MP

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
• Mezzo-piano (mp), a musical dynamic meaning "medium-quiet" or "moderately-quiet"
• Magic point, or mana point, in role-playing games
• Multiplayer, in gaming
• Multipremier, a Mexican television network

Organizations

• Martinair (IATA airline designator MP)
• Mikkelin Palloilijat, a Finnish football (soccer) club
• Missouri Pacific Railroad (reporting mark MP)
• Mueller and Pfleger, a subsidiary of aquarium suppliers Eheim

Government

• Ministry of Planning, Budget, and Management (Brazil)
• Public Ministry (Portugal) (Ministério Público)
• Public Prosecutor's Office (Brazil) (Ministério Público)

Police

• Military police
• Mumbai Police
• Municipal police
  • Metropolitan police

Politics

• Green Party (Sweden) (Miljöpartiet)
• Progressive Movement (Cameroon) (Mouvement Progressiste)

Law and politics

• Manu propria, a Latin expression meaning by one's own hand
• Member of parliament, in many countries
• Provisory measure, in Brazilian law (medida provisória)

Linguistics

• Mp (digraph), in many African languages
• Malayo-Polynesian languages of Southeast Asia
• Minimalist program, a syntactic theory in linguistics

Places

• Madhya Pradesh, a state in India
• Mandatory Palestine, a former British protectorate
• Northern Mariana Islands (ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code and U.S. postal abbreviation MP)

Science and technology

• Mammal Paleogene zone, in geology, a type of zone in the stratigraphic record
• Møller–Plesset perturbation theory, a post-Hartree–Fock method used in computational chemistry
• Movement protein, proteins encoded by plant viruses to facilitate cell-to-cell transmission

Computing

• .mp, Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Northern Mariana Islands
• 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
• Management Point, in the Advanced Client of Microsoft's System Center Configuration Manager

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
• m_p, the mass of a proton

Production

• Microprinting ("MP"), a method of printing very finely as an anti-counterfeiting mechanism
• Monoprinting (M/P), a type of printmaking producing a single print

Other uses

• Machine pistol
• Marka polska, a historical Polish money unit
• Roman mile (mille passuum)

See also

• MP, a brand of Russian firearms by Izhevsk Mechanical Plant, including:
  • MP-71
  • MP412 REX
  • MP-443 Grach
  • MP-444 (Bagira)
  • MP-445 (Varyag)
  • MP-446 Viking
  • MP-448 Skyph
• MP, One of several models of rolling stock on the Paris Métro, notably:
  • MP 59
  • MP 73
  • MP 89
  • MP 05
• File formats developed by the Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG):
  • MP3
  • MP4
• MPS (disambiguation)
  • Metropolitan Police Service (MPS), the police force of Greater London
• Metacarpophalangeal joint (MCP)