Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • abbreviation melting point
  • abbreviation mezzo piano

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  • abbreviation music mezzo piano (quite soft)
  • abbreviation market price – written on menus instead of a price to mean the price charged depends on the price of supplies, which may vary.

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  • noun a military corps that enforces discipline and guards prisoners
  • noun a member of the military police who polices soldiers and guards prisoners

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Examples

  • To quote one of the comments from "mp" "The Lib Dem MP in Withy is never seen around".

    Manchester Evening News - RSS Feed 2010

  • To quote one of the comments from "mp" "The Lib Dem MP in Withy is never seen around".

    Manchester Evening News - RSS Feed 2010

  • My personal quirk aside, "mp" is right -- street renaming should begin with the affected community.

    BlueOregon 2009

  • It offers users a free ". mp" domain name, allowing users to get a free web site that includes Open ID, social network profiles, an activity stream, a blog, photo albums and other tools to import content and contacts from Twitter, Flickr, Gmail or Yahoo, and any site with RSS or Atom feeds. chi. mp also includes a contact management system called the 'Ultimate Black Book', a tiered privacy tool called

    TechCrunch 2009

  • My personal quirk aside, "mp" is right -- street renaming should begin with the affected community.

    BlueOregon 2009

  • But I think the real culprit behind the "LJ Hates Primp" tip is an innate revulsion I have towards "- mp" words.

    NOGOODFORME.COM 2009

  • - Maximum MP for model (same as old "mp" command).

    PSP Updates 2008

  • Are more 'mp' necessarily better in a camera phone?

    All About Symbian - News 2008

  • ". mp" (from the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, USA) and that domain is customized to enable Chi. mp's system to aggregate and republish your various online activities.

    Fast Company 2009

  • {mp} - Maximum MP for model (same as old "mp" command).

    PSP Updates 2008

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  • This is the official postal abbreviation for the Northern Mariana islands, because obviously, "Mariana" is spelled with a silent P.

    October 20, 2009

  • P as in Mariana!

    October 20, 2009