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TODO: "Technical points" is used in both sports (e.g. Wrestling at the 1988 Summer Olympics – Men's Greco-Roman 90 kg) and video games (e.g. Tales of Xillia 2) for different meanings. A few video games have "technique points" or "tech points". "Terminal phase" is used in various contexts.

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Arts and media

Time Patrol Bon (T・Pぼん), a Japanese manga series by Fujiko F. Fujio

Music

Tonic parallel (Tp and tP), a kind of chord in music theory

TP (Teddy Pendergrass album), 1980
TP (Tony Parker album), 2007
A series of R&B studio albums by R. Kelly: 12 Play (1993), TP-2.com (2000), TP.3 Reloaded (2005)

Newspapers

Thai Post (), a Thai-language daily in Thailand
The Times-Picayune | The New Orleans Advocate, an American daily

Television

Test pattern (AKA test card), a broadcast signal
The Tomorrow People, a British science fiction series
(initially ; 1972–2011), a Spanish annual awards series by
Talking Pictures TV (TPTV), a British free-to-air vintage film and nostalgia channel
Telewizja Polska S.A. (currently abbreviated "TVP", but was "TP" 1976–1992; AKA Polish Television), a public service broadcaster in Poland, founded in 1952

Theatre

Theatrical producer, person who is in charge of the finances for staging a show
Theater paddle, AKA stage pin connector, a standard cable type for lighting
Tanghalang Pilipino, a resident drama company of the Cultural Center of the Philippines

Video games

The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, a 2006 Nintendo action-adventure game
Tension points, a character state property in Deltarune and Xenoblade Chronicles X

People

Academics, doctors, and writers

Tony Parker (author) (1923–1996), a British oral historian
Timothy Peter Burt (born 1951), a British geographer, academic, and academic administrator
TP Fielden, the novelist pen-name of Christopher Wilson (biographer) (born 1947), also a journalist
Thyagaraja Paramasiva Kailasam (1884–1946), an Indian playwright and writer
Thomas Paul "Doc" Martin (1864–1935), an American physician
Thachom Poyil Rajeevan (1959–2022), an Indian novelist
Theodore Percival Cameron Wilson (1888–1918), an English poet and novelist
Timothy Peter Wiseman (born 1940), an English scholar
Paul T. P. Wong (; 1937–2024), a Canadian clinical psychologist and professor

Architects

Thomas Penberthy Bennett (1887–1980), an English architect
Thomas Phillips Figgis (1858–1948), a British architect

Athletes

Tony Parker (born 1982), a French-American basketball player
Tony Parker (basketball, born 1993), an American player
Tony Parker (rugby union) (born 1961), an Australian player
Tangirala Pawan Kumar (born 1970), an Indian first-class cricketer
TP Sudhindra (born 1984), an Indian first-class cricketer
Rehenesh Thumbirumbu Paramba (born 1993), an Indian footballer (soccer player)

Journalists and politicians

T. P. Chandrasekharan (1960–2012), an Indian politician
Thomas Patrick Gill (1858–1931), an Irish journalist and politician
Thomas Power O'Connor (1848–1929), an Irish politician and journalist
Occasionally known as Tay Pay based on the Irish pronunciation of the initials "T. P."

Performing artists

T. P. Madhavan (1935–2024), an Indian actor
Thomas Patrick McKenna (1929–2011), an Irish actor
Teddy Pendergrass (1950–2010), an American singer
Heitor Teixeira Pereira (born 1960), a Brazilian composer

Fictional characters

T. P. Balagopalan, the main character of T. P. Balagopalan M. A., a 1986 Indian Malayalam-language comedy drama film
Time Pilfer Lady (; AKA Hitomi Aino, Petra Fina Dagmar, Ms. Iknow), a villain in Japanese anime series Flint the Time Detective (1998–1999)
Talita "T.P." Aleni (née Palele), the Tongan wife of Sam Aleni, portrayed 1993–1994 by Elizabeth Skeen in the New Zealand soap opera Shortland Street
Te Aroha Pene, a character in New Zealand kidult horror-fantasy television show The Killian Curse (2006–2008)
Thomas Malcolm Pickles (Tommy), the protagonist of the animated children's television series Rugrats and spinoff series All Grown Up!
Referenced in the title of All Grown Up!, season 5, episode 3, "TP+KF" (2007)

Sports

Triple play, an act in baseball
Tighthead prop, a position in rugby union
Triple Peel, a croquet manoeuvre
Training partner

Association football (soccer)

