Sp or SP may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

* /sp/, the sports board on the Internet forum

4chan 4chan is an anonymous English-language imageboard website. Launched by Christopher "moot" Poole in October 2003, the site hosts boards dedicated to a wide variety of topics, from video games and television to literature, cooking, weapons, mu ...

* ''SP'' (TV series), a Japanese TV series *

Game Boy Advance SP The Game Boy Advance SP (SP stands for "Special") is a 32-bit handheld game console made by Nintendo. It was released in Japan on February 14, 2003, and to international markets in March. This model is an upgraded version of the Game Boy Advance ...

, an upgraded version of the Game Boy Advance handheld video game system, released in 2003 * Standard Play, a magnetic tape speed used for

VHS VHS (Video Home System) is a discontinued standard for consumer-level analog video recording on tape cassettes, introduced in 1976 by JVC. It was the dominant home video format throughout the tape media period of the 1980s and 1990s. Ma ...

* Story Pirates, a podcast * Subdominant parallel, a type of musical chord * SP, producer stage name of

Mumzy Stranger Muhammad Mumith Ahmed (; born 18 January 1984), known professionally as Mumzy Stranger or his producing name SP (an abbreviation of Stranger Productions), is a British rapper, singer, songwriter and record producer. He made his mainstream record ...

(born 1984), British rapper * SP, stage name of

Krisztián Éder Krisztián Éder (also known by the stage name SP) is a Hungarian photographer based in New York. Music career Éder formed the band Helyszínelők with several friends. The group released a single and also had a few live appearances, but ce ...

(born 1988), Hungarian rapper * ''

South Park ''South Park'' is an American animated sitcom created by Trey Parker and Matt Stone, and developed by Brian Graden for Comedy Central. The series revolves around four boysStan Marsh, Kyle Broflovski, Eric Cartman, and Kenny McCormickand the ...

'', an animated American television series *

The Smashing Pumpkins The Smashing Pumpkins (also simply known as Smashing Pumpkins) are an American alternative rock band formed in Chicago in 1988 by frontman and guitarist Billy Corgan, guitarist James Iha, bassist D'arcy Wretzky and drummer Jimmy Chamberlin. The ...

, an American alternative rock band * The SP line of digital samplers marketed by

Roland Corporation is a Japanese multinational manufacturer of electronic musical instruments, electronic equipment, and software. It was founded by Ikutaro Kakehashi in Osaka on 18 April 1972. In 2005, its headquarters relocated to Hamamatsu in Shizuoka Prefect ...

under its own name and the Boss brand, most notably the

Boss SP-303 The Boss Dr. Sample SP-303 is a discontinued digital sampler from Boss, successor of the Boss SP-202 Dr. Sample. The SP-303 was revamped and redesigned in 2005, and released as the SP-404, by Roland Corporation. Features While the Dr. Sample ...

(2001) and

Roland SP-404 The Roland SP-404 Sampling Workstation is a sampler made by Roland Corporation. Released in 2005, it is part of the SP family and successor to where Boss Corporation’s SP-505 sampler left off. The sampler was succeeded by the SP-555 in 200 ...

(2005)

Businesses and organizations

* ''SP'' (magazine), illustrated news magazine in Spain between 1957 and 1972 * SP Technical Research Institute of Sweden *

ScottishPower Scottish Power Limited, trading as ScottishPower, is a vertically integrated energy company based in Glasgow, Scotland. It is a subsidiary of Spanish utility firm Iberdrola. ScottishPower is the distribution network operator for Central and ...

, Scottish energy company * Szkoła Podstawowa ("

primary school A primary school (in Ireland, India, the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica, South Africa, and Singapore), elementary school, or grade school (in North America and the Philippines) is a school for primary ...

" in polish) *

Service provider A service provider (SP) is an organization that provides services, such as consulting, legal, real estate, communications, storage, and processing services, to other organizations. Although a service provider can be a sub-unit of the organization t ...

, 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 Singapore Polytechnic (SP) is a post-secondary education institution and statutory board under the purview of the Ministry of Education in Singapore. Established in 1954, SP is the first and oldest polytechnic in Singapore, and is renowned for ...

, polytechnic in Dover, Singapore *

Státní podnik Státní podnik (s.p.) or štátny podnik (š.p.); (translation — "state enterprise," of a business nature) is a Czechia and Slovakia designation for a business entity owned by the government (aka, "the state"). As is now and was always the cas ...

("state business"), former Czechoslovak entity type *

Story point A burndown chart or burn-down chart is a graphical representation of work left to do versus time. The outstanding work (or backlog) is often on the vertical axis, with time along the horizontal. A burndown chart is a run chart of remaining work. I ...

, term used in

agile software development Agile software development is an umbrella term for approaches to software development, developing software that reflect the values and principles agreed upon by ''The Agile Alliance'', a group of 17 software practitioners, in 2001. As documented ...

methodologies * ''

Suara Pembaruan ''Suara Pembaruan'' () was an Indonesian daily newspaper. Founded in 1987, it was one of the largest newspapers in Indonesia. ''Suara Pembaruan'' brand is owned by BeritaSatu Media Holdings, a subsidiary of Lippo Group, who also owned business da ...

