TP

TP, Tp, tP, tp, or T&P may refer to:

Arts and media

• Time Patrol Bon (T・Pぼん), a Japanese manga series by Fujiko F. Fujio

Music

• Tonic parallel (Tp and tP), a kind of chord in music theory
• TP (Teddy Pendergrass album), 1980
• TP (Tony Parker album), 2007
• A series of R&B studio albums by R. Kelly: 12 Play (1993), TP-2.com (2000), TP.3 Reloaded (2005)

Newspapers

• Thai Post (ไทยโพสต์), a Thai-language daily in Thailand
• The Times-Picayune | The New Orleans Advocate, an American daily

Television

• Test pattern (AKA test card), a broadcast signal
• The Tomorrow People, a British science fiction series
• TP de Oro (initially Los mejores de TP; 1972–2011), a Spanish annual awards series by Teleprograma 
• Talking Pictures TV (TPTV), a British free-to-air vintage film and nostalgia channel
• Telewizja Polska S.A. (currently abbreviated "TVP", but was "TP" 1976–1992; AKA Polish Television), a public service broadcaster in Poland, founded in 1952

Theatre

• Theatrical producer, person who is in charge of the finances for staging a show
• Theater paddle, AKA stage pin connector, a standard cable type for lighting
• Tanghalang Pilipino, a resident drama company of the Cultural Center of the Philippines

Video games

• The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, a 2006 Nintendo action-adventure game
• Tension points, a character state property in Deltarune and Xenoblade Chronicles X

People

Academics, doctors, and writers

• Tony Parker (author) (1923–1996), a British oral historian
• Timothy Peter Burt (born 1951), a British geographer, academic, and academic administrator
• TP Fielden, the novelist pen-name of Christopher Wilson (biographer) (born 1947), also a journalist
• Thyagaraja Paramasiva Kailasam (1884–1946), an Indian playwright and writer
• Thomas Paul "Doc" Martin (1864–1935), an American physician
• Thachom Poyil Rajeevan (1959–2022), an Indian novelist
• Theodore Percival Cameron Wilson (1888–1918), an English poet and novelist
• Timothy Peter Wiseman (born 1940), an English scholar
• Paul T. P. Wong (Chinese: 王载宝; 1937–2024), a Canadian clinical psychologist and professor

Architects

• Thomas Penberthy Bennett (1887–1980), an English architect
• Thomas Phillips Figgis (1858–1948), a British architect

Athletes

See also: § Sports

• Tony Parker (born 1982), a French-American basketball player
• Tony Parker (basketball, born 1993), an American player
• Tony Parker (rugby union) (born 1961), an Australian player
• Tangirala Pawan Kumar (born 1970), an Indian first-class cricketer
• TP Sudhindra (born 1984), an Indian first-class cricketer
• Rehenesh Thumbirumbu Paramba (born 1993), an Indian footballer (soccer player)

Journalists and politicians

See also: § Politics

• T. P. Chandrasekharan (1960–2012), an Indian politician
• Thomas Patrick Gill (1858–1931), an Irish journalist and politician
• Thomas Power O'Connor (1848–1929), an Irish politician and journalist
  • Occasionally known as Tay Pay based on the Irish pronunciation of the initials "T. P."

Performing artists

See also: § Arts and entertainment

• T. P. Madhavan (1935–2024), an Indian actor
• Thomas Patrick McKenna (1929–2011), an Irish actor
• Teddy Pendergrass (1950–2010), an American singer
• Heitor Teixeira Pereira (born 1960), a Brazilian composer

Fictional characters

See also: § Arts and entertainment

• T. P. Balagopalan, the main character of T. P. Balagopalan M. A., a 1986 Indian Malayalam-language comedy drama film
• Time Pilfer Lady (Japanese: TPレディ; AKA Hitomi Aino, Petra Fina Dagmar, Ms. Iknow), a villain in Japanese anime series Flint the Time Detective (1998–1999)
• Talita "T.P." Aleni (née Palele), the Tongan wife of Sam Aleni, portrayed 1993–1994 by Elizabeth Skeen in the New Zealand soap opera Shortland Street
• Te Aroha Pene, a character in New Zealand kidult horror-fantasy television show The Killian Curse (2006–2008)
• Thomas Malcolm Pickles (Tommy), the protagonist of the animated children's television series Rugrats and spinoff series All Grown Up!
  • Referenced in the title of All Grown Up!, season 5, episode 3, "TP+KF" (2007)

