SSP is an abbreviation that may stand for:

Arts and entertainment

* Silversun Pickups, an American alternative rock band *Super Sonic Power, a line of toys by Kenner Products in the 1970s

Companies

E. W. Scripps Company The E. W. Scripps Company is an American broadcasting company founded in 1878 as a chain of daily newspapers by Edward Willis "E. W." Scripps and his sister, Ellen Browning Scripps. It was also formerly a media conglomerate. The company is he ...

, stock symbol *

SSP Group SSP is a British multinational contract foodservice company, with headquarters in London, England. It operates more than 2,800 branded catering and retail units at over 180 airports and 300 railway stations across 35 countries as a concessionaire ...

, British company

Economics and finance

* Single Shared Platform, the basis of the TARGET2 real-time gross settlement system * South Sudanese pound (by ISO code) * Statutory sick pay, in the United Kingdom

Government and politics

Political parties and organizations

Party of Freedom and Justice The Party of Freedom and Justice ( sr, Странка слободе и правде, Stranka slobode i pravde, SSP) is a social-democratic political party in Serbia. It is led by Dragan Đilas. It was founded in April 2019 after a merger of t ...

(''Stranka slobode i pravde''), a political party in Serbia *

Samyukta Socialist Party Samyukta Socialist Party (; SSP), was a political party in India from 1964 to 1972. SSP was formed through a split in the Praja Socialist Party (PSP) in 1964. In 1972, SSP was reunited with PSP, forming the Socialist Party. The General Secret ...

, in India from 1964 to 1972 * Scottish Socialist Party, founded in 1998 * Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan

Other uses in government

* Secretariat of Public Security, a federal ministry of the Mexican Executive Cabinet ** Ministry of Public Security (Mexico City) *

Senior Superintendent of Police Superintendent (Supt) is a rank in the British police and in most English-speaking Commonwealth nations. In many Commonwealth countries, the full version is superintendent of police (SP). The rank is also used in most British Overseas Territories ...

Organizations

* Summer Science Program, an academic summer program *

Satellite Sentinel Project The Satellite Sentinel Project (SSP) was conceived by George Clooney and Enough Project co-founder John Prendergast during their October 2010 visit to South Sudan. Through the use of satellite imagery, SSP provides an early warning system t ...

, to deter atrocities *

Scottish Society of Playwrights The Scottish Society of Playwrights (SSP) is a professional member's organisation representing theatre playwrights in Scotland. It is affiliated to the Scottish Trades Union Congress, and party to the Theatrical Management Association playwrigh ...

, a trade union * Sigma Sigma Phi, an osteopathic medical honor society * Society for Science & the Public *

Society for Scholarly Publishing The Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP) is a professional society, founded in 1978, dedicated to promoting and advancing communication and networking among all sectors of the scholarly communications community. It has approximately 1,100 member ...

* Swiss Society of Physiology, see

Life Sciences Switzerland Life Sciences Switzerland (LS2) is the Swiss federation of scientific societies for life sciences. It was formerly known as the Union of the Swiss Societies for Experimental Biology (USGEB). Life Sciences Switzerland is a member of the Swiss Ac ...

Places

* Sham Shui Po station, Hong Kong metro (by station code)

Science and technology

Biology and ecology

* Shared Socioeconomic Pathways, for greenhouse gas scenarios * Species Survival Plan, to home endangered animals in a zoo *

Subspecies In biological classification, subspecies is a rank below species, used for populations that live in different areas and vary in size, shape, or other physical characteristics (morphology), but that can successfully interbreed. Not all species ...

, abbreviated ssp.

Computing and telecommunications

*Sakura Script Player, for

Ukagaka Ukagaka (), Nanika (), Sakura (), Nin'i-tan () or Nise-Haruna () is a catch-all term for Japanese software which shares a single format and function: to provide a pair of mascot characters for the user's computer desktop. These mascot characters ...

mascot software *Secure Simple Pairing, a Bluetooth pairing mechanism *

Security Service Provider Security Support Provider Interface (SSPI) is a component of Windows API that performs security-related operations such as authentication. SSPI functions as a common interface to several Security Support Providers (SSPs): A Security Support Provid ...