, an annual competition
, e.g. in: TP Ostrovia Ostrów Wielkopolski (Towarzystwo Piłkarskie Ostrovia 1909 Ostrów Wielkopolski), a Polish football club
Tullinge TP FK (AKA Tullinge Triangel Pojkar FK, Tullinge TP Football; founded 1944), a Swedish football club based in Tullinge, Stockholm County
(often used by teams who went undefeated), as in:
TP Akwembe, Libreville, Estuaire, Gabon
TP Mazembe, Lubumbashi, Haut-Katanga, DR Congo
TP Mazembe (women), Lubumbashi, Haut-Katanga, DR Congo
TP Molunge, Mbandaka, Équateur, DR Congo
TP Mystère, Republic of the Congo
TP USCA Bangui (), Bangui, Bangui, Central African Republic
, as in:
Kotkan Työväen Palloilijat (KTP), Kotka, Kaakkois-Suomi
Oulun Työväen Palloilijat (OTP), Oulu, Pohjois-Suomi
Teams in the list of football clubs in Finland – T, e.g.:
Tornion Pallo -47, Tornio, Pohjois-Suomi
Toijalan Pallo-49, Toijala, Akaa, Tampere

Automobile/car racing

TP Formula, a team based in Italy
Team Penske, an American professional auto racing organization

Places

Toa Payoh (, ), a planning area and residential town in Singapore
Tai Po (), an area in Hong Kong
Tunjungan Plaza, a shopping center in Indonesia
Third Pole (AKA the Hindu Kush-Karakoram-Himalayan system, HKKH), a mountainous region in the Tibetan Plateau
Portuguese Timor (), a defunct territory (1702–1975)
means 'city' in Vietnamese, such as in:
(TP.HCM), Vietnam's largest city
Tigné Point, Sliema, Malta (postal code: TP)
Province of Trapani, Sicily, Italy (ISO 3166 code: IT-TP; vehicle registration code: TP)

Transportation

Thunder Power (), a Taiwanese automobile manufacturer
Transport Pool Inc., the original name (1968) of TIP Group, a Dutch international provider of transportation and logistics equipment services, such as trucks and trailers
Trigonometrical point (AKA triangulation station), fixed surveying station, e.g.:
TP Rauenberg, in Tempelhof, Berlin, Germany, formerly used for mapping purposes
Turnpike, AKA toll road, road that requires a fee to use
Taunsa–Panjnad Link Canal, Punjab, Pakistan

Aviation/planes

TAP Air Portugal (IATA airline code: TP)
Turboprop, gas-turbine engine that drives an aircraft propeller
e.g. Diemech TP 100 (), an American turboprop and turboshaft aircraft engine
see also Swallow TP, a trainer aircraft produced by the Swallow Airplane Company in the United States from 1928

Maritime/watercrafts

US Army TP Harbor Tug Type V ship in WWII ("TP" stands for Tug/Passenger)
TP 52, a class of yacht used for racing
Italian submarine Topazio, a Sirena-class submarine built for the during the early 1930s

Rail/trains

Train protection system, a railway technical installation to ensure safe operation despite human error, e.g.:
Automatic train protection (ATP)
Train Protection & Warning System (TPWS)
Texas and Pacific Railway (1871–1976), United States
Tanjung Priok Line, a commuter rail line in Jakarta, Indonesia
SJ Tp, a diesel-hydraulic locomotive operated by Swedish State Railways ()
TransPennine Trains Limited (reporting mark: TP), trading as TransPennine Express (TPE), a British state-owned train operating company
Tiruchirappalli Fort Railway Station (station code: TP), a railway station in Tiruchirappalli, Tamil Nadu, India

STEM

Psychology and neuroscience

Temporal pole, a part of the human brain
Transpersonal psychology (AKA spiritual psychology), the study of integrating spiritual and transcendent human experiences with modern psychology
Toulouse-Piéron Cancellation Test, developed by Louis Charles Henri Piéron and Édouard Toulouse

Medical practitioners

Transfusion practitioner (AKA haemovigilance officer, patient blood management nurse)

Biochemistry

Turgor pressure, the hydrostatic force within cells that pushes the plasma membrane against the cell wall
Serum total protein, a clinical chemistry parameter
TP-003, an experimental anti-anxiety drug with formula C23H16F3N3O
TP-13, an experimental anti-anxiety drug with formula C19H19N7O
Testosterone propionate, an androgen and anabolic steroid (AAS) medication
Thromboxane prostanoid receptor, a protein found in humans and other mammals
Thymidine phosphorylase, an enzyme and catalyst
Triose phosphate (AKA glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate, 3-phosphoglyceraldehyde), an intermediate metabolite in cellular respiration and photosynthesis
MT-TP (mitochondrially encoded tRNA proline), a transfer ribonucleic acid, encoded in humans by the mitochondrial MT-TP gene

