MSP
MSP may refer to:
In arts and entertainment
- Manic Street Preachers, a Welsh rock band
- Mean Street Posse, a former villainous professional-wrestling faction that wrestled in the World Wrestling Federation
- MySims Party, a 2009 video game for the Wii and Nintendo DS
Businesses
- Matchstick Productions, a company producing videos of extreme sports, especially skiing
- Mathematical Sciences Publishers, a scientific publisher based in Berkeley, California
- Men's Studies Press, an academic publisher registered in Harriman, Tennessee
- MSP Intermark, a marketing consultancy firm located in San Francisco, California, US
In government and politics
Police forces
- Malabar Special Police, a paramilitary unit of the State Police of Kerala, India; equivalent to a SWAT team in the United States
- Maine State Police, state police agency for the State of Maine, U.S.
- Maryland State Police, state police agency for the State of Maryland, U.S.
- Massachusetts State Police, state police agency for the State of Massachusetts, U.S.
- Michigan State Police, state police agency for the State of Michigan, U.S.
- Minnesota State Patrol, state police agency for the State of Minnesota, U.S.
Political parties
- Moderate Party (Swedish: Moderata samlingspartiet), a Swedish political party
- Movement of Society for Peace (French: Mouvement de la société pour la paix, Arabic: Harakat Moudjtamaa As-Silm حركة مجتمع السلم, formerly called Hamas حماس), an Algerian political party
- National Salvation Party (Milli Selamet Partisi), Islamist political party in Turkey
Prisons
- Maine State Prison, a former prison in Maine
- Michigan State Prison, a former prison in Michigan
- Mississippi State Penitentiary,in Mississippi
- Missouri State Penitentiary, a former prison in Missouri
- Montana State Prison, in Montana
Other uses in government and politics
- Main-Spessart, code used on German vehicle registration plates
- Medical Services Plan of British Columbia, government-administered single-payer health insurance scheme in the Canadian province of British Columbia
- Medicare Savings Program
- Member of the Scottish Parliament
- Ministerio de Salud Pública, Uruguayan ministry of public health
Places
- Midway (Amtrak station), in St. Paul, Minnesota, United States
- Minneapolis–Saint Paul, the twin cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul and the surrounding area — the most highly populated area in Minnesota, U.S.
- Minneapolis–Saint Paul International Airport, in Hennepin County, Minnesota, U.S. (IATA airport code MSP)
In science and technology
In biology, ecology, and medicine
- Major sperm protein, the most abundant protein in nematode sperm
- Marine Spatial Planning, a process of making decisions about sustainable use of marine resources
- Merozoite surface protein, used in malaria research
- Methylation-specific PCR, a method for detecting methylated DNA sequence
In computing and information technology
- Managed service provider, a business model for providing information-technology services
- Max/MSP, max signal processing
- Message send protocol, an application-layer computing protocol used to send a short message between networking nodes on a computer network
- Message Submission Program or smmsp in Sendmail e-mail systems
- Microsoft Installer Patch Files, files downloaded from updating applications installed with Microsoft Installer and which have the .msp file extension
- Microsoft Points, the currency used on the Xbox Live and Zune marketplaces
- Microsoft Project, a project-management software program developed and sold by Microsoft
- Microsoft Student Partners, an organization of university students interested in careers in technology and showing a willingness to help others learn about Microsoft technology
- MSP (file format), a pre-bmp picture format readable in the oldest versions of Microsoft Paint
- TI MSP430, a mixed-signal microcontroller family from Texas Instruments
- Mobility Services Platform, a server based software to manage Symbol/Motorola mobile computers
- Mail Service Provider, a mailbox provider
- Managed Service Point, such as a demarcation point or equipment room/location
Other uses in science and technology
- Mechanically separated poultry, a paste-like meat product
- Millisecond pulsar, in astronomy, a pulsar with a rotational period in the range of 1-10 milliseconds
- Micro-spectrophotometer, an instrument used to measure the UV, visible, and near-infrared spectra of microscopic objects
- Monosodium phosphate, a chemical compound of sodium with a phosphate counterion
- MSP Groza silent pistol, a double-barreled firearm designed in the Soviet Union in 1972
Other uses
- Moscow Finnish School (Moskovan suomalainen peruskoulu)
- Managing Successful Programmes; a Best practice model programme management methodology originally sponsored by the UK Office of Government Commerce (OGC). See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Government_Commerce.