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Imp
is a fantasy creature.
IMP or imp may also refer to:
Imp
An imp is a mythological being similar to a fairy or demon, frequently described in folklore and superstition. The word may perhaps derive from the term ympe, used to denote a young grafted tree.-Folklore:...
is a fantasy creature.
IMP or imp may also refer to:
- Interactive Mathematics Program (IMP)Interactive Mathematics Program (IMP)The Interactive Mathematics Program is a four-year, problem-based mathematics curriculum for high schools, designed to meet the needs of both college-bound and non-college-bound students. It was one of several curricula funded by the National Science Foundation and designed around the 1989 ...
, a Key Curriculum Press Interactive Math program - Isle of Man pound, or Manx poundManx poundThe Manx pound or Isle of Man pound is a local issue of the pound sterling, issued by the Isle of Man Government. It is subdivided into 100 pence.-Currency union with sterling:...
- Imp (horse)Imp (horse)Imp was a pure black Thoroughbred racing filly with a white diamond shaped star between her eyes. She was sired by Wagner out of Foundling and was foaled on March 5, 1894. Owned and bred by Daniel R. Harness of Chillicothe, Ohio, and trained by both Charles E. Brossman and Peter Wimmer , Imp's...
, American Champion Thoroughbred racehorse - "Imping" in falconryFalconryFalconry is "the taking of wild quarry in its natural state and habitat by means of a trained raptor". There are two traditional terms used to describe a person involved in falconry: a falconer flies a falcon; an austringer flies a hawk or an eagle...
is to mend broken flight feathers - Hillman ImpHillman ImpThe Hillman Imp is a compact, rear-engined saloon car that was manufactured under the Hillman marque by the Rootes Group from 1963 to 1976...
, a British car of the 1960s-70s - Nickname of Subaru ImprezaSubaru ImprezaIntroduced in November 1993, the Impreza was offered in either front-wheel drive or all-wheel drive versions and as a four-door sedan/saloon or five-door station wagon/estate. According to a Motor Trend article written March 1992 on page 26, the name of Subaru's new compact was, initially, to be...
, a Japanese car - Injection Molded PlasticInjection moldingInjection molding is a manufacturing process for producing parts from both thermoplastic and thermosetting plastic materials. Material is fed into a heated barrel, mixed, and forced into a mold cavity where it cools and hardens to the configuration of the cavity...
- Latin abbreviation used on British coins up to 1947, such as the British two shilling coinBritish Two Shilling coinThe British two shilling coin, also known as the florin or "two bob bit" was issued from 1849 until 1967. It was worth one tenth of a pound, or twenty-four old pence...
- Individual Meal PackIndividual Meal PackThe Individual Meal Pack or IMP is one type of field ration used by the Canadian Forces and Canadian cadets. The IMP is designed so that a continuous diet provides all the nutrition needed to sustain a soldier in the field...
, a ration used by the Canadian Armed Forces - Integrated Master PlanIntegrated master planThe Integrated Master Plan is an event-based, top level plan consisting of a hierarchy of Program Events, with each Event being supported by specific Accomplishments, and each Accomplishment associated with specific Criteria to be satisfied for its completion...
, a part of project planning - Internal Market Program, a.k.a. Single MarketSingle marketA single market is a type of trade bloc which is composed of a free trade area with common policies on product regulation, and freedom of movement of the factors of production and of enterprise and services. The goal is that the movement of capital, labour, goods, and services between the members...
In science and medicine
- Investigational medicinal product, clinical trial medication
- Inosine monophosphate, a nucleotide
- Integral membrane proteinIntegral membrane proteinAn integral membrane protein is a protein molecule that is permanently attached to the biological membrane. Proteins that cross the membrane are surrounded by "annular" lipids, which are defined as lipids that are in direct contact with a membrane protein...
