# MSP

MSP often refers to:
* Managed service provider, a business model for providing information-technology services, outsourcing IT services
* Minneapolis–Saint Paul, the twin cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul and the surrounding area — the most populated area in Minnesota, U.S.
** Minneapolis–Saint Paul International Airport, in Hennepin County, Minnesota, U.S. (IATA airport code MSP)
MSP may also refer to:

## Businesses and organizations

* LoanSphere MSP, a mortgage servicing platform application provided by Black Knight Financial Services
* Matchstick Productions, a company producing videos of extreme sports, especially skiing
* Mathematical Sciences Publishers, a scientific publisher based in Berkeley, California
* Men's Studies Press, an academic publisher registered in Harriman, Tennessee
* Moscow Finnish School (Moskovan suomalainen peruskoulu)
* Movimento Sviluppo e Pace, an Italian NGO
* Multi-Sided Platform, an organization that enables interaction between two or more groups of agents, for example through a two-sided market

## Government and politics
### Police forces

* Malabar Special Police, a paramilitary unit of the State Police of Kerala, India
* Maine State Police, state police agency for the U.S. state of Maine
* Maryland State Police, state police agency for the U.S. state of Maryland
* Massachusetts State Police, state police agency for the U.S. state of Massachusetts
* Michigan State Police, state police agency for the U.S. state of Michigan
* Minnesota State Patrol, state police agency for the U.S. state of Minnesota

### Political parties

* Movement of Society for Peace (French: Mouvement de la société pour la paix, Arabic: Harakat Moudjtamaa As-Silm حركة مجتمع السلم, formerly called Hamas حماس), an Algerian political party
* National Salvation Party (Milli Selamet Partisi), Islamist political party in Turkey
* Social Patriot Movement (Spanish: Movimiento Social Patriota), Chilean fascist organization.

### Prisons

* Maine State Prison, a former prison in Thomaston, Maine
* Michigan State Prison, a former prison in Jackson, Michigan
* Mississippi State Penitentiary, in Parchman, Mississippi
* Missouri State Penitentiary, a former prison in Jefferson City, Missouri
* Montana State Prison, in Deer Lodge, Montana

### Other uses in government and politics

* Main-Spessart, code used on German vehicle registration plates
* Medical Services Plan of British Columbia, government-administered single-payer health insurance scheme in the Canadian province of British Columbia
* Medicare Savings Program
* Member of the Scottish Parliament
* Ministerio de Salud Pública, Uruguayan ministry of public health

## Train stations

* Marina South Pier MRT station, a MRT station in Singapore (MRT station abbreviation MSP)
* Midway station (Minnesota), a former train station in St. Paul, Minnesota, United States

## Science and technology
### Biology, ecology, and medicine

* Major sperm protein, the most abundant protein in nematode sperm
* Marine spatial planning, a process of making decisions about sustainable use of marine resources
* Merozoite surface protein, used in malaria research
* Methylation-specific PCR, a method for detecting methylated DNA sequence
* Macrophage-stimulating protein

### Computing and information technology

* Max/MSP, max signal processing
* Message Send Protocol, an application-layer computing protocol used to send a short message between networking nodes on a computer network
* Message Submission Program or smmsp in Sendmail e-mail systems
* Microsoft Installer Patch Files, files downloaded from updating applications installed with Microsoft Installer and which have the .msp file extension
* Microsoft Points, the currency used on the Xbox Live and Zune marketplaces
* Microsoft Project, a project-management software program developed and sold by Microsoft
* Microsoft Student Partners, an organization of university students interested in careers in technology and showing a willingness to help others learn about Microsoft technology
* Microsoft Surface Pro
* Minimum spanning tree, a graph theory problem
* MSP (file format), a pre-bmp picture format readable in the oldest versions of Microsoft Paint
* TI MSP430, a mixed-signal microcontroller family from Texas Instruments

### Other uses in science and technology

* Mechanically separated poultry, a paste-like meat product
* Millisecond pulsar, in astronomy, a pulsar with a rotational period in the range of 1-10 milliseconds
* Micro-spectrophotometer, an instrument used to measure the UV, visible, and near-infrared spectra of microscopic objects
* Monosodium phosphate, a chemical compound of sodium with a phosphate counterion
* MSP Groza silent pistol, a double-barreled firearm designed in the Soviet Union in 1972

## Other uses

* Manic Street Preachers, Welsh rock band formed in 1986
* Meadowbrook State Parkway, in New York
* Minimum Support Price, regulated agriculture commodity price in India
* Maastricht Science Programme, Liberal Arts & Sciences programme at Maastricht University
* MovieStarPlanet, online video game