STP

STP may refer to:

Commercial use

• Straight-through processing, banking term where a financial transaction is automatically completed without manual intervention
• Segment, Target and Position, a marketing acronym
• South Texas Nuclear Generating Station, also known as the South Texas Project, a nuclear power station located southwest of Bay City, Texas
• STP (motor oil company), a brand name and trade name for the automotive additives and performance division of Armored AutoGroup
• STP, New York Stock Exchange symbol for Suntech Power Holdings, a Chinese manufacturer of photovoltaic cells

Computing

• The file extension .stp may correspond to:
  • ISO 10303-21, the STEP CAD exchange format. The file extension .stp stands for Standard for the Exchange of Product model data.
  • Microsoft's SharePoint template
• Serial ATA Tunneling Protocol, a protocol used to support SATA devices within SAS storage enclosures
• Server Time Protocol, a protocol used by IBM mainframes to synchronize clocks
• Shielded twisted pair, a type of cable
• Spanning Tree Protocol, a network protocol providing a loop free topology for a LAN or bridged network
• Software Technology Parks, society set up by the Ministry of Communication and Information Technology, Government of India, with the objective of encouraging, promoting and boosting software exports from India.

Geography

• STP, IATA airport code for St. Paul Downtown Airport in Saint Paul, Minnesota
• STP, ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code, IOC country code, and FIFA country code for São Tomé and Príncipe
• STP, National Rail code for London St Pancras (Domestic) railway station

Music

• Stone Temple Pilots, an American rock band
• The Rolling Stones American Tour 1972, popularly referred to as the "STP Tour" for "Stones Touring Party"
• "S.T.P.", a song on the album Robbin' the Hood by ska punk/reggae band Sublime
• STP, an American all-girl rock band featuring Julia Cafritz
• "STP", a song by Smashing Pumpkins from the 2011 reissue bonus CD - Lollipop Fun Time of Siamese Dream

Sports and recreation

• 25 metre standard pistol, a shooting sport
• STP, a brand of bicycles marketed by Giant Bicycles
• Seattle to Portland Bicycle Classic, an annual one- and two-day supported bicycle ride from Seattle, Washington to Portland, Oregon

Medicine and drugs

• Scientist Training Programme, the postgraduate training for Healthcare scientists in the UK introduced under Modernising Scientific Careers
• Status post, sometimes abbreviated as st.p., used to discuss sequelae with reference to their cause
• STP, a slang name for the psychedelic 2,5-Dimethoxy-4-methylamphetamine

Science, math and technology

• Scalar triple product
• Sewage treatment plant
• Shovel test pit, method for archaeological survey
• Signal Transfer Point, an SS7 packet switch
• Sodium tripolyphosphate, a preservative
• Space Test Program, a program conducted by the USAF Space Development and Test Wing at Kirtland Air Force Base
• Standard temperature and pressure, a standard in chemistry established by the IUPAC
• Steiner tree problem in graphs
• Strategic technology plan
• Stand-to-pee device, another name for a female urination device

Other uses

• Sacrae Theologiae Professor, Professor of Sacred Theology; inscription commonly used on ancient church monuments
• Society for Threatened Peoples a human rights group based in Göttingen, Germany
• Soviet-type economic planning the specific economic planning model used by Marxist–Leninist socialist states.