# AP

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

## Arts, entertainment and media

* "AP" (song), by Pop Smoke, 2021
* Action point, a video game term
* AP, a character in animated TV series Atomic Puppet
* "A&P" (short story), by John Updike, 1961
* Alternative Press (magazine), an American entertainment magazine
* Ang Pamantasan, a Philippine student publication
* Palatine Anthology, or Anthologia Palatina, a collection of Ancient Greek poems
* Amiga Power, a defunct video games magazine

## Businesses and organizations
### Businesses

* Academic Press, an American academic publisher
* Amalgamated Press, a former British newspaper and magazine publishing company
* Associated Press, an American news agency
* A&P, the Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company, a former American chain of grocery stores
** A&P Canada, former supermarket chain
* A&P Group, a British ship repair company
* Austin & Pickersgill, a British shipbuilding company
* Air One, an Italian airline, IATA code AP
* Atlantic and Pacific Railroad, in the United States
* Audemars Piguet, Swiss watchmaker
* Automotive Products, a former British company

### Political parties

* Acción Popular (disambiguation), the name of several parties
* Justice Party (Turkey) (Turkish: Adalet Partisi)
* Justice Party (Turkey, 2015)
* People's Action (Romania) (Romanian: Acțiunea Populară)
* People's Alliance (Spain) (Spanish: Alianza Popular)
* Labour Party (Norway) (Norwegian: Arbeiderpartiet)

### Other organizations

* Armenian Power, an Armenian criminal gang in Los Angeles, U.S.
* Atlantic Philanthropies, a private foundation
* Dutch Data Protection Authority (Dutch: Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens)
* Polish Aero Club (Polish: Aeroklub Polski)

## People

* AP (rapper) (Yohann Duport, born 1979), French rapper
* Adrian Peterson, former American football running back
* Arthur Paul Harper (1865–1955), New Zealand lawyer, mountaineer, explorer, businessman, known as AP
* ap ('son of'), part of a Welsh patronymic
* a/p ('daughter of'), in Malaysian Indian names

## Places

* Amapá, Brazil, ISO code BR-AP
* Andhra Pradesh, India, ISO code IN-AP
* Province of Ascoli Piceno, Italy, vehicle registration code

## Science and technology
### Computing and networks

* AP, an alternative characterization of PSPACE In computational complexity theory
* Application Processor, usually means CPU
* Wireless access point, or access point, a networking hardware device
* Address plus Port (A+P), a technique for sharing IPv4 addresses
* ActivityPub

### Medicine

* Acute pancreatitis, a sudden inflammation of the pancreas
* Area postrema, a part of the brain
* Colporrhaphy or A&P repair, of vaginal walls

### Other uses in science and technology

* Ammonium perchlorate, an inorganic compound
* Ap and Bp stars
* AP site, a location in DNA or RNA
* Armour-piercing ammunition

## Other uses

* All Purpose, a common grade of wheat flour
* Ap (water), a Vedic Sanskrit term
* ap, a classical abbreviation for ad pedes or aedilitia potestate
* AP, a classification symbol for an auxiliary of the United States Navy
* AP and variants, several medical abbreviations
* A&P mechanic, an aircraft maintenance technician with airframe and powerplant ratings
* Absolute pitch, the ability to identify a musical note without a reference tone
* Accounts payable, in accounting
* Advanced Placement, North American program offering college-level courses at schools
* Adjective phrase, a phrase whose head is an adjective
* Agricultural and Pastoral Shows, in New Zealand
* Attachment parenting, a parenting philosophy
* Hungarian adópengő, a former currency, symbol AP