SP

Sp or SP may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

Businesses and organizations

Government and military

  • Section Patrol, a force of civilian vessels commissioned into the United States Navy for use as patrol vessels during World War I, most of them assigned a unique "section patrol" (SP) number for identification and record-keeping purposes
  • Security Police (Japan), a Japanese police unit dedicated to VIP protection
  • Shore patrol, a type of naval military police in the United Kingdom and United States

Political parties

Religious organizations

  • Piarists, a Catholic religious order, formally known Ordo Clericorum Regularium pauperum Matris Dei Scholarum Piarum, abbreviated Scholarum Piarum (Pious Schools)
  • Südtiroler Pfadfinderschaft, a Catholic scouting association in Italy

Places

Science and technology

Biology and medicine

  • Species, especially when the genus is known, but the species is uncertain or unspecified. (plural: "spp.")
  • Simulated patient, in medicine, an individual trained to act as a real patient
  • Substance P, a neuropeptide
  • Status Post

Computing and telecommunications

Mathematics

Other uses

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