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* [[Advanced Placement]], a program that offers college level courses at high schools across the United States and Canada |
* [[Advanced Placement]], a program that offers college level courses at high schools across the United States and Canada |
Revision as of 17:17, 7 December 2012
A&P or AP or Ap or ap may refer to:
Education
- Advanced Placement, a program that offers college level courses at high schools across the United States and Canada
- Ang Pamantasan, a Philippine university student publication
- Assistant principal, the assistant chief administrator in a school
- Associate Professor, an academic faculty rank in North America
- Austin Peay State University, a public university in Clarksville, Tennessee
Law
- Advance parole, a United States immigration law term
- Administration Police, Kenyan security unit
Linguistics
- ap, a Welsh patronym
- Ap (water), the Vedic Sanskrit term for water
- Adjectival phrase, a term used in linguistics to denote a phrase with an adjective as its head
Media
Publishing
- Associated Press, an American news agency
- Allied Press, a major New Zealand newspaper company
- Alternative Press, a music industry magazine
- A&P (story), a short story by John Updike referring to the retailer A&P
Other
- Animal Planet, a television channel dedicated to animals
- The A&P Gypsies, a musical radio program (1924–36), named after the retailer A&P
- Action point, a point-system used in video games
Medicine
- Action potential, a "spike" of electrical discharge that travels along the membrane of a cell
- Advanced paramedic, a clinical level of pre-hospital care in the Republic of Ireland
- Alkaline phosphatase, an enzyme
- Anatomy and physiology, a course of study for those seeking to enter a medical profession
- Anteroposterior, used to describe direction in anatomy
- Area postrema, a part of the brain
- Arterial pressure, the pressure in the arteries (most prominently the Aorta)
- "Autistic psychopathy", a diagnosis listed as an alternative title for Asperger syndrome, see the History of Asperger syndrome
- Autophagosome, intracytoplasmic vacuole/membrane bound body that is involved in cytoplasmic degradation
- Colporrhaphy (also called A&P repair), surgical repair of the anterior and/or posterior vaginal walls
Military
- Armor-piercing shot and shell, type of military or naval ammunition designed to penetrate armor or fortifications and then detonate
- AP, the U.S. Navy hull classification symbol for a transport support ship
Music
- AP (rapper), French rapper of Guadeloupian origin; solo rapper and part of band 113 and collective Mafia K-1 Fry
Places
- Amapá, a state in northern Brazil
- Andhra Pradesh, a state in southern India
- Asia Pacific, region
- Province of Ascoli Piceno, a province of Italy in the ISO 3166-2:IT code
Politics
- Acción Popular (disambiguation), name of two political parties in Latin America
- People's Action (Romania) (Acţiunea Populară), a liberal Christian-democratic non-parliamentary party in Romania
- Popular Alliance (Spain) (Alianza Popular), a former political party in Spain
- Norwegian Labour Party (Arbeiderpartiet)
Psychology
- Applied psychology, the use of psychological principles and theories to overcome problems in other areas
- Attachment parenting, a parenting philosophy
- Amphetamine psychosis, psychotic state as a result of high and/or chronic use of amphetamine stimulants
Retail
- The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company, better known as the A&P supermarket chain
- A&P Food Stores Building, St. Louis, Missouri
- A&P Canada, the former Canadian supermarket chain sold by A&P to Quebec-based Metro Inc.
Science
- Atmospheric pressure, the Earth's atmospheric pressure at zero altitude
- Acetone peroxide, an explosive
- Applied physics, physics intended for a particular technological or practical use
- Ammonium perchlorate, an oxidizer used in solid rocket propellant
- Arithmetic progression, a sequence of numbers, each differing from its predecessor by a fixed quantity
- AP star, a type of star
Sport
- AP Poll, a weekly ranking of the top college football and basketball teams
- Polish Aero Club (Aeroklub Polski), the Polish central association of persons practising air sports or recreational flying
- A-production, a classification in motorsport
Technology
- Anomalous propagation, false radar echoes
- Average precision, a metric of quality of search results in information retrieval
Computers
- AP, the class of decision problems that can be solved in polynomial time by an Alternating Turing machine
- AP (complexity), or PSPACE, a measure of the complexity of solving decision problems
- Wireless access point, a device that connects wireless communication devices together to form a wireless network
- Application profile, the set of metadata elements, policies, and guidelines defined for a software application
- ACID Pro, software and associated music resources used for music creation
- Address plus Port, a technique for sharing single IPv4 addresses among several users
Transportation
- Air One, is an airline based in Rome, Italy, with an IATA code of AP
- Atlantic and Pacific Railroad, a subsidiary of the Santa Fe Railway
- Autopilot, automatic or assisted vehicle piloting
- Airframe and Powerplant, a certificate issued by the US Federal Aviation Administration for aircraft maintenance technicians
- Automotive Products, a former UK automotive components company
- A&P Group, a ship repair and conversion company, formerly Austin & Pickersgill
Other uses
- Armenian Power, an Armenian-American gang located in Los Angeles
- Accounts payable, one of a series of accounting transactions covering payments to suppliers
- Annual plan, a series of variables covering the forecasted performance of a business (i.e. quantity, sales, costs, margin, people , etc)
- Anno Persico or Anno Persarum, a Latinization of Iranian calendar years
- Krasue or Ap, a spirit of Khmer and Thai folklore
- ap. a classical abbreviation
- Asian pride, a slogan
- Au pair, a domestic assistant living with a host family in a foreign country
- A&P show, annual agricultural and pastoral shows held in many New Zealand towns and cities
- Atlantic Philanthropies