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):

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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, 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.

Derived terms

• HP-UX

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.
   • 1995, HAL Laboratory, EarthBound, Nintendo, Super Nintendo Entertainment System:

     If you stay at a hotel, you'll wake up with full HP and PP.

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

horse power — see hp

(video games) hit point — see hit point

Anagrams

• P&H, PH, Ph, ph

Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from English HP.

Noun

HP

1. (gaming) hit point(s)

French

French Wikipedia has an article on:

HP

Wikipedia ^fr

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

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈhape/ [ˈha.pe]
• Rhymes: -ape

Noun

HP (plural HP-HP)

1. HP:
   1. initialism of handphone.
   2. (video games, mostly role-playing games) hit points; health points

      Synonyms: darah, telap

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/

• Audio:

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• 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