SP

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

• St. Pius X Seminary, Philippines

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
• Space characters entered from the keyboard
• Stream processing

In economics:

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

In geography:

• 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(2n,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 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 metre 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 (Norway) (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 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
• Sailor Pluto

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)
• 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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