MSP often refers to: *

Managed service provider Managed services is the practice of outsourcing the responsibility for maintaining, and anticipating need for, a range of processes and functions, ostensibly for the purpose of improved operations and reduced budgetary expenditures through the ...

, a business model for providing information-technology services, outsourcing IT services *

Minneapolis–Saint Paul Minneapolis–Saint Paul is a metropolitan area in the Upper Midwest, Upper Midwestern United States centered around the confluence of the Mississippi River, Mississippi, Minnesota River, Minnesota, and St. Croix River (Wisconsin–Minnesota), ...

, the twin cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul and the surrounding area — the most populated area in Minnesota, U.S. **

Minneapolis–Saint Paul International Airport Minneapolis–Saint Paul International Airport — also less commonly known as Wold–Chamberlain Field — is a joint civil-military public international airport serving the Twin Cities in the U.S. state of Minnesota. It is located in Fort ...

, in Hennepin County, Minnesota, U.S. (IATA airport code MSP) **

Saint Paul Union Depot Saint Paul Union Depot is a historic railroad station and intermodal transit hub in the Lowertown neighborhood of Saint Paul, Minnesota. It serves light rail, intercity rail, intercity bus, and local bus services. It is the eastern terminus ...

, in Saint Paul, Minnesota, U.S. (Amtrak station code MSP) MSP may also refer to:

Businesses and organizations

* LoanSphere MSP, a mortgage servicing platform application provided by Black Knight Financial Services *

Matchstick Productions Matchstick Productions, also known as MSP Films, is a film production company based in Crested Butte, Colorado that specializes in content creation and expert cinematography. Steve Winter and Murray Wais founded the company in 1992. According t ...

, a company producing videos of extreme sports, especially skiing * Mathematical Sciences Publishers, a scientific publisher based in Berkeley, California *

Men's Studies Press Men's Studies Press (MSP) was an academic publisher registered in Harriman, Tennessee, from 1992. They produced three journals, and also published monographs and collections of essays. MSP also administered a website – MensStudies.info – of re ...

, an academic publisher registered in Harriman, Tennessee *

Moscow Finnish School The Moscow Finnish School (MFS, , MSP) is a Finnish-education private school in Lomonosovsky District, South-Western Administrative Okrug, Moscow, Russia, operated by the Finnish School Association. The school uses Finnish as its language of in ...

(Moskovan suomalainen peruskoulu) * '' Movimento Sviluppo e Pace'', an Italian NGO * Multi-Sided Platform, an organization that enables interaction between two or more groups of agents, for example through a

two-sided market In mathematics, specifically in topology of manifolds, a compact codimension-one submanifold F of a manifold M is said to be 2-sided in M when there is an embedding ::h\colon F\times 1,1to M with h(x,0)=x for each x\in F and ::h(F\times ...

Government and politics

Police forces

* Malabar Special Police, a paramilitary unit of the State Police of Kerala, India * Maine State Police, state police agency for the U.S. state of Maine *

Maryland State Police The Maryland State Police (MSP), officially the Maryland Department of State Police (MDSP), is the official state police force of the U.S. state of Maryland. The Maryland State Police is headquartered at 1201 Reisterstown Road in the Pikesville, ...

, state police agency for the U.S. state of Maryland *

Massachusetts State Police The Massachusetts State Police (MSP) is an agency of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts' Executive Office of Public Safety and Security, responsible for law enforcement and vehicle regulation across the state. As of 2024, it has 2,500 sworn troop ...

, state police agency for the U.S. state of Massachusetts *

Michigan State Police The Michigan State Police (MSP) is the State police (United States), state police agency for the U.S. state of Michigan. The MSP is a full-service law enforcement agency, with its sworn members having full police powers statewide. The department ...

, state police agency for the U.S. state of Michigan *

Minnesota State Patrol The Minnesota State Patrol is the primary state patrol agency for Minnesota and serves as the de facto state police for the state. While Minnesota State Patrol troopers have full powers of arrest throughout the state, their primary function is tra ...

