hp
abbreviation
hp
1 Americanabbreviation
H.P.
2
American
Or
h.p.,
abbreviation
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Electricity. high power.
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high pressure.
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horsepower.
HP
British
abbreviation
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hire-purchase
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horsepower
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high pressure
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(in Britain) Houses of Parliament
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Yamaha’s biggest engine is 450 hp, though Ben Speciale, president of Yamaha’s U.S. marine business, said the company focuses on reliability over raw power.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 2026
That includes the whole smash: the full 656 hp electro-tune, with rear-biased, dual-motor AWD and 21-inch tires.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 27, 2026
The Polestar 4 starts at $56,400 for the rear-drive, single motor model, offering 272 hp and 310 miles of range.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 25, 2026
It may have 715 hp in Milan but by the time you reach Bormio the output is more like 630 hp.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 12, 2026
Davos sat beside his candle and looked at the letters hp had scratched out word by word during the days of his confinement.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
Starting in the 1930s, a few established small presses to preserve the pulp fictions of H.P.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 21, 2025
This haunted house is inspired by the horror fiction writer H.P.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 12, 2023
And with our epochal rains, some of these old bodies have risen to assert themselves again, which sounds like something out of H.P.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 25, 2023
"The Secret Art of Human Flight," nimbly directed by H.P.
From Salon ● Jun. 9, 2023
The motive power is furnished by 14 gas engines of a total capacity of 366 H.P.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 3 "Gordon, Lord George" to "Grasses" by Various
Analysts saw Lores’s history helping to break up Hewlett-Packard and then managing HP as clues of what could be in store for PayPal.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026
Lores landed with HP and eventually became CEO in 2019, as the company faced slowing sales and souring investor sentiment, and got to work.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026
"I couldn't be happier to continue this journey with Scuderia Ferrari HP," he said.
From BBC ● Jun. 3, 2026
PC makers like Dell and HP will give it a go with Nvidia chips, but they haven’t forgotten past failures with other Arm products.
From Barron's ● Jun. 2, 2026
HP and Texas Instruments had their of fices on the back nine, along the tenth hole.
From "The World Is Flat" by Thomas L. Friedman
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