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
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Human limbs cannot naturally regenerate the way salamander limbs do, but researchers believe future therapies could potentially imitate some of the biological mechanisms controlled by SP genes.
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
In south and west Wales thousands of homes were without power according to National Grid, while SP Energy reported power cuts in north Wales, due to Storm Dave.
From BBC ● Apr. 5, 2026
Now a partnership with power network operator SP Electricity North West will see emergency funding provide about 36,000 meals.
From BBC ● Dec. 23, 2025
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
P. 4-5 cm. obtuse, even, unpolished then minutely cracked; g. free, thick, distant; s. 2-4 cm. solid, stout; sp. 7-9. var. incarnata, Q. P. white tinged rose, then pale tan.
From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by George Massee
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
A small streamer or banner, usually fixed on a pike: from banderola, Sp. diminutive of bandera, the flag or ensign.
From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Sir Edward Belcher
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
I give the figures for a few imitations or adulterations: Sp. gr.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 711, August 17, 1889 by Various
From this the Sp. cayo, Eng. key, in the “Florida keys.”
From The Arawack Language of Guiana in its Linguistic and Ethnological Relations by Daniel Garrison Brinton
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
Ashley S.P. is a writer and the co-founder of GNLA, a new multicultural agency rooted in the joyous and inclusive spirit of the Género Neutral shop in Echo Park.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 26, 2024
“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
The animals were then moved in a chopper to nearby Kuno National Park, where they will be housed, said S.P.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 17, 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
Note that each sp orbital contains one lobe that is significantly larger than the other.
From Textbooks ● Feb. 14, 2019
P. convexo-plane, broadly and obtusely umb. pallid grey; with thin hoary tomentum; g. crowded, whitish then dingy, broadest behind; s. equal, often curved, pallid, base strigose; sp.
From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by George Massee
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