Business and commerce

• SaskPower
  SaskPower
  Since 1929, SaskPower has been the principal supplier of electricity in Saskatchewan, Canada. Today, it serves more than 473,000 customers and manages $5.3 billion in assets...
  
  , a company in Canada
• IATA airline designator for SATA Air Acores
  SATA Air Acores
  SATA Air Açores is an airline based in Ponta Delgada in the Azores, Portugal. It operates scheduled passenger, cargo and mail services around the Azores. It provides its own maintenance and handling services and manages 4 regional airports...
  
  
• SP Technical Research Institute of Sweden
  SP Technical Research Institute of Sweden
  The SP Technical Research Institute of Sweden, in Swedish SP Sveriges Tekniska Forskningsinstitut, is a joint stock company, fully owned by the Swedish government. It was formerly known as Statens Provningsanstalt , thus the abbreviation SP...
  
  
• Schering-Plough
  Schering-Plough
  Schering-Plough Corporation was a United States-based pharmaceutical company. It was founded in 1851 by Ernst Christian Friedrich Schering as Schering AG in Germany. In 1971, the Schering Corporation merged with Plough to form Schering-Plough. On November 4, 2009 Merck & Co...
  
  , a pharmaceutical company now merged with Merck & Co.
• Southern Pacific Railroad
  Southern Pacific Railroad
  The Southern Pacific Transportation Company , earlier Southern Pacific Railroad and Southern Pacific Company, and usually simply called the Southern Pacific or Espee, was an American railroad....
  
   reporting marks
• Starting prices
  Starting Prices
  In horse racing, the starting price is the odds prevailing in the on-course fixed-odds betting market at the time a race begins. The method by which SPs are set for each runner varies in different countries but is generally by consensus of an appointed panel on the basis of their observations of...
  
  , a betting term in the United Kingdom

Computing and technology

• Scalable POWERparallel
  Scalable POWERparallel
  Scalable POWERparallel or SP is an IBM supercomputer platform. The nodes are based on the RS/6000 with clustering software called PSSP which is mainly written in Perl...
  
  , IBM's SP and SP2
• Service pack
  Service pack
  A service pack is a collection of updates, fixes or enhancements to a software program delivered in the form of a single installable package. Many companies, such as Microsoft or Autodesk, typically release a service pack when the number of individual patches to a given program reaches a certain ...
  
  
• Service Provider
  Service provider
  A service provider is an entity that provides services to other entities. Usually, this refers to a business that provides subscription or web service to other businesses or individuals. Examples of these services include Internet access, Mobile phone operators, and web application hosting...
  
  
• Sharepoint
• Short Play
  • Short Play, a vinyl record (or single) format
  • Short Play (VCR format)
    Short Play (VCR format)
    Short Play on a video cassette recorder denotes faster recording speed which ultimately results in higher quality video, but shorter recording time per video tape....
    
    
  • SP, see DVD recorder
    DVD recorder
    A DVD recorder , is an optical disc recorder that uses Optical disc recording technologies to digitally record analog signal or digital signals onto blank writable DVD media...
    
    
  • SP, see digital video recorder
    Digital video recorder
    A digital video recorder , sometimes referred to by the merchandising term personal video recorder , is a consumer electronics device or application software that records video in a digital format to a disk drive, USB flash drive, SD memory card or other local or networked mass storage device...
    
    
• Signal processor
  Signal processor
  A signal processor is an electronic circuit that removes information from an analog signal as quantifiable units for further analysis. Most modern signal processors are either dedicated microprocessor integrated circuits or general-purpose programmable microprocessors. A DSP is an electronic...
  
  
• Single-player, a term for a single-player video game, or variation of the same
• stack pointer, a term used in computing
• Stored procedure
  Stored procedure
  A stored procedure is a subroutine available to applications that access a relational database system. A stored procedure is actually stored in the database data dictionary.Typical uses for stored procedures include data validation or access control mechanisms...
  
  , a program stored in a database
• Game Boy Advance SP
  Game Boy Advance SP
  The , released in February 2003, is an upgraded version of Nintendo's Game Boy Advance. The "SP" in Game Boy Advance SP stands for Special. The SP was marketed at US$99.99 at launch. In September 2004, Nintendo lowered the price to US$79.99...
  