*Sender Signing Practices, later

Author Domain Signing Practices In computing, Author Domain Signing Practices (ADSP) is an optional extension to the DKIM E-mail authentication scheme, whereby a domain can publish the signing practices it adopts when relaying mail on behalf of associated authors. ADSP was adop ...

for E-mail *Serial SCSI Protocol, for

SAS SAS or Sas may refer to: Arts, entertainment, and media * ''SAS'' (novel series), a French book series by Gérard de Villiers * ''Shimmer and Shine'', an American animated children's television series * Southern All Stars, a Japanese rock ba ...

disk drives *

Service switching point In telephony, a service switching point (SSP) is the telephone exchange that initially responds, when a telephone caller dials a number, by sending a query to a central database called a service control point (SCP) so that the call can be handled. ...

Storage service provider A Storage service provider (SSP) is any company that provides computer storage space and related management services. SSPs may also offer periodic backup and archiving. Advantages of managed storage are that more space can be ordered as required ...

Supplementary Special-purpose Plane In the Unicode standard, a plane is a continuous group of 65,536 (216) code points. There are 17 planes, identified by the numbers 0 to 16, which corresponds with the possible values 00–1016 of the first two positions in six position hexadecimal ...

, in Unicode * System Service Processor * System Support Program, an IBM System/32 operating system * Synchronous Serial Port *

Supply-side platform A supply-side platform (SSP) or sell-side platform is a technology platform to enable web publishers and digital out-of-home (DOOH) media owners to manage their advertising inventory, fill it with ads, and receive revenue. Many of the larger web ...

, for web advertising * Subset sum problem, an NP-complete decision problem *

Six-state protocol The six-state protocol (SSP) is the quantum cryptography protocol that is the version of BB84 that uses a six-state polarization scheme on three orthogonal bases. Origin The six-state protocol first appeared in the article "Optimal Eavesdropping ...

, a quantum key distribution protocol

Medicine and psychology

Specialist in School Psychology The specialist degree is an academic degree conferred by a college or university. The degree is formatted differently worldwide and may be either a five-year program or a doctoral level graduate program that occurs after a master's degree but be ...

Swedish Universities Scales of Personality Swedish Universities Scales of Personality (SSP) is a personality test based on the older Karolinska Scales of Personality (KSP). It is originally in Swedish but has been translated to English. The personality profile is presented in t-score (mean 5 ...

*Single Specific Primer, in

SSP-PCR The polymerase chain reaction (PCR) is a method widely used to rapidly make millions to billions of copies (complete or partial) of a specific DNA sample, allowing scientists to take a very small sample of DNA and amplify it (or a part of it) ...

Spaceflight

Space-based solar power Space-based solar power (SBSP, SSP) is the concept of collecting solar power in outer space by solar power satellites (SPS) and distributing it to Earth. Its advantages include a higher collection of energy due to the lack of reflection and ab ...

Space Studies Program The International Space University (ISU) is dedicated to the discovery, research, and development of outer space and its applications for peaceful purposes, through international and multidisciplinary education and research programs. ISU was f ...

, at the International Space University * Surface Science Package, part of the ''Huygens'' probe

Other uses in science and technology

Sardar Sarovar Project The Sardar Sarovar Dam is a concrete gravity dam built on the Narmada River in Navagam near the town of Kevadiya, Narmada District, in the state of Gujarat, India. The dam was constructed to provide water and electricity to four Indian states ...

, dam project in India *

Sonority Sequencing Principle The Sonority Sequencing Principle (SSP)Selkirk, E. (1984). On the major class features and syllable theory. In Aronoff & Oehrle (eds.) Language Sound Structure: Studies in Phonology. Cambridge: MIT Press. 107-136.Clements, G. N. (1990). The role of ...

, in linguistics

Other uses

Volkswagen Group Scalable Systems Platform The Volkswagen Group Scalable Systems Platform (''SSP'') is a modular car platform for electric cars being developed by the Volkswagen Group. SSP was announced in July 2021, as part of Volkswagen's "New Auto" strategy, to have a "single battery el ...

, a car platform *

Special Service Package Police vehicles in the United States and Canada consist of a wide range of police vehicles used by police and law enforcement officials in the United States and in Canada. Most police vehicles in the U.S. and Canada are produced by American aut ...

, for North American police vehicles * Specialist schools programme, educational programme in the United Kingdom * Sungai Buloh-Serdang-Putrajaya MRT Line, a rapid transit line in Malaysia * Needle and syringe programmes, also known as Syringe Service Programs (SSP) {{disambiguation