PP
Appearance
PP, pp, Pp, or Pp may refer to:
Places
- Pulau Pinang, an island of Penang or a state of Malaysia
- Perry Park, several places go by this name
- Phi Phi Islands, an island grouping located in Thailand between the large island of Phuket and the western Andaman Sea coast of the mainland
- Potts Point, a suburb of Sydney, Australia
Computer science
- Piecewise polynomial, see Spline (mathematics)
- Probabilistic polynomial time complexity class
Electronic media
- Microsoft PowerPoint
- PayPal website
- Pentium Pro, 6th generation Intel central processing unit
- Psychic Points from EarthBound
- Pokémon Platinum, Pokémon video game
- Power Points in the Pokémon video games
- PP-format, a Met Office proprietary file format for distributing climate data
- Pure Pwnage, an internet-based show
- Puyo Puyo, Japanese puzzle video game
- Puzzle Pirates, an MMO game maintained by Three Rings Design
Law
- Per procurationem ("by agency"), signing a letter on somebody else's behalf ("p.p.")
- Public prosecutor
- Personal property
Linguistics
Media
- Pittsburgh Press, a former newspaper of the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania region.
Nautical terms
- Length between perpendiculars ("pp" or "p/p")
Music
- Pianissimo ("pp")
- Pencey Prep, an American band
- Person Pitch, a Panda Bear album
- Phantom Planet
- Phi-Phi, an opérette légère in three acts with music by Henri Christiné and a French libretto by Albert Willemetz and Fabien Solar
- "Paper Plane" (song), a song by Status Quo on the Piledriver album
- "Paper Planes", a song by M.I.A. on the Kala album
Politics
- Progress Party
- Patriotic Party (Guatemala) (Partido Patriota)
- People's Party (Romania) (Partidul Popular)
- People's Party (Spain) (Partido Popular)
- Pirate Party (Sweden) (Sweden) (Piratpartiet)
- Parti Pirate (France)
- Progressive Party of Brazil (Partido Progressista)
- Centro Democrático e Social/Partido Popular, (Portugal)
Religion
- Papa (Latin for "Pope"), when written "PP."[1][2]
- Parish priest, when written "P.P."
- Prajnaparamita ("Perfection of Wisdom"), and/or a genre of Buddhist sutras describing it
- Pater Putatibus ("Foster Father/Assumed Father"), one of the Latin titles of Saint Joseph as foster father of Jesus[citation needed]
Science, medicine & engineering
- Percentage point
- p-pPeak_to_peak#Peak-to-peak_amplitude Way of measuring amplitude of a signal
- Pp, a process performance index
- Pancreatic polypeptide
- PP cell, cell producing Pancreatic polypeptide
- Per protocol population in clinical trials
- Peroxisome Proliferator
- Polyphenols, a category of phytochemicals
- Polypropylene, a very common plastic polymer
- Polyphagia
- Primary production
- Proton-proton chain reaction
- Pseudopotential, a computational chemistry approximation
Sport
- Paparazzi Productions, a former professional wrestling stable
- Persepolis F.C., Iranian football (soccer) team
- A power play, chiefly in ice hockey
- Prenton Park, the home of English association football club Tranmere Rovers
- Paul Pierce, Boston Celtics player
- Pittsburgh Pirates, a Pittsburgh-based Major League Baseball team
Other
- Pages, from Latin paginae, see Acronyms
- Paper Plane
- Polly Pocket
- Pater Patriae ("p.p."), an honorary title in the Ancient Roman Empire and often part of the emperor's title
- Prank Patrol, a children's TV series
- Pied Piper, fairy tale
- Post processing, photography
- Walther PP, a semi-automatic pistol
- PeePee - Urine
- PeePee - Penis
References
- ^ 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica
- ^ Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company. .