SP
Sp or SP may refer to:

Arts and entertainment
/sp/, the sports board on the Internet forum 4chan
SP (TV series), a Japanese TV series
Game Boy Advance SP, an upgraded version of the Game Boy Advance handheld video game system, released in 2003
Short Play, term used for shorter formats of records than Extended Play
Standard Play, a magnetic tape speed used for VHS
Subdominant parallel, a type of musical chord
SP, producer stage name of Mumzy Stranger (born 1984), British rapper
SP, stage name of Krisztián Éder (born 1988), Hungarian rapper
South Park, an animated American television series
The Smashing Pumpkins, an American alternative rock band

Businesses and organizations
SP (magazine), illustrated news magazine in Spain between 1957 and 1972
SP Technical Research Institute of Sweden
Service provider, company that provides organizations with consulting, legal, real estate, education, communications, storage, processing, and many other services
Silicon Power, Taiwan-based manufacturer of flash memory products and other industrial grade computer products
Singapore Polytechnic, polytechnic in Dover, Singapore
Státní podnik ("state business"), former Czechoslovakian entity type
Story point, term used in agile software development methodologies
Suara Pembaruan, former Indonesian newspaper

Government and military
Section Patrol, civilian vessels in the US Navy in WWI
Security Police (Japan), for VIP protection
Shore patrol, UK and US naval security personnel

Political parties
Centre Party (Norway) (Senterpartiet)
Socialist Party or Social Democratic Party in many places, including:
Socialist Party of Albania
Samajwadi Party, in India
Socialist Party (Netherlands) (Socialistische Partij)
Socialistische Partij Anders (Socialistische Partij), a historical name for the sp.a in Belgium
Socialist Party (Netherlands, interbellum) (Socialistische Partij) 1918–1929
Social Democratic Party of Switzerland

Religious organizations
Piarists or Ordo Clericorum Regularium pauperum Matris Dei Scholarum Piarum, a Catholic order
Südtiroler Pfadfinderschaft, a Catholic scouting association in Italy

Places
SP postcode area, UK, the Salisbury postcode area
São Paulo (state), a state in Brazil
São Paulo, capital of the state and the most populous city of Brazil

Science and technology
sp orbitals, in physics, an instance of atomic orbital hybridisation
Self-propelled (disambiguation)
Soft-point bullet, a type of ammunition
Spontaneous potential differences in the Earth
Stated Preference, a choice modelling method
Surface plasmon, a type of electron oscillation along metallic surfaces
A Unified Soil Classification System symbol for sand, poorly graded

Biology and medicine
Abbreviation for species
Simulated patient, for medical training
Substance P, a neuropeptide
Status Post

Computing and telecommunications
IBM Scalable POWERparallel (SP), a series of supercomputers
Service pack, software update
Stack pointer
Stored procedure

Mathematics
Trace (linear algebra), or "Spur" (German), of a square matrix
Sp(n) and Sp(2n,F), a symplectic group in mathematics

Transportation
SATA Air Acores (IATA code SP)
Saidapet railway station (station code SP)
Southern Pacific Railroad (reporting mark SP)

Other uses
25 metre pistol , a shooting sport formerly known as sport pistol
Aircraft registration prefix for Poland
s.p., sine prole (Latin: "without issue" (i.e., having no children), full form d.s.p. decessit sine prole, "died without issue")
Ś.P. Świętej pamięci meaning holy memory is written on many Polish gravestones
Provincial road (Italy) (Strada Provinciale), a category of provincial roads in Italy
September
Seri Pahlawan Gagah Perkasa (S.P.), a Malaysian military decoration
Spanish language
Special (disambiguation)
Spelling, especially to note a spelling error
Spurius, the Roman praenomen; see Spurius (disambiguation)
Suppressive person, in Scientology
Starting price, odds applicable on a horse race as the race is about to start
Superintendent (police), a rank in British police services and in most English-speaking Commonwealth nations
SP, an abbreviation for the Syrian pound

See also

All pages with titles beginning with SP
All pages with titles containing SP
SPs
SPS (disambiguation)