AP

AP, A&P, A-p, Ap, A/P, or ap may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

• AP (rapper) (born 1979), French rapper of Guadeloupean origin
• The A&P Gypsies, a musical radio program (1924–36)
• Action point (video gaming), required to be able to do something
• Atomic Puppet, an animated series

Publishing

• Associated Press, an American news agency
• "A&P" (story), by John Updike
• Alternative Press (music magazine)
• Ang Pamantasan, a Philippine student publication
• Palatine Anthology, a collection of Ancient Greek poems
• Amiga Power, a defunct video games magazine

Education

• Advanced Placement, North American program offering college level courses at schools
• Austin Peay State University, Clarksville, Tennessee, US

Engineering and military

• Anomalous propagation, or false radar echoes
• Armor-piercing, a type of ammunition
• Transport support ship (U.S. Navy hull classification symbol: AP)
• A&P mechanic, an aircraft maintenance technician with Airframe and Powerplant ratings

Finance

• Accounts payable, in accounting
• Hungarian adópengő (currency code: AP)

Organizations

• Agricultural and Pastoral Shows (A&P) in New Zealand
• Administration Police, a Kenyan security unit
• Polish Aero Club (Aeroklub Polski)
• Armenian Power, an Armenian-American gang in Los Angeles, US
• Atlantic Philanthropies, a foundation

Businesses

• The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company or A&P supermarket chain
  • A & P Food Stores Building, St. Louis, Missouri, US
• A&P Canada, former supermarket chain
• A&P Group, a ship repair company, formerly Austin & Pickersgill
• Air One airline, Rome, Italy, IATA code
• Atlantic and Pacific Railroad (A&P)
• Automotive Products, a former UK company

Politics

• Acción Popular (disambiguation), the name of three political parties in Latin America
• Justice Party (Turkey) (Adalet Partisi), a former political party
• People's Action (Romania) (Acţiunea Populară), a former political party
• 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

• Amapá, Brazil (ISO abbreviation "BR-AP")
• Andhra Pradesh, India (ISO abbreviation "IN-AP")
• Province of Ascoli Piceno, Italy, vehicle registration code

Psychology

• Attachment parenting, a parenting philosophy
• Absolute pitch, the ability to identify musical notes without a reference tone

Science and technology

Computing

• AP (complexity), or PSPACE, problems decidable by a Turing machine
• Wireless access point, for WiFi networking
• Address plus Port (A+P), a technique for sharing IPv4 addresses
• Age progression of a photograph to show aging

Mathematics

• Arithmetic progression

Medicine

• Acute pancreatitis, a sudden inflammation of the pancreas
• Alkaline phosphatase, an enzyme
• Area postrema, a part of the brain
• Colporrhaphy or A&P repair, of vaginal walls

Science

• Ammonium perchlorate
• Ap and Bp stars

Other uses

• ap, a Welsh patronymic
• ap. a classical abbreviation
• Adjective phrase

See also

• Several abbreviations in list of medical abbreviations: A
• The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company (disambiguation)
• APP (disambiguation)