AP

AP may refer to:

Companies/Organizations

• Associated Press, an American news agency
• A&P, the common name of the Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company
• The IATA code for Air One
• Allied Press, a major New Zealand newspaper company
• Aeroklub Polski, the Polish central association of persons practising air sports or recreational flying

• Acción Popular, a conservative liberal political party in Peru
• Armenian Power, an Armenian-American gang located in Los Angeles

Science

• Acetone peroxide, an explosive
• Applied physics, physics which is intended for a particular technological or practical use
• Ammonium perchlorate, an oxidizer used in solid rocket propellant
• Arithmetic progression, a sequence of numbers, each differing from its predecessor by a fixed quantity

Medicine

• Action potential, a "spike" of electrical discharge that travels along the membrane of a cell
• arterial pressure
• Area postrema in the brain

Computing/Video Games

• Action point, a point-system used notably in video games
• Ahriman's Prophecy, a freeware adventure game
• Attack power, in various MMORPGs
• Access point, a device that connects wireless communication devices together to form a wireless network
• Application Provider, Businesses that want to reach individuals equipped with a digital signing capacity

Education

• Advanced Placement Program, a program that offers college level courses at high schools across the United States and Canada
• Ang Pamantasan, the official student paper of Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Maynila
• Assistant principal, the assistant chief administrator in a school

Military

• AP, the U.S. Navy hull classification symbol for transport support ships
• Armor-piercing, a type of ammunition designed to penetrate armour and detonate
• AP, the United States postal abbreviation for U.S. military personnel in the Pacific Ocean region
• Airforce Publication, a document written by the Royal Air Force describing various parts of its structure

Music

• A-P (Rapper) Hip-Hop Artist Referred to as "The Truth in the Booth"
• Alternative Press, a music magazine

Economics

• Accounts payable, one of a series of accounting transactions covering payments to suppliers
• Andean Pact, a South American trade agreement

Calendars

• Anno Persico/Anno Persarum, a Latinization of Iranian calendar years.

Law

• Advanced Parole, a United States immigration law term

Slogan

• Asian pride, a slogan used by people of Asian descent who live outside the continent

Philosophy

• Attachment parenting, a parenting philosophy

Workers

• Au pair, a young person living on an equal basis with a host family in a foreign country
• Asset protection, private security in retail stores and other places

Place

• Andhra Pradesh, a state in southern India
• Arunachal Pradesh, a state in north-eastern India
• Asia-Pacific, the term for littoral East Asia, South East Asia and Australasia near the Pacific Ocean, plus the states in the ocean itself
• Abja-Paluoja, Estonia

Person

• Anthony Parker, American basketball player who currently plays for the Toronto Raptors of the NBA
• Adrian Peterson, American football player who currently plays for the Minnesota Vikings of the NFL
• Antonio Pierce. American football player who currently plays for the New York Giants of the NFL

Ap may also refer to:

• ap, a Welsh patronym
• Ap (water), the Vedic Sanskrit term for water
• Adjectival phrase, a term used in linguistics to denote a phrase with an adjective as its head.

See also

• A&P (disambiguation)
• AP Poll