ASP may refer to:

Combat

ASP pistol The ASP is a custom made handgun designed and built by Paris Theodore (owner of Seventrees, Ltd., a custom gun leather shop in New York City) from the early 1970s to 1987. The ASP was based on the Smith & Wesson Model 39 pistol. The ASP featured ...

ASP, Inc. Armament Systems and Procedures, Inc. (ASP, Inc.) is a US defensive compliance weapons manufacturer providing equipment to law enforcement and private security companies. ASP telescoping batons are widely used. History * 1976—company founded ...

, law enforcement weapon manufacturer ** A type of extending baton *

Ammunition Supply Point Supply depots are a type of military installation used by militaries to store battlefield supplies temporarily on or near the front lines until they can be distributed to military units. Supply depots are responsible for nearly all other types of ...

, military storage facility for live ammunition and explosives

Computing

Active Server Pages Active Server Pages (ASP) is Microsoft's first server-side scripting language and engine for dynamic web pages. It was first released in December 1996, before being superseded in January 2002 by ASP.NET. History Initially released as an ...

, a web-scripting interface by Microsoft * ASP.NET, a web-application framework by Microsoft *

Advanced Simple Profile MPEG-4 Part 2, MPEG-4 Visual (formally ISO/ IEC 14496-2) is a video compression format developed by the Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG). It belongs to the MPEG-4 ISO/IEC standards. It uses block-wise motion compensation and a discrete cosine ...

, an MPEG-4 video codec profile *

Answer set programming Answer set programming (ASP) is a form of declarative programming oriented towards difficult (primarily NP-hard) search problems. It is based on the stable model (answer set) semantics of logic programming. In ASP, search problems are reduced ...

, a declarative programming paradigm *

Application service provider An application service provider (ASP) is a business providing application software generally through the Web. The ASP model The application software resides on the vendor's system and is accessed by users through a communication protocol. Altern ...

, to customers over a network *

AppleTalk Session Protocol AppleTalk is a discontinued proprietary suite of networking protocols developed by Apple Computer for their Macintosh computers. AppleTalk includes a number of features that allow local area networks to be connected with no prior setup or the n ...

Association of Software Professionals The Association of Software Professionals (ASP), formerly Association of Shareware Professionals, was a professional association for authors and developers of freeware, commercial, and shareware computer software. It was formed in April 1987, and ...

Attached Support Processor Attached Support Processor (ASP) was an implementation of loosely coupled multiprocessing for IBM's OS/360 operating system. IBM later changed the name to Asymmetrical multiProcessor but retained the acronym ASP. ASP evolved from the design of t ...

, IBM hardware system * Auxiliary storage pool, a feature of the IBM operating system

Education

American School of Paris The American School of Paris (ASP), established in 1946, is a coeducational, independent international school in Saint-Cloud, France, in the Paris metropolitan area. The school has over 800 students from pre-kindergarten to Grade 12 and post-Bac ...

Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts The Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków ( pl, Akademia Sztuk Pięknych im. Jana Matejki w Krakowie, usually abbreviated to ''ASP''), is a public institution of higher education located in the centre of Kraków, Poland. It is the oldest Po ...

, Kraków, Poland

Electronics

Audio Signal Processor The Audio Signal Processor or ASP is a large-scale digital signal processor developed by James A. Moorer at Lucasfilm's The Droid Works. He programmed a number of Digital signal processing algorithms that were used in major motion picture feat ...

, large-scale digital signal processor * Anti-skip protection or

electronic skip protection Electronic skip protection is a data buffer system used in some portable compact disc (CD) players and all MiniDisc (MD) units so that audio would not skip while the disk could not be read due to movement. Joe Wiesenfelder, ''Portable Audio'', '' ...

in CD playback *

Angle-sensitive pixel An angle-sensitive pixel (ASP) is a CMOS sensor with a sensitivity to incoming light that is sinusoidal in incident angle. Principles of operation ASPs are typically composed of two gratings (a diffraction grating and an analyzer grating) abov ...

, a light sensor

Entertainment

ASP (band) ASP is a German gothic rock band from Frankfurt am Main formed in 1999. The name is identical to the pseudonym of the band's leader Asp (Alexander Spreng), and is pronounced as one word (like the snake). Biography ASP were formed in 1999 by ...

, a German gothic metal band *

ASP (Japanese group) ASP is a Japanese alternative idol girl group formed by WACK in 2021. They debuted with the studio album, ''Anal Sex Penis'', on May 26, 2021. History On March 27, 2021, WACK announced that a new group, ASP, had been formed. Initially the membe ...

, Japanese idol girl group * Adult service provider (disambiguation) * Apparent Sensory Perception, a thought recording and reproduction device in William Gibson's fiction

Medicine and biology

Aspartic acid Aspartic acid (symbol Asp or D; the ionic form is known as aspartate), is an α- amino acid that is used in the biosynthesis of proteins. Like all other amino acids, it contains an amino group and a carboxylic acid. Its α-amino group is in the pr ...

, α-amino acid used in the biosynthesis of proteins *

Acylation stimulating protein Complement 3 (C3) through its interaction with factors B and D ( adipsin) generates C3a. In the human body, C3a is rapidly cleaved by carboxypeptidase B or carbxyopeptidase N, that remove the carboxyl-terminal arginine to generate C3adesArg. Thu ...

American Society for Photobiology The American Society for Photobiology (ASP) is a scientific society for the promotion of research in photobiology, integration of different photobiology disciplines, dissemination of photobiology knowledge, and provides information on photobiologica ...

Amnesic shellfish poisoning Amnesic shellfish poisoning (ASP) is an illness caused by consumption of shellfish that contain the marine biotoxin called domoic acid. In mammals, including humans, domoic acid acts as a neurotoxin, causing permanent short-term memory loss, bra ...

