Sp or SP may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

  • /sp/, the sports board on the Internet forum 4chan
  • SP (TV series), a Japanese TV series
  • Game Boy Advance SP, an upgraded version of the Game Boy Advance handheld video game system, released in 2003
  • Standard Play, a magnetic tape speed used for VHS
  • Story Pirates, a podcast
  • Subdominant parallel, a type of musical chord
  • SP, producer stage name of Mumzy Stranger (born 1984), British rapper
  • SP, stage name of Krisztián Éder (born 1988), Hungarian rapper
  • South Park, an animated American television series
  • The Smashing Pumpkins, an American alternative rock band
  • The SP line of digital samplers marketed by Roland Corporation under its own name and the Boss brand, most notably the Boss SP-303 (2001) and Roland SP-404 (2005)

Businesses and organizations

  • SP (magazine), illustrated news magazine in Spain between 1957 and 1972
  • SP Technical Research Institute of Sweden
  • ScottishPower, Scottish energy company
  • Szkoła Podstawowa ("primary school" in polish)
  • Service provider, company that provides organizations with consulting, legal, real estate, education, communications, storage, processing, and many other services
  • Silicon Power, Taiwan-based manufacturer of flash memory products and other industrial grade computer products
  • Singapore Polytechnic, polytechnic in Dover, Singapore
  • Státní podnik ("state business"), former Czechoslovak entity type
  • Story point, term used in agile software development methodologies
  • Suara Pembaruan, former Indonesian newspaper

Government and military

  • Superintendent of police (India), a senior rank in the Indian police and law enforcement agencies
  • A US Navy hull registration number prefix: Section patrol (SP)
  • Security Police (Japan), for VIP protection
  • Shore patrol, UK and US naval security personnel

Political parties

  • Centre Party (Norway) (Senterpartiet)
  • Socialist Party or Social Democratic Party in many places, including:
  • Socialist Party of Albania
  • Samajwadi Party, in India
  • Socialist Party (Netherlands) (Socialistische Partij)
  • Socialistische Partij Anders (Socialistische Partij), a historical name for the sp.a in Belgium
  • Socialist Party (Netherlands, interbellum) (Socialistische Partij) 1918–1929
  • Social Democratic Party of Switzerland
  • Swatantra Party, an Indian classical liberal political party 1959–1974

Religious organizations

  • Piarists or Ordo Clericorum Regularium pauperum Matris Dei Scholarum Piarum, a Catholic order
  • Südtiroler Pfadfinderschaft, a Catholic scouting association in Italy

Places

  • SP postcode area, UK, the Salisbury postcode area
  • São Paulo (state), a state in Brazil
  • São Paulo, capital of the state and the most populous city of Brazil

Science and technology

  • sp orbitals, in physics, an instance of atomic orbital hybridisation
  • Self-propelled (disambiguation)
  • Soft-point bullet, a type of ammunition
  • Spontaneous potential differences in the Earth
  • Stated Preference, a choice modelling method
  • Surface plasmon, a type of electron oscillation along metallic surfaces
  • A Unified Soil Classification System symbol for sand, poorly graded

Biology and medicine

  • Sp. (biology), abbreviation for species
  • Simulated patient, for medical training
  • Substance P, a neuropeptide
  • Status post, notes about sequelae with reference to their cause

Computing and telecommunications

  • IBM RS/6000 SP, supercomputer series
  • Service pack, software update
  • Stack pointer
  • Stored procedure
  • Synthetic programming

Mathematics

  • Trace (linear algebra), or "Spur" (German), of a square matrix
  • Sp(n) and Sp(2n,F), a symplectic group in mathematics

Transportation

  • SATA Air Acores (IATA code SP)
  • Saidapet railway station (station code SP)
  • Southern Pacific Railroad (reporting mark SP)

Other uses

  • 25 metre pistol, a shooting sport formerly known as sport pistol
  • Aircraft registration prefix for Poland
  • s.p., sine prole (Latin: "without issue" (i.e., having no children), full form d.s.p. decessit sine prole, "died without issue")
  • Ś.P. Świętej pamięci meaning holy memory is written on many Polish gravestones
  • Provincial road (Italy) (Strada Provinciale), a category of provincial roads in Italy
  • September
  • Seri Pahlawan Gagah Perkasa (S.P.), a Malaysian military decoration
  • Spain, particularly used on maps to denote Spanish possessions, territories, etc.
  • Spanish language
  • Special (disambiguation)
  • Spelling, especially to note a spelling error
  • Spurius, the Roman praenomen; see Spurius (disambiguation)
  • Starting pitcher, a team's first pitcher in a game of baseball or softball
  • Suppressive person, in Scientology
  • Starting price, odds applicable on a particular entry in a horse race (or other race) as the race is about to start
  • Superintendent (police), a rank in British police services and in most English-speaking Commonwealth nations
  • SP, an abbreviation for the Syrian pound
  • "Shot put" athletics abbreviation in track and field
  • Nikon SP, a 1957 35 mm rangefinder film camera

See also

  • SPs
  • SPS (disambiguation)