MP

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MP, Mp, mp or .mp may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

  • M.P. (opera), an 1811 comic opera by Thomas Moore and Charles Edward Horn
  • Magic point, or mana point, in role-playing games
  • Mezzo-piano (mp), a musical dynamic meaning "medium-quiet" or "moderately-quiet"
  • Multiplayer, in gaming
  • Multipremier, a Mexican television network
  • MusiquePlus, whose station identification is "mp"
  • Mario Party, a series of vídeo games by Nintendo
  • MP signature on works by Australian artist Margaret Preston

Businesses and organizations

Government

  • Member of parliament
  • Ministry of Planning, Budget, and Management (Brazil), a cabinet-level federal ministry in Brazil
  • Public Ministry (Portugal) (Portuguese: Ministério Público), the body of the Judiciary of Portugal
  • Public Prosecutor's Office (Brazil) (Portuguese: Ministério Público), the Brazilian body of independent public prosecutors

Police

  • Military police, law enforcement agencies connected with, or part of, the military of a state
  • Mumbai Police, the police force of the city of Mumbai, Maharashtra
  • Municipal police, law enforcement agencies that are under the control of local government
    • Metropolitan police, municipal police of major metropolitan areas

Politics

  • Member of Parliament (United Kingdom), individual elected to serve in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom
  • Member of Parliament (Canada), individual elected to serve in the House of Commons of the Parliament of Canada
  • Member of Parliament (Australia), individual elected to serve in the House of Commons of Australia
  • Member of Parliament (New Zealand), individual elected to serve in the House of Commons of New Zealand
  • Member of Parliament (South Africa), individual elected to serve in the House of Commons of the Parliament of South Africa
  • Progressive Movement (Cameroon) (French: Mouvement Progressiste), a minor opposition political party in Cameroon
  • Green Party (Sweden) (Swedish: Miljöpartiet), a political party in Sweden based upon green politics
  • Member of Parliament (Sri Lanka), individual elected to serve in the Parliament of Sri Lanka

Other businesses and organizations

  • Martinair (IATA airline designator MP), Dutch cargo airline
  • Mikkelin Palloilijat, a Finnish football (soccer) club
  • Ming Pao, a Hong Kong newspaper
  • Missouri Pacific Railroad (reporting mark MP), one of the first railroads in the United States west of the Mississippi River

Law

Linguistics

Places

Science and technology

Computing

  • .mp, Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Northern Mariana Islands
  • Management Point, in the Advanced Client of Microsoft's System Center Configuration Manager
  • Massive parallelism (disambiguation)
  • Media player (disambiguation)
  • Media processor, a type of digital signal processor designed to deal with streaming data in real-time
  • Megapixel, a unit of a million pixels
  • Merge Point, in the MPLS local protection approach to network resiliency
  • Microprocessor, a computer processor with a minimal number of integrated circuits
  • Microsoft Project, project-management software
  • Multilink Protocol (or Multilink PPP), a method for spreading traffic across multiple point-to-point protocol connections
  • Multi-platform, describing software that is implemented on multiple computer platforms
  • Multiprocessing, the use of two or more central processing units within a single computer system

Mathematics

  • Maximum parsimony (phylogenetics), in statistical analysis
  • Modus ponens, in propositional logic, a Latin expression meaning "mode that affirms"

Physics

  • Megapond (Mp), a non-SI Metric unit of force, also known as a tonne-force
  • Melting point, the temperature at which a solid becomes a liquid
  • mp, the mass of a proton

Other uses in science and technology

  • Machine pistol, typically a handgun-style machine gun, capable of fully automatic or burst fire
  • Macrophage, a type of white blood cell that engulfs and digests cellular debris, foreign substances, microbes and cancer cells
  • Mammal Paleogene zone, a system of biostratigraphic zones in the stratigraphic record used to correlate mammal-bearing fossil localities of the Paleogene period of Europe
  • Meralgia paraesthetica (MP), a sensation of numbness in the outer thigh
  • Methylphenidate, a stimulant medication
  • Microprinting (MP), a method of printing very finely as an anti-counterfeiting mechanism
  • Møller–Plesset perturbation theory, a post-Hartree–Fock method used in computational chemistry
  • Monoprinting (M/P), a type of printmaking producing a single print
  • Movement protein, proteins encoded by plant viruses to facilitate cell-to-cell transmission

Sport

Other uses

See also

Topics referred to by the same term
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