SP
abbreviation
Shore Patrol.
SP
1 American
sp.
2
American
abbreviation
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special.
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species.
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specific.
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specimen.
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spelling.
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spirit.
Sp.
3
American
s.p.
4
American
abbreviation
S.P.
5
American
abbreviation
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Shore Patrol.
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Socialist party.
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Submarine Patrol.
SP
1
British
abbreviation
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standard play: the standard recording speed on a VCR
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starting price
noun
Sp.
2
British
abbreviation
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Spain
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Spaniard
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Spanish
sp.
3
British
abbreviation
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special
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species
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specific
sp
4
British
abbreviation
Etymology
Origin of s.p.
From Latin sine prōle
Example Sentences
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First, that the Tata Sons board buy back a portion of SP Group's minority stake as a "fair and equitable solution" to the latter's demand to monetise their stake.
From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026
In mice, the treatment encouraged bone regrowth in damaged digits and partially restored some regenerative abilities lost when the SP genes were absent.
From Science Daily ● May 9, 2026
MFS pledged those loans as collateral to obtain money from banks and asset managers, including Atlas SP Partners, a unit of Apollo.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 6, 2026
Framber Valdez, 32, SP, 3.8, 18.8: Valdez was impressively consistent for the Astros and should be able to choose between several multi-year offers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 12, 2026
SP stood for Special Progress, and all the kids in the class were indeed smart.
From "Bad Boy" by Walter Dean Myers
"During a recreational dive in the summer during the undergraduate study of HY Chan in 2019, he accidentally discovered Thecacera sesama sp. nov. in northern Taiwan waters," the researchers said.
From Science Daily ● May 27, 2026
Then, they compared these features using a data matrix of 280 morphological characters and 82 groups of organisms, including Tyrannosaurus rex and Archaeopteryx sp., one of the earliest known birds.
From Salon ● Jan. 6, 2023
They found that Halteria sp. not only hungrily devoured the viruses, but they had enough nutritional value to thrive and reproduce.
From Salon ● Dec. 31, 2022
I believe it’s Tetmemena sp. — the genus name is fun because it has a ‘meme’ in it.
From Scientific American ● Oct. 17, 2013
Nov. 16th, temperature 103°; sp. gr. of urine 1010, no casts, nor albumen; the chest seems clear; less discharge from nostrils; fauces clean and but slightly inflamed.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
DGA SA and Jagiello Wrebiak i Wspolnicy Sp. z o.o. rank among the top 25 arrangers of acquisitions in Poland, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.
From BusinessWeek ● Dec. 22, 2010
Of unknown origin; possibly akin to Sp. bigote a whisker; hombre de bigote a man of spirit and vigor; cf.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Noah Webster
From this Eng. maize, Sp. mais, Ar. marisi, maize.
From The Arawack Language of Guiana in its Linguistic and Ethnological Relations by Daniel Garrison Brinton
The French have grade; It. and Sp., grado; Lat. gradus.
From Notes and Queries, Number 51, October 19, 1850 by Various
Sp. batallador a great combatant, he who has fought many battles, Pg. batalhador, Pr. batalhador, warrior, soldier, fr.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Noah Webster
From his portrait S.P. seems to gaze out in disappointment at rooms that have grown increasingly dilapidated.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 11, 2026
“I regret to report a hedge fund has since purchased Grover’s paper and laid him off,” wrote S.P.
From New York Times ● Feb. 14, 2024
It belongs to Ashley S.P., who owns the store with Jennifer Zapata.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 19, 2023
The legendary Theodore Sturgeon reviewed the young Thai writer S.P.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 22, 2022
If S.P. didn’t use so much soap on his hands, he wouldn’t always be late at breakfast.
From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott
The surprise came when scientists examined a previously unknown protist called Oligohymenophorea sp.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 8, 2026
"During our nighttime scuba dives, we searched for the ribbon-like proboscises of Bonellia sp aff minor extending out from burrow entrances," says lead author Ryutaro Goto at KyotoU's Field Science Education and Research Center.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 18, 2023
To study this, researchers at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln scooped up some pond water containing a microbe called Halteria sp.
From Salon ● Dec. 31, 2022
The carbon in CO 2−, initially at sp2, changes hybridization to sp in CO .
From Textbooks ● Feb. 14, 2019
Jasonis, Cke. and Mass. P. 3-5 cm., camp. then expanded, umb., yellow, disc tawny, papillate; g. adnate; s. 5-7 cm. coloured like pileus, squamulose up to torn ring; sp.
From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by George Massee
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