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 Multipremier (also known as MP) is a Mexican love and drama movie cable television network owned by MVS Comunicaciones. At midnight Monday to Saturday the channel transmits softcore porn movies. The channel is available on MASTV wireless cable te ...

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

Mario Party is a party video game series featuring characters from the ''Mario (franchise), Mario'' franchise in which up to four local players or computer-controlled characters (called "CPU (gaming), CPUs") compete in a board game interspersed with mi ...

'', a series of vídeo games by Nintendo

Businesses and organizations

Government

Member of parliament A member of parliament (MP) is the representative in parliament of the people who live in their electoral district. In many countries with bicameral parliaments, this term refers only to members of the lower house since upper house members of ...

Ministry of Planning, Budget, and Management The Ministry of Planning, Budget, and Management ( pt, Ministério do Planejamento, Orçamento, e Gestão, links=no, abbreviated MP) is a cabinet-level federal ministry in Brazil. The Ministry was dissolved on 1 January 2019 but recreated on 1 Ja ...

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

Public Ministry (Portugal) The Public Prosecution Service ( pt, Ministério Público; {{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 organi ...

( pt, Ministério Público, links=no), the body of the Judiciary of Portugal *

Public Prosecutor's Office (Brazil) The Public Prosecutor's Office ( pt, Ministério Público, lit. "Public Ministry", also usually referred as "MP") is the Brazilian body of independent public prosecutors at both the federal (') and state level (''Ministério Público Estadual'' ...

( pt, Ministério Público, links=no), 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. In wartime operations, the military police may support the main fighting force with force protection, convoy security, screening, rear recon ...

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

Mumbai Police The Mumbai Police (Marathi: मुंबई पोलीस, IAST: ''Mumbaī Pulīs'', formerly ''Bombay Police'') is the police department of the city of Mumbai, Maharashtra. It is a part of Maharashtra Police and has the primary responsibiliti ...

, 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 funding ...

, law enforcement agencies that are under the control of local government **

Metropolitan police The Metropolitan Police Service (MPS), formerly and still commonly known as the Metropolitan Police (and informally as the Met Police, the Met, Scotland Yard, or the Yard), is the territorial police force responsible for law enforcement and ...

, municipal police of major metropolitan areas

Politics

Green Party (Sweden) The Green Party ( sv, Miljöpartiet de gröna, lit=Environmental Party the Greens, commonly referred to in Swedish as Miljöpartiet or MP) is a political party in Sweden based on green politics. . Sparked by the anti-nuclear power movement follow ...

( sv, Miljöpartiet, links=no), a political party in Sweden based upon green politics *

Progressive Movement (Cameroon) The Progressive Movement (french: Mouvement Progressiste, MP) 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 elect ...

(french: Mouvement Progressiste, links=no), a minor opposition political party in Cameroon *

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 Parliament of the United Kingdom. Electoral system All 650 members of the UK House of Commons are elected using the first-past- ...

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

Other businesses and organizations

Martinair Martinair (legally ''Martinair Holland N.V.'') is a Dutch cargo airline headquartered and based at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol and a subsidiary of Air France–KLM. The airline was founded in 1958 by Martin Schröder. Since 2011, Martinair has op ...

(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 colle ...

'', 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 ...

(reporting mark MP), one of the first railroads in the United States west of the Mississippi River * Mueller and Pfleger, a subsidiary of aquarium suppliers

Eheim Eheim GmbH & Co. KG is a German company founded by Gunther Eheim, operating in the domain of aquariums and aquarium accessories, garden ponds and related accessories. It manufactures different kinds of water filter A water filter removes imp ...

Law

* , a Latin expression meaning ''by one's own hand'' *

Provisory measure A provisional measure ( pt, medida provisória) is a legal act in Brazil through which the President of Brazil can, "in important and urgent cases", enact law Law is a set of rules that are created and are enforceable by social or govern ...

, in Brazilian law ( pt, medida provisória, links=no) *

Missing person A missing person is a person who has disappeared and whose status as alive or 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 accident, crime, de ...

Linguistics

Mp (digraph) This is a list of digraphs used in various Latin alphabets. Capitalisation involves only the first letter (''ch'' becomes ''Ch'') unless otherwise stated (''ij'' becomes ''IJ''). Letters with diacritics are arranged in alphabetic order accordin ...

, 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 Southeast ...

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 (, ; meaning 'central province') is a state in central India. Its capital is Bhopal, and the largest city is Indore, with Jabalpur, Ujjain, Gwalior, Sagar, and Rewa being the other major cities. Madhya Pradesh is the seco ...

