MP, Mp, mp, or .mp may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

* ''M.P.'' (opera), an 1811 comic opera by Thomas Moore and Charles Edward Horn *

Magic point Magic or mana is an attribute assigned to characters within a role-playing or video game that indicates their power to use special magical abilities or "spells". Magic is usually measured in magic points or mana points, shortened as MP. Different ...

, or mana point, in role-playing games * (''mp''), a musical dynamic meaning "medium-quiet" or "moderately-quiet" *

Multiplayer A multiplayer video game is a video game in which more than one person can play in the same game environment at the same time, either locally on the same computing system (couch co-op), on different computing systems via a local area network, or ...

, in gaming * Multipremier, a Mexican television network * , whose station identification is "mp" * ''

Mario Party is a series of party video games created by Hudson Soft and owned by Nintendo. It features List of Mario franchise characters, characters from the Mario (franchise), ''Mario'' franchise in which up to four local players or Artificial inte ...

'', a series of party vídeo games produced by Nintendo * MP signature on works by Australian artist

Margaret Preston Margaret Rose Preston (29 April 1875 – 28 May 1963) was an Australian painter, printmaker and writer on art who is regarded as one of Australia's leading modernists of the early 20th century. In her quest to foster an Australian "national ...

Mike Portnoy Michael Stephen Portnoy (born April 20, 1967) is an American musician who is primarily known as the drummer, backing vocalist, and co-founder of the progressive metal band Dream Theater. In September 2010, Portnoy announced his departure fro ...

, drummer of the progressive metal band Dream Theater

Businesses and organizations

Government

* Member of Parliament *

Ministry of Planning, Budget, and Management The Ministry of Planning, Budget, and Management (, abbreviated MP) is a cabinet-level federal ministry in Brazil. The Ministry was dissolved on 1 January 2019 but recreated on 1 January 2023 with Simone Tebet serving in the position. See al ...

(Brazil), a cabinet-level federal ministry in Brazil *

Public Ministry (Portugal) The Public Prosecution Service (; {{lit, Public Ministry; MP) is the body of the judiciary of Portugal responsible for the public prosecution and the representation of the state before the courts. It is an hierarchic organized body, composed of mag ...

(), the body of the Judiciary of Portugal *

Public Prosecutor's Office (Brazil) The Public Prosecutor's Office (, lit. "Public Ministry", often abbreviated "MP") is the Brazilian body of independent public prosecutors at both the federal (') and state level (''Ministério Público Estadual''). It operates independently fr ...

(), the Brazilian body of independent public prosecutors

Police

Military police Military police (MP) are law enforcement agencies connected with, or part of, the military of a state. Not to be confused with civilian police, who are legally part of the civilian populace. In wartime operations, the military police may supp ...

, law enforcement agencies connected with, or part of, the military of a state *

Mumbai Police The Greater Mumbai Police (Marathi language, Marathi: बृहन्मुंबई पोलीस, IAST: ''Brihanmumbaī Pulīs'', formerly ''Bombay City Police'') is the Police, police department of the city of Mumbai, Maharashtra. It is a cit ...

, the police force of the city of Mumbai, Maharashtra *

Municipal police Municipal police, city police, or local police are law enforcement agencies that are under the control of local government. This includes the municipal government, where it is the smallest administrative subdivision. They receive fundi ...

, law enforcement agencies that are under the control of local government ** Metropolitan police, municipal police of major metropolitan areas

Politics

Member of Parliament (Bangladesh) A Member of Parliament Member of parliament, (MP) in Bangladesh is a member of the Unicameralism, unicameral legislature of Bangladesh, the Jatiya Sangsad or House of the Nation. A majority of members are elected directly in Elections in Banglad ...

, individual elected to serve in the Jatiya Sangsad of Bangladesh *

Member of Parliament (India) Member of Parliament (MP) in India refers to persons who serve in the Parliament of India. These include: * Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha: Representative of the Indian nationality law, Indian citizens to the Lok Sabha, the lower house of the Par ...

