MIP may refer to:

Science

* Mars ISPP Precursor, a test payload intended to be flown on the cancelled

Mars Surveyor 2001 Lander The Mars Surveyor 2001 project was a multi-part Mars exploration mission intended as a follow-up to Mars Surveyor '98. After the two probes of the 1998 project, Mars Climate Orbiter and Mars Polar Lander, were both lost, NASA's "better, faster, ...

Maximum intensity projection In scientific visualization, a maximum intensity projection (MIP) is a method for 3D data that projects in the visualization plane the voxels with maximum intensity that fall in the way of parallel rays traced from the viewpoint to the plane of ...

, a computer visualization method * Mercury intrusion porosimetry, an analytical technique to determine a material's porous structure * MIP, an interactive proof system complexity class; see

Interactive proof system In computational complexity theory, an interactive proof system is an abstract machine that models computation as the exchange of messages between two parties: a ''prover'' and a ''verifier''. The parties interact by exchanging messages in order ...

* Minimum ionizing particle, in particle physics *

Mixed integer programming Linear programming (LP), also called linear optimization, is a method to achieve the best outcome (such as maximum profit or lowest cost) in a mathematical model whose requirements and objective are represented by linear relationships. Linear ...

, linear programming where some variables are constrained to be integers * Model intercomparison project; see

Coupled model intercomparison project In climatology, the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP) is a collaborative framework designed to improve knowledge of climate change. It was organized in 1995 by the Working Group on Coupled Modelling (WGCM) of the World Climate Research ...

Molecularly imprinted polymer A molecularly imprinted polymer (MIP) is a polymer that has been processed using the molecular imprinting technique which leaves cavities in the polymer matrix with an affinity for a chosen "template" molecule. The process usually involves initiati ...

, polymers processed using the molecular imprinting technique with affinity to a chosen 'template molecule' * Moon impact probe, of the Indian lunar satellite Chandrayaan-1

Biology

Macrophage inflammatory protein Macrophage Inflammatory Proteins (MIP) belong to the family of chemotactic cytokines known as chemokines. In humans, there are two major forms, MIP-1α and MIP-1β, renamed CCL3 and CCL4 respectively, since 2000. However, other names are som ...

, in biology * Maximum inspiratory pressure, the maximum inspiratory pressure is the highest atmospheric pressure developed during inspiration against an occluded airway * Methylation induced premeiotically * Microprotein, a small protein encoded from small open reading frames *

Mid-inguinal point The mid-inguinal point (MIP) is located at the middle point of an imaginary line drawn between the anterior superior iliac spine (ASIS) and the pubic symphysis. The mid-inguinal point is superior to (above) the inguinal ligament, and should not to ...

* MIP (gene), a gene in humans * Mitochondrial intermediate peptidase, an enzyme * Molecular Inversion Probe

Arts and entertainment

* Mipcom, a TV and entertainment market *

museum in progress museum in progress is a private art association based in Vienna. The non-profit art initiative was created in 1990 by Kathrin Messner and Josef Ortner († 2009) with the aim to develop new presentation forms for contemporary art. The projects ...

, a non-commercial art association, based in Vienna *

Most Improved Player (disambiguation) In some sports, a Most Improved Player award is given to players who have improved the most over the year. * Greek Basket League Most Improved Player * Israeli Basketball Premier League Most Improved Player * NBA Most Improved Player Award The ...

Business

Mortgage insurance Mortgage insurance (also known as mortgage guarantee and home-loan insurance) is an insurance policy which compensates lenders or investors in mortgage-backed securities for losses due to the default of a mortgage loan. Mortgage insurance can be ...

premium * Managers in Partnership (MIP), a British trade union for healthcare managers * ''

Managing Intellectual Property ''Managing Intellectual Property'' (also known as ''Managing IP'' or ''MIP'') is a British media group which specializes in providing news and analysis on the intellectual property world. Initially launched as a monthly magazine reporting patent a ...

'', a monthly magazine specialized in intellectual property law and business *

Master in Ingegneria della Produzione POLIMI Graduate School of Management (formerly MIP Politecnico di Milano Graduate School of Business) is a non-profit Consortia Limited Company created in 1979 and comprising the university :it:Politecnico di Milano, Politecnico di Milano (PoliM ...

(MIP), Politecnico di Milano School of Management * Mint in Package; a collectors' abbreviation; see

Mint condition Mint Condition is an American R&B band from St. Paul, Minnesota. The band is focused on diverse genres such as jazz, hip hop, funk and dance. Mint Condition has also been nominated for one Grammy and three Soul Train Awards. The group is cr ...

Government and politics

Macroeconomic Imbalance Procedure The Macroeconomic Imbalance Procedure (MIP) is a set of European Union regulations designed to prevent and correct risky macroeconomic developments within EU member states, such as high current account deficits, unsustainable external indebtednes ...

, a European Union economic governance procedure *

Minor in Possession In the United States, a Minor in Possession or a MIP (also referred to as a Possession of Alcohol Under the Legal Age or PAULA), is any person under the legal drinking age of 21 who possesses or consumes alcohol. Underage consumption is illegal ...

, in U.S. law, obtaining alcohol while under age *

Multilateral Interoperability Programme The Multilateral Interoperability Programme (MIP) is an effort to deliver an assured capability for information interoperability to support multinational, combined and joint military operations. The goal of the Programm is to support all levels f ...

, a consortium of 29 NATO and Non-NATO nations *

Popular Independent Movement The Popular Independent Movement (), abbreviated to MIP, was a Luxembourgish single-issue political party in the 1960s. It sought to represent the interests of the 12,000 people who had been conscripted into the Wehrmacht during the German occupat ...

(), a Luxembourgian political party in the 1960s

Technology

* Male Iron Pipe, a plumbing pipe connection to an FIP (Female Iron Pipe); see

National Pipe Thread American National Standard Pipe Thread standards, often called national pipe thread standards for short, are United States national technical standards for screw threads used on threaded pipes and pipe fittings. They include both tapered and s ...

* Mega-frame Initialization Packet, an MPEG-2 Transport Stream packet used for synchronization in DVB-T

single-frequency network A single-frequency network or SFN is a broadcast network where several transmitters simultaneously send the same signal over the same frequency channel. Analog AM and FM radio broadcast networks as well as digital broadcast networks can operat ...

s * Memory in Pixel, a type of

liquid crystal display A liquid-crystal display (LCD) is a flat-panel display or other Electro-optic modulator, electronically modulated optical device that uses the light-modulating properties of liquid crystals combined with polarizers to display information. Liq ...

Mipmap In computer graphics, a mipmap (''mip'' being an acronym of the Latin phrase ''multum in parvo'', meaning "much in little") is a pre-calculated, optimized sequence of images, each of which has an image resolution which is a factor of two small ...

(multum in parvo, much in little space), a sequences of images, each of which is a progressively lower resolution than the previous *

Mobile IP Mobile IP (or MIP) is an Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) standard communications protocol that is designed to allow mobile device users to move from one network to another while maintaining a permanent IP address. Mobile IP for IPv4 is descr ...