, state police agency for the U.S. state of Minnesota

Political parties

Movement of Society for Peace The Movement of Society for Peace () is a Sunni Islamist party in Algeria, led by Mahfoud Nahnah until his death in 2003. Its current leader is Abderrazak Makri. It is an offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood. Roots in the Muslim Brotherhoo ...

(French: ''Mouvement de la société pour la paix'', Arabic: ''Harakat Moudjtamaa As-Silm حركة مجتمع السلم'', formerly called ''Hamas حماس''), an Algerian political party *

National Salvation Party The National Salvation Party (, MSP) was an Islamist political party in Turkey, founded on 11 October 1972 as the successor of the banned National Order Party (''Millî Nizam Partisi'', MNP). The party was formed by a core group of working cadres ...

(Milli Selamet Partisi), Islamist political party in Turkey * Social Patriot Movement (Spanish: ''Movimiento Social Patriota''), Chilean fascist organization.

Prisons

Maine State Prison The Maine State Prison was erected in Thomaston, Maine in 1824 and relocated to Warren in 2002. This maximum-security prison has a capacity of 916 adult male inmates with an average daily population of 900. History The state legislature estab ...

, a former prison in Thomaston, Maine *

Michigan State Prison Michigan State Prison or Jackson State Prison, which opened in 1839, was the first prison in Michigan. After 150 years, the prison was divided, starting in 1988, into four distinct prisons, still in Jackson: the Parnall Correctional Facility whi ...

, a former prison in Jackson, Michigan *

Mississippi State Penitentiary Mississippi State Penitentiary (MSP), also known as Parchman Farm, is a maximum-security prison farm located in the unincorporated community of Parchman in Sunflower County, Mississippi, in the Mississippi Delta region. Occupying about of la ...

, in Parchman, Mississippi *

Missouri State Penitentiary The Missouri State Penitentiary was a prison in Jefferson City, Missouri, that operated from 1836 to 2004. Part of the Missouri Department of Corrections, it served as the state of Missouri's primary maximum security institution.Lombardi, Georg ...

, a former prison in Jefferson City, Missouri * Montana State Prison, in Deer Lodge, Montana

Other uses in government and politics

Main-Spessart Main-Spessart is a ''Landkreis'' (district) in the northwest of Bavaria, Germany. It is located in Lower Franconia and derives its name from the river Main and the wooded hills of the Spessart. Geography The district is bounded by (from the nort ...

, code used on German vehicle registration plates * Medical Services Plan of British Columbia, government-administered single-payer health insurance scheme in the Canadian province of British Columbia * Medicare Savings Program *

Member of the Scottish Parliament Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP; ; ) is the title given to any one of the 129 individuals elected to serve in the Scottish Parliament. Electoral system The additional member system produces a form of proportional representation, where ...

* Ministerio de Salud Pública, Uruguayan ministry of public health

Train stations

Marina South Pier MRT station Marina South Pier MRT station is an underground Mass Rapid Transit (Singapore), Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) station in Straits View, Singapore, which is operated by SMRT Trains. Built as part of the North South MRT line, North South line (NSL) E ...

, a MRT station in Singapore (MRT station abbreviation MSP) *

Midway station (Minnesota) Midway (Saint Paul/Minneapolis) is a former Amtrak intercity train station in the Midway, Saint Paul, Midway neighborhood of Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States. It was last served by Amtrak's daily ''Empire Builder'', with service from Chicago ...

, a former train station in St. Paul, Minnesota, United States

Science and technology

Biology, ecology, and medicine

* Major sperm protein, the most abundant protein in nematode sperm *

Marine spatial planning Marine spatial planning (MSP) also known interchangeably as Maritime Spatial Planning, is an ocean management instrument which aids policy-makers and stakeholders in compartmentalizing sea basins within state jurisdiction according to social, ecolo ...

