MSP

MSP may refer to:

Businesses and organizations

• LoanSphere MSP, a mortgage servicing platform application provided by Black Knight Financial Services
• Managed Service Provider, a company that is outsourced to take care of business's IT services
• Matchstick Productions, a company producing videos of extreme sports, especially skiing
• Mathematical Sciences Publishers, a scientific publisher based in Berkeley, California
• Men's Studies Press, an academic publisher registered in Harriman, Tennessee
• Moscow Finnish School (Moskovan suomalainen peruskoulu)
• Movimento Sviluppo e Pace, an Italian NGO
• Multi-Sided Platform, an organization that enables interaction between two or more groups of agents, for example through a two-sided market

Government and politics

Police forces

• Malabar Special Police, a paramilitary unit of the State Police of Kerala, India
• Maine State Police, state police agency for the U.S. state of Maine
• Maryland State Police, state police agency for the U.S. state of Maryland
• Massachusetts State Police, state police agency for the U.S. state of Massachusetts
• Michigan State Police, state police agency for the U.S. state of Michigan
• Minnesota State Patrol, state police agency for the U.S. state of Minnesota

Political parties

• 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
• Social Patriot Movement (Spanish: Movimiento Social Patriota), Chilean fascist organization.

Prisons

• Maine State Prison, a former prison in Thomaston, Maine
• Michigan State Prison, a former prison in Jackson, Michigan
• Mississippi State Penitentiary, in Parchman, Mississippi
• Missouri State Penitentiary, a former prison in Jefferson City, Missouri
• Montana State Prison, in Deer Lodge, Montana

Other uses in government and politics

• Main-Spessart, code used on German vehicle registration plates
• Medical Services Plan of British Columbia, government-administered single-payer health insurance scheme in the Canadian province of British Columbia
• Medicare Savings Program
• Member of the Scottish Parliament
• Ministerio de Salud Pública, Uruguayan ministry of public health

Places

• Minneapolis–Saint Paul, the twin cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul and the surrounding area — the most populated area in Minnesota, U.S.

Science and technology

Biology, ecology, and medicine

• Major sperm protein, the most abundant protein in nematode sperm
• Marine spatial planning, a process of making decisions about sustainable use of marine resources
• Merozoite surface protein, used in malaria research
• Methylation-specific PCR, a method for detecting methylated DNA sequence
• Macrophage-stimulating protein

Computing and information technology

• Managed service provider, a business model for providing information-technology services
• Max/MSP, max signal processing
• 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
• Microsoft Surface Pro
• Minimum spanning tree, a graph theory problem
• MSP (file format), a pre-bmp picture format readable in the oldest versions of Microsoft Paint
• TI MSP430, a mixed-signal microcontroller family from Texas Instruments

Other uses in science and technology

• Mechanically separated poultry, a paste-like meat product
• Millisecond pulsar, in astronomy, a pulsar with a rotational period in the range of 1-10 milliseconds
• Micro-spectrophotometer, an instrument used to measure the UV, visible, and near-infrared spectra of microscopic objects
• Monosodium phosphate, a chemical compound of sodium with a phosphate counterion
• MSP Groza silent pistol, a double-barreled firearm designed in the Soviet Union in 1972

Transport

• Marina South Pier MRT station, a MRT station in Singapore (MRT station abbreviation MSP)
• Midway station (Minnesota), a former train station in St. Paul, Minnesota, United States
• Minneapolis–Saint Paul International Airport, in Hennepin County, Minnesota, U.S. (IATA airport code MSP)

Other uses

• Manic Street Preachers, Welsh rock band formed in 1986
• Meadowbrook State Parkway, in New York
• Minimum Support Price, regulated agriculture commodity price in India
• Maastricht Science Programme, Liberal Arts & Sciences programme at Maastricht University
• MovieStarPlanet, online video game