, individual elected to serve in the Lok Sabha or Rajya Sabha of the Parliament of India *

Member of Parliament (United Kingdom) In the United Kingdom, a Member of Parliament (MP) is an individual elected to serve in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, House of Commons, the lower house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Electoral system All 650 members of ...

, individual elected to serve in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom *

Member of Parliament (Canada) A member of Parliament (post-nominal letters: MP; , ) is an elected politician in the House of Commons of Canada, the lower house of the Parliament of Canada. Terminology The term's primary use is in reference to the members of the House of ...

, individual elected to serve in the House of Commons of the Parliament of Canada * Member of Parliament (Australia), individual elected to serve in the House of Commons of Australia * Member of Parliament (New Zealand), individual elected to serve in the House of Commons of New Zealand * Member of Parliament (South Africa), individual elected to serve in the House of Commons of the Parliament of South Africa *

Progressive Movement (Cameroon) The Progressive Movement () is a minor opposition political party in Cameroon. It was formed on 23 August 1991 and is led by Jean-Jacques Ekindi. Ekindi was the MP candidate in the October 1992 presidential election, officially receiving 0.79% o ...

(), a minor opposition political party in Cameroon *

Green Party (Sweden) The Green Party (, , MP), commonly referred to as in Swedish, is a list of political parties in Sweden, political party in Sweden based on green politics. Sparked by the anti-nuclear power movement following the 1980 Swedish nuclear power refe ...

(), a political party in Sweden based upon green politics *

Member of Parliament (Sri Lanka) In Sri Lanka a Member of Parliament (MP), is the title given to any one of the 225 individuals elected or appointed to serve in the Parliament of Sri Lanka. Electoral system Of the 225 members, 196 are elected from 22 electoral districts, which ...

, individual elected to serve in the Parliament of Sri Lanka

Other businesses and organizations

Martinair Martinair (legally ''Martinair Holland N.V.'') is a Dutch cargo and former passenger airline headquartered and based at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol. The airline was founded in 1958 by Martin Schröder (aviator), Martin Schröder, and is currently ...

(IATA airline designator MP), Dutch cargo airline * , a Finnish football (soccer) club *''

Ming Pao ''Ming Pao'' () is a Chinese-language newspaper published by Media Chinese International in Hong Kong. In the 1990s, ''Ming Pao'' established four overseas branches in North America; each provides independent reporting on local news and coll ...

'', a Hong Kong newspaper *

Missouri Pacific Railroad The Missouri Pacific Railroad , commonly abbreviated as MoPac, was one of the first railroads in the United States west of the Mississippi River. MoPac was a Class I railroad growing from dozens of predecessors and mergers. In 1967, the railroad o ...

(reporting mark MP), one of the first railroads in the United States west of the Mississippi River *

MyProtein Myprotein is a British bodybuilding supplement brand which has developed into a family of brands, including Myvitamins, Myvegan, MyPRO and MP Activewear. It was founded in 2004 by Oliver Cookson and bought by The Hut Group in 2011. History M ...

, British online sports nutrition retailer

Law

* , a Latin expression meaning ''by one's own hand'' * Provisory measure, in Brazilian law () *

Missing person A missing person is a person who has disappeared and whose status as Life, alive or Death, dead cannot be confirmed as their location and condition are unknown. A person may go missing through a voluntary disappearance, or else due to an accide ...

Linguistics

* Mp (digraph), in many African languages *

Malayo-Polynesian languages The Malayo-Polynesian languages are a subgroup of the Austronesian languages, with approximately 385.5 million speakers. The Malayo-Polynesian languages are spoken by the Austronesian peoples outside of Taiwan, in the island nations of Southeas ...

of Southeast Asia *

Minimalist program In linguistics, the minimalist program is a major line of inquiry that has been developing inside generative grammar since the early 1990s, starting with a 1993 paper by Noam Chomsky. Following Imre Lakatos's distinction, Chomsky presents minima ...

, a syntactic theory in linguistics

Places

Madhya Pradesh Madhya Pradesh (; ; ) is a state in central India. Its capital is Bhopal and the largest city is Indore, Indore. Other major cities includes Gwalior, Jabalpur, and Sagar, Madhya Pradesh, Sagar. Madhya Pradesh is the List of states and union te ...