  , an upgraded version of the Game Boy Advance
• Space
  Space bar
  thumb|250px|A [[computer keyboard]], Space Bar is on the bottom center of the keyboardThe space bar, spacebar, or space key, is a key on an alphanumeric keyboard in the form of a horizontal bar in the lowermost row, significantly wider than other keys. Its main purpose is to conveniently enter the...
  
  , a character entered from the keyboard
• Stream processing
  Stream processing
  Stream processing is a computer programming paradigm, related to SIMD , that allows some applications to more easily exploit a limited form of parallel processing...
  
  

Locations

• São Paulo (state)
  São Paulo (state)
  São Paulo is a state in Brazil. It is the major industrial and economic powerhouse of the Brazilian economy. Named after Saint Paul, São Paulo has the largest population, industrial complex, and economic production in the country. It is the richest state in Brazil...
  
  
• a number of places called Saint Petersburg
  Saint Petersburg (disambiguation)
  Saint Petersburg is the second-largest city in Russia.Saint Petersburg may also refer to:Places*St. Petersburg, Florida*St. Petersburg, Pennsylvania...
  
  
  • most notably Saint Petersburg
    Saint Petersburg
    Saint Petersburg is a city and a federal subject of Russia located on the Neva River at the head of the Gulf of Finland on the Baltic Sea...
    
     (formerly Leningrad
    Leningrad
    Leningrad is the former name of Saint Petersburg, Russia.Leningrad may also refer to:- Places :* Leningrad Oblast, a federal subject of Russia, around Saint Petersburg* Leningrad, Tajikistan, capital of Muminobod district in Khatlon Province...
    
    , in Russia
    Russia
    Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...
    
    
• Severna Park, Maryland
  Severna Park, Maryland
  Severna Park is a census-designated place in Anne Arundel County, Maryland, United States. The population was 28,507 at the 2000 census.-History:Robinson House was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.-Geography:...
  
  
• Singapore Polytechnic
  Singapore Polytechnic
  Singapore Polytechnic , the first polytechnic established in Singapore, was founded in 1954. The former campus was originally located at Prince Edward Road...
  
  , a polytechnic in Singapore
• Skate park
• a number of locations called South Park
  South Park (disambiguation)
  South Park is an animated series, with related media or affiliation:*South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut, a 1999 full-length movie* South Park , a first-person shooter game...
  
  
• South Pole
  South Pole
  The South Pole, also known as the Geographic South Pole or Terrestrial South Pole, is one of the two points where the Earth's axis of rotation intersects its surface. It is the southernmost point on the surface of the Earth and lies on the opposite side of the Earth from the North Pole...
  
  
• South Philadelphia
  South Philadelphia
  South Philadelphia, nicknamed South Philly, is the section of Philadelphia bounded by South Street to the north, the Delaware River to the east and south, and the Schuylkill River to the west.-History:...
  
  
• South Pasadena, Florida
  South Pasadena, Florida
  South Pasadena is a city located in southern Pinellas County, Florida, near St. Petersburg. The population was 5,778 at the 2000 census. As of 2004, the population estimated by the U.S. Census Bureau is 5,745 .-Geography:...
  
  
• South Pasadena, California
  South Pasadena, California
  South Pasadena is a city in Los Angeles County, California, United States. As of the 2010 census, it had a population of 25,619, up from 24,292 at the 2000 census. It is located in in the West San Gabriel Valley...
  
  
• Scotch Plains, New Jersey
  Scotch Plains, New Jersey
  Scotch Plains is a township in Union County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2010 Census, the township population increased to a record high of 23,510.-History:...
  
  
• St. Pius X Seminary
  St. Pius X Seminary
  The Seminary of St. Pius X , or St. Pius X Seminary, is a Filipino Roman Catholic secondary school and seminary in the Lawaan hills, Roxas City, Capiz in the Philippines run by the Catholic priests of the Archdiocese of Capiz. The seminary and its surrounding areas comprise some three hectares of...
  
