FP may refer to:

Arts, media and entertainment

Music

Fortepiano A fortepiano is an early piano. In principle, the word "fortepiano" can designate any piano dating from the invention of the instrument by Bartolomeo Cristofori in 1700 up to the early 19th century. Most typically, however, it is used to ref ...

, an early version of the piano *

Fortepiano (musical dynamic) The expression fortepiano (sometimes called forte piano) is a sudden dynamic change used in a musical score, usually with the abbreviation , to designate a section of music in which the music should be played loudly (''forte''), then immediatel ...

, an Italian musical term meaning 'loud soft' *

Flux Pavilion Joshua Kiekegaard Grant Steele (born 15 January 1989), known professionally as Flux Pavilion, is an English EDM producer, DJ, singer-songwriter and label owner. He started performing in 2008. Flux Pavilion has headlined three US tours, two UK ...

, a British dubstep artist *

Francis Poulenc Francis Jean Marcel Poulenc (; 7 January 189930 January 1963) was a French composer and pianist. His compositions include mélodie, songs, solo piano works, chamber music, choral pieces, operas, ballets, and orchestral concert music. Among th ...

, an early 20th century pianist and composer **

FP (catalogue) This is a list of works written by the French composer Francis Poulenc (1899–1963). As a pianist, Poulenc composed many pieces for his own instrument in List of solo piano compositions by Francis Poulenc, his piano music and chamber music. He ...

- of his compositions. * "FP", song by Arcángel and Rauw Alejandro from ''

Sentimiento, Elegancia y Más Maldad ''Sentimiento, Elegancia y Más Maldad'' is the eighth studio album by American singer Arcángel. It was released on November 17, 2023, through Rimas, as a sequel to the singer's second studio album '' Sentimiento, Elegancia & Maldad'' (2013). Th ...

'', 2023

Publications

* ''

Financial Post The ''Financial Post'' is a financial news website, and business section of the ''National Post'', both publications of the Postmedia Network. It started as an English Canadian business newspaper, which published from 1907 to 1998. In 1998, the ...

'', a Canadian business newspaper, published from 1907 to 1998, now ''National Post'' * ''

Foreign Policy Foreign policy, also known as external policy, is the set of strategies and actions a State (polity), state employs in its interactions with other states, unions, and international entities. It encompasses a wide range of objectives, includ ...

'', a bimonthly American magazine founded in 1970

Other media

Facepunch Studios Facepunch Studios Ltd is a British video game developer and publisher headquartered in Birmingham, England, founded in June 2004 and incorporated on 17 March 2009 by Garry Newman. The company is most known for its sandbox video game '' Garry's ...

, 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 In theoretical computer science and mathematics, computational complexity theory focuses on classifying computational problems according to their resource usage, and explores the relationships between these clas ...

, in computational complexity theory, a complexity class *

FP (programming language) FP (short for ''functional programming'') is a programming language created by John Backus to support the function-level programming paradigm. It allows building programs from a set of generally useful primitives and avoiding named variables ( ...

Floating point In computing, floating-point arithmetic (FP) is arithmetic on subsets of real numbers formed by a ''significand'' (a signed sequence of a fixed number of digits in some base) multiplied by an integer power of that base. Numbers of this form ...

, a numerical-representation system in computing *

Frame pointer In computer science, a call stack is a stack data structure that stores information about the active subroutines and inline blocks of a computer program. This type of stack is also known as an execution stack, program stack, control stack, run- ...

* Microsoft FrontPage, an HTML editor *

Functional programming In computer science, functional programming is a programming paradigm where programs are constructed by Function application, applying and Function composition (computer science), composing Function (computer science), functions. It is a declarat ...

, a programming paradigm *

Function point The function point is a "unit of measurement" to express the amount of business functionality an information system (as a product) provides to a user. Function points are used to compute a functional size measurement (FSM) of software. The cost (in ...

, a measurement of the business functionality an information system provides

Transportation

* F - Production, a class of

race car Race, RACE or The Race may refer to: * Race (biology), an informal taxonomic classification within a species, generally within a sub-species * Race (human categorization), classification of humans into groups based on physical traits, and/or s ...

s * F engine, a piston engine by Mazda *

New Zealand FP class electric multiple unit The New Zealand FP/FT "Matangi" class () is a class of electric multiple units used on the suburban rail network of New Zealand's capital city, Wellington. The class, consisting of an FP power car and an FT trailer car, operates services on all ...

(''Matangi''), a class of electric multiple locomotive unit *

Ford Performance Ford Performance (formerly Ford Racing) is the high-performance division of the Ford Motor Company and the multinational name used for its motorsport and racing activity. History * 1896 – Henry Ford reached a top speed of 20 mph in his ...

, a tuning division of the

Ford Motor Company Ford Motor Company (commonly known as Ford) is an American multinational corporation, multinational automobile manufacturer headquartered in Dearborn, Michigan, United States. It was founded by Henry Ford and incorporated on June 16, 1903. T ...

Other uses in science and technology

False positive A false positive is an error in binary classification in which a test result incorrectly indicates the presence of a condition (such as a disease when the disease is not present), while a false negative is the opposite error, where the test resu ...

