STP facts for kids

STP usually refers to:

• Stone Temple Pilots, an American rock band
• Standard Temperature and Pressure, definition

STP may also refer to:

Commercial

• Straight Through Processing, banking term where a financial transaction is automatically completed without manual intervention
• Segment, Target and Position, a marketing acronym
• STP (motor oil company), a brand name and trade name for the automotive additives and performance division of Armored AutoGroup
• STP, New York Stock Exchange symbol for Suntech Power Holdings, a Chinese manufacturer of photovoltaic cells

Geographical

• STP, IATA airport code for St. Paul Downtown Airport in Saint Paul, Minnesota
• STP, ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code, IOC country code, and FIFA country code for São Tomé and Príncipe
• STP, National Rail code for London St Pancras (Domestic) railway station

Medicine

• Status post, sometimes abbreviated as st.p., used to discuss sequelae with reference to their cause
• Sternal puncture, a form of bone marrow examination
• Scientist Training Programme, the postgraduate training for Healthcare scientists in the UK introduced under Modernising Scientific Careers

Music

• The Rolling Stones American Tour 1972, popularly referred to as the "STP Tour" for "Stones Touring Party"
• "S.T.P.", a song on the album Robbin' the Hood by ska punk/reggae band Sublime

Science, math and technology

• Standard conditions for temperature and pressure, a scientific convention of designating standard conditions
• Scalar triple product
• Sewage treatment plant
• Shielded twisted pair, a type of cable
• Shovel test pit, method for archaeological survey
• Signal Transfer Point, an SS7 packet switch
• Sodium tripolyphosphate, a preservative
• South Texas Nuclear Generating Station, aka South Texas Project, nuclear power station located southwest of Bay City, Texas
• Space Test Program, a program conducted by the USAF Space Development and Test Wing at Kirtland Air Force Base
• Spanning tree protocol, a network protocol providing a loop free topology for a LAN or bridged network
• Steiner tree problem in graphs
• Strategic Technology Plan
• ISO 10303-21, the STEP CAD exchange format, uses the file extension .stp

Sports and recreation

• 25 metre standard pistol, a shooting sport
• STP, a brand of bicycles marketed by Giant Bicycles
• Seattle to Portland Bicycle Classic, an annual one- and two-day supported bicycle ride from Seattle, Washington to Portland, Oregon

Other uses

• Sacrae Theologiae Professor, or Professor of Sacred Theology (possibly archaic)
• Society for Threatened Peoples a human rights group based in Göttingen, Germany
• STP, slang name for the psychedelic 2,5-Dimethoxy-4-methylamphetamine, also known as DOM

See also

In Spanish: STP para niños