  , Philippines
• State park
  State park
  State parks are parks or other protected areas managed at the federated state level within those nations which use "state" as a political subdivision. State parks are typically established by a state to preserve a location on account of its natural beauty, historic interest, or recreational...
  
  

Mathematics

• Sp(n) and Sp(2n,F), a term used in mathematics to denote a symplectic group
  Symplectic group
  In mathematics, the name symplectic group can refer to two different, but closely related, types of mathematical groups, denoted Sp and Sp. The latter is sometimes called the compact symplectic group to distinguish it from the former. Many authors prefer slightly different notations, usually...
  
   or its corresponding Lie algebra
  Lie algebra
  In mathematics, a Lie algebra is an algebraic structure whose main use is in studying geometric objects such as Lie groups and differentiable manifolds. Lie algebras were introduced to study the concept of infinitesimal transformations. The term "Lie algebra" was introduced by Hermann Weyl in the...
  
  
• Spur
  Trace (linear algebra)
  In linear algebra, the trace of an n-by-n square matrix A is defined to be the sum of the elements on the main diagonal of A, i.e.,...
  
  , a German term for the trace of a square matrix in linear algebra

Medicine

• Simulated patient
  Simulated patient
  A simulated patient, standardized patient or sample patient , in health care, is an individual who is trained to act as a real patient in order to simulate a set of symptoms or problems. Simulated patients have been successfully used in medical education, nursing education, evaluation, and...
  
  
• Sleep Paralysis
  Sleep paralysis
  Sleep paralysis is paralysis associated with sleep that may occur in healthy persons or may be associated with narcolepsy, cataplexy, and hypnagogic hallucinations. The pathophysiology of this condition is closely related to the normal hypotonia that occurs during REM sleep. When considered to be a...
  
  
• Social phobia
  Social anxiety
  Social anxiety is anxiety about social situations, interactions with others, and being evaluated or scrutinized by other people...
  
  , an anxiety disorder
• standardized patient

Military

• Self-propelled artillery
  Self-propelled artillery
  Self-propelled artillery vehicles are combat vehicles armed with artillery. Within the term are covered self-propelled guns and rocket artillery...
  
  
• Shore Patrol
  Shore patrol
  Shore patrol are service members that are provided to aid in security for the U.S. Navy, United States Coast Guard, United States Marine Corps, and the British Royal Navy while on shore...
  
  , United States Navy
• Soft point bullet
  Soft point bullet
  A soft-point bullet , also known as a soft-nosed bullet, is a lead expanding bullet with a copper or brass jacket that is left open at the tip, exposing some of the lead inside and is thus an example of a semi-jacketed round...
  
  , a type of ammo

Occupations

• Sapeur-pompier
  Sapeur-pompier
  The fire service in France is known as Sapeurs-pompiers, except in Marseille, where naval "sailor-firefighters", marins-pompiers, provide fire and rescue services.There are two categories:...
  
  , the term for the French firefighters
• Security police
  Security police
  In some countries, including the United States, security police are those persons, employed by or for a governmental agency, who provide police and security services to those agencies' properties....
  
  
• State police
  State police
  State police are a type of sub-national territorial police force, particularly in Australia and the United States. Some other countries have analogous police forces, such as the provincial police in some Canadian provinces, while in other places, the same responsibilities are held by national...
  
  
• Superintendent of Police
  Superintendent (police)
  Superintendent , often shortened to "super", is a rank in British police services and in most English-speaking Commonwealth nations. In many Commonwealth countries the full version is superintendent of police...
  
  

Politics

• Felicity Party (Saadet Partisi), a Turkish political party
• Secular-progressive, abbreviated S-P, a term used to describe people who advocate government independence from religious influences
• Shining Path (Communist Party of Peru)
  Shining Path
  Shining Path is a Maoist guerrilla terrorist organization in Peru. The group never refers to itself as "Shining Path", and as several other Peruvian groups, prefers to be called the "Communist Party of Peru" or "PCP-SL" in short...
  
