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ASP is a three-letter acronym with numerous meanings in different contexts.
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
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, an IBM mainframe that is attached to another of higher power and that is running Automated Spooling Program, a program that is also called Automated Spooling Package. See MVT
- Automated Spooling Program, one of the two early IBM 360/370 mainframe programs for spooling print output and controlling input/output devices. ASP eventually evolved into Job Entry Subsystem 3 (JES3). The other was Houston Automated Spooling Program (HASP) which evolved into JES2.
- 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 Students 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.
Medicine and biology
- Amnesic shellfish poisoning
- Agouti signalling peptide
- C3 (complement), a protein in the Complement system
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
- Afro-Shirazi Party
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
- 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)