AP, Ap, A&P, or A/P may refer to:

Arts, entertainment and media

  • "AP" (song), by Pop Smoke, 2021
  • Action point, a video game term
  • AP, a character in animated TV series Atomic Puppet
  • "A&P" (short story), by John Updike, 1961
  • Alternative Press (magazine), an American entertainment magazine
  • Ang Pamantasan, a Philippine student publication
  • Palatine Anthology, or Anthologia Palatina, a collection of Ancient Greek poems
  • Amiga Power, a defunct video games magazine

Businesses and organizations

Businesses

  • AboitizPower, a Philippine energy holding company
  • Academic Press, an American academic publisher
  • Amalgamated Press, a former British newspaper and magazine publishing company
  • Associated Press, an American news agency
  • A&P, the Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company, a former American chain of grocery stores
  • A&P Canada, former supermarket chain
  • A&P Group, a British ship repair company
  • Austin & Pickersgill, a British shipbuilding company
  • Air One, an Italian airline, IATA code AP
  • Atlantic and Pacific Railroad, in the United States
  • Audemars Piguet, Swiss watchmaker
  • Automotive Products, a former British company

Political parties

  • Acción Popular (disambiguation), the name of several parties
  • Justice Party (Turkey) ()
  • Justice Party (Turkey, 2015)
  • People's Action (Romania) ()
  • People's Alliance (Spain) ()
  • Labour Party (Norway) ()

Other organizations

  • Armenian Power, an Armenian criminal gang in Los Angeles, U.S.
  • Atlantic Philanthropies, a private foundation
  • Dutch Data Protection Authority ()
  • Polish Aero Club ()

People

  • AP (rapper) (Yohann Duport, born 1979), French rapper
  • Adrian Peterson, former American football running back
  • Arthur Paul Harper (1865–1955), New Zealand lawyer, mountaineer, explorer, businessman, known as AP
  • ('son of'), part of a Welsh patronymic
  • a/p ('daughter of'), in Malaysian Indian names

Places

  • Amapá, Brazil, ISO code BR-AP
  • Andhra Pradesh, India, ISO code IN-AP
  • Province of Ascoli Piceno, Italy, vehicle registration code

Science and technology

Computing and networks

  • AP, an alternative characterization of PSPACE In computational complexity theory
  • Application Processor, usually means CPU
  • Wireless access point, or access point, a networking hardware device
  • Address plus Port (A+P), a technique for sharing IPv4 addresses
  • ActivityPub, a social networking protocol

Medicine

  • Acute pancreatitis, a sudden inflammation of the pancreas
  • Area postrema, a part of the brain
  • Colporrhaphy or A&P repair, of vaginal walls

Other uses in science and technology

  • Aerial photograph
  • Aminopurine, common name for two different compounds
  • Ammonium perchlorate, an inorganic compound
  • Ap and Bp stars
  • AP site, a location in DNA or RNA
  • Armour-piercing ammunition

Other uses

  • All Purpose, a common grade of wheat flour
  • Ap (water), a Vedic Sanskrit term
  • ap, a classical abbreviation for ad pedes or aedilitia potestate
  • AP, a classification symbol for an auxiliary of the United States Navy
  • AP and variants, several medical abbreviations
  • A&P mechanic, an aircraft maintenance technician with airframe and powerplant ratings
  • Absolute pitch, the ability to identify a musical note without a reference tone
  • Accounts payable, in accounting
  • Advanced Placement, North American program offering college-level courses at schools
  • Adjective phrase, a phrase whose head is an adjective
  • Agricultural and Pastoral Shows, in New Zealand
  • Attachment parenting, a parenting philosophy
  • Hungarian adópengő, a former currency, symbol AP
  • Pakistan (aircraft registration prefix AP)

See also

  • Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company (disambiguation)
  • APP (disambiguation)
  • APS (disambiguation)
  • Argyle Park, a band reformed under the name AP2