Terp (disambiguation)

Terp or TERP may refer to:

People

• Lene Terp (born 1973), Danish football (soccer) athlete

Archeology

• terp – a mound created to provide safe ground during high tide and river floods, primarily found in the Netherlands and parts of Germany and Denmark.

Places

• Saravan, Armenia, formerly called Terp
• De Terp metro station, a stop on the Rotterdam Metro

Nicknames and jargon

• Maryland Terrapins, Mascot of the University of Maryland; the term is often shortened to "Terp"
• Terp (music industry jargon), short for Terpsichore, music industry jargon for "dance"
• A language interpreter, typically one in the military or one who works in sign language(s)

Media

• Terp is a magazine published by the University of Maryland; OCLC 58730353, 35868525
• Terp Records (fr) independent music label founded around 1998 featuring improvised music (e.g. The Ex) and African music (especially from Ethiopia)

Acronyms (TERP)

• Terminal Instrument Approach Procedure
• Theoretical ex-rights price, a calculated price for shares after issue of new shares
• Telluride-Mediated Polymerization, a type of polymerization process
• Totally Enveloping Real-time Play – see Patrice M. Regnier
• Ticker symbol for shares of TerraForm Power, Inc., a Delaware corporation based in Bethesda, Maryland, publicly traded on the NASDAQ Exchange
• Totally endoscopic radical prostatectomy
• TER-Plus (TERp) — Translation Error Rate, a metric for machine translation that messures the number of edits required to change a system output into one of the references; the Plus is an added correlation with human judgments (related to BLEU)
• Temporary Employee Retirement Plan (TERP) is a defined contribution plan authorized under Section 401(a) of the Internal Revenue Code
• Texas Emissions Reduction Plan, a financial incentive program of the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality

See also

• Turps (disambiguation)

External links

• terp (in wiktionary)