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AP, A&P, A-p, Ap, A/P, or ap may refer to:
Arts and entertainment
- AP (rapper) (born 1979), French rapper of Guadeloupian origin
- Animal Planet, a television channel dedicated to animals
- The A&P Gypsies, a musical radio program (1924–36)
- Action point (video gaming), a point in games to determine how much action a player, unit, or video game character can do in a single turn
- Atomic Puppet, an animated superhero comedy series.
Publishing
- Associated Press, an American news agency
- "A&P" (story), a short story by John Updike
- Allied Press, a New Zealand newspaper company
- Aftenposten, a Norwegian newspaper
- Alternative Press (music magazine), a music industry magazine
- Ang Pamantasan, a Philippine university student publication
- Palatine Anthology, a collection of Greek poems and epigrams
Education
- Advanced Placement, a program that offers college level courses at high schools across the United States and Canada
- Assistant principal, the assistant chief administrator in a school
- Associate professor, an academic faculty rank in North America
- Austin Peay State University, a public university in Clarksville, Tennessee, US
Engineering and military
- Anomalous propagation, or false radar echoes
- Autopilot, automatic or assisted vehicle piloting
- Airframe and Powerplant, a certificate issued by the US Federal Aviation Administration for aircraft maintenance technicians
- Armor-piercing, a type of military or naval ammunition
- Transport support ship (U.S. Navy hull classification symbol: AP)
Finance
- Accounts payable, one of a series of accounting transactions covering payments to suppliers
- Average product, in economics, the total product divided by the quantity of the variable factor
- Hungarian adópengő (currency code: AP)
Organizations
- Agricultural and Pastoral Societies, e.g. in New Zealand, which organise regular A & P shows.
- Administration Police, a Kenyan security unit
- Polish Aero Club (Aeroklub Polski), the Polish central association of persons practising air sports or recreational flying
- Armenian Power, an Armenian-American gang located in Los Angeles, US
- Atlantic Philanthropies, a private foundation
Businesses
- The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company, better known as the A&P supermarket chain
- A & P Food Stores Building, St. Louis, Missouri, US
- A&P Canada, the former Canadian supermarket chain sold by A&P to Quebec-based Metro Inc.
- A&P Group, a ship repair and conversion company, formerly Austin & Pickersgill
- Agent Provocateur (lingerie), a British lingerie retailer
- Air One (IATA code: AP), an airline based in Rome, Italy
- Atlantic and Pacific Railroad, a subsidiary of the Santa Fe Railway
- Audemars Piguet, Swiss luxury watch manufacturer
- Automotive Products, a former UK automotive components company
Politics
- Acción Popular (disambiguation), the name of three political parties in Latin America
- Alberta Party, a centrist political party in Alberta, Canada
- Justice Party (Turkey) (Adalet Partisi), a former political party in Turkey
- People's Action (Romania) (Acţiunea Populară), a liberal Christian-democratic non-parliamentary party in Romania
- Popular Alliance (Spain) (Alianza Popular), a former political party in Spain
- Norwegian Labour Party (Arbeiderpartiet)
Mythology
- Ap (ghost), a spirit of Khmer folklore
- Ap (water), the waters in Vedic mythology
Places
- Andhra Pradesh, a state in southern India
- Asia Pacific, a region
- Province of Ascoli Piceno (ISO 3166-2 IT code), a province of Italy
Psychology
- Applied psychology, the use of psychological principles and theories to overcome problems in other areas
- Attachment parenting, a parenting philosophy
Science and technology
Computing
- AP, the class of decision problems that can be solved in polynomial time by an Alternating Turing machine
- AP (complexity), or PSPACE, a measure of the complexity of solving decision problems
- Wireless access point, a device that connects wireless communication devices together to form a wireless network
- Application profile, the set of metadata elements, policies, and guidelines defined for a software application
- ACID Pro, software and associated music resources used for music creation
- Address plus Port, a technique for sharing single IPv4 addresses among several users
- Age progression, the process of modifying a photograph of a person to represent the effect of aging on their appearance
- Autonomous peripherals, embedded peripherals in a microcontroller which continue to function while the CPU sleeps
- Average precision, a metric of quality of search results in information retrieval
Mathematics
- Amalgamation property, a property of a class of models in universal algebra and model theory
- Arithmetic progression, a sequence of numbers, each differing from its predecessor by a fixed quantity
Medicine
- Action potential, a "spike" of electrical discharge that travels along the membrane of a cell
- Alkaline phosphatase, an enzyme
- Amphetamine psychosis
- Area postrema, a part of the brain
- Arterial pressure, the pressure in the arteries (most prominently the Aorta)
- Colporrhaphy (also called A&P repair), surgical repair of the anterior and/or posterior vaginal walls
Science
- Acetone peroxide, an explosive
- Alpha particle, a helium nucleus
- Ammonium perchlorate, an oxidizer used in solid rocket propellant
- Applied physics, physics intended for a particular technological or practical use
- AP star, a type of star
- Atmospheric pressure, the Earth's atmospheric pressure at zero altitude
Other uses
- ap, a Welsh patronymic
- ap. a classical abbreviation
- A&P show, annual agricultural and pastoral shows held in many New Zealand towns and cities
- Advance parole, a United States immigration law term
- Adjective phrase, a phrase with an adjective as its head
- Anno Persico or Anno Persarum, a Latinization of Iranian calendar years
See also
- List of medical abbreviations: A
- AP Biology, a US course
- Tony McCoy (born 1974), jockey, known as AP McCoy
- The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company (disambiguation)
- APP (disambiguation)
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