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MP, Mp, mp, or .mp may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

Art

MP, signature used on works by Australian artist Margaret Preston

Gaming

Magic point, or mana point, in role-playing games
Mario Party, a series of party video games produced by Nintendo
MP, abbreviation for multiplayer in a multiplayer video game

Music

Mike Portnoy, drummer of the progressive metal band Dream Theater
(mp), a musical dynamic meaning "medium-quiet" or "moderately-quiet"
M.P. (opera), an 1811 comic opera by Thomas Moore and Charles Edward Horn

Broadcasting

Multipremier, a Mexican television network
, whose station identification is "mp"

Businesses and organizations

Government

Member of Parliament
Ministry of Planning, Budget, and Management (Brazil), a cabinet-level federal ministry in Brazil
Public Ministry (Portugal) (), the body of the Judiciary of Portugal
Public Prosecutor's Office (Brazil) (), the Brazilian body of independent public prosecutors

Police

Military police, law enforcement agencies connected with, or part of, the military of a state
Mumbai Police, the police force of the city of Mumbai, Maharashtra
Municipal police, law enforcement agencies that are under the control of local government
Metropolitan police, municipal police of major metropolitan areas

Politics

Member of Parliament (Bangladesh), individual elected to serve in the Jatiya Sangsad of Bangladesh
Member of Parliament (India), individual elected to serve in the Lok Sabha or Rajya Sabha of the Parliament of India
Member of Parliament (United Kingdom), individual elected to serve in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom
Member of Parliament (Canada), individual elected to serve in the House of Commons of the Parliament of Canada
Member of Parliament (Australia), individual elected to serve in the House of Commons of Australia
Member of Parliament (New Zealand), individual elected to serve in the House of Commons of New Zealand
Member of Parliament (South Africa), individual elected to serve in the House of Commons of the Parliament of South Africa
Progressive Movement (Cameroon) (), a minor opposition political party in Cameroon
Green Party (Sweden) (), a political party in Sweden based upon green politics
Member of Parliament (Sri Lanka), individual elected to serve in the Parliament of Sri Lanka

Other businesses and organizations

Martinair (IATA airline designator <code>MP</code>), Dutch cargo airline
, a Finnish football (soccer) club
Ming Pao, a Hong Kong newspaper
Missouri Pacific Railroad (reporting mark <code>MP</code>), one of the first railroads in the United States west of the Mississippi River
MyProtein, British online sports nutrition retailer

Law

, a Latin expression meaning by one's own hand
Provisory measure, in Brazilian law ()
Missing person

Linguistics

Mp (digraph), in many African languages
Malayo-Polynesian languages of Southeast Asia
Minimalist program, a syntactic theory in linguistics

People

Michael Peterson (surfer) (1952–2012), Australian surfer
Mike Portnoy, drummer of the progressive metal band Dream Theater
Margaret Preston, Australian artist who signed her works "MP"

Places

Madhya Pradesh, a state in India
Manipur Pradesh, a term used to refer to Manipur by various political parties
Mandatory Palestine, a former British protectorate
Northern Mariana Islands (ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code and U.S. postal abbreviation <code>MP</code>), an insular area and commonwealth of the United States

Science and technology

Computing

.mp, Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Northern Mariana Islands
Management Point, in the Advanced Client of Microsoft's System Center Configuration Manager
Massive parallelism (disambiguation)
Media player (disambiguation)
Media processor, a type of digital signal processor designed to deal with streaming data in real-time
Megapixel, a unit of a million pixels
Merge Point, in the MPLS local protection approach to network resiliency
Microprocessor, a computer processor with a minimal number of integrated circuits
Microsoft Project, project-management software
Multilink Protocol (or Multilink PPP), a method for spreading traffic across multiple point-to-point protocol connections
Multi-platform, describing software that is implemented on multiple computer platforms
Multiprocessing, the use of two or more central processing units within a single computer system

Mathematics

Maximum parsimony (phylogenetics), in statistical analysis
, in propositional logic, a Latin expression meaning "mode that affirms"

Physics

Megapond (Mp), a non-SI Metric unit of force, also known as a tonne-force
Melting point, the temperature at which a solid becomes a liquid
<var>m</var><sub>p</sub>, the mass of a proton

Other uses in science and technology

Machine pistol, typically a handgun-style machine gun, capable of fully automatic or burst fire
Macrophage, a type of white blood cell that engulfs and digests cellular debris, foreign substances, microbes and cancer cells
Mammal Paleogene zone, a system of biostratigraphic zones in the stratigraphic record used to correlate mammal-bearing fossil localities of the Paleogene period of Europe

Meralgia paraesthetica (MP), a sensation of numbness in the outer thigh
Methylphenidate, a stimulant medication
Microprinting (MP), a method of printing very finely as an anti-counterfeiting mechanism
Middle Paleolithic, an archaeological period
Møller–Plesset perturbation theory, a post-Hartree–Fock method used in computational chemistry

Monoprinting (M/P), a type of printmaking producing a single print
Movement protein, proteins encoded by plant viruses to facilitate cell-to-cell transmission

Sport

Mikkelin Palloilijat (MP), a Finnish football club
MP Motorsport, a Dutch auto racing team

Other uses

, a historical Polish money unit

Masterpoints, awarded for successful performance at contract bridge; see Glossary of contract bridge terms
Matchpoints, a method of scoring in contract bridge; see Glossary of contract bridge terms
Mile post
Roman mile ()