USP may refer to:

Government institutions

  • Unité Spéciale de la Police, Luxembourg
  • United States Penitentiary, a prison
  • Utah State Prison, Draper, US

Math and science

  • Ultra-short period planets, orbiting planets with periods shorter than one day
  • Ultraspiracle protein, a part of the ecdysone receptor
  • Universal stress protein, a protein superfamily
  • USp (2n), a symplectic group in the mathematics of group theory
  • USP grade, a level of chemical purity

Technology

  • United States patent
  • Heckler & Koch USP pistol
  • Ultrashort pulse laser, a laser that emits ultrashort pulses of light, generally of the order of femtoseconds to hundreds of femtoseconds
  • Universal Storage Platform, brand name for a Hitachi Data Systems line of enterprise storage arrays
  • Unified shader processors, used in GPUs
  • USP (Victoria), a Russian satellite bus

Universities

  • University of São Paulo, a public university in Brazil
  • University of the Sciences in Philadelphia, United States
  • University of the South Pacific, a public university with a number of locations in Oceania
  • University of Southeastern Philippines, an educational institution in Mindanao, Philippines
  • University of Southern Philippines Foundation, an educational institution in Cebu, Philippines
  • University Scholars Program, a scholarly community at Duke University; see John Hope Franklin Center for Interdisciplinary and International Studies

Other uses

  • Unified settlement planning
  • Unique selling proposition / Unique selling point, in marketing
  • United States Pharmacopeia
  • Urs Samyuktha Paksha, an Indian political party
  • Useful space principle, in the game of bridge
  • Uttama Seva Padakkama, a military decoration in Sri Lanka
  • Uspantek language (ISO 639 code: usp), a Mayan language
  • Utrecht Science Park, in The Netherlands

See also

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