ASP

For the word asp, usually a kind of venomous snake, see Asp (disambiguation).

ASP is a three-letter acronym that may mean:

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

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

Business

• Average Selling Price, the average price at which a particular product or commodity is sold across channels or markets

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.

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, one of the two early IBM System/360 programs that replaces the native SPOOL facilities of OS/360; the other was Houston Automatic Spooling Priority (HASP). With ASP Version 3 the name was changed to Asysymmetric Multiprocessor and support was added for OS/VS2 (SVS). ASP and HASP were the basis for JES3 and JES2 in MVS.

• Auxiliary Storage Pool, a group of disk drives in the IBM i (aka OS/400) operating system

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 Student Prize

Entertainment

• ASP (band), a German Industrial/Gothic Rock band from Frankfurt am Main
• 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

Geology

• auxiliary stratotype point

Medicine and biology

• Amnesic Shellfish Poisoning
• Agouti Signaling Peptide
• C3 (complement), a protein in the Complement system
• aspartic acid, an amino acid

Aircraft

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

Politics

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

Shipping

• Application Service Provider or ASP is a term used to describe an entity in the international LRIT system that is able to receive and transmit packets of data containing ship position information for the purpose of tracking vessels. [LRIT Regulations Read more about LRIT]

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)

Miscellaneous

• A Separate Peace
• 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
• Asp (comics)
• Asp (reptile)
• Asp (fish)
• Asp (rocket)