  , a Maoist guerrilla insurgent organization in Peru
• Social Democratic Party of Switzerland
  Social Democratic Party of Switzerland
  The Social Democratic Party of Switzerland is the largest centre-left political party in Switzerland....
  
  
• Socialist Party
  Socialist Party
  Socialist Party is the name of several different political parties around the world that are explicitly called Socialist. All of these parties claim to uphold socialism, though they might belong to different branches of the socialist movement and might therefore have different interpretations of...
  
   or Social Democratic Party
• Socialist Party of Albania
  Socialist Party of Albania
  The Socialist Party of Albania , is a centre-left, social democraticand socially liberal political party in Albania, it is currently the leading opposition party in Albania. It seats 66 MPs in the 2009 Albanian parliament . It achieved power in 1997 after a political crisis and governmental...
  
  
• Samajwadi Party
  Samajwadi Party
  Samajwadi Party is a political party in India. It is based in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. It describes itself as a democratic socialist party...
  
  , a party in India
• Samata Party
  Samata Party
  The Samata Party is a political party in India. Initially formed as an offshoot of the Janata Dal in 1994 by Nitish Kumar and George Fernandes. The reason given was that the Janata Dal had shifted to casteism...
  
  , a party in India
• Saskatchewan Party
  Saskatchewan Party
  The Saskatchewan Party is a conservative liberal political party in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan. The party was established in 1997 by a coalition of former provincial Progressive Conservative and Liberal party members and supporters who sought to remove the Saskatchewan New Democratic...
  
  
• Centre Party (Norway)
  Centre Party (Norway)
  The Centre Party is a centrist and agrarian political party in Norway, founded in 1920. The Centre Party's policy is not based on any of the major ideologies of the 19th and 20th century, but has a focus on maintaining decentralised economic development and political decision-making.From its...
  
   (Senterpartiet)
• Socialistische Partij (SP)
  Socialist Party (Netherlands)
  The Socialist Party is a democratic socialist political party in the Netherlands. After the 2006 general election, the Socialist Party became one of the major parties of the Netherlands with 25 seats of 150, an increase of 16 seats. The party was in opposition against the fourth Balkenende cabinet...
  
  , a current political party in The Netherlands
• Socialistische Partij (SP.A)
  Socialist Party - Different
  ' is a Flemish social-democratic party in Belgium. It was formerly known as the Socialistische Partij , which in turn had branched off from the Belgian Socialist Party, itself formed by former members of the Belgian Labour Party.-1978-now:The party was the big winner in the 2003 election, running...
  
  , a historical name for the SP.A in Belgium
• Socialistische Partij (SP)
  Socialist Party (Netherlands, interbellum)
  The Socialist Party was a Dutch revolutionary syndicalist libertarian socialist political party. The SP played only a minor role in Dutch political history.-Party History:...
  
  , a historical political party in The Netherlands (1918–1929)
• Southern Party
  Southern Party
  The Southern Party was a minor political party in the United States that operated exclusively in the South. The party supported states' rights and increased Southern cultural and regionalist activism....
  
  , a party in the United States

Popular culture

• SP (TV series)
  SP (TV series)
  is a Japanese television drama based on the real life security police unit of Japan which is responsible for protecting domestic and foreign VIPs. The series script was written by famed GO author Kazuki Kaneshiro and marks his first time writing for a television drama.Two film adaptations of the...
  
  , a Japanese TV series based on security police

Religion

• Summorum Pontificum
  Summorum Pontificum
  Summorum Pontificum is an Apostolic Letter of Pope Benedict XVI, issued "motu proprio" . The document specified the rules, for the Latin Rite of the Catholic Church, for celebrating Mass according to the "Missal promulgated by John XXIII in 1962" , and for administering most of the sacraments in...
  
  , an Apostolic Letter of Pope Benedict XVI, issued in 2007
• Suppressive Person
  Suppressive Person
  Suppressive Person, often abbreviated SP, is a term used in Scientology to describe the "antisocial personalities" who, according to Scientology's founder L. Ron Hubbard, make up about 2.5% of the population...
  
