HP

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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/

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Proper noun

HP

  1. (India) Abbreviation of Himachal Pradesh, a state of India
  2. The Hewlett-Packard Company
  3. 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.

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) Hit points; health points.
  4. Initialism of higher power.
  5. Initialism of Houses of Parliament.
  6. Initialism of Helicobacter pylori.
  7. Abbreviation of hydrogen peroxide.
  8. (Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, South Korea) Initialism of handphone.
  9. (Japan) Initialism of home page.

Synonyms

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

Borrowed from English HP.

Noun

HP

  1. (gaming) hit point(s)

French

French Wikipedia has an article on:
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Etymology

Initialism of haut potentiel.

Pronunciation

Noun

HP m (plural HPs)

  1. intellectually gifted person
    Synonyms: haut potentiel, surdoué

German

Noun

HP

  1. (apartment listing) Abbreviation of Hochparterre.

Indonesian

Etymology

Borrowed from English HP.

Noun

HP (first-person possessive HPku, second-person possessive HPmu, third-person possessive HPnya)

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

Japanese

Noun

HP(ホームページ) • (hōmupēji) 

  1. Initialism of ホームページ (“home page”).

Polish

Pronunciation

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

Noun

HP m (uncountable)

  1. Acronym of hijoputa.
    Synonym: HDP
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