SP

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SP may refer to:

Business and commerce

• IATA airline designator for SATA Air Acores
• SP Technical Research Institute of Sweden
• Southern Pacific Railroad reporting marks
• Starting prices, a betting term in the United Kingdom
• Státní podník ("state business"), a bygone Czechoslovakian state designation for a business entity

States

• São Paulo, a state in Brazil

Computing and technology

• Scalable POWERparallel, IBM's SP and SP2
• Service pack
• Service Provider
• stack pointer, a term used in computing
• Stored procedure, a program stored in a database
• Game Boy Advance SP, an upgraded version of the Game Boy Advance

Entertainment

• SP (TV series), a Japanese TV series based on security police

Locations

• SP postcode area; the Salisbury postcode area in the UK
• Singapore Polytechnic

Mathematics

• Sp(n) and Sp(2n,F), a term used in mathematics to denote a symplectic group or its corresponding Lie algebra
• Spur, a German term for the trace of a square matrix in linear algebra

Medicine

• Simulated patient or standardized patient

Military

• Soft point bullet, a type of ammo
• Seri Pahlawan Gagah Perkasa (S.P.), highest gallantry decoration of Malaysia.

Occupations

• Superintendent of Police

Politics

• Centre Party (Norway) (Senterpartiet)
• Socialist Party or Social Democratic Party in many places
  • Socialist Party of Albania
  • Samajwadi Party, a party in India
  • Socialistische Partij (SP), a current political party in the Netherlands
  • Socialistische Partij (sp.a), a historical name for the sp.a in Belgium
  • Socialistische Partij (SP), a historical political party in the Netherlands (1918–1929)
  • Social Democratic Party of Switzerland

Religion

• Suppressive Person, a term used in Scientology
• Scholarum Piarum (Pious Schools), short for Ordo Clericorum Regularium pauperum Matris Dei Scholarum Piarum, aka the Piarists, a Catholic religious order

Science

• sp., an abbreviation for species used in place of a specific epithet in a species name
• sp orbitals, an instance of orbital hybridisation
• Substance P, a neuropeptide

Scouting Organizations

• Südtiroler Pfadfinderschaft, a Scout Association in South Tyrol

Sports

• 25 metre pistol, a shooting sport formerly known as sport pistol
• /sp/, the sports board on the Internet forum 4chan

Terminology

• a USCS symbol for sand, poorly graded
• Spontaneous potential, a measurement taken by oil industry well loggers to characterise rock formation properties
• Stated Preference, a Choice modelling method
• Strada Provinciale, a category of provincial roads in Italy
• Starting price, odds applicable on a horse race as the race is about to start
• s.p., sine prole (Latin: "without issue" [i.e., no children])

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