FP

FP may refer to:

Arts, media and entertainment

Music

• Fortepiano, an early version of the piano
• Fortepiano (musical dynamic), an Italian musical term meaning "loud soft"
• Flux Pavilion, a British dubstep artist
• Francis Poulenc (1889–1963), an early 20th century pianist and composer
  • FP (catalogue), listing his compositions
• "FP", a 2023 song by Arcángel and Rauw Alejandro, from Sentimiento, Elegancia y Más Maldad

Publications

• Financial Post, a Canadian business newspaper, part of the National Post since 1988
• Foreign Policy, a bimonthly American magazine founded in 1970

Other media

• Facepunch Studios, a British video game company
• The FP, a 2011 comedy film
• Fast Picket, a starship class in Iain Banks's The Culture universe

Science and technology

Computing

• FP (complexity), in computational complexity theory, a complexity class
• FP (programming language), designed by John Backus in the 1970s
• Feature pack, a software update package to add new capabilities
• Floating point, a numerical representation system
• Frame pointer
• Microsoft FrontPage, an HTML editor
• Functional programming, a programming paradigm
• Function point, a measurement of the business functionality an information system provides

Transportation

• F-Production, or Class F, a class of race cars
• Mazda F engine, an automobile engine
• New Zealand FP class electric multiple unit (Matangi), a class of electric multiple locomotive unit
• Ford Racing, formerly Ford Performance

Other uses in science and technology

• False positive, an error in data reporting
• Ilford FP, a type of photographic film
• Fabry–Pérot interferometer, an optical device
• Fire protection, in the construction industry
• Fluoroprotein foam, a type of fire retardant foam
• Forensic psychiatry, a subspeciality of psychiatry related to criminology
• Fp dimer ("fip dimer"), a colloquial name for cyclopentadienyliron dicarbonyl dimer
• Prostaglandin F receptor, on cells

Politics

• Foreign policy
• Freedom Party (disambiguation), any of several political parties
• Folkpartiet, a former name of the Liberal People's Party in Sweden
• The Federalist Papers, a series of essays advocating for the ratification of the United States Constitution
• Força Portugal, a Portuguese political alliance
• Force Publique (French for "public force"), the military force of the Belgian Congo during the colonial period
• Framework Programmes for Research and Technological Development of the European Union
• Fuerza Popular, a right-wing populist Fujimorist political party in Peru
• Virtue Party (Fazilet Partisi), an Islamist political party in Turkey

Other uses

• 50 metre pistol, a shooting sport formerly known as free pistol
• Facepalm, a gesture indicating frustration
• Family planning, planning if and when to have children, often in the context of birth control
• Family practice, a medical specialty that provides health care for the individual and family
• Finance Park, an economic educational program co-managed by the Stavros Institute in Pinellas County, Florida
• First person, a grammatical person referring to the speaker
• FlyPelican, an Australian airline (IATA code FP)
• Force protection, in the US military
• French Polynesia (FIPS 10-4 country code)
• Friends Provident, a British insurance company
• Friday prayer, a congregational prayer service among Muslims
• Style Fp, a runestone style
• FP, a grade of tea leaf
• Fairphone, an electronics designer and manufacturer