FP

FP may refer to:

Arts, media and entertainment

Music

• Fortepiano, an early version of the piano
• Fortepiano (musical dynamic), an Italian musical term meaning 'loud soft'
• Flux Pavilion, a British dubstep artist
• Francis Poulenc, an early 20th century pianist and composer
  • FP (catalogue) - of his compositions.
• "FP", song by Arcángel and Rauw Alejandro from Sentimiento, Elegancia y Más Maldad, 2023

Publications

• Financial Post, a Canadian business newspaper, published from 1907 to 1998, now National Post
• Foreign Policy, a bimonthly American magazine founded in 1970

Other media

• Facepunch Studios, a British video game company
• The FP, a 2011 comedy film
• Fast Picket, a class of fictional artificially intelligent starship in The Culture universe of late Scottish author Iain Banks

Science and technology

Computing

• FP (complexity), in computational complexity theory, a complexity class
• FP (programming language) designed by John Backus in the 1970s
• Feature Pack, a software update for various devices which include new features
• Floating point, a numerical-representation system in computing
• Frame pointer
• Microsoft FrontPage, an HTML editor
• Functional programming, a programming paradigm
• Function point, a measurement of the business functionality an information system provides

Transportation

• F - Production, a class of race cars
• F engine, a piston engine by Mazda
• New Zealand FP class electric multiple unit (Matangi), a class of electric multiple locomotive unit
• Ford Racing, formerly Ford Performance

Other uses in science and technology

• False positive, in statistics, a result that indicates, inaccurately, that a condition has been fulfilled
• Ilford FP, a cubic-grain black-and-white photographic film
• Fabry–Pérot interferometer, a device in optics
• Fire protection, in the construction industry
• Fluoroprotein foam, a type of fire retardant foam
• Forensic psychiatry, a subspeciality of psychiatry related to criminology
• Cyclopentadienyliron(II) dicarbonyl group (Fp = (η⁵-C₅H₅)Fe(CO)₂, colloquially pronounced as "fip"), see: cyclopentadienyliron dicarbonyl dimer (Fp₂)
• Prostaglandin F receptor, a receptor on cells which mediates responses to prostaglandin F2alpha

Politics

• Freedom Party (disambiguation), the name of various political parties
• Folkpartiet, a former name of the Liberal People's Party in Sweden
• The Federalist Papers, a series of essays advocating the ratification of the United States Constitution
• Força Portugal, a Portuguese political alliance
• Force Publique (French for "public force"), the military force of the Belgian Congo during the colonial period
• Framework Programmes for Research and Technological Development of the European Union
• Fuerza Popular, a right-wing populist Fujimorist political party in Peru
• Virtue Party (Fazilet Partisi), an Islamist political party in Turkey

Other uses

• 50 metre pistol, a shooting sport formerly known as free pistol
• Facepalm, a gesture indicating frustration
• Family planning, the use of birth control and planning when to have children
• Family practice, a general practitioner or family physician
• Finance Park, an educational program co-managed by the Stavros Institute in Pinellas County, Florida
• First person, a grammatical person referring to the speaker
• FlyPelican, an Australian airline (IATA code FP)
• Force protection, in the US military
• French Polynesia (FIPS 10-4 country code)
• Friends Provident, a British insurance company
• Friday prayer, a congregational prayer service among Muslims
• Fp, runestone style characterized by runic bands that end with animal heads seen from above.
• The nickname of Falakata Polytechnic, West Bengal
• FP grade tea
• Fairphone, an electronics designer and manufacturer

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