, 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 In optics, a Fabry–Pérot interferometer (FPI) or etalon is an optical cavity made from two parallel reflecting surfaces (i.e.: thin mirrors). Optical waves can pass through the optical cavity only when they are in resonance with it. It is ...

, a device in optics *

Fire protection Fire protection is the study and practice of mitigating the unwanted effects of potentially Conflagration, destructive fires. It involves the study of the behaviour, Compartmentalization (fire protection), compartmentalisation, suppression and inve ...

, in the construction industry * Fluoroprotein foam, a type of fire retardant foam *

Forensic psychiatry Forensic psychiatry is a subspecialty of psychiatry and is related to criminology. It encompasses the interface between law and psychiatry. According to the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law, it is defined as "a subspecialty of psychiatr ...

, 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 Prostaglandin F receptor (FP) is a receptor belonging to the prostaglandin (PG) group of receptors. FP binds to and mediates the biological actions of prostaglandin F2α (PGF2α). It is encoded in humans by the ''PTGFR'' gene. Gene The ''PT ...

, a receptor on cells which mediates responses to

prostaglandin F2alpha Prostaglandin F2α (PGF2α in prostanoid nomenclature), pharmaceutically termed dinoprost, is a naturally occurring prostaglandin used in medicine to induce labor and as an abortifacient. Prostaglandins are lipids throughout the entire body tha ...

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 ''The Federalist Papers'' is a collection of 85 articles and essays written by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay under the collective pseudonym "Publius" to promote the ratification of the Constitution of the United States. The ...

'', a series of essays advocating the ratification of the United States Constitution * Força Portugal, a Portuguese political alliance *

Force Publique The ''Force Publique'' (, "Public Force"; ) was the military of the Congo Free State and the Belgian Congo from 1885 to 1960. It was established after Belgian Army officers travelled to the Free State to found an armed force in the colony on L ...

(French for "public force"), the military force of the Belgian Congo during the colonial period *

Framework Programmes for Research and Technological Development The Framework Programmes for Research and Technological Development, also called Framework Programmes or abbreviated FP1 to FP9, are funding programmes created by the European Union/European Commission to support and foster research in the Europe ...

of the European Union * Fuerza Popular, a right-wing populist Fujimorist political party in Peru *

Virtue Party Virtue Party (, FP) was an Islamist political party established on 17 December 1997 in Turkey. It was found unconstitutional by the Constitutional Court and then banned on 22 June 2001 for violating the secularist articles of the Constitution. A ...

(''Fazilet Partisi''), an Islamist political party in Turkey

Other uses

50 metre pistol 50 meter pistol, formerly and unofficially still often called Free Pistol, is one of the ISSF shooting events. It is one of the oldest shooting disciplines, dating back to the 19th century and only having seen marginal rule changes since 1936. I ...

, a shooting sport formerly known as ''free pistol'' *

Facepalm A facepalm is the physical gesture of placing one's hand across one's face, lowering one's face into one's hand or hands or covering or closing one's eyes. The gesture is often exaggerated by giving the motion more force and making a slapping noi ...

, a gesture indicating frustration *

Family planning Family planning is the consideration of the number of children a person wishes to have, including the choice to have no children, and the age at which they wish to have them. Things that may play a role on family planning decisions include marit ...

, the use of birth control and planning when to have children * Family practice, a

general practitioner A general practitioner (GP) is a doctor who is a Consultant (medicine), consultant in general practice. GPs have distinct expertise and experience in providing whole person medical care, whilst managing the complexity, uncertainty and risk ass ...

or family physician * Finance Park, an educational program co-managed by the Stavros Institute in Pinellas County, Florida * First person, a

grammatical person In linguistics, grammatical person is the grammatical distinction between deictic references to participant(s) in an event; typically, the distinction is between the speaker ( first person), the addressee ( second person), and others ( third p ...

referring to the speaker * FlyPelican, an Australian airline (IATA code FP) *

Force protection Force protection (FP) is the concept of protecting military personnel, family members, civilians, facilities, equipment and operations from threats or hazards in order to preserve operational effectiveness and contribute to mission success. It ...

, in the US military *

French Polynesia French Polynesia ( ; ; ) is an overseas collectivity of France and its sole #Governance, overseas country. It comprises 121 geographically dispersed islands and atolls stretching over more than in the Pacific Ocean, South Pacific Ocean. The t ...

(FIPS 10-4 country code) *

Friends Provident Friends' Provident Insurance was a banking institution founded in 1832 to serve the needs of the Society of Friends (Quakers). Based in Bradford, Yorkshire, it concentrated on sickness and annuity policies until its life fund acquired Century I ...

, a British insurance company *

Friday prayer Friday prayer, or congregational prayer (), is the meeting together of Muslims for communal prayer and service at midday every Friday. In Islam, the day itself is called ''Yawm al-Jum'ah'' (shortened to ''Jum'ah''), which translated from Arabic me ...

, 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 Fairphone is a Dutch electronics manufacturer that designs and produces smartphones and headphones. It aims to minimise the ethical and environmental impact of its devices by using recycled, fairtrade and conflict-free materials, maintaini ...

, an electronics designer and manufacturer {{disambiguation