HP

Initialism of Himachal Pradesh: a state of India.

Proper noun

  1. Initialism of Himachal Pradesh: a state of India.
  2. Initialism of Hewlett-Packard.
  3. Initialism of Harry Potter.
    • 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. - 2009 July 16, Steve Boxer, “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince”, in Guardian,...

Origin

Sense "home page" is a borrowing from Japanese HP (HP, “home page”), from English home page.

Derived

HP-UX

Noun

  1. Initialism of hire purchase.
    • Everything is practical, sensible, reasonably priced and available on HP. - 1976, Angela Carter, ‘What the Hell – It’s Home!’, in Shaking a Leg, Vintage 2013, p. 205
  2. Initialism of horsepower.
  3. Initialism of hit points / health points.
    • If you stay at a hotel, you'll wake up with full HP and PP. - 1995, HAL Laboratory, EarthBound, Nintendo, Super Nintendo Entertainment System:
  4. Initialism of higher power.
  5. Initialism of Houses of Parliament.
  6. Initialism of Helicobacter pylori.
  7. Initialism of hydrogen peroxide.

    Synonyms: mul:H₂O₂ HPO PO

  8. Initialism of handphone.
  9. Initialism of home page.
  10. Initialism of horizontal pitch.

Forms

HPs HP

Derived

LHP HPGP HPV VHP AHP