  , a term used in Scientology

Science

• sp.
  Sp.
  Sp. or sp. may refer to:*Spanish language*Special*September* species, especially when the genus is known, but the species is uncertain or unspecified. * Spurius, the Roman praenomen. see: Spurius...
  
  , an abbreviation for species used in place of a specific epithet in a species name
• sp orbitals, an instance of orbital hybridisation
  Orbital hybridisation
  In chemistry, hybridisation is the concept of mixing atomic orbitals to form new hybrid orbitals suitable for the qualitative description of atomic bonding properties. Hybridised orbitals are very useful in the explanation of the shape of molecular orbitals for molecules. It is an integral part...
  
  
• Substance P
  Substance P
  In the field of neuroscience, substance P is a neuropeptide: an undecapeptide that functions as a neurotransmitter and as a neuromodulator. It belongs to the tachykinin neuropeptide family. Substance P and its closely related neuropeptide neurokinin A are produced from a polyprotein precursor...
  
  , a neuropeptide
• Superplasticizer
  Superplasticizer
  Superplasticizers, also known as high range water reducers, are chemicals used as admixtures where well-dispersed particle suspension are required. These polymers are used as dispersants to avoid particle aggregation, and to improve the flow characteristics of suspensions such as in concrete...
  
  , a type of high molecular weight organic compounds added to cement to reduce the water-to-cement ratio while improving concrete workability

Scouting Organizations

• Suomen Partiolaiset
  Suomen Partiolaiset
  Suomen Partiolaiset - Finlands Scouter ry is the national Scouting and Guiding association of Finland. Scouting was founded in Finland in 1910 as part of tsarist Russia, registered with the central organization of the tsarist Russian Scout movement Русский Скаут...
  
  , the Finnish national Scout Association
• Südtiroler Pfadfinderschaft
  Südtiroler Pfadfinderschaft
  The Südtiroler Pfadfinderschaft , abbreviated as SP, is the Roman Catholic Scout association of the German minority of the Italian province of South Tyrol . The association is coeducational and has 600 members in seven troops. It is affiliated to the Associazione Guide e Scouts Cattolici Italiani...
  
  , a Scout Association in South Tyrol

Sports

• Short program (figure skating), the first part of a figure skating competition
• Starting pitcher
  Starting pitcher
  In baseball or softball, a starting pitcher is the pitcher who delivers the first pitch to the first batter of a game. A pitcher who enters the game after the first pitch of the game is a relief pitcher....
  
  , a baseball term
• 25 metre pistol, a shooting sport formerly known as sport pistol

Terminology

• Share price
  Share price
  A share price is the price of a single share of a number of saleable stocks of a company. Once the stock is purchased, the owner becomes a shareholder of the company that issued the share.-Behavior of share prices:...
  
  , the price of a single share of saleable stock in a company.
• Short perforation, a term used in philately
  Philately
  Philately is the study of stamps and postal history and other related items. Philately involves more than just stamp collecting, which does not necessarily involve the study of stamps. It is possible to be a philatelist without owning any stamps...
  
  
• Sound Proof, a term for sound
• Spelling error, or typographical error
  Typographical error
  A typographical error is a mistake made in, originally, the manual type-setting of printed material, or more recently, the typing process. The term includes errors due to mechanical failure or slips of the hand or finger, but usually excludes errors of ignorance, such as spelling errors...
  
  
• a USCS
  Unified Soil Classification System
  The Unified Soil Classification System is a soil classification system used in engineering and geology to describe the texture and grain size of a soil. The classification system can be applied to most unconsolidated materials, and is represented by a two-letter symbol...
  
   symbol for poorly graded sand
• Spontaneous potential
  Spontaneous potential
  Spontaneous potential , also called self potential, is a naturally occurring electric potential difference in the Earth, measured by an electrode relative to a fixed reference electrode...
  
  , a measurement taken by oil industry well loggers to characterise rock formation properties
• sine prole, a Latin expression meaning "without offspring"
• Stated Preference method, a Choice modelling
  Choice Modelling
  Choice modelling attempts to model the decision process of an individual or segment in a particular context. Choice modelling may also be used to estimate non-market environmental benefits and costs....
  
  method