AP

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

In business and economics

• Accounts payable, one of a series of accounting transactions covering payments to suppliers
• Average product, in economics, the total product divided by the quantity of the variable factor
• Hungarian adopengo (currency code AP)

Businesses

• The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company, better known as the A&P supermarket chain
• A&P Canada, the former Canadian supermarket chain sold by A&P to Quebec-based Metro Inc.
• A&P Group, a ship repair and conversion company, formerly Austin & Pickersgill
• Agent Provocateur (lingerie), a British lingerie retailer
• Air One, an airline based in Rome, Italy, with an IATA code of AP
• Atlantic and Pacific Railroad, a subsidiary of the Santa Fe Railway
• Automotive Products, a former UK automotive components company

In education

• Advanced Placement, a program that offers college level courses at high schools across the United States and Canada
• Assistant principal, the assistant chief administrator in a school
• Associate Professor, an academic faculty rank in North America
• Austin Peay State University, a public university in Clarksville, Tennessee

In mathematics, science and technology

Computing

• AP, the class of decision problems that can be solved in polynomial time by an Alternating Turing machine
• AP (complexity), or PSPACE, a measure of the complexity of solving decision problems
• Wireless access point, a device that connects wireless communication devices together to form a wireless network
• Application profile, the set of metadata elements, policies, and guidelines defined for a software application
• ACID Pro, software and associated music resources used for music creation
• Address plus Port, a technique for sharing single IPv4 addresses among several users

Mathematics

• Amalgamation property, a property of a class of models in universal algebra and model theory
• Arithmetic progression, a sequence of numbers, each differing from its predecessor by a fixed quantity

Medicine

• Action potential, a "spike" of electrical discharge that travels along the membrane of a cell
• Alkaline phosphatase, an enzyme
• Anatomy and physiology, a combined course of study for those seeking to enter a medical profession
• Anteroposterior, used to describe direction in anatomy
• Area postrema, a part of the brain
• Arterial pressure, the pressure in the arteries (most prominently the Aorta)
• Auscultation and percussion, part of the physical examination
• "Autistic psychopathy", a diagnosis listed as an alternative title for Asperger syndrome, see the History of Asperger syndrome
• Autophagosome, intracytoplasmic vacuole/membrane bound body that is involved in cytoplasmic degradation
• Colporrhaphy (also called A&P repair), surgical repair of the anterior and/or posterior vaginal walls

Military technology

• Armor-piercing shot and shell, a type of military or naval ammunition designed to penetrate armor or fortifications and then detonate
• AP, the U.S. Navy hull classification symbol for a transport support ship

Physics and chemistry

• Acetone peroxide, an explosive
• Alpha particle, a helium nucleus
• Ammonium perchlorate, an oxidizer used in solid rocket propellant
• Applied physics, physics intended for a particular technological or practical use

Psychology

• Applied psychology, the use of psychological principles and theories to overcome problems in other areas
• Attachment parenting, a parenting philosophy
• Amphetamine psychosis, psychotic state as a result of high and/or chronic use of amphetamine stimulants

Other uses in science and technology

• Age progression, the process of modifying a photograph of a person to represent the effect of aging on their appearance
• Anomalous propagation, or false radar echoes
• AP star, a type of star
• Atmospheric pressure, the Earth's atmospheric pressure at zero altitude
• Autopilot, automatic or assisted vehicle piloting
• Average precision, a metric of quality of search results in information retrieval

In media, arts, and entertainment

Publishing

• Associated Press, an American news agency
• "A&P" (story), a short story by John Updike referring to the retailer A&P
• Allied Press, a major New Zealand newspaper company
• Aftenposten, a Norwegian newspaper
• Alternative Press, a music industry magazine
• Ang Pamantasan, a Philippine university student publication

Other uses in media, arts and entertainment

• AP (rapper), French rapper of Guadeloupian origin
• Animal Planet, a television channel dedicated to animals
• The A&P Gypsies, a musical radio program (1924–36), named after the retailer A&P
• Action point, a point in games to determine how much action a player, unit, or video game character can do in a single turn

In mythology

• Ap (ghost), a spirit of Khmer folklore
• Ap (water), the waters in Vedic mythology

Places

• Andhra Pradesh, a state in southern India
• Asia Pacific, region
• Province of Ascoli Piceno, a province of Italy (ISO 3166-2 IT code)

In politics

• Acción Popular (disambiguation), the name of three political parties in Latin America
• Justice Party (Turkey) (Adalet Partisi), a former political party in Turkey
• People's Action (Romania) (Acţiunea Populară), a liberal Christian-democratic non-parliamentary party in Romania
• Popular Alliance (Spain) (Alianza Popular), a former political party in Spain
• Norwegian Labour Party (Arbeiderpartiet)

In sport

• Polish Aero Club (Aeroklub Polski), the Polish central association of persons practising air sports or recreational flying
• Tony McCoy, jockey, known as AP McCoy
• Adrian Peterson, National Football League running back

Other uses

• ap, a Welsh patronymic
• ap. a classical abbreviation
• A&P Food Stores Building, St. Louis, Missouri
• A&P show, annual agricultural and pastoral shows held in many New Zealand towns and cities
• Adjectival phrase, a term used in linguistics to denote a phrase with an adjective as its head
• Administration Police, a Kenyan security unit
• Advance parole, a United States immigration law term
• Airframe and Powerplant, a certificate issued by the US Federal Aviation Administration for aircraft maintenance technicians
• Anno Persico or Anno Persarum, a Latinization of Iranian calendar years
• Armenian Power, an Armenian-American gang located in Los Angeles
• Asian pride, a slogan
• Atlantic Philanthropies

See also

• The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company (disambiguation)
• APP (disambiguation) (also App)