, a class of proteins attached to cell membranes - imipenem/cilastatinImipenem/cilastatinImipenem/cilastatin is a broad spectrum beta-lactam antibiotic containing equal quantities of imipenem and cilastatin. It is related to the penicillin/cephalosporin family of antibiotics but is classified as belonging to the carbapenem class.-Mechanism:It has the ability to kill a wide variety of...
, an antibiotic combination
In computing and technology
- Interface Message ProcessorInterface Message ProcessorThe Interface Message Processor was the packet-switching node used to interconnect participant networks to the ARPANET from the late 1960s to 1989. It was the first generation of gateways, which are known today as routers. An IMP was a ruggedized Honeywell DDP-516 minicomputer with...
, a packet-switching node for connecting computers to ARPANET (modern term: router) - IMP programming languageIMP programming languageIMP was a systems programming language developed by Ned Irons in the late 1960s through early 1970s. Unlike most other systems programming languages, IMP was an extensible syntax programming language....
, a systems programming language for the CDC 6600 - Edinburgh IMPEdinburgh IMPEdinburgh IMP is a development of ATLAS Autocode, initially developed around 1966-1969 at Edinburgh University, Scotland. IMP was a general-purpose programming language which was used heavily for systems programming....
, a systems programming language used in the EMAS operating system - Internet Messaging ProgramInternet Messaging ProgramThe Internet Messaging Program or IMP is an open source PHP-based webmail client for IMAP. IMP is a component of the Horde project.It is included with cPanel and Plesk installations as a webmail client...
, a webmail client - InterMUDInterMUDInterMUD or interMU* communications is the commonly accepted terminology for different methods of allowing MUDs to communicate with each other. Some of the more common of these methods are custom protocols over the internet, IPC messages, and bots. The custom protocol method, which is by far the...
Message Protocol, a UDP protocol used for communication between MUDs - Intercept Modernisation Programme, a proposal by the UK government to centralise the storage electronic communications traffic data
- Information Module ProfileInformation Module ProfileIMP stands for the Information Module Profile. It is a specification put out by Sun Microsystems for the use of Java on embedded devices with very limited displays...
, a subset of the Mobile Information Device Profile - BBC iPlayerBBC iPlayerBBC iPlayer, commonly shortened to iPlayer, is an internet television and radio service, developed by the BBC to extend its former RealPlayer-based and other streamed video clip content to include whole TV shows....
, a peer-to-peer media player from the BBC (formerly Interactive Media Player or iMP) - International MARC Programme, a former Universal Bibliographic Control programme's activity to develop and maintain the UNIMARC format
In fiction
- Imp (She-Ra), a character in She-Ra: Princess of Power
- Imp a character in Artemis Fowl: The Lost ColonyArtemis Fowl: The Lost ColonyArtemis Fowl: The Lost Colony is the fifth book in the Artemis Fowl Series by Irish writer Eoin Colfer. The book, originally expected to be published in the UK and Ireland on September 7 2006, was shipped to stores early...
- Imp, a character in the Clan DestineClan DestineThe ClanDestine is a comic book series about the Destines, a secret family of long-lived superhuman beings, published in the United States by Marvel Comics...
series of Marvel Comics - Imp, nickname of Tyrion Lannister, a character from A Song of Ice and Fire series
In games
- Imp (Dungeons & Dragons)Imp (Dungeons & Dragons)In the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game, an imp is a devilish creature based on the imps from folklore.-Publication history:The imp first appeared in the first edition in the original Monster Manual ....
, a type of fictional lower level devil in the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game - Imp (Shattered Galaxy), an infantry Unit in the MMORPG Shattered Galaxy
- Imp, enemy in the video game Doom
- Imp, popular pet used by Warlocks in World of WarcraftWorld of WarcraftWorld of Warcraft is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game by Blizzard Entertainment. It is the fourth released game set in the fantasy Warcraft universe, which was first introduced by Warcraft: Orcs & Humans in 1994...
- Imp, monster enemy in GeistGeist (video game)Geist is a video game for the Nintendo GameCube video game console, released on August 15, 2005, in North America, on October 7, 2005, in Europe, and on November 3, 2005, in Australia...