Sports

See also: § Athletes

• Triple play, an act in baseball
• Tighthead prop, a position in rugby union
• Triple Peel, a croquet manoeuvre
• Training partner

Association football (soccer)

• Portuguese: Taça de Portugal, lit. 'Cup of Portugal', an annual competition
• Polish: Towarzystwo Piłkarskie, e.g. in: TP Ostrovia Ostrów Wielkopolski (Towarzystwo Piłkarskie Ostrovia 1909 Ostrów Wielkopolski), a Polish football club
• Tullinge TP FK (AKA Tullinge Triangel Pojkar FK, Tullinge TP Football; founded 1944), a Swedish football club based in Tullinge, Stockholm County
• French: Tout Puissant, lit. 'Almighty / All Powerful' (often used by teams who went undefeated), as in:
  • TP Akwembe, Libreville, Estuaire, Gabon
  • TP Mazembe, Lubumbashi, Haut-Katanga, DR Congo
  • TP Mazembe (women), Lubumbashi, Haut-Katanga, DR Congo
  • TP Molunge, Mbandaka, Équateur, DR Congo
  • TP Mystère, Republic of the Congo
  • TP USCA Bangui (Tout Puissant Union Sportive Centrafricaine de Bangui), Bangui, Bangui, Central African Republic
• Finnish: Työväen Palloilijat, as in:
  • Kotkan Työväen Palloilijat (KTP), Kotka, Kaakkois-Suomi
  • Oulun Työväen Palloilijat (OTP), Oulu, Pohjois-Suomi
• Teams in the list of football clubs in Finland – T, e.g.:
  • Tornion Pallo -47, Tornio, Pohjois-Suomi
  • Toijalan Pallo-49, Toijala, Akaa, Tampere

Automobile/car racing

• TP Formula, a team based in Italy
• Team Penske, an American professional auto racing organization

Places

• Toa Payoh (Chinese: 大巴窑 / 大巴窯, Tamil: தோ பாயோ), a planning area and residential town in Singapore
• Tai Po (Chinese: 大埔), an area in Hong Kong
• Tunjungan Plaza, a shopping center in Indonesia
• Third Pole (AKA the Hindu Kush-Karakoram-Himalayan system, HKKH), a mountainous region in the Tibetan Plateau
• Portuguese Timor (Portuguese: Timor Português), a defunct territory (1702–1975)
• thành phố means 'city' in Vietnamese, such as in:
  • Thành phố Hồ Chí Minh (TP.HCM), Vietnam's largest city
• Tigné Point, Sliema, Malta (postal code: TP)
• Province of Trapani, Sicily, Italy (ISO 3166 code: IT-TP; vehicle registration code: TP)

Transportation

See also: § Automobile/car racing

• Thunder Power (Chinese: 昶洧), a Taiwanese automobile manufacturer
• Transport Pool Inc., the original name (1968) of TIP Group, a Dutch international provider of transportation and logistics equipment services, such as trucks and trailers
• Trigonometrical point (AKA triangulation station), fixed surveying station, e.g.:
  • TP Rauenberg, in Tempelhof, Berlin, Germany, formerly used for mapping purposes
• Turnpike, AKA toll road, road that requires a fee to use
• Taunsa–Panjnad Link Canal, Punjab, Pakistan

Aviation/planes

See also: Glossary of Russian and USSR aviation acronyms: Aircraft designations, Avionics and instruments, and Organisations

• TAP Air Portugal (IATA airline code: TP)
• Turboprop, gas-turbine engine that drives an aircraft propeller
  • e.g. Diemech TP 100 (c. 2012 – c. 2017), an American turboprop and turboshaft aircraft engine
  • see also Swallow TP, a trainer aircraft produced by the Swallow Airplane Company in the United States from 1928

