SSP
Encyclopedia
SSP is an abbreviation that may stand for:
- Super Secret Player, such as NBS
- Sardar Sarovar Project, controversial mega-dam project in North-West India
- Scottish Society of PlaywrightsScottish Society of PlaywrightsThe Scottish Society of Playwrights is a professional member’s organisation representing theatre playwrights in Scotland. It is affiliated to the Scottish Trades Union Congress, and party to the Theatrical Management Association playwright’s agreement....
, a trade union - Society for Science & the PublicSociety for Science & the PublicSociety for Science & the Public , formerly known as Science Service, is a 5013 non-profit organization dedicated to the promotion of science, through its science education programs and publications, including the weekly Science News magazine.Headquartered in Washington, D.C., the organization...
, non-profit organization dedicated to the promotion of science - Select Service Partner, an operator of food and beverage brands owned by EQT Partners
- Sell Side PlatformSell Side PlatformA Sell-Side Platform – is a technology platform with the single mission of enabling publishers to manage their ad impression inventory and maximize revenue from digital media. As such they offer an efficient, automated and secure way to tap into the different sources of advertising income that are...
, a technology for managing online advertising inventory and maximizing revenue yeld - Settlement service provider (Real Estate Settlement Procedures ActReal Estate Settlement Procedures ActThe Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act , was an act passed by the United States Congress in 1974. It is codified at Title 12, Chapter 27 of the United States Code, .- Purpose :...
) - Solid-state physicsSolid-state physicsSolid-state physics is the study of rigid matter, or solids, through methods such as quantum mechanics, crystallography, electromagnetism, and metallurgy. It is the largest branch of condensed matter physics. Solid-state physics studies how the large-scale properties of solid materials result from...
, the largest branch of condensed matter physics - Sonority Sequencing PrincipleSonority Sequencing PrincipleThe Sonority Sequencing Principle is a phonotactic principle that aims to outline the structure of a syllable in terms of sonority.The SSP states that the center of a syllable, namely the syllable nucleus, often a vowel, constitutes a sonority peak that is preceded and/or followed by a sequence of...
, a phonotactic principle that aims to outline the structure of a syllable in terms of sonority - Southern State ParkwaySouthern State ParkwayThe Southern State Parkway is a long limited-access highway on Long Island, in the U.S. state of New York...
, a highway in New York - South Sudanese poundSouth Sudanese poundThe South Sudanese pound is the official currency of the Republic of South Sudan. It is subdivided into 100 piastres. It was approved by the Southern Sudan Legislative Assembly prior to secession on 9 July 2011 from Sudan...
(ISO code) - Soviet space programSoviet space programThe Soviet space program is the rocketry and space exploration programs conducted by the former Union of Soviet Socialist Republics from the 1930s until its dissolution in 1991...
- Space solar powerSpace solar powerSpace-based solar power is the concept of collecting solar power in space for use on Earth. It has been in research since the early 1970s....
, the conversion of solar energy into power from a location in outer space - International Space UniversityInternational Space UniversityThe International Space University is a private university founded in 1987. The University currently offers three degree granting programs — Master of Science in Space Management, Master of Science in Space Studies and Executive MBA — in addition to a non-degree-granting Space Studies Program.The...
's Space Studies Program - Special Service Package, a trim designation for Ford products used by Police Departments
- Specialist in School Psychology
- Species Survival PlanSpecies Survival PlanThe American Species Survival Plan or SSP program was developed in 1981 by the Association of Zoos and Aquariums to help ensure the survival of selected species in zoos and aquariums, most of which are threatened or endangered in the wild....
, helps endangered animals find a home in a zoo - Statutory sick payStatutory sick payIn the United Kingdom Statutory Sick Pay is paid by their employer to all employees who are sick for a period longer than 4 consecutive days but less than 28 weeks. The first 3 days of sickness are called waiting days...
in the UK - Sterling State ParkSterling State ParkSterling State Park in the United States is the only Michigan state park located on the shores of Lake Erie. The park encompasses 2.03 mi² just northeast of Monroe, Michigan in Frenchtown Charter Township in Monroe County. The park was established in 1920. The park sits just north of where the...
