ASP

ASP may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

• ASP (band), a German gothic metal band
• ASP (Japanese group), Japanese idol girl group
• Apparent Sensory Perception, a thought recording and reproduction device in William Gibson's fiction
• A.S.P. Air Strike Patrol, a 1994 video game
• Assault system pod, for the G.I. Joe doll
• Albany Student Press, newspaper of the University at Albany, The State University of New York, US

Military and weapons

• ASP pistol
• ASP, Inc., law enforcement weapon manufacturer
  • ASP, a type of expandable baton
• Ammunition Supply Point, military storage facility for live ammunition and explosives
• Airborne Surveillance Platform, Indian defence project

Science and technology

Computing

• Active Server Pages, a web-scripting interface by Microsoft
• ASP.NET, a web-application framework by Microsoft
• Advanced Simple Profile, an MPEG-4 video codec profile
• Answer set programming, a declarative programming paradigm
• Application service provider, to customers over a network
• AppleTalk Session Protocol
• Association of Software Professionals
• Attached Support Processor, IBM hardware system
• Auxiliary storage pool, a feature of the IBM operating system

Electronics

• Audio Signal Processor, large-scale digital signal processor
• Electronic skip protection or anti-skip protection, in CD playback
• Angle-sensitive pixel, a light sensor

Medicine and biology

• Aspartic acid, α-amino acid used in the biosynthesis of proteins
• Acylation stimulating protein
• Amnesic shellfish poisoning
• Complement component 3, a protein in the complement system
• Antimicrobial stewardship, effort to educate and persuade prescribers of antimicrobials to follow evidence-based prescribing

Politics

• Act of the Scottish Parliament
• American Solidarity Party, a Christian Democratic political party in the United States
• Australian Sex Party
• Afro-Shirazi Party, political party in Tanzania
• Assembly for the Sovereignty of the Peoples, a political party in Bolivia
• Assembly of States Parties, the legislative body of the International Criminal Court

Organizations

• American Society for Photobiology
• American Society of Primatologists
• Appalachia Service Project, for housing improvement
• Arkansas State Police, US
• Asociación de Scouts del Perú (Scout Association of Peru)
• Association of Surfing Professionals, former name of World Surf League
• Astronomical Society of the Pacific, an American scientific and educational organization
• Avenal State Prison, in California, US
• Auto Sport Promotion, a French auto racing team

Education

• American School of Paris, France
• Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts, Kraków, Poland

Places

• Allegany State Park, Pennsylvania, US
• Alice Springs Airport (IATA airport code)
• Aspatria railway station (National Rail code), UK
• Aspendale railway station, Melbourne, Australia

Other uses

• Adult service provider or sex worker
• Additional Superintendent of Police, a police rank in India
• Assistant superintendent of police
• Authorized service provider
• Average selling price, of goods

See also

• ASPS (disambiguation)
• Asp (disambiguation)