Complement component 3 Complement component 3, often simply called C3, is a protein of the immune system. It plays a central role in the complement system and contributes to innate immunity. In humans it is encoded on chromosome 19 by a gene called ''C3''. Function C ...

, a protein in the complement system *

Antimicrobial stewardship Antimicrobial stewardship is the systematic effort to educate and persuade prescribers of antimicrobials to follow evidence-based prescribing, in order to stem antimicrobial overuse, and thus antimicrobial resistance. AMS has been an organized eff ...

, effort to educate and persuade prescribers of antimicrobials to follow evidence-based prescribing *

American Society of Primatologists The American Society of Primatologists is both an educational and scientific society which aims to promote both the discovery and exchange of information on non-human primates. The society is open to anybody who actively, or is more passively intere ...

Politics

Act of the Scottish Parliament An Act of the Scottish Parliament ( gd, Achd Pàrlamaid na h-Alba) is primary legislation made by the Scottish Parliament. The power to create Acts was conferred to the Parliament by section 28 of the Scotland Act 1998 following the succes ...

American Solidarity Party The American Solidarity Party (ASP) is a Christian-democratic political party in the United States. It was founded in 2011 and officially incorporated in 2016. The party has a Solidarity National Committee (SNC) and has numerous active stat ...

Australian Sex Party The Australian Sex Party was an Australian political party founded in 2009 in response to concerns over the purported increasing influence of religion in Australian politics. The party was born out of an adult-industry lobby group, the Eros Asso ...

Afro-Shirazi Party The Afro-Shirazi Party (ASP) was a Marxist-Leninist, African nationalist Zanzibari political party formed between the mostly Shirazi Shiraz Party and the mostly African Afro Party. In the 1963 Zanzibari general election, the ASP claimed 1 ...

, political party in Tanzania *

Assembly for the Sovereignty of the Peoples The Assembly for the Sovereignty of the Peoples ( es, Asamblea por la Soberanía de los Pueblos, ASP) was a political organization in Bolivia. It was formed as a "political instrument" of the popular movements of the country. Alejo Véliz was the n ...

, a political party in Bolivia *

Assembly of States Parties The International Criminal Court (ICC or ICCt) is an intergovernmental organization and international tribunal seated in The Hague, Netherlands. It is the first and only permanent international court with jurisdiction to prosecute individuals ...

, the legislative body of the International Criminal Court

Other uses

Airborne Surveillance Platform The Airborne Surveillance Platform (ASP) is an Indian defence project initiated by the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) with the aim to produce an Airborne Early Warning System. Two prototypes were developed and flight tested ...

, Indian defence project * ''

Albany Student Press The ''Albany Student Press'' or the ''ASP'', the newspaper of the University at Albany, The State University of New York, is one of the oldest continuously published and independent college newspapers in the United States. Its current editor-in- ...

'', newspaper of the University at Albany, The State University of New York *

Alice Springs Airport Alice Springs Airport is an Australian regional airport south of Alice Springs, Northern Territory. The airport was notably involved in Australia's first domestic airline hijacking, and later a suicide attack by a former airline employee wh ...

(IATA airport code) *

Allegany State Park Allegany State Park is a state park in western New York State, located in Cattaraugus County just north of the Allegheny National Forest in Pennsylvania. The park is divided into two sections: The Red House Area and the Quaker Run Area. It ...

Appalachia Service Project Appalachia Service Project or ASP is a non-governmental organization which was founded in 1969. ASP addresses substandard housing using volunteer labor to perform repairs to make homes "warmer, safer, and drier." ASP operates in Central Appalachi ...

, for housing improvement *

Arkansas State Police The Arkansas State Police is a state police division of the Arkansas Department of Public Safety and the "premier" law enforcement agency in the State of Arkansas. The Arkansas State Police is responsible for enforcing motor vehicle laws, traf ...

Asociación de Scouts del Perú The Asociación de Scouts del Perú (ASP, ''Scout Association of Peru'') is the national Scouting organization of Peru. Peruvian Scouting was founded in 1911 and was among the charter members of the World Organization of the Scout Movement in 1922 ...

Aspatria railway station Aspatria railway station is a railway station serving the town of Aspatria in Cumbria, England. It is on the Cumbrian Coast Line, which runs between and . It is owned by Network Rail and managed by Northern Trains. History The station was ope ...

, UK, National Rail code * Assault system pod or A.S.P., for the G.I. Joe doll *

Association of Surfing Professionals The World Surf League (WSL) is the governing body for professional surfers and is dedicated to showcasing the world's best talent in a variety of progressive formats. The World Surf League was originally known as the International Professional ...

, former name of World Surf League *

Assistant superintendent of police Assistant superintendent, or assistant superintendent of police (ASP), is a rank that was used by police forces in the British Empire and is still used in many police forces in the Commonwealth. It was usually the lowest rank that could be held ...

* Astronomical Society of the Pacific *

Authorized service provider An authorized service provider (ASP) is a person or company that has been cleared to work on a product that is still under warranty by another company without voiding the warranty. In order to become an ASP, they would have had to complete a cert ...

Avenal State Prison Avenal State Prison (ASP) is a male-only state prison in the city of Avenal, Kings County, California, United States. Facilities The structures on ASP's include "17 open dorm buildings, six 200-bed open dorm E-bed buildings, six converted gymn ...

in California, USA *

Average selling price The average selling price (ASP) of Good (economics), goods or commodities is the average price at which a particular product or commodity is sold across channels or markets. The term is especially used in the retail sector and technology distributi ...

of goods