MP, Mp, mp, or .mp may refer to:
Arts and entertainment
[edit]- M.P. (opera), an 1811 comic opera by Thomas Moore and Charles Edward Horn
- Magic point, or mana point, in role-playing games
- Mezzo-piano (mp), a musical dynamic meaning "medium-quiet" or "moderately-quiet"
- Multiplayer, in gaming
- Multipremier, a Mexican television network
- MusiquePlus, whose station identification is "mp"
- Mario Party, a series of party vídeo games by Nintendo
- MP signature on works by Australian artist Margaret Preston
Businesses and organizations
[edit]Government
[edit]- Member of parliament
- Ministry of Planning, Budget, and Management (Brazil), a cabinet-level federal ministry in Brazil
- Public Ministry (Portugal) (Portuguese: Ministério Público), the body of the Judiciary of Portugal
- Public Prosecutor's Office (Brazil) (Portuguese: Ministério Público), the Brazilian body of independent public prosecutors
Police
[edit]- Military police, law enforcement agencies connected with, or part of, the military of a state
- Mumbai Police, the police force of the city of Mumbai, Maharashtra
- Municipal police, law enforcement agencies that are under the control of local government
- Metropolitan police, municipal police of major metropolitan areas
Politics
[edit]- Member of Parliament (United Kingdom), individual elected to serve in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom
- Member of Parliament (Canada), individual elected to serve in the House of Commons of the Parliament of Canada
- Member of Parliament (Australia), individual elected to serve in the House of Commons of Australia
- Member of Parliament (New Zealand), individual elected to serve in the House of Commons of New Zealand
- Member of Parliament (South Africa), individual elected to serve in the House of Commons of the Parliament of South Africa
- Progressive Movement (Cameroon) (French: Mouvement Progressiste), a minor opposition political party in Cameroon
- Green Party (Sweden) (Swedish: Miljöpartiet), a political party in Sweden based upon green politics
- Member of Parliament (Sri Lanka), individual elected to serve in the Parliament of Sri Lanka
Other businesses and organizations
[edit]- Martinair (IATA airline designator
MP
), Dutch cargo airline - Mikkelin Palloilijat, a Finnish football (soccer) club
- Ming Pao, a Hong Kong newspaper
- Missouri Pacific Railroad (reporting mark
MP
), one of the first railroads in the United States west of the Mississippi River
Law
[edit]- Manu propria, a Latin expression meaning by one's own hand
- Provisory measure, in Brazilian law (Portuguese: medida provisória)
- Missing person
Linguistics
[edit]- Mp (digraph), in many African languages
- Malayo-Polynesian languages of Southeast Asia
- Minimalist program, a syntactic theory in linguistics
Places
[edit]- Madhya Pradesh, a state in India
- Manipur Pradesh, a term used to refer to Manipur by various political parties
- Mandatory Palestine, a former British protectorate
- Northern Mariana Islands (ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code and U.S. postal abbreviation
MP
), an insular area and commonwealth of the United States
Science and technology
[edit]Computing
[edit]- .mp, Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Northern Mariana Islands
- Management Point, in the Advanced Client of Microsoft's System Center Configuration Manager
- Massive parallelism (disambiguation)
- Media player (disambiguation)
- Media processor, a type of digital signal processor designed to deal with streaming data in real-time
- Megapixel, a unit of a million pixels
- Merge Point, in the MPLS local protection approach to network resiliency
- Microprocessor, a computer processor with a minimal number of integrated circuits
- Microsoft Project, project-management software
- Multilink Protocol (or Multilink PPP), a method for spreading traffic across multiple point-to-point protocol connections
- Multi-platform, describing software that is implemented on multiple computer platforms
- Multiprocessing, the use of two or more central processing units within a single computer system
Mathematics
[edit]- Maximum parsimony (phylogenetics), in statistical analysis
- Modus ponens, in propositional logic, a Latin expression meaning "mode that affirms"
Physics
[edit]- Megapond (Mp), a non-SI Metric unit of force, also known as a tonne-force
- Melting point, the temperature at which a solid becomes a liquid
- mp, the mass of a proton
Other uses in science and technology
[edit]- Machine pistol, typically a handgun-style machine gun, capable of fully automatic or burst fire
- Macrophage, a type of white blood cell that engulfs and digests cellular debris, foreign substances, microbes and cancer cells
- Mammal Paleogene zone, a system of biostratigraphic zones in the stratigraphic record used to correlate mammal-bearing fossil localities of the Paleogene period of Europe
- Meralgia paraesthetica (MP), a sensation of numbness in the outer thigh
- Methylphenidate, a stimulant medication
- Microprinting (MP), a method of printing very finely as an anti-counterfeiting mechanism
- Møller–Plesset perturbation theory, a post-Hartree–Fock method used in computational chemistry
- Monoprinting (M/P), a type of printmaking producing a single print
- Movement protein, proteins encoded by plant viruses to facilitate cell-to-cell transmission
Sport
[edit]- Mikkelin Palloilijat (MP), a Finnish football club
- MP Motorsport, a Dutch auto racing team
Other uses
[edit]- Marka polska, a historical Polish money unit
- Masterpoints, awarded for successful performance at contract bridge; see Glossary of contract bridge terms
- Matchpoints, a method of scoring in contract bridge; see Glossary of contract bridge terms
- Mile post
- Roman mile (Latin: mille passuum)
See also
[edit]- MP, a brand of Russian firearms by Izhevsk Mechanical Plant, including:
- MP-71
- MP-412 REX
- MP-443 Grach, (Pistolet Yarygina)
- MP-444 (Bagira)
- MP-445 (Varyag)
- MP-446 Viking
- MP-448 Skyph
- MP, one of several models of rubber-tyred rolling stock on the Paris Métro, notably:
- File formats developed by the Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG):
- MPS (disambiguation)
- Metropolitan Police Service (MPS), the police force of Greater London
- Metacarpophalangeal joint (MCP), situated between the metacarpal bones and the proximal phalanges of the digits