, a state in India * Manipur Pradesh, a term used to refer to

Manipur Manipur () is a state in northeastern India with Imphal as its capital. It borders the Indian states of Assam to the west, Mizoram to the south, and Nagaland to the north and shares the international border with Myanmar, specifically t ...

by various political parties *

Mandatory Palestine Mandatory Palestine was a British Empire, British geopolitical entity that existed between 1920 and 1948 in the Palestine (region), region of Palestine, and after 1922, under the terms of the League of Nations's Mandate for Palestine. After ...

, a former British protectorate *

Northern Mariana Islands The Northern Mariana Islands, officially the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI), is an Territories of the United States, unincorporated territory and Commonwealth (U.S. insular area), commonwealth of the United States consistin ...

(ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code and U.S. postal abbreviation MP), an insular area and commonwealth of the United States

Science and technology

Computing

* .mp, Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Northern Mariana Islands * Management Point, in the Advanced Client of Microsoft's

System Center Configuration Manager Microsoft Configuration Manager (ConfigMgr) is a systems management software product developed by Microsoft for managing large groups of computers providing remote control, patch management, software distribution, operating system deployment, an ...

Massive parallelism (disambiguation) Massively parallel in computing is the use of a large number of processors to perform a set of computations in parallel (simultaneously). Massively parallel may also refer to: *Massive parallel sequencing Massive parallel sequencing or massively p ...

Media player (disambiguation) Media player may refer to: * Digital media player, home appliances that play digital media *Media player software, software that plays digital media *Portable media player, portable hardware that plays digital media *Windows Media Player Wind ...

Media processor A media processor, mostly used as an image/ video processor, is a microprocessor-based system-on-a-chip which is designed to deal with digital streaming data in real-time (e.g. display refresh) rates. These devices can also be considered a class ...

, a type of digital signal processor designed to deal with streaming data in real-time *

Megapixel In digital imaging, a pixel (abbreviated px), pel, or picture element is the smallest addressable element in a Raster graphics, raster image, or the smallest addressable element in a dot matrix display device. In most digital display devices, p ...

, a unit of a million pixels * Merge Point, in the MPLS local protection approach to network resiliency *

Microprocessor A microprocessor is a computer processor (computing), processor for which the data processing logic and control is included on a single integrated circuit (IC), or a small number of ICs. The microprocessor contains the arithmetic, logic, a ...

, a computer processor with a minimal number of integrated circuits *

Microsoft Project Microsoft Project is a project management software product, developed and sold by Microsoft. It is designed to assist a project manager in developing a schedule, assigning resources to tasks, tracking progress, managing the budget, and analyz ...

, project-management software * Multilink Protocol (or Multilink PPP), a method for spreading traffic across multiple point-to-point protocol connections *

Multi-platform Within computing, cross-platform software (also called multi-platform software, platform-agnostic software, or platform-independent software) is computer software that is designed to work in several computing platforms. Some cross-platform softw ...

, describing software that is implemented on multiple computer platforms *

Multiprocessing Multiprocessing (MP) is the use of two or more central processing units (CPUs) within a single computer system. The term also refers to the ability of a system to support more than one processor or the ability to allocate tasks between them. The ...

, the use of two or more central processing units within a single computer system

Mathematics

Maximum parsimony (phylogenetics) In phylogenetics and computational phylogenetics, maximum parsimony is an optimality criterion under which the phylogenetic tree that minimizes the total number of character-state changes (or minimizes the cost of differentially weighted charact ...

, in statistical analysis * , in propositional logic, a Latin expression meaning "mode that affirms"

Physics

* Megapond (Mp), a non-SI Metric unit of force, also known as a tonne-force *

Melting point The melting point (or, rarely, liquefaction point) of a substance is the temperature at which it changes state of matter, state from solid to liquid. At the melting point the solid and liquid phase (matter), phase exist in Thermodynamic equilib ...

