FP
Appearance
FP may refer to:
Arts, media and entertainment
Music
- Faster Pussycat, a rock band from Los Angeles, California
- Fortepiano, an early version of the piano
- Fortepiano (musical dynamic), an Italian musical term meaning 'loud soft'
- Flux Pavilion, a British dubstep artist
- Francis Poulenc, a early 20th century pianist and composer
- FP (catalogue) - of his compositions.
Publications
- Financial Post, Canadian business newspaper, published from 1907 to 1998, now National Post
- Foreign Policy, a bimonthly American magazine founded in 1970
Other media
- Facepunch Studios, a Walsall-based video game company
- The FP, a 2011 comedy film
Science and technology
Computing
- FP (complexity), in computational complexity theory, a complexity class
- FP (programming language) designed by John Backus in the 1970s
- Feature Pack, a software update for various devices which include new features
- Floating point, a numerical-representation system in computing
- Frame pointer
- Microsoft FrontPage, an HTML editor
- Functional programming, a programming paradigm
- Function point, a measurement of the business functionality an information system provides
Transportation
- F - Production, a class of race cars
- F engine, a piston engine by Mazda
- New Zealand FP class electric multiple unit (Matangi), a class of electric multiple locomotive unit
Other uses in science and technology
- False positive, in statistics, a result that indicates, inaccurately, that a condition has been fulfilled
- Ilford FP, a cubic-grain black-and-white photographic film
- Fabry–Pérot interferometer, a device in optics
- Fire protection, in the construction industry
- Fluoroprotein foam, a type of fire retardant foam
- Cyclopentadienyliron dicarbonyl dimer (cyclopentadienyliron dicarbonyl fragment)
- Prostaglandin F receptor, a receptor on cells which mediates responses to prostaglandin F2alpha
Politics
- Freedom Party (disambiguation), the name of various political parties
- Liberal People's Party (Sweden) (Folkpartiet)
- The Federalist Papers, a series of essays advocating the ratification of the United States Constitution
- Força Portugal, a Portuguese political alliance
- Force Publique (French for "public force"), the military force of the Belgian Congo during the colonial period
- Framework Programmes for Research and Technological Development of the European Union
Other uses
- 50 metre pistol, a shooting sport formerly known as free pistol
- Facepalm, a gesture indicating frustration
- Family planning, the use of birth control and planning when to have children
- Family practice, a general practitioner or family physician
- First person, a grammatical person referring to the speaker
- Force protection, in the US military
- French Polynesia (FIPS 10-4 country code)
- French press, a coffee brewing method
- Friends Provident, a British insurance company
- Friday prayer, congregational prayer service among Muslims
- The nickname of Falakata Polytechnic, West Bengal