HP
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Sense "home page" is a borrowing from Japanese HP (HP, “home page”), from English home + page.
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HP
- (India) Abbreviation of Himachal Pradesh, a state of India
- The Hewlett-Packard Company
- Harry Potter
- 2009 July 16, Steve Boxer, “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince”, in Guardian[1], Technology news & features, page 2:
- Overall, this is the first HP game to even get near to living up to the quality of JK Rowling's books and the accompanying films.
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HP (countable and uncountable, plural HPs or HP)
- Initialism of hire purchase.
- 1976, Angela Carter, ‘What the Hell – It’s Home!’, in Shaking a Leg, Vintage 2013, p. 205:
- Everything is practical, sensible, reasonably priced and available on HP.
- 1976, Angela Carter, ‘What the Hell – It’s Home!’, in Shaking a Leg, Vintage 2013, p. 205:
- Initialism of horsepower.
- (video games, mostly role-playing games) Hit points; health points.
- 1995, HAL Laboratory, EarthBound, Nintendo, Super Nintendo Entertainment System:
- If you stay at a hotel, you'll wake up with full HP and PP.
- Initialism of higher power.
- Initialism of Houses of Parliament.
- Initialism of Helicobacter pylori.
- Abbreviation of hydrogen peroxide.
- (Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, South Korea) Initialism of handphone.
- (Japan) Initialism of home page.
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- (hydrogen peroxide): LHP (“liquid hydrogen peroxide”), HPGP (“hydrogen peroxide gas plasma”), HPV (“hydrogen peroxide vapor”), VHP (“vaporous hydrogen peroxide”), AHP (“alkaline hydrogen peroxide”)
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horse power — see hp
(video games) hit point — see hit point
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HP
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Initialism of haut potentiel.
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HP m (plural HPs)
- intellectually gifted person
- Synonyms: haut potentiel, surdoué
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HP
- (apartment listing) Abbreviation of Hochparterre.
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HP (first-person possessive HPku, second-person possessive HPmu, third-person possessive HPnya)
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HP n (indeclinable)
- The Hewlett-Packard Company
- Mam notebooka z HP. ― I've got an HP notebook.
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HP m (uncountable)