- Imp, worker units in RTS Dungeon KeeperDungeon KeeperDungeon Keeper is a strategy video game released developed by Bullfrog Productions under Peter Molyneux and released by Electronic Arts in July 1997 for the PC in which the player attempts to build and manage a dungeon or lair while protecting it from 'hero' characters intent on stealing the...
and its sequel - Imp, short for members of the Empire ("Imperials") from Star Wars GalaxiesStar Wars GalaxiesStar Wars Galaxies is a Star Wars themed MMORPG for Microsoft Windows developed by Sony Online Entertainment and published by LucasArts.-History:...
and various Star Wars games - MidnaMidnais one of the main characters in the 2006 Nintendo game The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess. She is member of the Twili, a fictional race of magic-wielders, who chooses Link to help her accomplish her goals. While appearing as a diminutive imp, her actual form is human-shaped. She was voiced by...
, a main character from The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, who resembles an imp for most of the game - ImplementerImplementerImplementer was originally the self-given name of the creators of the Infocom text adventure series Zork. Implementor, often shortened to Imp, became the title given to game designers and programmers at Infocom. Implementers were inserted as minor characters in several Infocom games...
, a term for developers in the Zork series and in DikuMUDs - International Match Point, one form of scoring in Duplicate bridge
In art and culture
- Imparja TelevisionImparja TelevisionImparja Television is an Australian television network servicing remote eastern and central Australia, that began broadcasting on 2 January 1988. It is based in Alice Springs, where it has a studio and satellite uplink facility. Notably, it is controlled by Australian Aborigines through ownership...
(callsign IMP), an Australian television broadcaster - Independent Moving PicturesIndependent Moving PicturesThe Independent Moving Pictures Company was a movie studio/production company founded in 1909 by Carl Laemmle, and was located at Eleventh Avenue and 53rd Street New York City, and in Fort Lee, New Jersey....
, an early movie studio absorbed by Universal in 1912 - International Music PublicationsInternational Music PublicationsInternational Music Publications is a British publisher of popular sheet music.-History:It began as the European arm of Warner Brothers Publications' sheet music business, and was one of the UK's largest sheet music publishers. It was subsequently purchased by Alfred Publishing, which in 2005 sold...
, a British sheet music publisher
Groups, businesses, and organizations
- Island Medical Program - University of VictoriaIsland Medical Program - University of VictoriaThe Island Medical Program at the University of Victoria is a program created by the province to increase the number of new physicians on Vancouver Island in British Columbia....
, the University of Victoria branch of the UBC Medical program - Israeli Military PoliceIsraeli Military PoliceThe Military Police Corps of the Israel Defense Forces is the Israeli military police and provost. The military police serves the Manpower Directorate during peace time, and the Technological and Logistics Directorate during war....
or Investigating Military Police (Criminal Investigations Division/CID) - IMP SocietyIMP SocietyThe IMP Society is a secret society at the University of Virginia that is notable for combining philanthropy and public mischief.Originally founded in 1902 as a society called the Hot Feet, the society was known primarily for its public ceremonies in which it crowned the society's "king." The Hot...
, a secret society at the University of Virginia - IMP GroupIMP GroupThe IMP Group International is a diversified company based in Halifax, Nova Scotia founded in 1967 by industrialist Kenneth Rowe. IMP employs approximately 3,800 people...
(Industrial Marine Products), a Canadian company - International Masters PublishersInternational Masters PublishersInternational Masters Publishers is a publisher with activities in 35 countries. IMP creates and markets products within the areas of recipes and cookery, home and hobbies, entertainment and education....
, a Swedish based publisher - Research Institute of Molecular PathologyResearch Institute of Molecular PathologyThe Research Institute of Molecular Pathology is a basic biomedical research center sponsored largely by the pharmaceutical company Boehringer Ingelheim, and located in the Campus Vienna Biocenter ....
, a basic biomedical research center at the Campus Vienna Biocenter