# MP

MP, Mp, mp, or .mp may refer to:

## Arts and entertainment

* M.P. (opera), an 1811 comic opera by Thomas Moore and Charles Edward Horn
* Magic point, or mana point, in role-playing games
* Mezzo-piano (mp), a musical dynamic meaning "medium-quiet" or "moderately-quiet"
* Multiplayer, in gaming
* Multipremier, a Mexican television network
* MusiquePlus, whose station identification is "mp"
* Mario Party, a series of party vídeo games produced by Nintendo
* MP signature on works by Australian artist Margaret Preston
* Mike Portnoy, drummer of the progressive metal band Dream Theater

## Businesses and organizations
### Government

* Member of Parliament
* Ministry of Planning, Budget, and Management (Brazil), a cabinet-level federal ministry in Brazil
* Public Ministry (Portugal) (Portuguese: Ministério Público), the body of the Judiciary of Portugal
* Public Prosecutor's Office (Brazil) (Portuguese: Ministério Público), the Brazilian body of independent public prosecutors

#### Police

* Military police, law enforcement agencies connected with, or part of, the military of a state
* Mumbai Police, the police force of the city of Mumbai, Maharashtra
* Municipal police, law enforcement agencies that are under the control of local government
** Metropolitan police, municipal police of major metropolitan areas

### Politics

* Member of Parliament (Bangladesh), individual elected to serve in the Jatiya Sangsad of Bangladesh
* Member of Parliament (India), individual elected to serve in the Lok Sabha or Rajya Sabha of the Parliament of India
* Member of Parliament (United Kingdom), individual elected to serve in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom
* Member of Parliament (Canada), individual elected to serve in the House of Commons of the Parliament of Canada
* Member of Parliament (Australia), individual elected to serve in the House of Commons of Australia
* Member of Parliament (New Zealand), individual elected to serve in the House of Commons of New Zealand
* Member of Parliament (South Africa), individual elected to serve in the House of Commons of the Parliament of South Africa
* Progressive Movement (Cameroon) (French: Mouvement Progressiste), a minor opposition political party in Cameroon
* Green Party (Sweden) (Swedish: Miljöpartiet), a political party in Sweden based upon green politics
* Member of Parliament (Sri Lanka), individual elected to serve in the Parliament of Sri Lanka

### Other businesses and organizations

* Martinair (IATA airline designator MP), Dutch cargo airline
* Mikkelin Palloilijat, a Finnish football (soccer) club
* Ming Pao, a Hong Kong newspaper
* Missouri Pacific Railroad (reporting mark MP), one of the first railroads in the United States west of the Mississippi River
* MyProtein, British online sports nutrition retailer

## Law

* Manu propria, a Latin expression meaning by one's own hand
* Provisory measure, in Brazilian law (Portuguese: medida provisória)
* Missing person

## Linguistics

* Mp (digraph), in many African languages
* Malayo-Polynesian languages of Southeast Asia
* Minimalist program, a syntactic theory in linguistics

## Places

* Madhya Pradesh, a state in India
* Manipur Pradesh, a term used to refer to Manipur by various political parties
* Mandatory Palestine, a former British protectorate
* Northern Mariana Islands (ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code and U.S. postal abbreviation MP), an insular area and commonwealth of the United States

## Science and technology
### Computing

* .mp, Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Northern Mariana Islands
* Management Point, in the Advanced Client of Microsoft's System Center Configuration Manager
* Massive parallelism (disambiguation)
* Media player (disambiguation)
* Media processor, a type of digital signal processor designed to deal with streaming data in real-time
* Megapixel, a unit of a million pixels
* Merge Point, in the MPLS local protection approach to network resiliency
* Microprocessor, a computer processor with a minimal number of integrated circuits
* Microsoft Project, project-management software
* Multilink Protocol (or Multilink PPP), a method for spreading traffic across multiple point-to-point protocol connections
* Multi-platform, describing software that is implemented on multiple computer platforms
* Multiprocessing, the use of two or more central processing units within a single computer system

### Mathematics

* Maximum parsimony (phylogenetics), in statistical analysis
* Modus ponens, in propositional logic, a Latin expression meaning "mode that affirms"

### Physics

* Megapond (Mp), a non-SI Metric unit of force, also known as a tonne-force
* Melting point, the temperature at which a solid becomes a liquid
* m$_p$, the mass of a proton

### Other uses in science and technology

* Machine pistol, typically a handgun-style machine gun, capable of fully automatic or burst fire
* Macrophage, a type of white blood cell that engulfs and digests cellular debris, foreign substances, microbes and cancer cells
* Mammal Paleogene zone, a system of biostratigraphic zones in the stratigraphic record used to correlate mammal-bearing fossil localities of the Paleogene period of Europe
* Meralgia paraesthetica (MP), a sensation of numbness in the outer thigh
* Methylphenidate, a stimulant medication
* Microprinting (MP), a method of printing very finely as an anti-counterfeiting mechanism
* Møller–Plesset perturbation theory, a post-Hartree–Fock method used in computational chemistry
* Monoprinting (M/P), a type of printmaking producing a single print
* Movement protein, proteins encoded by plant viruses to facilitate cell-to-cell transmission

## Sport

* Mikkelin Palloilijat (MP), a Finnish football club
* MP Motorsport, a Dutch auto racing team

## Other uses

* Marka polska, a historical Polish money unit
* Masterpoints, awarded for successful performance at contract bridge; see Glossary of contract bridge terms
* Matchpoints, a method of scoring in contract bridge; see Glossary of contract bridge terms
* Mile post
* Roman mile (Latin: mille passuum)