IMP or imp may refer to: * Imp, a fantasy creature

Arts and entertainment

Fictional characters

* Imp (She-Ra), a character in ''She-Ra: Princess of Power'' * Imp a character in '' Artemis Fowl: The Lost Colony'' * Imp, a character in the '' Clan Destine'' series of Marvel Comics * Imp, nickname of

Tyrion Lannister Lord Tyrion Lannister, also known by the nicknames the Halfman or the Imp and the alias Hugor Hill, is a fictional character in the ''A Song of Ice and Fire'' series of epic fantasy novels by American author George R. R. Martin, and its televis ...

, a character from ''A Song of Ice and Fire'' series

Games

* International Match Points, in contract bridge * Imp, a small Zombie that can appear randomly in '' Plants vs. Zombies'' * Imp (''Dungeons & Dragons''), a type of fictional lower level devil in the ''Dungeons & Dragons'' role-playing game * Imp (''Shattered Galaxy''), an infantry Unit in the MMORPG ''Shattered Galaxy'' * Imp, fire and ice enemies in the video game ''

Hexen II ''Hexen II'' is a dark fantasy first-person shooter (FPS) video game developed by Raven Software and published by id Software. It is the third game in the '' Hexen''/''Heretic'' series, and the last in the ''Serpent Riders'' trilogy. Using a modi ...

'' * Imp, enemy in the video game ''

Doom Doom is another name for damnation. Doom may also refer to: People * Doom (professional wrestling), the tag team of Ron Simmons and Butch Reed * Daniel Doom (born 1934), Belgian cyclist * Debbie Doom (born 1963), American softball pitcher * ...

'' series * Imp, popular pet used by Warlocks in ''

World of Warcraft ''World of Warcraft'' (''WoW'') is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) released in 2004 by Blizzard Entertainment. Set in the ''Warcraft'' fantasy universe, ''World of Warcraft'' takes place within the world of Azeroth ...

'' * Imp, monster enemy in '' Geist'' * Imp, worker units in RTS ''

Dungeon Keeper ''Dungeon Keeper'' is a strategy video game developed by Bullfrog Productions and released by Electronic Arts in June 1997 for MS-DOS and Windows 95. In ''Dungeon Keeper'', the player builds and manages a dungeon, protecting it from invading ' ...

'' and its sequel * Imp, short for members of the Empire ("Imperials") from ''

Star Wars Galaxies ''Star Wars Galaxies'' was a ''Star Wars'' themed massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) for Microsoft Windows, developed by Sony Online Entertainment and published by LucasArts. Released on June 26, 2003, to much critical ac ...

'' and various Star Wars games *

Midna is a fictional character introduced as one of the main protagonists in '' The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess'', a 2006 video game in Nintendo's ''The Legend of Zelda'' series. She is a member of the magic-wielding Twili who joins forces wi ...

, a main character from ''The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess'', who resembles an imp for most of the game *

Implementer (video games) Infocom was an American software company based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, that produced numerous works of interactive fiction. They also produced a business application, a relational database called ''Cornerstone''. Infocom was founded ...

, a term for developers in the Zork series and in DikuMUDs * International Match Point, one form of scoring in duplicate bridge * Imps, the cursor in the UGC game Dreams_(video_game)

Science and technology

* Research Institute of Molecular Pathology, a molecular biology research institute in Vienna * Imager for Mars Pathfinder, a camera on board the

Mars Pathfinder ''Mars Pathfinder'' (''MESUR Pathfinder'') is an American robotic spacecraft that landed a base station with a roving probe on Mars in 1997. It consisted of a lander, renamed the Carl Sagan Memorial Station, and a lightweight, wheeled robot ...

lander * imipenem/cilastatin, an antibiotic combination * Interplanetary Monitoring Platform, a series of NASA space science missions within the Explorer program, launched between 1966 and 1973 * Investigational medicinal product, medication used in a clinical trial *

Inosine monophosphate Inosinic acid or inosine monophosphate (IMP) is a nucleotide (that is, a nucleoside monophosphate). Widely used as a flavor enhancer, it is typically obtained from chicken byproducts or other meat industry waste. Inosinic acid is important in met ...

, a nucleotide *

Integral membrane protein An integral, or intrinsic, membrane protein (IMP) is a type of membrane protein that is permanently attached to the biological membrane. All ''transmembrane proteins'' are IMPs, but not all IMPs are transmembrane proteins. IMPs comprise a sign ...

, a class of proteins attached to cell membranes * blaIMP (IMP), a type of metallo-

beta-lactamase Beta-lactamases, (β-lactamases) are enzymes () produced by bacteria that provide multi-resistance to beta-lactam antibiotics such as penicillins, cephalosporins, cephamycins, monobactams and carbapenems ( ertapenem), although carbap ...

conferring resistance against carbapenem antibiotics * ''N''-Isopropyl-(¹²³I)-''p''-iodoamphetamine, or iofetamine (¹²³I), a diagnostic radiopharmaceutical *

Irregular mare patch An irregular mare patch also known as an IMP, is a smooth, rounded, slightly mounded area, generally about 500 meters wide, occurring in the lunar maria.Wood, Charles. "Strange Little IMPs." ''Sky and Telescope,'' February 2015 issue. Discovery ...