, a state in India *

Mandatory Palestine Mandatory Palestine ( ar, فلسطين الانتدابية '; he, פָּלֶשְׂתִּינָה (א״י) ', where "E.Y." indicates ''’Eretz Yiśrā’ēl'', the Land of Israel) was a geopolitical entity established between 1920 and 1948 ...

, a former British protectorate *

Northern Mariana Islands The Northern Mariana Islands, officially the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI; ch, Sankattan Siha Na Islas Mariånas; cal, Commonwealth Téél Falúw kka Efáng llól Marianas), is an unincorporated territory and commonw ...

(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 .mp is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Northern Mariana Islands. There are a few sites related to the Northern Mariana Islands in this domain (such as governmental sites under .gov.mp and a few sites in .org.mp and .co.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 Endpoint Configuration Manager, formerly System Center Configuration Manager and Systems Management Server (SMS) is a systems management software product developed by Microsoft for managing large groups of computers providing remote cont ...

* Massive parallelism (disambiguation) *

Media player (disambiguation) A media player could 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 ...

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 of ...

, 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 image, or the smallest point in an all points addressable display device. In most digital display devices, pixels are the smal ...

, a unit of a million pixels * Merge Point, in the

MPLS local protection MPLS Fast Reroute (also called MPLS local restoration or MPLS local protection) is a local restoration network resiliency mechanism. It is actually a feature of resource reservation protocol (RSVP) traffic engineering (RSVP-TE). In MPLS local pr ...

approach to network resiliency *

Microprocessor A microprocessor is a computer processor where the data processing logic and control is included on a single integrated circuit, or a small number of integrated circuits. The microprocessor contains the arithmetic, logic, and control circu ...

, 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 In 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 software ...

, describing software that is implemented on multiple computer platforms *

Multiprocessing Multiprocessing 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. There ar ...

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

Mathematics

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

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

Physics

Megapond The kilogram-force (kgf or kgF), or kilopond (kp, from la, pondus, lit=weight), is a non-standard gravitational metric unit of force. It does not comply with the International System of Units (SI) and is deprecated for most uses. The kilogram-f ...

(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 from solid to liquid. At the melting point the solid and liquid phase exist in equilibrium. The melting point of a substance depends ...

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

proton A proton is a stable subatomic particle, symbol , H+, or 1H+ with a positive electric charge of +1 ''e'' elementary charge. Its mass is slightly less than that of a neutron and 1,836 times the mass of an electron (the proton–electron mass ...

Other uses in science and technology

Machine pistol A machine pistol is an autoloading pistol capable of fully automatic fire. The term can also be used to describe a stockless handgun-style submachine gun. The term is a calque of ''Maschinenpistole'', the German word for submachine guns. Machine ...

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

Macrophage Macrophages (abbreviated as M φ, MΦ or MP) ( el, large eaters, from Greek ''μακρός'' (') = large, ''φαγεῖν'' (') = to eat) are a type of white blood cell of the immune system that engulfs and digests pathogens, such as cancer cel ...

, 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 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 thr ...

, in geology, a type of zone in the stratigraphic record *

Meralgia paraesthetica Meralgia paresthetica or meralgia paraesthetica is numbness or pain in the outer thigh not caused by injury to the thigh, but by injury to a nerve that extends from the spinal column to the thigh. This chronic neurological disorder involve ...

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

Methylphenidate Methylphenidate, sold under the brand names Ritalin and Concerta among others, is the most widely prescribed central nervous system (CNS) stimulant medication used to treat attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and, to a lesser extent, ...

, a stimulant medication *

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

(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 m ...

, 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 In order for a virus to infect a plant, it must be able to move between cells so it can spread throughout the plant. Plant cell walls make this moving/spreading quite difficult and therefore, for this to occur, movement proteins must be present. A ...

, 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 club was founded in 1929 and also included volleyball, bandy and ice hockey sections. History In 1998, MP merged with Mi ...

(MP), a Finnish football club *

MP Motorsport MP Motorsport (previously Marcel Peters Motorsport) is a Dutch auto racing team currently competing in the FIA Formula 2 Championship. The team has also participated in Auto GP, Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0 and Formula Renault 2.0 Northern Europea ...

, 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 or 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 the Glossary of card game terms. ...

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

Mile post A milestone is a numbered marker placed on a route such as a road, railway line, canal or boundary. They can indicate the distance to towns, cities, and other places or landmarks; or they can give their position on the route relative to so ...

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 distance; both are based on the older English unit of length equal to 5,280 Engli ...

( la, mille passuum, links=no)