Education

• Advanced Placement, a program that offers college level courses at high schools across the United States and Canada
• Ang Pamantasan
  Ang Pamantasan
  The Ang Pamantasan is an independent student organization and the official student publication of the Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Maynila, one of the Philippines' most prestigious universities....
  
  , a Philippine university student publication
• Assistant principal, the assistant chief administrator in a school
• Associate Professor, an academic faculty rank in North America
• Austin Peay State University
  Austin Peay State University
  Austin Peay State University is a four-year public university located in Clarksville, Tennessee, and operated by the Tennessee Board of Regents. It is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools .-History:...
  
  , a public university in Clarksville, Tennessee

Law

• Advance parole, a United States immigration law term
• Administration Police
  Administration Police
  Administration Police is a security unit belonging to the government of Kenya. It was formed in 1958 when it took over the Tribal Police Ordinance, which was established 1929.- External links:**...
  
  , Kenyan security unit

Linguistics

• ap, a Welsh patronym
• Ap (water)
  Ap (water)
  Ap is the Vedic Sanskrit term for "water", in Classical Sanskrit occurring only in the plural, , whence Hindi . The term is from PIE hxap "water"....
  
  , the Vedic Sanskrit term for water
• Adjectival phrase
  Adjectival phrase
  The term adjectival phrase, adjective phrase, or sometimes phrasal adjective may refer to any one of three types of grammatical phrase....
  
  , a term used in linguistics to denote a phrase with an adjective as its head

Publishing

• Associated Press
  Associated Press
  The Associated Press is an American news agency. The AP is a cooperative owned by its contributing newspapers, radio and television stations in the United States, which both contribute stories to the AP and use material written by its staff journalists...
  
  , an American news agency
• Allied Press
  Allied Press
  Allied Press is a New Zealand publishing company based in Dunedin. The company's main asset is the Otago Daily Times, New Zealand's oldest daily newspaper...
  
  , a major New Zealand newspaper company
• Alternative Press (magazine)
  Alternative Press (music magazine)
  Alternative Press is an American music magazine based in Cleveland, Ohio. It generally provides readers with band interviews, photos, information on upcoming releases, and music charts. It was founded in 1985 by Mike Shea, who is the current president....
  
  , a music magazine
• A&P (story)
  A&P (story)
  "A & P" is an ironic short story written by John Updike in 1961 in which the hero and first person narrator takes a stand for what is right and therefore has hope for a better future. M...
  
  , a short story by John Updike referring to the retailer A&P

Other

• Astral Projection (group), an electronic musical group producing psychedelic and goa trance music
• Animal Planet
  Animal Planet
  Animal Planet is an American cable tv specialty channel that launched on October 1, 1996. It is distributed by Discovery Communications. A high-definition simulcast of the channel launched on September 1, 2007.-History:...
  
  , a television channel dedicated to animals
• The A&P Gypsies
  The A&P Gypsies
  The A&P Gypsies was a musical series broadcast on radio beginning in 1924. With the opening theme of "Two Guitars," the host and band leader was Harry Horlick, who had learned gypsy folk music while traveling with gypsy bands in Istanbul....
  
  , a musical radio program (1924–36), named after the retailer A&P
• Action point
  Action point
  An action point, commonly abbreviated AP, is a point in games to determine how much action a player, unit, or video game character can do in a single turn.Within computer and video games they are predominantly used in the turn-based tactics genre...
  
  , a point-system used in video games

Medicine

• Arterial pressure, the pressure in the arteries (most prominently the Aorta)
• Action potential
  Action potential
  In physiology, an action potential is a short-lasting event in which the electrical membrane potential of a cell rapidly rises and falls, following a consistent trajectory. Action potentials occur in several types of animal cells, called excitable cells, which include neurons, muscle cells, and...
  
  , a "spike" of electrical discharge that travels along the membrane of a cell
• Alkaline phosphatase
  Alkaline phosphatase
  Alkaline phosphatase is a hydrolase enzyme responsible for removing phosphate groups from many types of molecules, including nucleotides, proteins, and alkaloids. The process of removing the phosphate group is called dephosphorylation...
  
