MP explained
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
- Italian: Mezzo-piano (mp), a musical dynamic meaning "medium-quiet" or "moderately-quiet"
- Multiplayer, in gaming
- Multipremier, a Mexican television network
- French: [[MusiquePlus]]|italic=no, whose station identification is "mp"
- Mario Party, a series of party vídeo games produced 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) (pt|Ministério Público|links=no), the body of the Judiciary of Portugal
- Public Prosecutor's Office (Brazil) (pt|Ministério Público|links=no), 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
Politics
- Member of Parliament (Bangladesh), individual elected to serve in the Jatiya Sangsad of Bangladesh
- Member of Parliament (India), individual elected to serve in the Lok Sabha or Rajya Sabha of the Parliament of India
- 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) (fr|Mouvement Progressiste|links=no), a minor opposition political party in Cameroon
- Green Party (Sweden) (sv|Miljöpartiet|links=no), 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
- Finnish: [[Mikkelin Palloilijat]]|italic=no, 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
- Latin: [[Manu propria]], a Latin expression meaning by one's own hand
- Provisory measure, in Brazilian law (pt|medida provisória|links=no)
- Missing person
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
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
- 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
- Polish: [[Marka polska]], a historical Polish money unit
See also