MSP

MSP may refer to:

Music

• Manic Street Preachers, a Welsh rock band

People

• Magnus Svensson Pääjärvi, a Swedish ice-hockey player.

Politics

• Member of the Scottish Parliament, title given to any one of the 129 individuals elected to serve in the Scottish Parliament
• Moderate Party (Swedish: Moderata samlingspartiet), the Swedish Conservatives
• 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
• Magyar Süti Párt, Hungarian political party (non-official)

Business

• Matchstick Productions, a company producing videos of extreme sports — especially of skiing
• Men's Studies Press, an academic publisher registered in Harriman, Tennessee
• MSP Intermark, a marketing-consultancy firm located in San Francisco, CA
• Managing Successful Programmes, (in the UK) the OGC approach to programme management

Computing and networking

• Managed Service Point, such as a Demarcation point or equipment room/location
• Managed service provider, a business model for providing information-technology services
• 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 and MSP/EX, Fujitsu operating systems
• MSP (file format), a pre-bmp picture format readable in the oldest versions of Microsoft Paint
• Multiplex Section Protection, an Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) link-protection 1+1 fail-over mechanism
• Mobility Services Platform, a server based software to manage Symbol/Motorola mobile computers

Food

• Mechanically separated poultry, a paste-like meat product
• Monosodium phosphate, a chemical compound of sodium with a phosphate counterion

Places

• Minneapolis-St. Paul, the twin cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul and the surrounding area — the most highly populated area in Minnesota, USA
  • Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Airport, IATA airport code
  • Midway (Amtrak station), in St. Paul, Minnesota, United States
• Mississippi State Penitentiary, a prison in Mississippi

Police

• Malabar Special Police, a paramilitary unit of the State Police of Kerala, India; equivalent to a SWAT team in the United States
• Maryland State Police, official state police force of the State of Maryland, USA
• Massachusetts State Police, an agency of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts' Executive Office of Public Safety and Security, responsible for criminal-law enforcement and traffic-vehicle regulation
• Michigan State Police, state police agency for the State of Michigan, USA

Science

• Major sperm protein, the most abundant protein in nematode sperm
• Manganese stabilizing protein, also known as PsbO, an important protein in the Photosystem II of photosynthetic life forms such as plants and cyanobacteria
• Merozoite surface protein, in malaria study
• Methylation-specific PCR, a method for detecting methylated DNA sequence.
• Millisecond pulsar, in astronomy, a pulsar with a rotational period in the range of 1-10 milliseconds.
• MultiScale Physics departement of Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands

Technology

• Mixed-signal processor, see mixed-signal integrated circuit
• TI MSP430
• Microspectrophotometer: scientific instrument used to measure the UV-visible-NIR absorbance, reflectance and emission spectra of microscopic objects. One application is to measure the spectra, including color, of trace evidence (such as individual fibers, glass fragments and paint chips) in forensics.

Other

• Max/MSP, max signal processing
• Mean Street Posse, a former villainous professional-wrestling faction that wrestled in the World Wrestling Federation
• Medical Services Plan, government-administered single-payer health insurance scheme in the Canadian province of British Columbia
• Medicare Savings Program
• Motor Starter Protector, current, voltage, and temperature protection for 3-phase motors.
• MySims Party, a 2009 video game for the Wii and Nintendo DS
• The Maserati Stability Programme, Maserati's trade name of its Electronic stability control
• Malay (Special Programme), a Third Language programme offered by the Ministry of Education (Singapore)
• Military Spouse Preference, employment for spouses of members of the Armed Forces