Aap or AAP may refer to:

Aerospace

Apollo Applications Program The Apollo Applications Program (AAP) was created as early as 1966 by NASA headquarters to develop science-based human spaceflight missions using hardware developed for the Apollo program. AAP was the ultimate development of a number of official ...

, NASA's vision for long-range space exploration based on technologies developed for Project Apollo

Aviation

* Aappilattoq Heliport (Avannaata) in Aappilattoq, Greenland * Agrupación Aérea Presidencial, the Argentine president's personal air fleet * Aircraft Acceptance Point, a term used by the Royal Flying Corps to designate Lympne Aerodrome (later

RAF Lympne Royal Air Force Lympne or more simply RAF Lympne is a former Royal Air Force List of former Royal Air Force stations, satellite station in Kent used during the World War I, First and World War II, Second World Wars. It was opened in 1916 by the ...

) * Airport Armed Police in Bangladesh * Andrau Airpark, a former airport in Houston, Texas, United States * IATA airport code for Aji Pangeran Tumenggung Pranoto International Airport in Samarinda, East Kalimantan Province, Indonesia

Business

Accredited ACH Professional Nacha, originally the National Automated Clearinghouse Association, manages the ACH Network, the backbone for the electronic movement of money and data in the United States, and is an association for the payments industry. The ACH Network ser ...

, an Electronic Payments Professional *

Advance Auto Parts Advance Auto Parts, Inc. is an American automotive aftermarket parts provider. Headquartered in Raleigh, North Carolina, it serves professional installer and do it yourself (DIY) customers. Company History In April 1932, Arthur Taubman purch ...

, an American vehicle parts retailer *

Associated Artists Productions Associated Artists Productions, Inc. (a.a.p.) later known as United Artists Associated was an American distributor of theatrical feature films and short subjects for television. Associated Artists Productions was the copyright owner of the ' ...

, a film distributor *

Association of American Publishers The Association of American Publishers (AAP) is the national trade association of the American book publishing industry. AAP lobbies for book, journal and education publishers in the United States. AAP members include most of the major commercial ...

, a United States trade association

Language, linguistics, vocabulary

Ap (water) ''Ap'' (') is the Vedic Sanskrit term for "water", which in Classical Sanskrit only occurs in the plural ' (sometimes re-analysed as a thematic singular, '), whence Hindi '. The term is from Proto Indo-European "water".The word has many cognate ...

, a Sanskrit word *

Pará Arára language Arára () is a Cariban language of Pará, Brazil. It is spoken by the Arara and perhaps other related groups. Arára forms part of the '' Kampot dialect cluster'' along with Ikpeng, Apiaká do Tocantins, Parirí, and Yarumá.Carvalho, Fernando ...

, a Cariban language of Brazil

Media

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ArtAsiaPacific ''ArtAsiaPacific'' is the longest running English-language periodical solely dedicated to covering contemporary art and culture from sixty-seven countries, territories, and Chinese Special Administrative Regions that it considers to be within As ...

'', a contemporary art and culture magazine *

Australian Associated Press Australian Associated Press Ltd (AAP) is an Australian news agency. It was founded in 1935 by Keith Murdoch. AAP employs around 90 journalists who work in bureaus in all states and territories of Australia except the Northern Territory. It al ...

, Australia's national news agency

Medicine and dentistry

Alanine aminopeptidase Membrane alanyl aminopeptidase () also known as alanyl aminopeptidase (AAP) or aminopeptidase N (AP-N) is an enzyme that in humans is encoded by the ANPEP gene. Function Aminopeptidase N is located in the small-intestinal and renal microvill ...

, a medical biomarker enzyme *

Atypical antipsychotic The atypical antipsychotics (AAP), also known as second generation antipsychotics (SGAs) and serotonin–dopamine antagonists (SDAs), are a group of antipsychotic drugs (antipsychotic drugs in general are also known as tranquilizers and neurol ...

, a group of antipsychotic drugs *

American Academy of Pediatrics The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) is the largest professional association of pediatricians in the United States. It is headquartered in Itasca, Illinois, and maintains an office in Washington, D.C. The AAP has published hundreds of poli ...

, an American and Canadian professional medical fellowship * American Academy of Periodontology, a professional organization for periodontists * Association of Academic Physiatrists, an organization to support the advancement of physical medicine and rehabilitation *

Association of American Physicians The Association of American Physicians (AAP) is an honorary medical society founded in 1885 by the Canadian physician Sir William Osler and six other distinguished physicians of his era for "the advancement of scientific and practical medicine ...

, a medical honor society

Miscellaneous organizations

* Association of Australasian Palaeontologists * Australasian Association of Philosophy *

Automobile Association Philippines A car, or an automobile, is a motor vehicle with wheels. Most definitions of cars state that they run primarily on roads, seat one to eight people, have four wheels, and mainly transport people rather than cargo. There are around one billio ...

, a member of the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile

Places

Alexandra Palace railway station Alexandra Palace railway station is on the Great Northern Route that forms part of the East Coast Main Line, and takes its name from the nearby Alexandra Palace in the London Borough of Haringey, north London. It is down the line from and is ...

in London, UK *

Ann Arbor Pioneer High School Pioneer High School is a public high school in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Founded in 1856, the school was previously called the Union School and Ann Arbor High School. In 2010, Pioneer was listed as a "Silver Medal School" by the '' U.S. News & Wo ...

, a high school in Michigan, United States *

Cornell University College of Architecture, Art, and Planning The College of Architecture, Art, and Planning (AAP) is the school of architecture at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. It offers 20 undergraduate and graduate degrees in five departments: architecture, art, urban planning, real estate, ...

, New York, United States

Politics

Aam Aadmi Party The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP, ) is a List of political parties in India, political party in India. It was founded on 26 November 2012 by Arvind Kejriwal and his then-companions, following the 2011 Indian anti-corruption movement against then gover ...

, a political party in India

Technology

A-A-P Bram Moolenaar (; 1961 – 3 August 2023) was a Dutch software engineer and activist who was the creator, maintainer, and benevolent dictator for life of Vim, a vi-derivative text editor. He advocated for ICCF Holland, a non-governmental orga ...

, a computer software build and installation utility *

Advanced Active Partition A master boot record (MBR) is a type of boot sector in the first block of partitioned computer mass storage devices like fixed disks or removable drives intended for use with IBM PC-compatible systems and beyond. The concept of MBRs was pu ...

, a special type of active partition in a MBR

Other uses

Argumentum ad populum In argumentation theory, an (Latin for 'appeal to the people') is a fallacy, fallacious argument which is based on claiming a truth or affirming something is good or correct because many people think so. Alternative names Other names for the ...

, a logical fallacy * Aerobic anoxygenic phototroph, a metabolic classification of bacteria