SP

SP may refer to:

Business and commerce

• SaskPower, a company in Canada
• IATA airline designator for SATA Air Acores
• SP Technical Research Institute of Sweden
• Schering-Plough, a pharmaceutical company now merged with Merck & Co.
• Southern Pacific Railroad reporting marks
• Starting prices, a betting term in the United Kingdom

Computing and technology

• Scalable POWERparallel, IBM's SP and SP2
• Service pack
• Service Provider
• Sharepoint
• Short Play
  • Short Play, a vinyl record (or single) format
  • Short Play (VCR format)
  • SP, see DVD recorder
  • SP, see digital video recorder
• Signal processor
• Single-player, a term for a single-player video game, or variation of the same
• stack pointer, a term used in computing
• Stored procedure, a program stored in a database
• Game Boy Advance SP, an upgraded version of the Game Boy Advance
• Space, a character entered from the keyboard
• Stream processing

Locations

• São Paulo (state)
• a number of places called Saint Petersburg
  • most notably Saint Petersburg (formerly Leningrad, in Russia
• Severna Park, Maryland
• Singapore Polytechnic, a polytechnic in Singapore
• Skate park
• a number of locations called South Park
• South Pole
• South Philadelphia
• South Pasadena, Florida
• South Pasadena, California
• Scotch Plains, New Jersey
• St. Pius X Seminary, Philippines
• State park

Mathematics

• Sp(n) and Sp(2n,F), a term used in mathematics to denote a symplectic group or its corresponding Lie algebra
• Spur, a German term for the trace of a square matrix in linear algebra

Medicine

• Simulated patient
• Sleep Paralysis
• Social phobia, an anxiety disorder
• standardized patient
• Speech Pathology

Military

• Self-propelled artillery
• Shore Patrol, United States Navy
• Soft point bullet, a type of ammo

Occupations

• Sapeur-pompier, the term for the French firefighters
• Security police
• State police
• Superintendent of Police

Politics

• Felicity Party (Saadet Partisi), a Turkish political party
• Secular-progressive, abbreviated S-P, a term used to describe people who advocate government independence from religious influences
• Shining Path (Communist Party of Peru), a Maoist guerrilla insurgent organization in Peru
• Social Democratic Party of Switzerland
• Socialist Party or Social Democratic Party
• Socialist Party of Albania
• Samajwadi Party, a party in India
• Samata Party, a party in India
• Saskatchewan Party
• Centre Party (Norway) (Senterpartiet)
• Socialistische Partij (SP), a current political party in The Netherlands
• Socialistische Partij (SP.A), a historical name for the SP.A in Belgium
• Socialistische Partij (SP), a historical political party in The Netherlands (1918–1929)
• Southern Party, a party in the United States

Popular culture

• SP (TV series), a Japanese TV series based on security police

Religion

• Summorum Pontificum, an Apostolic Letter of Pope Benedict XVI, issued in 2007
• Suppressive Person, a term used in Scientology

Science

• sp., an abbreviation for species used in place of a specific epithet in a species name
• sp orbitals, an instance of orbital hybridisation
• Substance P, a neuropeptide
• Superplasticizer, a type of high molecular weight organic compounds added to cement to reduce the water-to-cement ratio while improving concrete workability

Scouting Organizations

• Suomen Partiolaiset, the Finnish national Scout Association
• Südtiroler Pfadfinderschaft, a Scout Association in South Tyrol

Sports

• Short program (figure skating), the first part of a figure skating competition
• Starting pitcher, a baseball term
• 25 metre pistol, a shooting sport formerly known as sport pistol

Terminology

• Share price, the price of a single share of saleable stock in a company.
• Short perforation, a term used in philately
• Sound Proof, a term for sound
• Spelling error, or typographical error
• a USCS symbol for poorly graded sand
• Spontaneous potential, a measurement taken by oil industry well loggers to characterise rock formation properties
• sine prole, a Latin expression meaning "without offspring"
• Stated Preference method, a Choice modelling method
• Strada Provinciale, a category of provincial roads in Italy