Maritime/watercrafts

• US Army TP Harbor Tug Type V ship in WWII ("TP" stands for Tug/Passenger)
• TP 52, a class of yacht used for racing
• Italian submarine Topazio, a Sirena-class submarine built for the Regia Marina during the early 1930s

Rail/trains

• Train protection system, a railway technical installation to ensure safe operation despite human error, e.g.:
  • Automatic train protection (ATP)
  • Train Protection & Warning System (TPWS)
• Texas and Pacific Railway (1871–1976), United States
• Tanjung Priok Line, a commuter rail line in Jakarta, Indonesia
• SJ Tp, a diesel-hydraulic locomotive operated by Swedish State Railways (Statens Järnvägar)
• TransPennine Trains Limited (reporting mark: TP), trading as TransPennine Express (TPE), a British state-owned train operating company
• Tiruchirappalli Fort Railway Station (station code: TP), a railway station in Tiruchirappalli, Tamil Nadu, India

STEM

Psychology and neuroscience

• Temporal pole, a part of the human brain
• Transpersonal psychology (AKA spiritual psychology), the study of integrating spiritual and transcendent human experiences with modern psychology
• Toulouse-Piéron Cancellation Test, developed by Louis Charles Henri Piéron and Édouard Toulouse

Medical practitioners

See also: § Academics, doctors, and writers

• Transfusion practitioner (AKA haemovigilance officer, patient blood management nurse)

Biochemistry

• Turgor pressure, the hydrostatic force within cells that pushes the plasma membrane against the cell wall
• Serum total protein, a clinical chemistry parameter
• TP-003, an experimental anti-anxiety drug with formula C₂₃H₁₆F₃N₃O
• TP-13, an experimental anti-anxiety drug with formula C₁₉H₁₉N₇O
• Testosterone propionate, an androgen and anabolic steroid (AAS) medication
• Thromboxane prostanoid receptor, a protein found in humans and other mammals
• Thymidine phosphorylase, an enzyme and catalyst
• Triose phosphate (AKA glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate, 3-phosphoglyceraldehyde), an intermediate metabolite in cellular respiration and photosynthesis
• MT-TP (mitochondrially encoded tRNA proline), a transfer ribonucleic acid, encoded in humans by the mitochondrial MT-TP gene

Chemistry

• Trispyrazolylborate (Tp⁻), a chemical ligand (or binding agent)
• Tp ligands, AKA hydrotris(pyrazolyl)borates, a class of scorpionate ligands
• Triphosphate, a salt or ester of polymeric oxyanions with 3 tetrahedral PO₄ units linked by sharing oxygen atoms
• Total phosphorus, a measure of the amount of element 15 present
• Thermoplastic polyester, a kind of polymer

Electronics and computing

See also: § Arts and entertainment

• .tp, the 1997–2015 Internet domain of Timor-Leste (East Timor)
• Twisted pair cabling, in telecommunications
• Test point, in electronics
• Tidal power, technology to extract energy from tides
• t_p, system pulse duration, in glossary of power electronics
• The value determined by a throttle position sensor, an engine air-intake measurement device
• Thermal pad (computing) (AKA thermally conductive pad), pre-formed rectangle of solid material to aid conduction of heat
• Technical preview or technology preview, the beta testing stage of the software release life cycle
• Turbo Pascal (initial release 1983), a software development system by Borland for the programming language Pascal
• Transaction processing, computation divided into individual, indivisible operations
• Teleprocessing monitor (AKA Transaction Processing Monitor, TP Monitor), control program that monitors data transfers between terminals
• Transport protocol, a kind of communication standard
• Transport profile, e.g. Multiprotocol Label Switching - Transport Profile (MPLS-TP)
• Central Information Transparency Platform, European Network of Transmission System Operators for Electricity

Electronics and computing companies and brands

• Sony Vaio TP series (2007–2008), living room PCs
• TP-Link, a global manufacturer of computer networking products
• TP Vision, a developer, manufacturer, and marketer of Philips TV sets, displays, and LEDwalls, in Amsterdam, Netherlands
• Telekomunikacja Polska (now Orange Polska), a Polish telecommunications provider
• Telecom Portugal, a former Portuguese telecommunications company, that merged with Telefones de Lisboa e Porto, the successor to the Anglo-Portuguese Telephone Company
• Tata Power Company Limited, an Indian electric utility and electricity generation company

