AP

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

See also

• The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company (disambiguation)