BP (disambiguation)

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BP (formerly British Petroleum) is a British oil company, since expanded into an energy company.

BP, bp, and Bp may also refer to:

Arts and entertainment

Music

• Berlin Philharmonic orchestra
• Black Panties, a 2013 album by R&B singer R. Kelly
• Bloc Party, a British indie rock band
• Bohlen–Pierce scale, a musical scale
• Brooklyn Philharmonic
• Bubblegum pop, a genre of commercialized pop music

Other uses in arts and entertainment

• Beer pong, a drinking game
• Burnout Paradise, a 2008 video game

Business and organisations

• Air Botswana (IATA airline code BP)
• BP Canada, the Canadian division of the oil company BP
• Banco de Portugal, the central bank of Portugal
• Banco Popular, a financial institution in Puerto Rico
• Better Place, a company creating infrastructure for electric vehicles
• Bharat Petroleum, an Indian oil company
• BIOSIS Previews, an English-language, bibliographic database service
• Boerenpartij, a Dutch political party
• Boston Pizza, a Canadian restaurant
• Bryanston Pictures

People

• Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell (1857–1941), founder of the world Scouting movement
• Benny Parsons (1941–2007), NASCAR champion and commentator

Places

• Baldwin Park (disambiguation), multiple places
• Bechuanaland Protectorate, the forerunner of modern Botswana
• Bletchley Park, a British cryptography installation sometimes referred to as "BP" so that those making inquiries would assume the speaker meant British Petroleum without the speaker having to directly lie
• Borough Park, a neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York
• Bridgewater Place, a skyscraper in Leeds, England
• Budapest, capital of Hungary
• Solomon Islands (FIPS and obsolete NATO country code BP)

Mathematics, science, and technology

Biology and medicine

• Base pair, in genetics
• Bell's palsy, a generally temporary paralysis of the face
• Benzoyl peroxide, an acne and teeth whitening medicine, abbreviated as "BP" to modify a commercial name such as "Clearasil BP"
• Binding potential, a measure of the density of neuroreceptors and the affinity of a drug to that neuroreceptors
• Binge/purge, a characteristic of bulimia nervosa
• Bipolar disorder, in psychiatry
• Bisphosphonates, a class of drugs used to treat osteoporosis
• Blood pressure, in medicine
• British Pharmacopoeia, a collection of medical standards, abbreviated as "BP" to signal a conforming ingredient, as in "Hydrocortisone BP"

Computing and telecommunications

• Base pointer or BP register, in 16-bit X86 architecture
• Baseband processor, in smartphones and other radio network interface devices
• Bundle protocols, in networking

Other uses in mathematics, science, and technology

• Before Present (sometimes "Before Physics"), a time scale used in many scientific disciplines to mean years before 1950; commonly used for dates established by radiocarbon dating
• Boiling point, in chemistry
• Boron phosphide, a chemical compound of boron and phosphorus
• Black powder, in pyrotechnics
• Bp star, a peculiar star of class B in astronomy
• Brown–Peterson cohomology, a generalized cohomology theory in mathematics
• A variant of the Mazda B engine

In sport

• B-production, a classification of motorsport
• Batting practice, in baseball
• Baseball Prospectus, a statistical website and series of annuals
• IF Brommapojkarna, a Swedish football team

Other uses

• Bp (digraph), in written languages
• Bp, in genealogy, indicating a person is baptized
• Bp., placed after the name of a Christian saint, denoting that the saint was a bishop
• Basis point, in finance
• Black Pearl (disambiguation)
• Blood play, in BDSM
• Boarding pass, in transport
• British Parliamentary Style, a debating style