HP
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English
Etymology
Sense "home page" is a borrowing from Japanese HP (HP, “home page”), from English home page.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /eɪt͡ʃˌpiː/
Audio (Canada): (file)
Proper noun
HP
- Initialism of Himachal Pradesh: a state of India.
- Initialism of Hewlett-Packard.
- Initialism of 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.
Noun
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) Initialism of 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.
- Initialism of hydrogen peroxide.
- (Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, South Korea) Initialism of handphone.
- (Japan) Initialism of home page.
- Initialism of horizontal pitch.
Derived terms
- (hydrogen peroxide): LHP (“liquid hydrogen peroxide”), HPGP (“hydrogen peroxide gas plasma”), HPV (“hydrogen peroxide vapor”), VHP (“vaporous hydrogen peroxide”), AHP (“alkaline hydrogen peroxide”)
Translations
horse power — see hp
(video games) hit point — see hit point
Anagrams
Danish
Etymology
Noun
HP
French
Etymology
Initialism of haut potentiel.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /aʃ.pe/
Noun
HP m (plural HPs)
- intellectually gifted person
- Synonyms: haut potentiel, surdoué
German
Noun
HP
- (apartment listing) abbreviation of Hochparterre
Indonesian
Pronunciation
- (Standard Indonesian) IPA(key): /ˈhape/ [ˈha.pe]
- Rhymes: -ape
Noun
HP (plural HP-HP)
- HP:
- Initialism of handphone.
- (video games, mostly role-playing games) hit points; health points
- (mathematics) initialism of himpunan penyelesaian (“solution set”)
Japanese
Noun
HP • (hōmupēji)
Polish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈxa ˈpɛ/
- Syllabification: [please specify syllabification manually]
Proper noun
HP n (indeclinable)
- The Hewlett-Packard Company
- Mam notebooka z HP. ― I've got an HP notebook.
Further reading
- HP in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- HP in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Spanish
Etymology 1
Noun
HP m (uncountable)
Etymology 2
Noun
HP m (uncountable)