SP
abbreviation
Shore Patrol.
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sp.
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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.
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s.p.
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S.P.
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Shore Patrol.
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Socialist party.
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Submarine Patrol.
SP
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standard play: the standard recording speed on a VCR
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starting price
noun
Sp.
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Spain
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Spaniard
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Spanish
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special
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species
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Etymology
Origin of s.p.
From Latin sine prōle
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Most of the Tata Sons board, including its biggest minority shareholder SP Group, supported the decisions.
From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026
Mistry, heir to the SP Group, was chosen by a team led by Ratan Tata himself.
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
I liked the rapid advancement class, also called SP.
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
Work of Round-Headed and Flat-Headed Borers in Pine: a, Work of round-headed borers, "sawyer," Monohamnus sp.; b, Ergates spiculatus; c, Work of flat-headed borer, Buprestis, larva and adult.
From Wood and Forest by William Noyes
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
I give the figures for a few imitations or adulterations: Sp. gr.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 711, August 17, 1889 by Various
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
The sketch Illustration 4, Diphya, Sp. gives a faint idea of the most beautiful animal of this kind which I have ever seen.
From Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Western Australia, Volume 1 by George Grey
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
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
It belongs to Ashley S.P., who owns the store with Jennifer Zapata.
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
"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
But, when researchers looked at the genetic code, the protist Oligohymenophorea sp.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 5, 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
In this figure, the set of sp orbitals appears similar in shape to the original p orbital, but there is an important difference.
From Textbooks ● Feb. 14, 2019
The sheer bluffs on the east side of the island were covered with Pandanus sp.
From Birds from North Borneo University of Kansas Publications, Museum of Natural History, Volume 17, No. 8, pp. 377-433, October 27, 1966 by Max C. Thompson
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