# SP

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**Sp** or **SP** may refer to:

## Arts and entertainment

- /sp/, the sports board on the Internet forum [4chan](/source/4chan)
- [*SP* (TV series)](/source/SP_(TV_series)), a Japanese TV series
- [Game Boy Advance SP](/source/Game_Boy_Advance_SP), an upgraded version of the Game Boy Advance handheld video game system, released in 2003
- Standard Play, a magnetic tape speed used for [VHS](/source/VHS)
- [Story Pirates](/source/Story_Pirates), a podcast
- [Subdominant parallel](/source/Subdominant_parallel), a type of musical chord
- SP, producer stage name of [Mumzy Stranger](/source/Mumzy_Stranger) (born 1984), British rapper
- SP, stage name of [Krisztián Éder](/source/Kriszti%C3%A1n_%C3%89der) (born 1988), Hungarian rapper
- *[South Park](/source/South_Park)*, an animated American television series
- [The Smashing Pumpkins](/source/The_Smashing_Pumpkins), an American alternative rock band
- The SP line of [digital samplers](/source/Sampler_(musical_instrument)) marketed by [Roland Corporation](/source/Roland_Corporation) under its own name and the [Boss](/source/Boss_Corporation) brand, most notably the [Boss SP-303](/source/Boss_SP-303) (2001) and [Roland SP-404](/source/Roland_SP-404) (2005)

## Businesses and organizations

- [*SP* (magazine)](/source/SP_(magazine)), illustrated news magazine in Spain between 1957 and 1972
- [SP Technical Research Institute of Sweden](/source/SP_Technical_Research_Institute_of_Sweden)
- [ScottishPower](/source/ScottishPower), Scottish energy company
- Szkoła Podstawowa ("[primary school](/source/Primary_school)" in polish)
- [Service provider](/source/Service_provider), company that provides organizations with consulting, legal, real estate, education, communications, storage, processing, and many other services
- [Silicon Power](/source/Silicon_Power), Taiwan-based manufacturer of flash memory products and other industrial grade computer products
- [Singapore Polytechnic](/source/Singapore_Polytechnic), polytechnic in Dover, Singapore
- [Státní podnik](/source/St%C3%A1tn%C3%AD_podnik) ("state business"), former Czechoslovak entity type
- [Story point](/source/Story_point), term used in [agile software development](/source/Agile_software_development) methodologies
- *[Suara Pembaruan](/source/Suara_Pembaruan)*, former Indonesian newspaper

### Government and military

- [Superintendent of police (India)](/source/Superintendent_of_police_(India)), a senior rank in the Indian police and law enforcement agencies
- A US Navy hull registration number prefix: [Section patrol (SP)](/source/Section_patrol_craft#Section_patrol_(SP))
- [Security Police (Japan)](/source/Security_Police_(Japan)), for VIP protection
- [Shore patrol](/source/Shore_patrol), UK and US naval security personnel

### Political parties

- [Centre Party (Norway)](/source/Centre_Party_(Norway)) (*Senterpartiet*)
- [Socialist Party](/source/Socialist_Party) or Social Democratic Party in many places, including: - [Socialist Party of Albania](/source/Socialist_Party_of_Albania) - [Samajwadi Party](/source/Samajwadi_Party), in India - [Socialist Party (Netherlands)](/source/Socialist_Party_(Netherlands)) (*Socialistische Partij*) - [Socialistische Partij Anders](/source/Socialistische_Partij_Anders) (*Socialistische Partij*), a historical name for the sp.a in Belgium - [Socialist Party (Netherlands, interbellum)](/source/Socialist_Party_(Netherlands,_interbellum)) (*Socialistische Partij*) 1918–1929 - [Social Democratic Party of Switzerland](/source/Social_Democratic_Party_of_Switzerland)
- [Swatantra Party](/source/Swatantra_Party), an Indian classical liberal political party 1959–1974

### Religious organizations

- [Piarists](/source/Piarists) or *Ordo Clericorum Regularium pauperum Matris Dei Scholarum Piarum*, a Catholic order
- [Südtiroler Pfadfinderschaft](/source/S%C3%BCdtiroler_Pfadfinderschaft), a Catholic scouting association in Italy

