SSP

SSP is an abbreviation that may stand for:

In arts and entertainment

• The Sarah Silverman Program, an American sitcom
• Scottish smallpipes, a musical instrument developed in the 20th century
• Shooting Star Press, a technique in professional wrestling
• Silversun Pickups, a rock band
• Survival Single Player, a game mode in the video game Minecraft
• Super Sonic Power, a line of toys by Kenner Products in the 1970s

Companies

• E. W. Scripps Company, stock symbol SSP
• Select Service Partner, an operator of food and beverage brands owned by EQT Partners
• Settlement service provider (Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act)
• SSP Co. Ltd. (エスエス製薬株式会社 SS Seiyaku Kabushiki Gaisha, The Science and Society Pharmaceutical Company), the division of Boehringer Ingelheim, founded in Japan in 1765
• SSP Group, British company

In economics and finance

• Single Shared platform (SSP)
• South Sudanese pound (ISO code)
• Statutory sick pay in the United Kingdom

In government and politics

Political parties and organizations

• Samyukta Socialist Party, in India from 1964 to 1972
• Scottish Socialist Party, campaigns for an independent and socialist Scotland
• Scottish Socialist Party (1987), an older socialist movement in Scotland from 1987 to 1990
• Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan, a former political party established in the 1980s

Other uses in government

• Secretariat of Public Security (Mexican federal government)
  • Ministry of Public Security (Mexico City)
  • Secretaría de Seguridad Pública (Tamaulipas)
• Senior Superintendent of Police
• State Secrets Privilege
• Sole Survivor Policy, in the U.S. military

Organizations

• Summer Science Program, an astronomy-oriented science program for high school students
• Satellite Sentinel Project, a non-profit focused on human rights
• Scottish Society of Playwrights, a trade union
• Sigma Sigma Phi, an osteopathic medical honor society
• Society for Science & the Public, a non-profit organization
• Society for Scholarly Publishing, a non-profit organization
• Swiss Society of Physiology, see Life Sciences Switzerland

Places

• South Saint Paul, Minnesota
• Southern State Parkway, a highway in New York
• Sterling State Park, Michigan
• Sham Shui Po, a region of Sham Shui Po District, a district in Kowloon, Hong Kong
  • Sham Shui Po Station (MTR station code SSP)

In science and technology

In biology and ecology

• Species Survival Plan, helps endangered animals find a home in a zoo
• Subspecies (usually abbreviated ssp.)

In computing and telecommunications

• Secure Simple Paring, a Bluetooth pairing mechanism
• Security Service Provider
• Sender Signing Policy: now known as Author Domain Signing Practices, in the context of E-mail
• Serial SCSI Protocol (SSP) – supporting SAS disk drives
• Server-to-Server Protocol
• Service switching point
• Single source publishing
• Stack-smashing protection
• Storage service provider
• Supplementary Special-purpose Plane, in the context of Unicode
• System Service Processor (Sun Microsystems)
• System Support Program, an operating system of IBM's System/32 computers
• Synchronous Serial Port
• Supply Side Platform, a platform for publishers (media) to manage their online advertising
• Surround Sound Processor

In medicine and psychology

• Sequence-Specific Primers, also known as Allele Specific Amplification (ASP), a type of human leukocyte antigen genotyping
• Specialist in School Psychology
• Strange Situation Procedure, a psychological test for children, developed by Mary Ainsworth
• Subacute sclerosing panencephalitis
• Swedish Universities Scales of Personality, a personality test

In spaceflight

• Soviet space program
• Space solar power, the conversion of solar energy into power from a location in outer space
• Space Studies Program, at the International Space University
• Surface Science Package, part of the Huygens probe

Other uses in science and technology

• Sardar Sarovar Project, a controversial mega-dam project in North-West India
• Supply-side platform also sell-side platform, a technology for managing online advertising inventory and maximizing revenue yield
• Solid-state physics, the largest branch of condensed matter physics
• Sonority Sequencing Principle, in linguistics, a principle that outlines the structure of a syllable
• Solid state polycondensation, a process used in the manufacture of polymers, such as polyethylene terephthalate

Other uses

• Special Service Package, a trim designation for Ford products used by Police Departments
• Surrey Sports Park, a sports facility, part of the University of Surrey