- Stock symbol for E. W. Scripps CompanyE. W. Scripps CompanyThe E. W. Scripps Company is an American media conglomerate founded by Edward W. Scripps on November 2, 1878. The company is headquartered inside the Scripps Center in Cincinnati, Ohio. Its corporate motto is "Give light and the people will find their own way."On October 16, 2007, the company...
- Strange Situation Procedure, a psychological test for children, developed by Mary Ainsworth
- Subacute sclerosing panencephalitisSubacute sclerosing panencephalitisSubacute sclerosing panencephalitis is a rare chronic, progressive encephalitis that affects primarily children and young adults, caused by a persistent infection of immune resistant measles virus . No cure for SSPE exists, but the condition can be managed by medication if treatment is started at...
- SubspeciesSubspeciesSubspecies in biological classification, is either a taxonomic rank subordinate to species, ora taxonomic unit in that rank . A subspecies cannot be recognized in isolation: a species will either be recognized as having no subspecies at all or two or more, never just one...
(usually abbreviated ssp.) - Summer Science ProgramSummer Science ProgramThe Summer Science Program is an intense six-week summer program for intellectually talented high school students. The program is based on a collaborative research project in celestial mechanics. Students study astronomy, physics, spherical trigonometry, and calculus while working to take...
, an astronomy-oriented science program for high school students - Super Sonic Power, a line of toys by Kenner in the 1970s
- Surface ScienceSurface scienceSurface science is the study of physical and chemical phenomena that occur at the interface of two phases, including solid–liquid interfaces, solid–gas interfaces, solid–vacuum interfaces, and liquid-gas interfaces. It includes the fields of surface chemistry and surface physics. Some related...
Package, part of the Huygens probe - Surround SoundSurround soundSurround sound encompasses a range of techniques such as for enriching the sound reproduction quality of an audio source with audio channels reproduced via additional, discrete speakers. Surround sound is characterized by a listener location or sweet spot where the audio effects work best, and...
Processor - Swedish Universities Scales of PersonalitySwedish Universities Scales of PersonalitySwedish Universities Scales of Personality is a personality test based on the older Karolinska Scales of Personality .It is originally in Swedish but has been translated to English....
, a personality test - Shooting Star Press, an aerial technique in professional wrestling.
- Surrey Sports Park, a new sports facility, part of the University of SurreyUniversity of SurreyThe University of Surrey is a university located within the county town of Guildford, Surrey in the South East of England. It received its charter on 9 September 1966, and was previously situated near Battersea Park in south-west London. The institution was known as Battersea College of Technology...
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Computers and networking
- Security Service ProviderSecurity Support Provider InterfaceSecurity Support Provider Interface is an API used by Microsoft Windows systems to perform a variety of security-related operations such as authentication....
- Sender Signing Policy: now known as Author Domain Signing Practises, in the context of E-mailE-mailElectronic mail, commonly known as email or e-mail, is a method of exchanging digital messages from an author to one or more recipients. Modern email operates across the Internet or other computer networks. Some early email systems required that the author and the recipient both be online at the...
- Server-to-Server Protocol
- Service switching pointService switching pointIn telephony, a service switching point is the telephone exchange that initially responds, when a telephone caller dials a number, by sending a query to a central database called a service control point so that the call can be handled...
- Single source publishingSingle source publishingSingle source publishing, also known as single sourcing, allows the same content to be used in different documents or in various formats. The labour-intensive and expensive work of editing need only be carried out once, on one document. Further transformations are carried out mechanistically, by...
- Stack-smashing protectionStack-smashing protectionBuffer overflow protection refers to various techniques used during software development to enhance the security of executable programs by detecting buffer overflows on stack-allocated variables as they occur and preventing them from becoming serious security vulnerabilities...