, the temperature at which a solid becomes a liquid * m_p, the mass of a

proton A proton is a stable subatomic particle, symbol , Hydron (chemistry), H+, or 1H+ with a positive electric charge of +1 ''e'' (elementary charge). Its mass is slightly less than the mass of a neutron and approximately times the mass of an e ...

Other uses in science and technology

Machine pistol A machine pistol is a handgun that is capable of automatic firearm, fully automatic fire, including shoulder stock, stockless handgun-style submachine guns. The Austrians introduced the world's first machine pistol, the Steyr M1912 pistol#Masch ...

, typically a handgun-style machine gun, capable of fully automatic or burst fire *

Macrophage Macrophages (; abbreviated MPhi, φ, MΦ or MP) are a type of white blood cell of the innate immune system that engulf and digest pathogens, such as cancer cells, microbes, cellular debris and foreign substances, which do not have proteins that ...

, a type of white blood cell that engulfs and digests cellular debris, foreign substances, microbes and cancer cells *

Mammal Paleogene zone The Mammal Paleogene zones or MP zones are a system of biostratigraphic zones in the stratigraphic record used to correlate mammal-bearing fossil localities of the Paleogene period of Europe. It consists of thirty consecutive zones (numbered MP 1 ...

, a system of biostratigraphic zones in the stratigraphic record used to correlate mammal-bearing fossil localities of the Paleogene period of Europe *

Meralgia paraesthetica Meralgia paresthetica or meralgia paraesthetica is pain or abnormal sensations in the outer thigh not caused by injury to the thigh, but by injury to a nerve which provides sensation to the lateral thigh. Meralgia paresthetica is a specific in ...

(MP), a sensation of numbness in the outer thigh *

Methylphenidate Methylphenidate, sold under the brand names Ritalin ( ) and Concerta ( ) among others, is a central nervous system (CNS) stimulant used in the treatment of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and narcolepsy. It may be taken Oral adm ...

, a stimulant medication *

Microprinting Microprinting is the production of recognizable patterns or characters in a printed medium at a scale that typically requires magnification to read with the naked eye. To the unaided eye, the text may appear as a solid line. Attempts to reproduc ...

(MP), a method of printing very finely as an anti-counterfeiting mechanism *

Møller–Plesset perturbation theory Møller–Plesset perturbation theory (MP) is one of several quantum chemistry post-Hartree–Fock ab initio methods in the field of computational chemistry. It improves on the Hartree–Fock method by adding electron correlation effects by me ...

, a post-Hartree–Fock method used in computational chemistry *

Monoprinting Monoprinting is a type of printmaking where the intent is to make unique prints, that may explore an image serially. Other methods of printmaking create editioned multiples, the monoprint is editioned as 1 of 1. There are many techniques of mono-pr ...

(M/P), a type of printmaking producing a single print * Movement protein, proteins encoded by plant viruses to facilitate cell-to-cell transmission

Sport

Mikkelin Palloilijat Mikkelin Palloilijat (or MP) is a Finnish professional football club, based in Mikkeli, that competes in the Ykkönen, the third tier in Finnish football league system. The club was founded in 1929 and also included volleyball, bandy and ice h ...

(MP), a Finnish football club *

MP Motorsport MP Motorsport is a Dutch auto racing team currently competing in the FIA Formula 2 Championship, FIA Formula 3 Championship, Eurocup-3, Spanish Formula 4 Championship and the newly established F1 Academy in 2023. The team has also participated in ...

, a Dutch auto racing team

Other uses

* , a historical Polish money unit * Masterpoints, awarded for successful performance at contract bridge; see

Glossary of contract bridge terms These terms are used in contract bridge, using Duplicate bridge, duplicate or Rubber bridge, rubber scoring. Some of them are also used in whist, bid whist, the obsolete game auction bridge, and other trick-taking games. This glossary supplements t ...

* Matchpoints, a method of scoring in contract bridge; see

* Mile post *

Roman mile The mile, sometimes the international mile or statute mile to distinguish it from other miles, is a British imperial unit and United States customary unit of length; both are based on the older English unit of length equal to 5,280 English ...

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