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AP may refer to:

In companies and organizations:

• Associated Press, an American news agency
• A&P, Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company
• The IATA code for Air One
• Allied Press, a major New Zealand newspaper company
• Polish Aero Club (Aeroklub Polski), the Polish central association of persons practising air sports or recreational flying
• Acción Popular, name of two political parties in Latin America
• People's Action (Romania) (Acţiunea Populară), a liberal Christian-democratic non-parliamentary party in Romania
• Popular Alliance (Spain) (Alianza Popular), a former political party in Spain
• Armenian Power, an Armenian-American gang located in Los Angeles
• Absolute Poker, an online poker room
• Norwegian Labour Party (Arbeiderpartiet)

In science:

• Acetone peroxide, an explosive
• Applied physics, physics intended for a particular technological or practical use
• Ammonium perchlorate, an oxidizer used in solid rocket propellant
• Arithmetic progression, a sequence of numbers, each differing from its predecessor by a fixed quantity
• Action potential, a "spike" of electrical discharge that travels along the membrane of a cell
• Arterial pressure
• Area postrema, a part of the brain
• Alkaline phosphatase
• Amphetamine psychosis, psychotic state as a result of high and/or chronic use of amphetamine type stimulants.

In computing and video games:

• Access point, a device that connects wireless communication devices together to form a wireless network
• Action point, a point-system used in video games
• Attack power, measurement of attack strength in MMORPGs

In education:

• Advanced Placement Program, a program that offers college level courses at high schools across the United States and Canada
• Assistant principal, the assistant chief administrator in a school
• Ang Pamantasan, a Phillippine university student publication

In military:

• AP, the U.S. Navy hull classification symbol for transport support ships
• Armor-piercing shot and shell, a type of ammunition designed to penetrate armour and detonate
• AP, the United States postal abbreviation for U.S. military personnel in the Pacific Ocean region
• "Air Publication", a document written by the Royal Air Force describing various parts of its structure

In workers:

• Au pair, a domestic assistant living with a host family in a foreign country
• Asset protection, private security in retail stores and other places

In places:

• Andhra Pradesh, a state in southern India
• Arunachal Pradesh, a state in north-eastern India

In other uses:

• Accounts payable, one of a series of accounting transactions covering payments to suppliers
• Alternative Press (magazine), a music magazine
• Anno Persico or Anno Persarum, a Latinization of Iranian calendar years
• Advanced Parole, a United States immigration law term
• Asian pride, a slogan
• Attachment parenting, a parenting philosophy
• ap, a Welsh patronym
• Ap (water), the Vedic Sanskrit term for water
• Adjectival phrase, a term used in linguistics to denote a phrase with an adjective as its head
• Autopilot, automatic, assisted vehicle piloting

[edit] See also

• A&P (disambiguation)
• AP Poll

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