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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Mistry, heir to the SP Group, was chosen by a team led by Ratan Tata himself.
From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026
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
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
Rousselet, "On a new Freshwater Polyzoon from Rhodesia, Lophopodella thomasi, gen. et sp. nov."
From Freshwater Sponges, Hydroids & Polyzoa by Nelson Annandale
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
They may be converted into an ordinary statement of specific gravity by the following formulæ:— Sp. g.
From A Text-book of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines. by Cornelius Beringer
Mr. Sp. told me that his horse which was bewitched, would break bridles and strong halters, like a Samson.
From Miscellanies Upon Various Subjects by John Aubrey
S. For to is prefixed to the inf. of verbs in the same manner as the Fr. pour, or Sp. por.
From The Lay of Havelok the Dane by Unknown
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
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
When you see the car, you know they’re there, you know they’re open — “it’s become a little fun extension, of the shop, of me,” says S.P.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 19, 2023
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
Any central atom surrounded by just two regions of valence electron density in a molecule will exhibit sp hybridization.
From Textbooks ● Feb. 14, 2019
P. 6-9 cm. convex then plane, buff, margin naked, flesh thick; g. crowded, narrow, pallid; s. 2-3 cm. long, 2 cm. or more thick, purple, slightly squamulose; sp.
From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by George Massee
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