, a process of making decisions about sustainable use of marine resources * Merozoite surface protein, used in malaria research * Methylation-specific PCR, a method for detecting methylated DNA sequence * Macrophage-stimulating protein

Computing and information technology

Max/MSP Max, also known as Max/MSP/Jitter, is a visual programming language for music and multimedia developed and maintained by San Francisco-based software company Cycling '74. Over its more than thirty-year history, it has been used by composers, pe ...

, max signal processing *

Message Send Protocol The Message Send Protocol (MSP) is an application layer protocol used to send a short message between nodes on a network. The original version of the protocol was published in 1990. It was updated as Message Send Protocol 2 in 1992. TCP-based se ...

, an application-layer computing protocol used to send a short message between networking nodes on a computer network * Message Submission Program or smmsp in Sendmail e-mail systems * Microsoft Installer Patch Files, files downloaded from updating applications installed with Microsoft Installer and which have the .msp file extension *

Microsoft Points Microsoft Points, introduced in November 2005 as Xbox Live Points, were a digital currency issued by Microsoft for use on its Xbox and Zune product lines. Points could be used to purchase video games and downloadable content from Xbox Live Marke ...

, the currency used on the Xbox Live and Zune marketplaces *

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 ...

, a project-management software program developed and sold by Microsoft * Microsoft Student Partners, an organization of university students interested in careers in technology and showing a willingness to help others learn about Microsoft technology * Microsoft Surface Pro *

Minimum spanning tree A minimum spanning tree (MST) or minimum weight spanning tree is a subset of the edges of a connected, edge-weighted undirected graph that connects all the vertices together, without any cycles and with the minimum possible total edge weight. ...

, a graph theory problem * MSP (file format), a pre-bmp picture format readable in the oldest versions of Microsoft Paint * TI MSP430, a mixed-signal microcontroller family from Texas Instruments

Other uses in science and technology

* Mechanically separated poultry, a paste-like meat product *

Millisecond pulsar A millisecond pulsar (MSP) is a pulsar with a rotational period less than about 10 milliseconds. Millisecond pulsars have been detected in radio pulsar, radio, X-ray pulsar, X-ray, and gamma ray portions of the electromagnetic spectrum. The leadi ...

, in astronomy, a pulsar with a rotational period in the range of 1-10 milliseconds * Micro- spectrophotometer, an instrument used to measure the UV, visible, and near-infrared spectra of microscopic objects *

Monosodium phosphate Monosodium phosphate (MSP), also known as monobasic sodium phosphate and sodium dihydrogen phosphate, is an inorganic compound with the chemical formula . It is a sodium Salt (chemistry), salt of phosphoric acid. It consists of sodium cations () an ...

, a chemical compound of sodium with a phosphate counterion *

MSP Groza silent pistol The MSP Groza silent pistol () is an over and under, double-barrel, derringer-type firearm designed in the Soviet Union in 1972. History The weapon was used operationally in Afghanistan and in Central America during the Cold War. An FMLN sup ...

, a double-barreled firearm designed in the Soviet Union in 1972

Other uses

Manic Street Preachers Manic Street Preachers, also known simply as the Manics, are a Wales, Welsh Rock music, rock band formed in Blackwood, Caerphilly, in 1986. The band consists of Nicky Wire (bass guitar, lyrics) and cousins James Dean Bradfield (lead vocals, le ...

, Welsh rock band formed in 1986 * Meadowbrook State Parkway, in New York * Minimum Support Price, regulated agriculture commodity price in India *

Maastricht Science Programme Maastricht Science Programme (abbreviated as MSP) is an English language liberal arts and sciences programme founded in 2010. The program is part of Maastricht University () in Maastricht, Netherlands, and offers an honors programme. History T ...

, Liberal Arts & Sciences programme at Maastricht University * MovieStarPlanet, online video game {{disambiguation