Chemistry

Trispyrazolylborate (Tp−), a chemical ligand (or binding agent)
Tp ligands, AKA hydrotris(pyrazolyl)borates, a class of scorpionate ligands
Triphosphate, a salt or ester of polymeric oxyanions with 3 tetrahedral PO4 units linked by sharing oxygen atoms
Total phosphorus, a measure of the amount of element 15 present
Thermoplastic polyester, a kind of polymer

Electronics and computing

.tp, the 1997–2015 Internet domain of Timor-Leste (East Timor)
Twisted pair cabling, in telecommunications
Test point, in electronics
Tidal power, technology to extract energy from tides
tp, system pulse duration, in glossary of power electronics
The value determined by a throttle position sensor, an engine air-intake measurement device
Thermal pad (computing) (AKA thermally conductive pad), pre-formed rectangle of solid material to aid conduction of heat
Technical preview or technology preview, the beta testing stage of the software release life cycle
Turbo Pascal (initial release 1983), a software development system by Borland for the programming language Pascal
Transaction processing, computation divided into individual, indivisible operations
Teleprocessing monitor (AKA Transaction Processing Monitor, TP Monitor), control program that monitors data transfers between terminals
Transport protocol, a kind of communication standard
Transport profile, e.g. Multiprotocol Label Switching - Transport Profile (MPLS-TP)
Central Information Transparency Platform, European Network of Transmission System Operators for Electricity

Electronics and computing companies and brands

Sony Vaio TP series (2007–2008), living room PCs
TP-Link, a global manufacturer of computer networking products
TP Vision, a developer, manufacturer, and marketer of Philips TV sets, displays, and LEDwalls, in Amsterdam, Netherlands
Telekomunikacja Polska (now Orange Polska), a Polish telecommunications provider
Telecom Portugal, a former Portuguese telecommunications company, that merged with Telefones de Lisboa e Porto, the successor to the Anglo-Portuguese Telephone Company
Tata Power Company Limited, an Indian electric utility and electricity generation company

Astronomy

Time of perihelion passage (tp), an orbital element (parameter)
Thermally pulsing asymptotic giant branch (TP-AGB), a phase of some stars' lifecycle
The modern provisional designation in astronomy for the 15th (or with a suffix, 40th, 65th, etc.) minor planet discovered in the first half of October of each year

Mathematics

Tensor product, a mathematical operation between two vector spaces
True positive, a correct 'yes' result

Other uses in science and technology

Technology platform, e.g. European Technology Platform (ETP), a part of the Framework Programmes for Research and Technological Development
Planck time (), a unit of measurement
The Tornado Project (1970s–1990s), a risk assessment research effort by Thomas P. Grazulis

Language

tp (digraph), pronounced in Yélî Dnye as /t̪͡p/
Tibetan pinyin (, ZWPY), the official transcription system for the Tibetan language in China

Linguistics

Tense phrase, in X-bar theory
Topic/theme, what is being talked about

Politics

, a writing by Baruch Spinoza in 1675–77
Town panchayat, a type of local government in India
Township, a form of human settlement or administrative subdivision
, such as in tp-utva, a name for the Finnish Government's Ministerial Committee on Foreign and Security Policy
Third party, a minor political organization in a two-party system
Third Pole (Italy) (), a small Christian-democratic political party based in Southern Italy
The Peoples Political Party (2011–2023), a minor political party in Ontario, Canada
(1998–2011), a conservative political party in Latvia
Revolutionary Workers' Party (Trotskyist–Posadist) (, POR-TP), a Bolivian political party formed in 1963
(), a faction of the Sandinista National Liberation Front, a Nicaraguan political party founded in 1961

Law

Transfer pricing, a concept in taxation
Traffic police, cops who enforce the rules of the road

Other uses

Tagapangasiwang Pampook, now known as Area Servants (), people who oversee a Members Church of God International district referring to one Philippine province
TP-82 (), a Soviet gun carried by cosmonauts
Toilet paper (AKA bathroom tissue)
Toilet papering, covering things with it
Trade paperback, a book format
Tight passive, a kind of poker play style (see )

Miscellaneous businesses and organizations

Temasek Polytechnic, a public, further education college in Singapore
Travis Perkins, a British building materials supplier
TP ICAP Group plc (formerly Tullett Prebon), a London-based financial-services firm
Teleperformance SE, a French-based business-process outsourcer
Terre et Peuple, a cultural association in France
TP Tea (Taiwan Professional Tea, ; formerly Tea Pa Tea; founded 2005), a bubble tea shop chain based in Taichung, Taiwan