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Encyclopedia > HP (disambiguation)

HP may refer to:

  • Hewlett-Packard, a computer and computer peripheral company
  • Handley Page Aircraft Company
  • Hello! Project (H!P), a Japanese pop recording project
  • Harry Potter fictional character
  • High Point, North Carolina
  • High potency, a term used in biology, pharmacology, cosmetics and dietary supplement industries
  • Himachal Pradesh, a mountainous state in India
  • Hindustan Petroleum, a petroleum refining company
  • Hippocampus, a part of the brain
  • Hire purchase, a method of making payments in instalments
  • Hit point or health point, in various games
  • Hold please, a common chat room abbreviation
  • Homepage or Home page, a World Wide Web related term that has multiple meanings
  • Horizontal pitch, a unit used to describe the width of 19-inch rack enclosures.
  • Horsepower (hp), a unit of power
  • Houses of Parliament
  • HP Foods Limited
    • HP Sauce, a famous brown sauce produced by HP Foods
  • HP postcode area centered on Hemel Hempstead in the UK
  • HP (Dutch pop festival), a Dutch pop festival
  • Hydrogen Peroxide
  • Ilford HP, a photographic film that has gone through several revisions i.e HP, HP2, HP3, HP4, HP5, and HP5 plus
  • H. P. Baxxter, the frontman of the German Eurodance act Scooter, referred so in their lyrics
  • High punch
  • Homer's Phobia, an episode of The Simpsons

HP could also refer to: The Hewlett-Packard Company (NYSE: HPQ), commonly known as HP, is a very large, global company headquartered in Palo Alto, California, United States. ... The Handley Page Aircraft Company was founded by Frederick Handley Page in 1909. ... Hello! Projects logo Hello! Project ) is the umbrella name for all-female idol Japanese pop recording artists collective that is under contract of the Up-Front Group. ... This article is about the Harry Potter series of novels. ... Nickname: Location in Guilford County and the state of North Carolina Country United States State North Carolina Counties Guilford, Randolph, Davidson, Forsyth Government  - Mayor Rebecca Smothers Area  - City  95. ... Erectile dysfunction, also known as impotence, is the inability to develop or maintain an erection of the penis for satisfactory sexual intercourse regardless of the capability of ejaculation. ... , Himachal Pradesh   (Hindi: हिमाचल प्रदेश, IPA: ) is a state in the north-west of India. ... Hindustan Petroleum is a petroleum refining enterprise owned by the Govt. ... The hippocampus is structurally located inside the medial temporal lobe of the brain. ... Hire purchase (frequently abbreviated to HP) is the legal term for a conditional sale contract developed in the United Kingdom, and now found in India, Australia, New Zealand, and other states which have adopted the English law concept. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Look up home page in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Equipment mounted in several 19-inch racks. ... hp, see HP (disambiguation) The horsepower (hp) is the name of several non-metric units of power. ... This may refer to the: British Houses of Parliament. ... HP Foods Limited, based in Birmingham, UK is best known as the producer of HP Sauce. ... The HP Sauce logo HP fruity brown sauce HP Sauce is a condiment; a popular brown sauce currently produced in Aston, Birmingham, England, by HP Foods. ... The HP postcode area is a group of twenty-three postal districts in north west Hertfordshire and East Buckinghamshire. ... Hemel Hempstead is a town in Hertfordshire, England with a population of 81,143 at the 2001 Census. ... Hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) is a very pale blue liquid which appears colourless in a dilute solution, slightly more viscous than water. ... HP is a cubic-grain black-and-white film from Ilford Photo with a long history. ... H.P. Baxxter, born Hans-Peter Geerdes on 16 March, 1966 in Leer, Germany, is the frontman of the German techno group Scooter. ... Eurodance is a colloquial and marketing term for a type of European synthesizer-driven dance music which became popular worldwide in the early- to mid-1990s. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... This does not cite its references or sources. ... Homers Phobia is the fifteenth episode of The Simpsons eighth season, which originally aired on the Fox network on February 16, 1997. ... Simpsons redirects here. ...


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Hewlett-Packard - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (1646 words)
HP was founded as a manufacturer of test and measurement instruments with a US$500 investment in a Palo Alto, CA garage in 1939 by Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard.
HP is recognized as the symbolic founder of Silicon Valley, although it did not actively investigate semiconductor devices until a few years after the "Traitorous Eight" had abandoned William Shockley to create Fairchild Semiconductor in 1957.
HP is also known in the (GNU/)Linux community for releasing drivers for many of their printers under the GNU GPL.
HP (disambiguation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (120 words)
Hire purchase (HP), a method of making payments in instalments
[HP] or BHP - Horse Power or Brake Horse Power
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