## Places

- [SP postcode area](/source/SP_postcode_area), UK, the Salisbury postcode area
- [São Paulo (state)](/source/S%C3%A3o_Paulo_(state)), a state in Brazil - [São Paulo](/source/S%C3%A3o_Paulo), capital of the state and the most populous city of Brazil

## Science and technology

- sp orbitals, in physics, an instance of atomic [orbital hybridisation](/source/Orbital_hybridisation)
- [Self-propelled (disambiguation)](/source/Self-propelled_(disambiguation))
- [Soft-point bullet](/source/Soft-point_bullet), a type of ammunition
- [Spontaneous potential](/source/Spontaneous_potential) differences in the Earth
- Stated Preference, a [choice modelling](/source/Choice_modelling#Stated_preference) method
- [Surface plasmon](/source/Surface_plasmon), a type of electron oscillation along metallic surfaces
- A [Unified Soil Classification System](/source/Unified_Soil_Classification_System) symbol for *sand, poorly graded*

### Biology and medicine

- [Sp. (biology)](/source/Sp._(biology)), abbreviation for species
- [Simulated patient](/source/Simulated_patient), for medical training
- [Substance P](/source/Substance_P), a neuropeptide
- Status post, notes about [sequelae](/source/Sequela) with reference to their cause

### Computing and telecommunications

- [IBM RS/6000 SP](/source/IBM_RS/6000_SP), supercomputer series
- [Service pack](/source/Service_pack), software update
- [Stack pointer](/source/Stack_pointer)
- [Stored procedure](/source/Stored_procedure)
- [Synthetic programming](/source/Synthetic_programming)

### Mathematics

- [Trace (linear algebra)](/source/Trace_(linear_algebra)), or "Spur" (German), of a square matrix
- *Sp*(*n*) and *Sp*(2*n*,*F*), a [symplectic group](/source/Symplectic_group) in mathematics

## Transportation

- [SATA Air Acores](/source/SATA_Air_Acores) (IATA code SP)
- [Saidapet railway station](/source/Saidapet_railway_station) (station code SP)
- [Southern Pacific Railroad](/source/Southern_Pacific_Railroad) (reporting mark SP)

## Other uses

- [25 metre pistol](/source/25_metre_pistol), a shooting sport formerly known as *sport pistol*
- [Aircraft registration prefix](/source/List_of_aircraft_registration_prefixes) for Poland
- s.p., *[sine prole](/source/Sine_prole)* (Latin: "without issue" (i.e., having no children), full form d.s.p. *decessit sine prole*, "died without issue")
- Ś.P. [*Świętej pamięci*](https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%9Awi%C4%99tej_pami%C4%99ci) meaning holy memory is written on many Polish gravestones
- [Provincial road (Italy)](/source/Provincial_road_(Italy)) (*Strada Provinciale*), a category of provincial [roads in Italy](/source/Roads_in_Italy)
- [September](/source/September)
- [Seri Pahlawan Gagah Perkasa](/source/Seri_Pahlawan_Gagah_Perkasa) (S.P.), a Malaysian military decoration
- [Spain](/source/Spain), particularly used on maps to denote Spanish possessions, territories, etc.
- [Spanish language](/source/Spanish_language)
- [Special (disambiguation)](/source/Special_(disambiguation))
- [Spelling](/source/Spelling), especially to note a spelling error
- Spurius, the Roman praenomen; see [Spurius (disambiguation)](/source/Spurius_(disambiguation))
- [Starting pitcher](/source/Starting_pitcher), a team's first pitcher in a game of baseball or softball
- [Suppressive person](/source/Suppressive_person), in Scientology
- [Starting price](/source/Starting_price), odds applicable on a particular entry in a horse race (or other race) as the race is about to start
- [Superintendent (police)](/source/Superintendent_(police)), a rank in British police services and in most English-speaking Commonwealth nations
- SP, an abbreviation for the [Syrian pound](/source/Syrian_pound)
- ["Shot put" athletics abbreviation](/source/Athletics_abbreviations#Events) in track and field
- [Nikon SP](/source/Nikon_SP), a 1957 35 mm rangefinder film camera

## See also

- [SPs](/source/SPs)
- [SPS (disambiguation)](/source/SPS_(disambiguation))

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