Astronomy

• Time of perihelion passage (tp), an orbital element (parameter)
• Thermally pulsing asymptotic giant branch (TP-AGB), a phase of some stars' lifecycle
• The modern provisional designation in astronomy for the 15th (or with a suffix, 40th, 65th, etc.) minor planet discovered in the first half of October of each year
  • Search results for those with permanent designations

Mathematics

• Tensor product, a mathematical operation between two vector spaces
• True positive, a correct 'yes' result

Other uses in science and technology

• Technology platform, e.g. European Technology Platform (ETP), a part of the Framework Programmes for Research and Technological Development
• Planck time (t_P), a unit of measurement
• The Tornado Project (1970s–1990s), a risk assessment research effort by Thomas P. Grazulis

Language

• tp (digraph), pronounced in Yélî Dnye as /t̪͡p/
• Tibetan pinyin (Chinese: 藏文拼音, romanized: Zàngwén Pīnyīn, ZWPY), the official transcription system for the Tibetan language in China

Linguistics

• Tense phrase, in X-bar theory
• Topic/theme, what is being talked about

Politics

See also: § Journalists and politicians

• Latin: Tractatus Politicus, lit. 'Political Treatise', a writing by Baruch Spinoza in 1675–77
• Town panchayat, a type of local government in India
• Township, a form of human settlement or administrative subdivision
• Finnish: tasavallan presidentti, lit. 'President of the Republic', such as in tp-utva, a name for the Finnish Government's Ministerial Committee on Foreign and Security Policy
• Third party, a minor political organization in a two-party system
• Third Pole (Italy) (Terzo Polo), a small Christian-democratic political party based in Southern Italy
• The Peoples Political Party (2011–2023), a minor political party in Ontario, Canada
• Latvian: Tautas partija, lit. 'People's Party' (1998–2011), a conservative political party in Latvia
• Revolutionary Workers' Party (Trotskyist–Posadist) (Spanish: Partido Obrero Revolucionario Trotskista Posadista, POR-TP), a Bolivian political party formed in 1963
• Tendencia proletaria (lit. 'proletarian tendency'), a faction of the Sandinista National Liberation Front, a Nicaraguan political party founded in 1961

Law

• Transfer pricing, a concept in taxation
• Traffic police, cops who enforce the rules of the road

Other uses

• Tagapangasiwang Pampook, now known as Area Servants (Tagalog: Lingkod Pampook), people who oversee a Members Church of God International district referring to one Philippine province
• TP-82 (Russian: ТП-82), a Soviet gun carried by cosmonauts
• Toilet paper (AKA bathroom tissue)
  • Toilet papering, covering things with it
• Trade paperback, a book format
• Tight passive, a kind of poker play style (see Glossary of poker terms § T)
• Swedish: tilläggspension, lit. 'supplementary pension'

Miscellaneous businesses and organizations

• Temasek Polytechnic, a public, further education college in Singapore
• Travis Perkins, a British building materials supplier
• TP ICAP Group plc (formerly Tullett Prebon), a London-based financial-services firm
• Teleperformance SE, a French-based business-process outsourcer
• Terre et Peuple, a cultural association in France
• TP Tea (Taiwan Professional Tea, Chinese: 茶湯會, romanized: Chátānghuì; formerly Tea Pa Tea; founded 2005), a bubble tea shop chain based in Taichung, Taiwan

See also

• Tipping point (disambiguation)
• Turning Point (disambiguation)
• Tribal police (disambiguation)
• 3P (disambiguation)

Terms that look or sound the same

• т.р., thousand rubles
• Tipi (disambiguation)

Terms with a hyphenated prefix

• 7-TP, a Polish light tank of the Second World War
• α-Tocopheryl palmitate (α-TP), an ester that is a form of form of vitamin E
• Sơn Tùng M-TP, stage name of Nguyễn Thanh Tùng (born 1994), a Vietnamese singer-songwriter and actor
  • m-tp M-TP, his first compilation album, released 2017