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ASP is a three-letter acronym with numerous meanings in different contexts.

Contents 1 Electronics 2 Astronomy 3 Business 4 Combat 5 Computing 6 Education 7 Entertainment 8 Medicine and biology 9 Aircraft 10 Politics 11 Sports 12 Miscellaneous

[edit] Electronics

• Analog signal processing, processing electronic signals that represent continuous variables by use of analog circuitry
• Anti-Shock Protection, a protection of an audio compact disc playback, see Electronic skip protection

[edit] Astronomy

• Astronomical Society of the Pacific
• Astronaut Support Person, a NASA astronaut responsible for monitoring the status of the Orbiter while it undergoes testing and maintenance

[edit] Business

• Average Selling Price

[edit] Combat

• ASP (handgun), the name for a custom-designed 9 mm pistol based on the S&W Model 39
• Advanced Sound-ranging Programme, a portable, passive, acoustic sensing system for detecting and locating the source of artillery fire and loud detonations, operated by the Royal Artillery
• A type of extending baton often carried by police forces. ASP, Inc. is actually a brand that manufactures this type of weapon (the ASP tactical baton), and the brand has come to casually refer to all telescopic batons.
• Ammunition Supply Point,"ammo dump" storage facility for A&E Class V(W) items.

[edit] Computing

• Active Server Pages, a web-scripting interface by Microsoft
• Advanced Simple Profile, an MPEG-4 video codec profile
• Answer set programming, a declarative programming paradigm
• Application service provider, a business that provides computer-based services to customers over a network
• Apple System Profiler, Apple Computer's system profiler
• AppleTalk Session Protocol, a session layer protocol used by the AppleTalk suite of protocols
• Association of Shareware Professionals
• ASPLinux, Russian Fedora Core-based GNU/Linux distribution
• Attached Support Processor, an IBM mainframe that is attached to another of higher power and that is running Automated Spooling Program, a program that is also called Automated Spooling Package. See MVT
• Automated Spooling Program, one of the two early IBM 360/370 mainframe programs for spooling print output and controlling input/output devices. ASP eventually evolved into Job Entry Subsystem 3 (JES3). The other was Houston Automated Spooling Program (HASP) which evolved into JES2.
• Auxiliary Storage Pool, a group of disk drives in the IBM i (aka OS/400) operating system

[edit] Education

• American School of Palestine
• American School of Paris, an American/International K-12 school located in the suburbs of Paris
• Alta Scuola Politecnica, a school of excellence founded by Politecnico di Milano and Politecnico di Torino
• Australian Students Prize

[edit] Entertainment

• ASP (band), the name of a German Neue Deutsche Härte/Alternative/Gothic band
• All Shall Perish, a deathcore band
• Archaia Studios Press, an American comic publisher
• ASP (film production company), Alain Siritzky Productions, owners of the official Emmanuelle movie and TV franchise
• Adult service provider, a provider of sexual services for consenting adults.
• Amy Sherman-Palladino, creator and former executive producer and writer on the television show Gilmore Girls

[edit] Medicine and biology

• Amnesic shellfish poisoning
• Agouti signalling peptide
• C3 (complement), a protein in the Complement system

[edit] Aircraft

• Airborne Surveillance Platform A prototype or experimental Airborne Early Warning airplane design of India

[edit] Politics

• Act of the Scottish Parliament, usually written in the lower case as asp.
• The Australian Sex Party
• Afro-Shirazi Party

[edit] Sports

• Association of Surfing Professionals
• American Soccer Pyramid
• AS Poissy in French: Amicale Sportive de Poissy, is a French football club based in Poissy (Yvelines)

[edit] Miscellaneous

• Albany Student Press
• Alice Springs Airport (IATA airport code)
• Allegany State Park
• Anglo-Saxon Protestant, as part of the acronym WASP, for White Anglo-Saxon Protestant
• Appalachia Service Project, a Christian volunteer organization operating in Central Appalachia
• Aspatria railway station, the National Rail code for the train station in the United Kingdom
• Assistant Superintendent of Police, a police rank
• Avenal State Prison in California, USA

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