ASP may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

  • ASP (band), a German gothic metal band
  • ASP (Japanese group), Japanese idol girl group
  • Apparent Sensory Perception, a thought recording and reproduction device in William Gibson's fiction
  • A.S.P. Air Strike Patrol, a 1994 video game
  • Assault system pod, for the G.I. Joe doll
  • Albany Student Press, newspaper of the University at Albany, The State University of New York, US

Military and weapons

  • ASP pistol
  • ASP, Inc., law enforcement weapon manufacturer
  • ASP, a type of expandable baton
  • Ammunition Supply Point, military storage facility for live ammunition and explosives
  • Airborne Surveillance Platform, Indian defence project

Science and technology

Computing

  • Active Server Pages, a web-scripting interface by Microsoft
  • ASP.NET, a web-application framework by Microsoft
  • Advanced Simple Profile, an MPEG-4 video codec profile
  • Answer set programming, a declarative programming paradigm
  • Application service provider, to customers over a network
  • AppleTalk Session Protocol
  • Association of Software Professionals
  • Attached Support Processor, IBM hardware system
  • Auxiliary storage pool, a feature of the IBM operating system

Electronics

  • Audio Signal Processor, large-scale digital signal processor
  • Electronic skip protection or anti-skip protection, in CD playback
  • Angle-sensitive pixel, a light sensor

Medicine and biology

  • Aspartic acid, α-amino acid used in the biosynthesis of proteins
  • Acylation stimulating protein
  • Amnesic shellfish poisoning
  • Complement component 3, a protein in the complement system
  • Antimicrobial stewardship, effort to educate and persuade prescribers of antimicrobials to follow evidence-based prescribing

Politics

  • Act of the Scottish Parliament
  • American Solidarity Party, a Christian Democratic political party in the United States
  • Australian Sex Party
  • Afro-Shirazi Party, political party in Tanzania
  • Assembly for the Sovereignty of the Peoples, a political party in Bolivia
  • Assembly of States Parties, the legislative body of the International Criminal Court

Organizations

  • American Society for Photobiology
  • American Society of Primatologists
  • Appalachia Service Project, for housing improvement
  • Arkansas State Police, US
  • Asociación de Scouts del Perú (Scout Association of Peru)
  • Association of Surfing Professionals, former name of World Surf League
  • Astronomical Society of the Pacific, an American scientific and educational organization
  • Avenal State Prison, in California, US
  • Autism Society Philippines, an autism organization
  • Auto Sport Promotion, a French auto racing team

Education

  • American School of Paris, France
  • Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts, Kraków, Poland

Places

  • Allegany State Park, Pennsylvania, US
  • Alice Springs Airport (IATA airport code)
  • Aspatria railway station (National Rail code), UK
  • Aspendale railway station, Melbourne, Australia

Other uses

  • Adult service provider or sex worker
  • Additional Superintendent of Police, a police rank in India
  • Assistant superintendent of police
  • Authorized service provider
  • Average selling price, of goods

See also

  • ASPS (disambiguation)
  • Asp (disambiguation)