# FP

FP may refer to:

## Arts, media and entertainment
### Music

* Fortepiano, an early version of the piano
* Fortepiano (musical dynamic), an Italian musical term meaning 'loud soft'
* Flux Pavilion, a British dubstep artist
* Francis Poulenc, an early 20th century pianist and composer
** FP (catalogue) - of his compositions.
* "FP", song by Arcángel and Rauw Alejandro from Sentimiento, Elegancia y Más Maldad, 2023

### Publications

* Financial Post, a Canadian business newspaper, published from 1907 to 1998, now National Post
* Foreign Policy, a bimonthly American magazine founded in 1970

### Other media

* Facepunch Studios, a British video game company
* The FP, a 2011 comedy film
* Fast Picket, a class of fictional artificially intelligent starship in The Culture universe of late Scottish author Iain Banks

## Science and technology
### Computing

* FP (complexity), in computational complexity theory, a complexity class
* FP (programming language) designed by John Backus in the 1970s
* Feature Pack, a software update for various devices which include new features
* Floating point, a numerical-representation system in computing
* Frame pointer
* Microsoft FrontPage, an HTML editor
* Functional programming, a programming paradigm
* Function point, a measurement of the business functionality an information system provides

### Transportation

* F - Production, a class of race cars
* F engine, a piston engine by Mazda
* New Zealand FP class electric multiple unit (Matangi), a class of electric multiple locomotive unit
* Ford Performance, a tuning division of the Ford Motor Company

### Other uses in science and technology

* False positive, in statistics, a result that indicates, inaccurately, that a condition has been fulfilled
* Ilford FP, a cubic-grain black-and-white photographic film
* Fabry–Pérot interferometer, a device in optics
* Fire protection, in the construction industry
* Fluoroprotein foam, a type of fire retardant foam
* Forensic psychiatry, a subspeciality of psychiatry related to criminology
* Cyclopentadienyliron(II) dicarbonyl group (Fp = (η$^5$-C$_5$H$_5$)Fe(CO)$_2$, colloquially pronounced as "fip"), see: cyclopentadienyliron dicarbonyl dimer (Fp$_2$)
* Prostaglandin F receptor, a receptor on cells which mediates responses to prostaglandin F2alpha

## Politics

* Freedom Party (disambiguation), the name of various political parties
* Folkpartiet, a former name of the Liberal People's Party in Sweden
* The Federalist Papers, a series of essays advocating the ratification of the United States Constitution
* Força Portugal, a Portuguese political alliance
* Force Publique (French for "public force"), the military force of the Belgian Congo during the colonial period
* Framework Programmes for Research and Technological Development of the European Union
* Fuerza Popular, a right-wing populist Fujimorist political party in Peru
* Virtue Party (Fazilet Partisi), an Islamist political party in Turkey

## Other uses

* 50 metre pistol, a shooting sport formerly known as free pistol
* Facepalm, a gesture indicating frustration
* Family planning, the use of birth control and planning when to have children
* Family practice, a general practitioner or family physician
* Finance Park, an educational program co-managed by the Stavros Institute in Pinellas County, Florida
* First person, a grammatical person referring to the speaker
* FlyPelican, an Australian airline (IATA code FP)
* Force protection, in the US military
* French Polynesia (FIPS 10-4 country code)
* Friends Provident, a British insurance company
* Friday prayer, a congregational prayer service among Muslims
* Fp, runestone style characterized by runic bands that end with animal heads seen from above.
* The nickname of Falakata Polytechnic, West Bengal
* FP grade tea
* Fairphone, an electronics designer and manufacturer