HP

HP most commonly refers to:

• Hewlett-Packard, a former technology corporation that split into two separate companies in 2015:
  • Hewlett Packard Enterprise, an enterprise-focused product and service organization
  • HP Inc., Hewlett-Packard's computer and printer business

HP may also refer to:

Arts and entertainment

• Harry Pearson (audio critic) (1937–2014), American audio critic
• Harry Potter, a series of novels by J. K. Rowling
• Hello! Project, a group of Japanese female pop artists
• Hit points or health points, used to represent a character's health in many video games
• Horse-Power: Ballet Symphony, a 1932 ballet composed by Carlos Chávez
• H. P. Lovecraft (1890–1937), American author

Businesses and organisations

• Hewlett-Packard, a former technology corporation that split into two separate companies in 2015:
  • Hewlett Packard Enterprise, an enterprise-focused product and service organization
  • HP Inc., Hewlett-Packard's computer and printer business
• HPBooks, a division of the Penguin Group of publishers
• HP Foods, a food producer based in Birmingham, UK
  • HP Sauce, formerly made by HP Foods
• Handley Page, an aircraft company
• Hensel Phelps, an American construction company
• Hindustan Petroleum, an Indian petroleum company
• America West Airlines, by IATA airline code

Places

• Heart Peaks, a volcano in Canada
• Himachal Pradesh, a state in India
• Hunters Point (San Francisco), a neighborhood in California, US
• HP postcode area, a group of UK postal districts

Science and technology

Health and medicine

• Haptoglobin, a protein
• Health professional
• Helicobacter pylori, a bacterium that is a common cause of gastric ulcers
• Higher Power, in twelve-step programs, an entity helping addiction recovery
• Hypersensitivity pneumonitis, a respiratory inflammation
• Hyperprolactinaemia, the presence of abnormally high levels of prolactin in the blood

Other uses in science and technology

• Horsepower (hp), a unit of power
• Ilford HP, a type of photographic film
• High precipitation supercell, a subtype of highly organized thunderstorm
• Hollow point or hollow-point bullet, a round designed to rupture on impact
• Horizontal pitch, a unit of length used to measure widths of rack mounted equipment

Other uses

• Hire purchase, an installment payment method
• Howiesons Poort, a lithic technology period of the Middle Stone Age in Africa
• Half-pay, an archaic term used by the British armed forces for money paid to retired officers and those not on active service

See also

• HP Garage, a museum showing Hewlett-Packard's early history
• Harry Potter (disambiguation)
• Health (gaming), HP, short for hit point or health point, a term used in gaming to denote the remaining level of life of a unit or character.