MP

MP or mp may refer to:

Culture

• Malayo-Polynesian languages
• Minimalist Program, a syntactic theory in linguistics
• Monoprinting (M/P), a type of printmaking
• Microprinting, sometimes labeled with an MP monogram

Entertainment

Film and television

• Melrose Place, a U.S. drama series which aired on the FOX network from 1992 to 1999
• Melrose Place (2009 TV series), an updated version of the original series which has aired on The CW Television Network since 2009
• Match Point, a 2005 film
• Monty Python
• Mohawk Productions, a production company
• Multipremier, a Mexican pay television network
• Film or motion picture

Gaming

• Magic points in role-playing games
• Mario Party series for the Nintendo 64, Game Boy Advance, Gamecube, Wii and DS
• Max Payne
• Metroid Prime, a first-person adventure video game for Nintendo GameCube and Wii
• Microsoft Points
• Miles Prower, character in the Sonic the Hedgehog series nicknamed Tails
• Monster Party, a game for the Nintendo Entertainment System
• Multiplayer gaming

Literature

• M.P. (play), an 1811 play by Thomas Moore
• Moneypenny, a fictional character in the James Bond novels and films

Music

• Meat Puppets, a musical group
• Mezzo-piano (mp), a musical dynamic meaning "medium-quiet" or "moderately-quiet"

Sport

• Manny Pacquiao, Philippine world champion boxer
• Mikkelin Palloilijat, a Finnish football (soccer) club
• A brand of Russian hunting and sporting firearms created by Izhevsk Mechanical Plant
  • MP-71
  • MP412 REX
  • MP-443 Grach
  • MP-444 (Bagira)
  • MP-445 (Varyag)
  • MP-446 Viking
  • MP-448 Skyph

Geography

• Madhya Pradesh, a state in India
• Northern Mariana Islands (ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code and U.S. postal abbreviation MP)

Industry

• Tie (engineering) or mending plate
• Martinair IATA airline designator or reservation code
• Mass production
• Market price in economics
• Mileage Plus
• Missouri Pacific Railroad reporting mark
• Mooring post
• Mueller and Pfleger, subsidiary of aquarium suppliers Eheim
• Rubber-tyred rolling stock on the Paris Métro:
  • MP 59
  • MP 73
  • MP 89
  • MP 05

Police

• Metropolitan police
  • Metropolitan Police Service, the police force of Greater London
• Military police
• Mumbai Police
• Municipal police

Politics and law

• Member of parliament
• Progressive Movement (Cameroon) (Mouvement Progressiste)
• Green Party (Sweden) (Miljöpartiet)
• Manu propria, a Latin expression for by one's own hand
• Public Ministry (Portugal) (Ministério Público)
• Public Prosecutor's Office (Brazil) (Ministério Público)
• Ministry of Planning, Budget, and Management (Brazil)
• Provisory measure in Brazilian law (medida provisória)

Science and technology

• Mathematical physics
• Møller–Plesset perturbation theory, a post-Hartree–Fock method used in computational chemistry
• European Mammal Paleogene zones, a unit of the geologic time scale

Biology

• Menopause
• Metacarpophalangeal joint, more commonly abbreviated MCP
• Movement protein, proteins encoded by plant viruses to facilitate cell-to-cell transmission
• Mprize, in biogerontology medical research, M referring to either 'Methuselah' or 'Mouse'
• Middle phalanx, a finger bone

Computing

• .mp, Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Northern Mariana Islands
• File formats developed by the Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG):
  • MP3
  • MP4
• Massive parallelism (disambiguation)
• Media player (disambiguation)
• Media processor
• Megapixel
• Microprocessor
• Microsoft Project
• Multilink Protocol
• Multi-platform
• Multiprocessing
• Merge Point, a term used in MPLS local protection (also called MPLS Fast Reroute)

Mathematics

• Maximum parsimony, a term used in statistical analyses
• Modus ponens, a Latin expression for mode that affirms

Physics

• Megapond, a non-SI Metric unit of force, also known as a tonne-force
• Melting point
• Proton mass (symbol m_p)

Other

• Mp (digraph)
• Marka polska, a historical polish money unit
• Roman mile (mille passuum)