AP

AP, A&P, A-p, Ap, A/P, or ap may refer to many topics. While the most common one is the Associated Press, they may also refer to:

Arts and entertainment

 * AP (rapper) (born 1979), French rapper of Guadeloupean origin
 * "AP" (song), 2021 single by Pop Smoke
 * The A&P Gypsies, a musical radio program (1924–1936)
 * Action point (video gaming), required to be able to do something
 * Atomic Puppet, an animated series
 * Argyle Park, industrial/experimental band

Publishing

 * Academic Press, an American publisher
 * Amalgamated Press, an English publisher
 * Associated Press, an American news agency
 * "A&P" (story), by John Updike
 * Alternative Press (music magazine)
 * Ang Pamantasan, a Philippine student publication
 * Palatine Anthology, a collection of Ancient Greek poems
 * Amiga Power, a defunct video games magazine

Education

 * Advanced Placement, North American program offering college-level courses at schools
 * Austin Peay State University, Clarksville, Tennessee, US

Finance

 * Accounts payable, in accounting
 * Hungarian adópengő (currency code: AP)

Organizations

 * Agricultural and Pastoral Shows (A&P) in New Zealand
 * Administration Police, a Kenyan security unit
 * Dutch Data Protection Authority (Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens)
 * Polish Aero Club (Aeroklub Polski)
 * Armenian Power, an Armenian-American gang in Los Angeles, US
 * Atlantic Philanthropies, a foundation

Businesses

 * The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company or A&P supermarket chain
 * A & P Food Stores Building, St. Louis, Missouri, US
 * A&P Canada, former supermarket chain
 * A&P Group, a ship repair company, formerly Austin & Pickersgill
 * Air One airline, Rome, Italy, IATA code
 * Asset protection, retail loss prevention.
 * Atlantic and Pacific Railroad (A&P)
 * Audemars Piguet, Swiss watchmaker
 * Automotive Products, a former UK company

Politics

 * Acción Popular (disambiguation), the name of three political parties in Latin America
 * Justice Party (Turkey) (Adalet Partisi), a former political party
 * People's Action (Romania) (Acțiunea Populară), a former political party
 * People's Alliance (Spain) (Alianza Popular), a former political party
 * Labour Party (Norway) (Arbeiderpartiet), a major Norwegian political party

Mythology

 * Ap (ghost), a spirit of Khmer folklore
 * Ap (water), the waters in Vedic mythology

Places

 * Amapá, Brazil (ISO abbreviation "BR-AP")
 * Andhra Pradesh, India (ISO abbreviation "IN-AP")
 * Province of Ascoli Piceno, Italy, vehicle registration code
 * Ap Lei Chau, island in Hong Kong, also formerly the most densely populated island in the world
 * Ap Chau, another island in Hong Kong

Psychology

 * Attachment parenting, a parenting philosophy
 * Absolute pitch, the ability to identify musical notes without a reference tone

Computing

 * AP (complexity), or PSPACE, problems decidable by a Turing machine
 * Wireless access point, for WiFi networking
 * Address plus Port (A+P), a technique for sharing IPv4 addresses
 * Age progression of a photograph to show aging

Mathematics

 * Arithmetic progression

Medicine

 * Acute pancreatitis, a sudden inflammation of the pancreas
 * Alkaline phosphatase, an enzyme
 * Area postrema, a part of the brain
 * Colporrhaphy or A&P repair, of vaginal walls

Science

 * Ammonium perchlorate
 * Ap and Bp stars
 * AP site, a location in DNA or RNA

Military engineering

 * Anomalous propagation, or false radar echoes
 * Armor-piercing, a type of ammunition
 * A US Navy hull classification symbol: Transport aka troopship (AP)
 * A&P mechanic, an aircraft maintenance technician with Airframe and Powerplant ratings

Other uses

 * Arthur Paul Harper (1865–1955), New Zealand lawyer, mountaineer, explorer, businessman known as AP
 * ap, a Welsh patronymic
 * ap. a classical abbreviation
 * Adjective phrase
 * a/p is an abbreviation used in