'', former Indonesian newspaper

Government and military

* 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) The Security Police is the bodyguard, close protection division of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department. Under the Security Bureau of the TMPD, the division is responsible for protecting domestic and foreign dignitaries on Japanese soil and a ...

, for VIP protection *

Shore patrol Shore patrol (SP) are service members who are provided to aid in security for the United States Navy, United States Coast Guard, United States Marine Corps, and the British Royal Navy while on shore.Cutler and Cutler, p 202 They are often tem ...

, UK and US naval security personnel

Political parties

Centre Party (Norway) The Centre Party (, Sp; ), formerly the Farmer's Party (, Bp), is an Agrarianism, agrarian List of political parties in Norway, political party in Norway. Ideologically, the Centre Party is positioned in the Centrism, centre on the political sp ...

(''Senterpartiet'') *

Socialist Party Socialist Party is the name of many different political parties around the world. All of these parties claim to uphold some form of socialism, though they may have very different interpretations of what "socialism" means. Statistically, most of th ...

or Social Democratic Party in many places, including: **

Socialist Party of Albania The Socialist Party of Albania (, PSSh), also known as simply the Socialist Party (, PS), is a Social democracy, social-democratic centre-left political party in Albania. It is the successor to the Party of Labour of Albania, which reconstituted ...

Samajwadi Party The Samajwadi Party ( SP; ) is a Socialism, socialist political party in India. It was founded on 4 October 1992 by former Janata Dal politician Mulayam Singh Yadav and is headquartered in New Delhi. It is the third-largest political party in ...

, in India **

Socialist Party (Netherlands) The Socialist Party ( ; SP ) is a democratic socialist political party in the Netherlands. Founded in 1971 as the Communist Party of the Netherlands/Marxist–Leninist (KPN/ML, ), the party has since moderated itself from Marxism–Leninism and ...

(''Socialistische Partij'') **

Socialistische Partij Anders Vooruit (, Dutch language, Dutch for Forward) is a Flanders, Flemish Social democracy, social democratic list of political parties in Belgium, political party in Belgium. It was formerly known as the (Flemish) Socialist Party (1978–2001: ''Soci ...

(''Socialistische Partij''), a historical name for the sp.a in Belgium ** Socialist Party (Netherlands, interbellum) (''Socialistische Partij'') 1918–1929 **

Social Democratic Party of Switzerland The Social Democratic Party of Switzerland (, SP; ), also called the Swiss Socialist Party (; , PS), is a List of political parties in Switzerland, political party in Switzerland. The SP has had two representatives on the Federal Council (Switzerl ...

Religious organizations

Piarists The Piarists (), officially named the Order of Poor Clerics Regular of the Mother of God of the Pious Schools (), abbreviated SchP, is a religious order of clerics regular of the Catholic Church founded in 1617 by Spanish priest Joseph Calasanz ...

or ''Ordo Clericorum Regularium pauperum Matris Dei Scholarum Piarum'', a Catholic order * Südtiroler Pfadfinderschaft, a Catholic scouting association in Italy

Places

* SP postcode area, UK, the Salisbury postcode area *

São Paulo (state) São Paulo (, ) is one of the Federative units of Brazil, 26 states of the Brazil, Federative Republic of Brazil and is named after Paul the Apostle, Saint Paul of Tarsus. It is located in the Southeast Region, Brazil, Southeast Region and is bo ...

, a state in Brazil **

São Paulo São Paulo (; ; Portuguese for 'Paul the Apostle, Saint Paul') is the capital of the São Paulo (state), state of São Paulo, as well as the List of cities in Brazil by population, most populous city in Brazil, the List of largest cities in the ...

, capital of the state and the most populous city of Brazil

Science and technology

* sp orbitals, in physics, an instance of atomic

orbital hybridisation In chemistry, orbital hybridisation (or hybridization) is the concept of mixing atomic orbitals to form new ''hybrid orbitals'' (with different energies, shapes, etc., than the component atomic orbitals) suitable for the pairing of electrons to f ...

* Self-propelled (disambiguation) * Soft-point bullet, a type of ammunition *

Spontaneous potential Spontaneous potentials are often measured down boreholes for formation evaluation in the oil and gas industry, and they can also be measured along the Earth's surface for mineral exploration or groundwater investigation. The phenomenon and its app ...

differences in the Earth * Stated Preference, a

choice modelling Choice modelling attempts to model the decision process of an individual or segment via revealed preferences or stated preferences made in a particular context or contexts. Typically, it attempts to use discrete choices (A over B; B over A, B & C) ...

method * Surface plasmon, a type of electron oscillation along metallic surfaces * A

Unified Soil Classification System The Unified Soil Classification System (USCS) is a soil classification system used in engineering and geology to describe the texture and grain size of a soil. The classification system can be applied to most unconsolidated materials, and is rep ...

symbol for ''sand, poorly graded''

Biology and medicine

* Sp. (biology), abbreviation for species *

Simulated patient In health care, a simulated patient (SP), also known as a standardized patient, sample patient, or patient instructor, is an individual trained to act as a real patient in order to simulate a set of symptoms or problems. Simulated patients have be ...

