MP

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
 * Mezzo-piano (mp), a musical dynamic meaning "medium-quiet" or "moderately-quiet"
 * Multiplayer, in gaming
 * Multipremier, a Mexican television network
 * MusiquePlus, whose station identification is "mp"
 * Mario Party, a series of party vídeo games by Nintendo
 * MP signature on works by Australian artist Margaret Preston

Government

 * Member of parliament
 * Ministry of Planning, Budget, and Management (Brazil), a cabinet-level federal ministry in Brazil
 * Public Ministry (Portugal) (Ministério Público), the body of the Judiciary of Portugal
 * Public Prosecutor's Office (Brazil) (Ministério Público), 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 (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) (Mouvement Progressiste), a minor opposition political party in Cameroon
 * Green Party (Sweden) (Miljöpartiet), 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 ), Dutch cargo airline
 * Mikkelin Palloilijat, a Finnish football (soccer) club
 * Ming Pao, a Hong Kong newspaper
 * Missouri Pacific Railroad (reporting mark ), one of the first railroads in the United States west of the Mississippi River

Law

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

Linguistics

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

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 ), an insular area and commonwealth of the United States

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
 * 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 (mille passuum)