Spelling, especially to note a spelling error
- Spurius, the Roman praenomen; see Spurius (disambiguation)
- Starting pitcher, a team's first pitcher in a game of baseball or softball
- Suppressive person, in Scientology
- Starting price, odds applicable on a particular entry in a horse race (or other race) as the race is about to start
- Superintendent (police), a rank in British police services and in most English-speaking Commonwealth nations
- SP, an abbreviation for the Syrian pound