  , an enzyme
• Area postrema
  Area postrema
  The area postrema is a medullary structure in the brain that controls vomiting. Its privileged location in the brain also allows the area postrema to play a vital role in the control of autonomic functions by the central nervous system.-Anatomy:...
  
  , a part of the brain
• Anteroposterior, used to describe direction in anatomy
• Colporrhaphy
  Colporrhaphy
  Colporrhaphy is a surgical procedure in humans that repairs a defect in the wall of the vagina...
  
   (also called A&P repair), surgical repair of the anterior and/or posterior vaginal walls
• Autophagosome, intracytoplasmic vacuole/membrane bound body that is involved in cytoplasmic degradation
• Advanced paramedic
  Advanced paramedic
  Advanced Paramedic is the highest clinical level in pre-hospital care in the Republic of Ireland based on the standards set down by PHECC, the Irish regulatory body for pre-hospital care and ambulance services...
  
  , a clinical level of pre-hospital care in the Republic of Ireland

Military

• Armor-piercing shot and shell, type of military or naval ammunition designed to penetrate armor or fortifications and then detonate
• AP, the U.S. Navy hull classification symbol
  Hull classification symbol
  The United States Navy, United States Coast Guard, and United States National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration use hull classification symbols to identify their ship types and each individual ship within each type...
  
   for a transport support ship

Places

• Amapá
  Amapá
  Amapá is one of the states of Brazil, located in the extreme north, bordering French Guiana and Suriname to the north. To the east is the Atlantic Ocean, and to the south and west is the Brazilian state of Pará. Perhaps one of the main features of the state is the River Oiapoque, as it was once...
  
  , a state in northern Brazil
• Andhra Pradesh
  Andhra Pradesh
  Andhra Pradesh , is one of the 28 states of India, situated on the southeastern coast of India. It is India's fourth largest state by area and fifth largest by population. Its capital and largest city by population is Hyderabad.The total GDP of Andhra Pradesh is $100 billion and is ranked third...
  
  , a state in southern India
• Arunachal Pradesh
  Arunachal Pradesh
  Arunachal Pradesh is a state of India, located in the far northeast. It borders the states of Assam and Nagaland to the south, and shares international borders with Burma in the east, Bhutan in the west, and the People's Republic of China in the north. The majority of the territory is claimed by...
  
  , a state in north-eastern India
• Asia Pacific, region
• Province of Ascoli Piceno
  Province of Ascoli Piceno
  The Province of Ascoli Piceno is a province in the Marche region of Italy. Its capital is the city of Ascoli Piceno.It has an area of 1,228 km², and a total population of 212,846 . There are 33 comuni in the province, see Comunes of the Province of Ascoli Piceno.-External links:**...
  
  , a province of Italy in the ISO 3166-2:IT code

Politics

• Acción Popular (disambiguation), name of two political parties in Latin America
• People's Action (Romania)
  People's Action (Romania)
  The People's Action was a minor Romanian right-wing political party, founded and led by former President Emil Constantinescu. It had no seats in the Parliament of Romania nor in the European Parliament.In April 2008, it merged into the National Liberal Party....
  
   (Acţiunea Populară), a liberal Christian-democratic non-parliamentary party in Romania
• Popular Alliance (Spain)
  Popular Alliance (Spain)
  The People's Alliance was a electoral coalition, and later a political party, founded in 1976 by Manuel Fraga along with six other former Francoist ministers.- History :...
  
   (Alianza Popular), a former political party in Spain
• Norwegian Labour Party
  Norwegian Labour Party
  The Labour Party is a social-democratic political party in Norway. It is the senior partner in the current Norwegian government as part of the Red-Green Coalition, and its leader, Jens Stoltenberg, is the current Prime Minister of Norway....
  
   (Arbeiderpartiet)

Psychology

• Applied psychology
  Applied psychology
  The basic premise of applied psychology is the use of psychological principles and theories to overcome problems in other areas, such as mental health, business management, education, health, product design, ergonomics, and law...
  
  , the use of psychological principles and theories to overcome problems in other areas
• Attachment parenting
  Attachment parenting
  Attachment parenting, a phrase coined by pediatrician William Sears, is a parenting philosophy based on the principles of the attachment theory in developmental psychology. According to attachment theory, the child forms a strong emotional bond with caregivers during childhood with lifelong...
  
