SP

SP

SP is a two-letter abbreviation that may refer to:

In computing and technology:
* Scalable POWERparallel, IBM's SP and SP2
* service pack
* Service Provider
* Short Play
** Short Play, a vinyl record (or single) format
** Short Play (VCR format)
** SP, see DVD recorder
** SP, see digital video recorder
* signal processor
* Single-player Term for a single-player video game, or variation of the same.
* stack pointer, in computing
* Stored procedure, a program stored in a database
* Game Boy Advance SP- An upgraded version of the Game Boy Advance

In economics:
* SaskPower, Canada
* SATA Air Acores, IATA airline designator
* SP Technical Research Institute of Sweden
* Share price
* Southern Pacific Railroad, AAR reporting marks SP
* starting price bookmaking, known colloquially as SP
* Starting prices (UK) a betting term
* Schering-Plough

In geography:
* São Paulo (city)
* São Paulo (state)
* Saint Petersburg
* Severna Park, Maryland
* South Park
* South Pole
* South Philadelphia
* South Pasadena, Florida
* South Pasadena, California

In health care:
* simulated patient
* Sleep Paralysis
* Social phobia, an anxiety disorder.
* standardized patient

In mathematics:
* "Sp"("n") and "Sp"(2"n","F"), in mathematics, denote a symplectic group or its corresponding Lie algebra
* Spur, German term for the trace of a square matrix in linear algebra

In military:
* Self-propelled artillery
* Shore Patrol, United States Navy
* Soft point bullet, a type of ammo

In music, entertainment and popular culture:
* Sex Pistols, a UK punk band
* Skinny Puppy, a Canadian industrial band
* Simon Phillips, an English drummer
* Simple Plan, a Canadian pop-punk band
* Silversun Pickups, an American alternative rock band
* The Smashing Pumpkins, an American alternative rock band
* Snow Patrol (A Scottish alternative rock band)
* Something Positive, a popular webcomic
* Sushi Pack, a children's cartoon on Kewlopolis
* "South Park", an animated American television comedy series
* Strawberry Panic!, illustrated Japanese fictional short stories and related media works
* Sean Paul, a Jamaican dancehall artist
* Sheldon Plankton, also known as Plankton, character in SpongeBob SquarePants

In science::
* sp., abbreviation for species used in place of a specific epithet in a species name

In sports:
* Short program, the first part of a figure skating competition
* Starting pitcher, a baseball term
* 25 m Pistol, a shooting sport formerly known as "Sport Pistol"

In politics:
* Secular-progressive, abbreviated "S-P", used to describe people who advocate government independence from religious influences
* Shining Path, a Maoist guerrilla insurgent organization in Peru
* Social Democratic Party of Switzerland
* Socialist Party or Social Democratic Party
* Samajwadi Party, India
* Samata Party, India
* Saskatchewan Party
* Centre Party, Senterpartiet
* Socialistische Partij, a current political party in The Netherlands
* Socialistische Partij, a historical name for the SP.A in Belgium
* Socialistische Partij, a historical political party in The Netherlands (1918-1929)
* Southern Party, United States

In religion:
* Summorum Pontificum

In institution:
* Singapore Polytechnic

In other uses:
* Sapeur-pompier (French firefighter)
* Security Phase in the United Nations.
* Security Police (Japan)
** SP (TV series) - TV series based on security police.
* Short perforation, in philately
* Singapore Polytechnic - A polytechnic in Singapore.
* Spelling
* state park (US)
* state police (US)
* sweet pie (romantic CIT phrase)
* Suomen Partiolaiset - the Finnish national Scout Association
* Südtiroler Pfadfinderschaft - a Scout Association in South Tyrol.
* Superintendent of Police
* Suppressive Person - A term used in Scientology
* SP is a USCS symbol for "poorly graded sand"
* Spontaneous potential is a measurement taken by oil industry well loggers to characterise rock formation properties
* "sine prole" - without offspring


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