MSP

MSP may refer to:

In arts and entertainment

• Manic Street Preachers, a Welsh rock band
• Mean Street Posse, a former villainous professional-wrestling faction that wrestled in the World Wrestling Federation
• MySims Party, a 2009 video game for the Wii and Nintendo DS

Businesses

• Matchstick Productions, a company producing videos of extreme sports, especially skiing
• Men's Studies Press, an academic publisher registered in Harriman, Tennessee
• MSP Intermark, a marketing consultancy firm located in San Francisco, California, US

In government and politics

Police forces

• Malabar Special Police, a paramilitary unit of the State Police of Kerala, India; equivalent to a SWAT team in the United States
• Maine State Police, state police agency for the State of Maine, USA
• Maryland State Police, state police agency for the State of Maryland, USA
• Massachusetts State Police, state police agency for the State of Massachusetts, USA
• Michigan State Police, state police agency for the State of Michigan, USA
• Minnesota State Patrol, state police agency for the State of Minnesota, USA

Political parties

• Moderate Party (Swedish: Moderata samlingspartiet), a Swedish political party
• Movement of Society for Peace (French: Mouvement de la société pour la paix, Arabic: Harakat Moudjtamaa As-Silm حركة مجتمع السلم, formerly called Hamas حماس), an Algerian political party
• National Salvation Party (Milli Selamet Partisi), Islamist political party in Turkey

Prisons

• Maine State Prison, a former prison in Maine
• Michigan State Prison, a former prison in Michigan
• Mississippi State Penitentiary,in Mississippi
• Missouri State Penitentiary, a former prison in Missouri
• Montana State Prison, in Montana

Other uses in government and politics

• Main-Spessart, code used on German vehicle registration plates
• Medical Services Plan of British Columbia, government-administered single-payer health insurance scheme in the Canadian province of British Columbia
• Medicare Savings Program
• Member of the Scottish Parliament
• Ministerio de Salud Pública, Uruguayan ministry of public health

Places

• Midway (Amtrak station), in St. Paul, Minnesota, United States
• Minneapolis–Saint Paul, the twin cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul and the surrounding area — the most highly populated area in Minnesota, US
  • Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Airport, in Hennepin County, Minnesota US (IATA airport code MSP)

In science and technology

In biology, ecology, and medicine

• Major sperm protein, the most abundant protein in nematode sperm
• Marine Spatial Planning, a process of making decisions about sustainable use of marine resources
• Merozoite surface protein, used in malaria research
• Methylation-specific PCR, a method for detecting methylated DNA sequence

In computing and information technology

• Managed service provider, a business model for providing information-technology services
• Max/MSP, max signal processing
• Message send protocol, an application-layer computing protocol used to send a short message between networking nodes on a computer network
• Message Submission Program or smmsp in Sendmail e-mail systems
• Microsoft Installer Patch Files, files downloaded from updating applications installed with Microsoft Installer and which have the .msp file extension
• Microsoft Points, the currency used on the Xbox Live and Zune marketplaces
• Microsoft Project, a project-management software program developed and sold by Microsoft
• Microsoft Student Partners, an organization of university students interested in careers in technology and showing a willingness to help others learn about Microsoft technology
• MSP (file format), a pre-bmp picture format readable in the oldest versions of Microsoft Paint
• TI MSP430, a mixed-signal microcontroller family from Texas Instruments
• Mobility Services Platform, a server based software to manage Symbol/Motorola mobile computers
• Mail Service Provider, a mailbox provider
• Managed Service Point, such as a demarcation point or equipment room/location

Other uses in science and technology

• Mechanically separated poultry, a paste-like meat product
• Millisecond pulsar, in astronomy, a pulsar with a rotational period in the range of 1-10 milliseconds
• Micro-spectrophotometer, an instrument used to measure the UV, visible, and near-infrared spectra of microscopic objects
• Monosodium phosphate, a chemical compound of sodium with a phosphate counterion
• MSP Groza silent pistol, a double-barreled firearm designed in the Soviet Union in 1972

Other uses

• Moscow Finnish School (Moskovan suomalainen peruskoulu)