, for medical training *

Substance P Substance P (SP) is an undecapeptide (a peptide composed of a chain of 11 amino acid residues) and a type of neuropeptide, belonging to the tachykinin family of neuropeptides. It acts as a neurotransmitter and a neuromodulator. Substance P ...

, a neuropeptide * Status post, notes about

sequela A sequela (, ; usually used in the plural, sequelae ) is a pathological condition resulting from a disease, injury, therapy, or other trauma. Derived from the Latin word meaning "sequel", it is used in the medical field to mean a complication or ...

e with reference to their cause

Computing and telecommunications

* IBM RS/6000 SP, supercomputer series *

Service pack In computing, a service pack comprises a collection of updates, fixes, or enhancements to a software program delivered in the form of a single installable package. Companies often release a service pack when the number of individual patches to a ...

, software update *

Stack pointer A stack register is a computer central processor register whose purpose is to keep track of a call stack. On an accumulator-based architecture machine, this may be a dedicated register. On a machine with multiple general-purpose registers, it m ...

Stored procedure A stored procedure (also termed prc, proc, storp, sproc, StoPro, StoredProc, StoreProc, sp, or SP) is a subroutine available to applications that access a relational database management system (RDBMS). Such procedures are stored in the database d ...

* Synthetic programming

Mathematics

Trace (linear algebra) In linear algebra, the trace of a square matrix , denoted , is the sum of the elements on its main diagonal, a_ + a_ + \dots + a_. It is only defined for a square matrix (). The trace of a matrix is the sum of its eigenvalues (counted with mu ...

, or "Spur" (German), of a square matrix * ''Sp''(''n'') and ''Sp''(2''n'',''F''), a

symplectic group In mathematics, the name symplectic group can refer to two different, but closely related, collections of mathematical groups, denoted and for positive integer ''n'' and field F (usually C or R). The latter is called the compact symplectic gr ...

in mathematics

Transportation

SATA Air Acores SATA (Serial AT Attachment) is a computer bus interface that connects host bus adapters to mass storage devices such as hard disk drives, optical drives, and solid-state drives. Serial ATA succeeded the earlier Parallel ATA (PATA) standard ...

(IATA code SP) * Saidapet railway station (station code SP) *

Southern Pacific Railroad The Southern Pacific (or Espee from the railroad initials) was an American Railroad classes#Class I, Class I Rail transport, railroad network that existed from 1865 to 1996 and operated largely in the Western United States. The system was oper ...

(reporting mark SP)

Other uses

25 metre pistol 25 meter pistol, formerly and unofficially still often known as sport pistol, is one of the ISSF shooting events. It was devised as a women's event in the 1960s, based upon the rules of 25 meter center-fire pistol but shot with a .22-caliber spo ...

, 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 Roads in Italy are an important mode of transport in Italy. The classification of the roads of Italy is regulated by the Italian traffic code, both from a technical and administrative point of view. The street nomenclature largely reflects the ...

September September is the ninth month of the year in the Julian and Gregorian calendars. Its length is 30 days. September in the Northern Hemisphere and March in the Southern Hemisphere are seasonally equivalent. In the Northern hemisphere, the b ...

* Seri Pahlawan Gagah Perkasa (S.P.), a Malaysian military decoration *

Spanish language Spanish () or Castilian () is a Romance languages, Romance language of the Indo-European languages, Indo-European language family that evolved from the Vulgar Latin spoken on the Iberian Peninsula of Europe. Today, it is a world language, gl ...

* Special (disambiguation) *

Spelling Spelling is a set of conventions for written language regarding how graphemes should correspond to the sounds of spoken language. Spelling is one of the elements of orthography, and highly standardized spelling is a prescriptive element. Spelli ...

, especially to note a spelling error * Spurius, the Roman praenomen; see

Spurius (disambiguation) '' Spurius'' is a genus of passalid beetles. The name Spurius was a Roman praenomen (see Spurius (praenomen)) and may also refer to figures from ancient history and/or mythology Myth is a genre of folklore consisting primarily of narratives ...

Starting pitcher In baseball (hardball or softball), a starting pitcher or starter is the first pitcher in the game for each team. A pitcher is credited with a game started if they throw the first pitch to the opponent's first batter of a game. Starting pit ...

, a team's first pitcher in a game of baseball or softball * Suppressive person, in Scientology *

Starting price In horse racing and greyhound racing, the starting price (SP) is the odds prevailing on a particular entry in the on-course fixed-odds betting market at the time a race begins. The method by which SPs are set for each runner varies in different ...

, odds applicable on a particular entry in a horse race (or other race) as the race is about to start *

Superintendent (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 Territ ...

, a rank in British police services and in most English-speaking Commonwealth nations * SP, an abbreviation for the

Syrian pound The Syrian pound or lira (; abbreviation: LS or SP in Latin alphabet, Latin, ل.س in Arabic script, Arabic, historically also Pound sign, £S, and £Syr; ISO 4217, ISO code: SYP) is the currency of Syria. It is issued by the Central Bank of S ...

* "Shot put" athletics abbreviation in track and field