MP

MP or mp may refer to:

Culture

• Malayo-Polynesian languages
• Monoprinting (M/P), a type of printmaking

Geography

• Madhya Pradesh, a state in India
• Northern Mariana Islands (ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code and U.S. postal abbreviation MP)

Politics and law

• Member of Parliament
• Ministério Público (disambiguation)
• Manu propria, a Latin expression for with one's own hand
• Provisory measure in Brazilian law (medida provisória)
• Miljöpartiet, the Green Party of Sweden
• Progressive Movement (Cameroon) (Mouvement Progressiste)

Police

• Metropolitan police
  • Metropolitan Police Service, the police force of Greater London
• Military police
• Municipal police
• Mumbai Police

Industry

• Mass production
• Mooring post
• Tie (engineering) or mending plate
• Martinair IATA airline designator or reservation code
• Missouri Pacific Railroad reporting mark
• Mueller and Pfleger, subsidiary of aquarium suppliers Eheim
• Rubber-tyred rolling stock on the Paris Métro:
  • MP 59
  • MP 73
  • MP 89
  • MP 05

Science and technology

• Mathematical physics
• Market price in economics
• Minimalist Program, a syntactic theory in linguistics
• Møller–Plesset perturbation theory, a post-Hartree–Fock method used in computational chemistry.
• European Mammal Paleogene zones, a unit of the geologic time scale

Mathematics

• Modus ponens, a Latin expression for mode that affirms
• Maximum parsimony, a term used in statistical analyses

Physics

• Melting point
• Megapond, a non-SI Metric unit of force, also known as a tonne-force
• Proton mass (symbol m_p)

Computing

• .mp, Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Northern Mariana Islands
• File formats developed by the Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG):
  • MP3
  • MP4
• Megapixel
• Microprocessor
• Multiprocessing
• Massive parallelism
• Multi-platform
• Media player (disambiguation)
• Microsoft Project
• Multilink Protocol
• Merge Point, a term used in MPLS local protection (also called MPLS Fast Reroute)

Biology

• Mprize, in biogerontology medical research, M referring to either 'Methuselah' or 'Mouse'
• Middle phalanx, a finger bone
• Metacarpophalangeal joint, more commonly abbreviated MCP
• Movement protein, proteins encoded by plant viruses to facilitate cell-to-cell transmission

Entertainment

Literature

• M.P. (play), an 1811 play by Thomas Moore
• Moneypenny, a fictional character in the James Bond novels and films

Music

• Mezzo-piano (mp), a musical dynamic meaning "medium-quiet" or "moderately-quiet"
• Meat Puppets, a musical group

Film and television

• Film or motion picture
• Monty Python
• Multipremier, a Mexican pay television network
• Melrose Place (1992 TV series), a US drama series which aired on the FOX network from 1992–1999
• Melrose Place (2009 TV series), an updated version of the original series which has aired on The CW Television Network since 2009
• Match Point, a 2005 film
• Mohawk Productions, a production company

Gaming

• Magic points, in role-playing games
• Multiplayer gaming
• Mario Party series for the Nintendo 64, Game Boy Advance, Gamecube, Wii and DS
• Max Payne
• Metroid Prime, a first-person adventure video game for Nintendo GameCube and Wii
• Microsoft Points
• Miles Prower, character in the Sonic the Hedgehog series nicknamed Tails
• Monster Party, a game for the Nintendo Entertainment System

Sport

• Mikkelin Palloilijat, a Finnish football (soccer) club
• Manny Pacquiao, Philippine world champion boxer

Other

• Milepost
• Roman mile (mille passuum)
• Machine pistol
• Microprinting, sometimes labeled with an MP monogram
• Missionary position
• Mp (digraph)