MP

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Contents 1 Abbreviation 2 Culture and entertainment 3 People 4 Places 5 Science and technology 6 Other

MP or mp is a two-letter abbreviation which may be:

[edit] Abbreviation

• Machine pistol
• Manu propria, Latin for with one's own hand
• Martinair (IATA airline designator or reservation code: MP)
• Member of Parliament
• Metropolitan Police
• Military police
• Missouri Pacific Railroad (AAR reporting marks MP).
• Modus ponens, Latin for mode that affirms
• Mp (digraph)

[edit] Culture and entertainment

• Magic points, in role-playing games
• Mana points, units in role-playing games
• Mario Party series to Nintendo 64, Game Boy Advance and Gamecube
• Metroid Prime, a first-person shooter for Nintendo GameCube
• Mikkelin Palloilijat, a Finnish football (soccer) club
• Mission Possible, a Christian based children's ministry
• Mission Praise, a Christian hymn book
• Monster Party, a game for Nintendo Entertainment System (NES)
• Monty Python
• MP, A religious figure

[edit] People

• Mike Portnoy, drummer for progressive metal band Dream Theater

[edit] Places

• Madhya Pradesh, a state in India
• Murdock-Portal Elementary School, in San Jose, California
• Northern Mariana Islands (ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code and U.S. postal abbreviations: MP)

[edit] Science and technology

• Market price
• Massive parallelism
• Mathematical physics
• Megapixel
• Megapond, a non-SI Metric unit of force, also known as a tonne-force
• Melting point
• Merge Point, a term used in MPLS local protection (also called MPLS Fast Reroute)
• Microprocessor
• Milepost
• Minimalist program, a syntactic theory in linguistics
• Mprize, in biogerontology medical research, M referring to either 'Methuselah' or 'Mouse'
• Multi-platform
• Multiplayer
• Multiprocessing, in computers
• Windows Media Player

[edit] Other

• MP, the subsidiary of EHEIM GmbH & Co. KG that manufactures aquariums.
• Prefix for rubber-tyred rolling stock on Paris Métro (eg MP 59, MP 73, MP 89 and MP 05)