  , a parenting philosophy
• Amphetamine psychosis
  Amphetamine psychosis
  Stimulant psychosis is a psychotic disorder that appears in some people who use stimulant drugs. Most commonly, stimulant psychosis occurs in drug abusers who take very large doses but, in rare cases, it can also present in patients taking therapeutic doses under medical supervision...
  
  , psychotic state as a result of high and/or chronic use of amphetamine stimulants

Retail

• The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company
  The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company
  The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company, better known as A&P, is a supermarket and liquor store chain in the United States. Its supermarkets, which are under six different banners, are found in Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania. A&P's liquor stores, known as...
  
  , better known as the A&P supermarket chain
• A&P Food Stores Building, St. Louis, Missouri
• A&P Canada
  A&P Canada
  A&P Canada was a Canadian supermarket company from 1927 to 2009.In 1927, A&P opened its first stores in Canada. By 1929, A&P was present in 200 communities in Ontario and Quebec....
  
  , the former Canadian supermarket chain sold by A&P to Quebec-based Metro Inc.

Science

• Atmospheric pressure
  Atmospheric pressure
  Atmospheric pressure is the force per unit area exerted into a surface by the weight of air above that surface in the atmosphere of Earth . In most circumstances atmospheric pressure is closely approximated by the hydrostatic pressure caused by the weight of air above the measurement point...
  
  , the Earth's atmospheric pressure at zero altitude
• Acetone peroxide
  Acetone peroxide
  Acetone peroxide is an organic peroxide and a primary high explosive. It takes the form of a white crystalline powder with a distinctive bleach-like odor....
  
  , an explosive
• Applied physics
  Applied physics
  Applied physics is a general term for physics which is intended for a particular technological or practical use.It is usually considered as a bridge or a connection between "pure" physics and engineering....
  
  , physics intended for a particular technological or practical use
• Ammonium perchlorate
  Ammonium perchlorate
  Ammonium perchlorate is an inorganic compound with the formula NH4ClO4. It is the salt of perchloric acid and ammonia. It is a powerful oxidizer, which is why its main use is in solid propellants...
  
  , an oxidizer used in solid rocket propellant
• Arithmetic progression
  Arithmetic progression
  In mathematics, an arithmetic progression or arithmetic sequence is a sequence of numbers such that the difference between the consecutive terms is constant...
  
  , a sequence of numbers, each differing from its predecessor by a fixed quantity
• AP star, a type of star

Sport

• AP Poll
  AP Poll
  The Associated Press College Poll refers to weekly rankings of the top 25 NCAA teams in one of three Division I college sports: football, men's basketball and women's basketball. The rankings are compiled by polling sportswriters across the nation...
  
  , a weekly ranking of the top college football and basketball teams
• Polish Aero Club
  Polish Aero Club
  Aeroklub Polski is the Polish central association of persons practising air sports or recreational flying. It was founded in 1921 and is a member of the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale. It has a headquarters in Warsaw....
  
   (Aeroklub Polski), the Polish central association of persons practising air sports or recreational flying

Technology

• Anomalous propagation
  Anomalous propagation
  Anomalous propagation includes different forms of electromagnetic wave propagation that are not encountered in a standard atmosphere. While technically the term includes propagation with larger losses than in standard atmosphere, in practical applications it is most often meant to refer to cases...
  
  , false radar echoes
• Average precision, a metric of quality of search results in information retrieval

Computers

• AP, the class of decision problems that can be solved in polynomial time by an Alternating Turing machine
  Alternating Turing machine
  In computational complexity theory, an alternating Turing machine is a non-deterministic Turing machine with a rule for accepting computations that generalizes the rules used in the definition of the complexity classes NP and co-NP...
  
  
• AP (complexity), or PSPACE, a measure of the complexity of solving decision problems
• Wireless access point
  Wireless access point
  In computer networking, a wireless access point is a device that allows wireless devices to connect to a wired network using Wi-Fi, Bluetooth or related standards...
  
  , a device that connects wireless communication devices together to form a wireless network
• Application profile
  Application profile
  In computer science, an application profile is a set of metadata elements, policies, and guidelines defined for a particular application.The elements may be from one or more element sets, thus allowing a given application to meet its functional requirements by using metadata from several element...
  
