HP

See also: hp and H&P
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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

  1. Initialism of Himachal Pradesh: a state of India.
  2. Initialism of Hewlett-Packard.
  3. 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)

  1. 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.
  2. Initialism of horsepower.
  3. (video games, mostly role-playing games) Initialism of hit points / health points.
  4. Initialism of higher power.
  5. Initialism of Houses of Parliament.
  6. Initialism of Helicobacter pylori.
  7. Initialism of hydrogen peroxide.
    Synonyms: H₂O₂, HPO, PO
  8. (Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, South Korea) Initialism of handphone.
  9. (Japan) Initialism of home page.
  10. 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

Anagrams

Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from English HP.

Noun

HP

  1. (gaming) hit point(s)

French

Etymology

Initialism of haut potentiel.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /aʃ.pe/

Noun

HP m (plural HPs)

  1. intellectually gifted person
    Synonyms: haut potentiel, surdoué

German

Noun

HP

  1. (apartment listing) abbreviation of Hochparterre

Indonesian

Pronunciation

Noun

HP (plural HP-HP)

  1. HP:
    1. Initialism of handphone.
    2. (video games, mostly role-playing games) hit points; health points
  2. (mathematics) initialism of himpunan penyelesaian (solution set)

Japanese

Noun

HP(ホームページ) • (hōmupēji

  1. initialism of ホームページ (home page)

Polish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈxa ˈpɛ/
  • Syllabification: [please specify syllabification manually]

Proper noun

HP n (indeclinable)

  1. 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)

  1. acronym of hijoputa
    Synonym: HDP

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English HP

Noun

HP m (uncountable)

  1. (video games) HP