SOP

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SOP or sop may refer to:

Process and planning

• Sales and operations planning
• Standard operating procedure
• Start of production
• Statement of Principles, which often precedes a memorandum of understanding
• Statement of purpose

Arts and entertainment

• SOP (variety show), a musical variety show in the Philippines
• Sons of the Patriots, a major plot device in the video game Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots

Computing

• Same-origin policy, a security measure for client-side scripting
• SCSI over PCI Express
• Service-oriented programming
• Service-oriented provisioning
• Start of Packet, first byte in some communications protocols
• Subject-oriented programming

Government and law

• Separation of powers
• Sex Offender Program, for example in the Florida Department of Juvenile Justice
• State of Palestine

Organizations

• Seeds of Peace
• Socialist Party
• Société d'Ornithologie de Polynésie
• Survey of Pakistan

Science and technology

• SOP (IRC) or SuperOp (SOp), a level of Internet Relay Chat channel operator access
• Scaled orthographic projection, a form of Graphical projection
• Sensory organ precursor, for example in the NUMB gene
• Small outline package, a form factor of small-outline integrated circuit
• State of polarization, in wave polarization
• Structure–organization–process
• Sum of products

Other uses

• Sop, a piece of bread soaked in a liquid
• Moore County Airport (North Carolina) (IATA code: SOP)

See also

• Sum-of-the-parts analysis (SOTP)
• SOTP (disambiguation)
• Standard Operating Procedure