MP

MP, Mp, mp, or .mp may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

Art

• MP, signature used on works by Australian artist Margaret Preston

Gaming

• Magic point, or mana point, in role-playing games
• Mario Party, a series of party video games produced by Nintendo
• MP, abbreviation for multiplayer in a multiplayer video game

Music

• Mike Portnoy, drummer of the progressive metal band Dream Theater
• Mezzo-piano (mp), a musical dynamic meaning "medium-quiet" or "moderately-quiet"
• M.P. (opera), an 1811 comic opera by Thomas Moore and Charles Edward Horn

Broadcasting

• Multipremier, a Mexican television network
• MusiquePlus, whose station identification is "mp"

Businesses and organizations

Government

• Member of Parliament
• Ministry of Planning, Budget, and Management (Brazil), a cabinet-level federal ministry in Brazil
• Public Ministry (Portugal) (), the body of the Judiciary of Portugal
• Public Prosecutor's Office (Brazil) (), 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
  • Metropolitan police, municipal police of major metropolitan areas

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) (), a minor opposition political party in Cameroon
• Green Party (Sweden) (), 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
• Mikkelin Palloilijat, 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
• MyProtein, British online sports nutrition retailer

Law

• Manu propria, a Latin expression meaning by one's own hand
• Provisory measure, in Brazilian law ()
• Missing person

Linguistics

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

People

• Michael Peterson (surfer) (1952–2012), Australian surfer
• Mike Portnoy, drummer of the progressive metal band Dream Theater
• Margaret Preston, Australian artist who signed her works "MP"

Places

• Madhya Pradesh, a state in India
• Manipur Pradesh, a term used to refer to Manipur by various political parties
• Mandatory Palestine, a former British protectorate
• Northern Mariana Islands (ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code and U.S. postal abbreviation MP), an insular area and commonwealth of the United States

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

• 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

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
• Meralgia paraesthetica (MP), a sensation of numbness in the outer thigh
• Methylphenidate, a stimulant medication
• Microprinting (MP), a method of printing very finely as an anti-counterfeiting mechanism
• Middle Paleolithic, an archaeological period
• Møller–Plesset perturbation theory, a post-Hartree–Fock method used in computational chemistry
• 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

• Mikkelin Palloilijat (MP), a Finnish football club
• MP Motorsport, a Dutch auto racing team

Other uses

• Marka polska, a historical Polish money unit
• Masterpoints, awarded for successful performance at contract bridge; see Glossary of contract bridge terms
• Matchpoints, a method of scoring in contract bridge; see Glossary of contract bridge terms
• Mile post
• Roman mile ()

See also

• MP, a brand of Russian firearms by Izhevsk Mechanical Plant, including:
  • MP-71
  • MP-412 REX
  • MP-443 Grach, (Pistolet Yarygina)
  • MP-444 (Bagira)
  • MP-445 (Varyag)
  • MP-446 Viking
  • MP-448 Skyph
• MP, one of several models of rubber-tyred rolling stock on the Paris Metro, notably:
  • MP 73
  • MP 89
  • MP 05
  • MP 14
• File formats developed by the Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG):
  • MP1
  • MP2
  • MP3
  • MP4
• MPS (disambiguation)
  • Metropolitan Police Service (MPS), the police force of Greater London
• Metacarpophalangeal joint (MCP), situated between the metacarpal bones and the proximal phalanges of the digits