, a smooth area in the lunar maria. * Imp, a baby Tasmanian devil

Computing

Interface Message Processor The Interface Message Processor (IMP) was the packet switching node used to interconnect participant networks to the ARPANET from the late 1960s to 1989. It was the first generation of gateways, which are known today as routers. An IMP was a ...

, a packet-switching node for connecting computers to ARPANET (modern term: router) * IMP programming language, a systems programming language for the CDC 6600 * Edinburgh IMP, a systems programming language used in the EMAS operating system *

Internet Messaging Program The Internet Messaging Program or IMP is a webmail client. It can be used to access e-mail stored on an IMAP server. IMP is written in PHP and a component of the collaborative software suite Horde. It is included with cPanel and Plesk instal ...

, a webmail client * Intercept Modernisation Programme, a proposal by the UK government to centralise the storage electronic communications traffic data * Integrated Middleware Platform, for external system aiming to service logic communication *

Information Module Profile IMP stands for the ''Information Module Profile''. It is a specification put out by Sun Microsystems for the use of Java on embedded devices with very limited displays. It is a subset of the Mobile Information Device Profile. IMP is part of the Jav ...

, a subset of the Mobile Information Device Profile * Interactive Media Player (iMP), the former name of the BBC iPlayer

Organizations

Imparja Television Imparja Television (IMP) is an independent Australian television station servicing over , across six states and territories: Northern Territory, South Australia, Tasmania, Queensland, New South Wales and Victoria. It is based in Alice Spring ...

(callsign IMP), an Australian television broadcaster *

Independent Moving Pictures The Independent Moving Pictures Company (IMP) was a motion picture studio and production company founded in 1909 by Carl Laemmle. The company was based in New York City, with production facilities in Fort Lee, New Jersey. In 1912, IMP merged wit ...

, an early movie studio absorbed by Universal in 1912 * International Music Publications, a British sheet music publisher * IMP Society, a secret society at the University of Virginia * Incentive Mentoring Program, a non-profit organization aiming to transform the lives of Baltimore teenagers failing high school * Institute of Modern Politics, a Bulgarian think-tank *

Israeli Military Police The Military Police Corps of the Israel Defense Forces ( he, חֵיל הַמִּשְׁטָרָה הַצְּבָאִית, ''Chayal HaMishtara HaTzva'it'' (shortened to ''Mishtara Tzvait''), commonly called "Mem Tzadik" or "Mem Tzadi", is the Israel ...

or Investigating Military Police (Criminal Investigations Division/CID) * Research Institute of Molecular Pathology, a basic biomedical research center at the Campus Vienna Biocenter

Transportation

* Hillman Imp, a British car of the 1960s-1970s *

Subaru Impreza The is a compact car that has been manufactured by the Japanese automaker Subaru since 1992. It was introduced as a replacement for the Leone, with the predecessor's EA series engines replaced by the new EJ series. It is now in its sixth gene ...

, a Japanese car, nicknamed Imp * Thiokol 1404 IMP, a 1970s snowcat made by

Thiokol Thiokol (variously Thiokol Chemical Corporation(/Company), Morton Thiokol Inc., Cordant Technologies Inc., Thiokol Propulsion, AIC Group, ATK Thiokol, ATK Launch Systems Group; finally Orbital ATK before becoming part of Northrop Grumman) was an ...

Other uses

Interactive Mathematics Program The Interactive Mathematics Program (IMP) is a four-year, problem-based mathematics curriculum for high schools. It was one of several curricula funded by the National Science Foundation and designed around the 1989 National Council of Teachers o ...

, a Key Curriculum Press Interactive Math curriculum * Isle of Man pound, or Manx pound *

Imp (horse) Imp (1894–1909) was a pure black Thoroughbred racing filly with a white, diamond-shaped star between her eyes. She was sired by Wagner (GB) out of Fondling (by Fonso) and was foaled on March 5, 1894. Owned and bred by Daniel R. Harness of C ...

, American Champion Thoroughbred racehorse * "IMP", Latin abbreviation used on British coins up to 1947, such as the British two shilling coin * Individual Meal Pack, a ration used by the Canadian Armed Forces * Integrated master plan, a part of project planning * Brown University International Mentoring Program, a student-based program at Brown University *

Imping Imping is the practice of replacing a broken feather of a bird with another one, referred to as a donor feather, from a previous Moulting, molt of the same animal or from another animal of the same or of a different species. Imping is mostly done ...

, the practice of fixing a broken feather of a bird