STP

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STP may refer to:

Commercial use

• STP (motor oil company), a brand name and trade name for the automotive additives and performance division of Armored AutoGroup
• Segment, Target and Position, a marketing acronym
• South Texas Nuclear Generating Station, also known as the South Texas Project, a nuclear power station located southwest of Bay City, Texas
• Suntech Power Holdings, a Chinese manufacturer of photovoltaic cells (NYSE stock symbol STP)
• Straight-through processing, in which a financial transaction is automatically completed without manual intervention

Places

• São Tomé and Príncipe (ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code, IOC country code, and FIFA country code STP)
• London St Pancras (Domestic) railway station (National Rail code STP)
• St. Paul Downtown Airport (IATA airport code STP) in Saint Paul, Minnesota

Music

• Stone Temple Pilots, an American rock band
• "S.T.P.", a song on the album Robbin' the Hood by ska punk/reggae band Sublime
• STP, an American all-girl rock band featuring Julia Cafritz
• "STP", a song by Smashing Pumpkins on the 2011 reissue bonus CD of Siamese Dream, titled Lollipop Fun Time
• The Rolling Stones American Tour 1972, popularly referred to as the "STP Tour" for "Stones Touring Party"

Sports and recreation

• STP, a brand of bicycles marketed by Giant Bicycles
• 25 metre standard pistol, a shooting sport
• Seattle to Portland Bicycle Classic, an annual one- and two-day 200-mile supported bicycle ride from Seattle, Washington to Portland, Oregon

Science, technology, and mathematics

Computing

• The file extension .stp may correspond to:
  • ISO 10303-21, the STEP CAD exchange format. The file extension .stp stands for Standard for the Exchange of Product model data.
  • Microsoft's SharePoint template
• Serial ATA Tunneling Protocol, a protocol used to support SATA devices within SAS storage enclosures
• Server Time Protocol, a protocol used by IBM mainframes to synchronize clocks
• Shielded twisted pair, a type of cable
• Signal Transfer Point, an SS7 packet switch
• Spanning Tree Protocol, a network protocol providing a loop free topology for a LAN or bridged network
• Software Technology Parks, society set up by the Ministry of Communication and Information Technology, Government of India, with the objective of encouraging, promoting and boosting software exports from India.

Medicine and drugs

• Serum total protein, the amount of all proteins in the blood serum
• Sustainability and transformation plan, a scheme in the British National Heath Service
• Scientist Training Programme, the postgraduate training for Healthcare scientists in the UK introduced under Modernising Scientific Careers
• Status post, sometimes abbreviated as st.p., used to discuss sequelae with reference to their cause
• STP, a slang name for the psychedelic 2,5-Dimethoxy-4-methylamphetamine

Other uses in science, technology, and mathematics

• Scalar triple product
• Sewage treatment plant
• Shovel test pit, a method of archaeological survey
• Sodium tripolyphosphate, a preservative
• Space Test Program, a program conducted by the USAF Space Development and Test Wing at Kirtland Air Force Base
• Standard temperature and pressure, a standard in chemistry established by the IUPAC
• Steiner tree problem, in graphs
• Strategic technology plan
• Stand-to-pee device, another name for a female urination device

Other uses

• Sacrae Theologiae Professor, Professor of Sacred Theology; inscription commonly used on ancient church monuments
• Society for Threatened Peoples a human rights group based in Göttingen, Germany
• Soviet-type economic planning the specific economic planning model used by Marxist–Leninist socialist states.
• Sustainability and transformation plans within the National Health Service (England)