  , the set of metadata elements, policies, and guidelines defined for a software application
• ACID Pro
  ACID Pro
  Sony ACID Pro is a professional digital audio workstation software program. It was originally called "ACID pH1" and published by Sonic Foundry, but is now developed and sold by Sony Creative Software....
  
  , software and associated music resources used for music creation
• Address plus Port
  Address plus Port
  The Address plus Port Approach to the IPv4 Address Shortage is a technique for sharing single IPv4 addresses among several users without using stateful NAT. The technique is described in experimental RFC 6346....
  
  , a technique for sharing single IPv4 addresses among several users

Transportation

• Air One
  Air One
  Air One "Smart Carrier" is Alitalia's LCC subsidiary based in Milan Malpensa Airport and headquartered in Fiumicino, Italy. Before the merger with Alitalia, Air One was a competitor, the second largest airline in Italy, with a high-frequency scheduled network to 36 destinations in Italy, Europe and...
  
  , is an airline based in Rome, Italy, with an IATA code of AP
• Atlantic and Pacific Railroad
  Atlantic and Pacific Railroad
  The Atlantic and Pacific Railroad was a U.S. railroad that owned or operated two disjoint segments, one connecting St. Louis, Missouri with Tulsa, Oklahoma, and the other connecting Albuquerque, New Mexico with Southern California. It was incorporated by the U.S. Congress in 1866 as a...
  
  , a subsidiary of the Santa Fe Railway
• Autopilot
  Autopilot
  An autopilot is a mechanical, electrical, or hydraulic system used to guide a vehicle without assistance from a human being. An autopilot can refer specifically to aircraft, self-steering gear for boats, or auto guidance of space craft and missiles...
  
  , automatic or assisted vehicle piloting
• Airframe and Powerplant, a certificate issued by the US Federal Aviation Administration for aircraft maintenance technicians
• Automotive Products
  Automotive Products
  Automotive Products, commonly abbreviated to AP, was an automotive industry components company set up in 1920 by Edward Boughton, Willie Emmott and Denis Brock, to import and sell American-made components to service the fleet of ex-military trucks left behind in Europe after World War I.In 1928,...
  
  , a former UK automotive components company
• A&P Group
  A&P Group
  A&P Group Ltd is the largest ship repair and conversion company in the UK, with three shipyards located in Hebburn, Middlesbrough and Falmouth. The Company undertakes a wide variety of maintenance and repair work on commercial and military ships with projects ranging from a two day alongside repair...
  
  , a ship repair and conversion company, formerly Austin & Pickersgill

Other uses

• Armenian Power
  Armenian Power
  Armenian Power, also known as AP, is an Armenian criminal organization located in Los Angeles County, California. They are involved in drug trafficking, murder, assault, fraud, identity theft, illegal gambling, kidnapping, racketeering, robbery and extortion...
  
  , an Armenian-American gang located in Los Angeles
• Accounts payable
  Accounts payable
  Accounts payable is a file or account sub-ledger that records amounts that a person or company owes to suppliers, but has not paid yet , sometimes referred as trade payables. When an invoice is received, it is added to the file, and then removed when it is paid...
  
  , one of a series of accounting transactions covering payments to suppliers
• Anno Persico or Anno Persarum, a Latinization of Iranian calendar years
• Krasue
  Krasue
  The krasue is a certain female spirit of Southeast Asian mythology.This ghost has been the subject of a number of movies in the region, including Konm Eak Madia Arb , a Cambodian horror movie which has the distinction of being the first movie made in the People's Republic of Kampuchea after the...
  
   or AP, a spirit of Khmer and Thai folklore
• Asian pride
  Asian pride
  Asian pride is an Asian-American youth-originated slogan. The slogan is used as an appeal to the formation of a common, shared group-identity by people of East Asian, Southeast Asian and sometimes South Asian descent living in Western societies....
  
  , a slogan
• Au pair
  Au pair
  An au pair is a domestic assistant from a foreign country working for, and living as part of, a host family. Typically, au pairs take on a share of the family's responsibility for childcare as well as some housework, and receive a small monetary allowance for personal use...
  
  , a domestic assistant living with a host family in a foreign country
• A&P show, annual agricultural and pastoral shows held in many New Zealand towns and cities