- Storage service providerStorage service providerA Storage Service Provider is any company that provides computer storage space and related management services. SSPs also offer periodic backup and archiving....
- Supplementary Special-purpose Plane in the context of UnicodeUnicodeUnicode is a computing industry standard for the consistent encoding, representation and handling of text expressed in most of the world's writing systems...
- System Service ProcessorSystem Service ProcessorThe System Service Processor is a SPARC-based computer that is used to control the Sun Microsystems Enterprise 10000 platform...
(Sun Microsystems) - System Support ProgramSystem Support ProgramSystem Support Program was an operating system for the IBM System/34 and System/36 minicomputers. SSP was a command-based operating system released in 1977, the days of CP/M, DOS, and the original UNIX.- History :...
, an operating system of IBM's System/32 computers - Synchronous Serial PortSynchronous Serial PortA Synchronous Serial Port is a controller that supports the Serial Peripheral Interface , 4-wire Synchronous Serial Interface , and Microwire serial buses. A SSP uses a master-slave paradigm to communicate across its connected bus....
Politics and government
- Samyukta Socialist PartySamyukta Socialist PartySamyukta Socialist Party , was a political party in India from 1964 to 1972. SSP was formed through a split in the Praja Socialist Party in 1964. In 1972 SSP was reunited with PSP, forming the Socialist Party....
- Secretariat of Public Security (Mexican federal government)
- Ministry of Public Security (Mexico City)
- Secretaría de Seguridad Pública (Tamaulipas)Secretaría de Seguridad Pública (Tamaulipas)The Secretaría de Seguridad Pública de Tamaulipas is a state agency of Tamaulipas, Mexico. It operates public safety services.-Prisons:...
- Scottish Socialist PartyScottish Socialist PartyThe Scottish Socialist Party is a left-wing Scottish political party. Positioning itself significantly to the left of Scotland's centre-left parties, the SSP campaigns on a socialist economic platform and for Scottish independence....
, campaigns for an independent and socialist Scotland - Scottish Socialist Party (1987), an older socialist movement in Scotland from 1987 to 1990
- Sipah-e-Sahaba PakistanSipah-e-Sahaba PakistanSipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan is a militant Sunni Deobandi organization, and a formerly registered Pakistani political party, established in the early 1980s in Jhang by Maulana Haq Nawaz Jhangvi its stated goal is to primarily to deter major Shia influence in Pakistan in the wake of the Iranian...
- State Secrets PrivilegeState Secrets PrivilegeThe state secrets privilege is an evidentiary rule created by United States legal precedent. Application of the privilege results in exclusion of evidence from a legal case based solely on affidavits submitted by the government stating that court proceedings might disclose sensitive information...
- Sole Survivor PolicySole Survivor PolicyThe Sole Survivor Policy or DoD Directive 1315.15 "Special Separation Policies for Survivorship" describes a set of regulations in the U.S. military that are designed to protect members of a family from the draft or from combat duty if they have already lost family members in military...
Entertainment
- Scottish smallpipesScottish smallpipesThe Scottish smallpipe, in its modern form, is a bellows-blown bagpipe developed by Colin Ross and others, to be playable according to the Great Highland Bagpipe fingering system. There are surviving examples of similar historical instruments such as the mouth-blown Montgomery smallpipes in E,...
, a type of small bagpipe developed in the late 20th century based on earlier instruments - The Sarah Silverman ProgramThe Sarah Silverman ProgramThe Sarah Silverman Program is an American television series that starred comedian and actress Sarah Silverman, who created the series with Dan Harmon and Rob Schrab...
, an American sitcom - Silversun PickupsSilversun PickupsSilversun Pickups is an alternative rock band from Los Angeles, California, formed in 2002. The band comprises Brian Aubert, Nikki Monninger, Christopher Guanlao, and Joe Lester....
, a rock band