extrasensory perception (ESP)

Perception that involves awareness of information about something (such as a person or event) not gained through the senses and not deducible from previous experience. Classic forms of ESP include telepathy, clairvoyance, and precognition. No conclusive demonstrations of the existence of ESP in any individual have been given, but popular belief in the phenomenon remains widespread, and people who claim to possess ESP are sometimes employed by investigative teams searching for missing persons or things. Seealso parapsychology.

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• Extrasensory perception, a purported paranormal ability
• España or , used as an abbreviation for Olympic or other sporting events
• English for special purposes, a subset of English language learning and teaching

It may also stand for:

Music

• Eric Singer Project, side project by musician Eric Singer
• E.S.P. (Miles Davis album), an album by Miles Davis
• E.S.P. (Bee Gees album), an album by the Bee Gees
• Its title track, E.S.P. (Bee Gees song)
• The Electric Soft Parade, a British band
• ESP-Disk, a 1960s free-jazz record label based in New York
• ESP Guitars, a manufacturer of electric guitars
• Inertiatic ESP, a term used by the band The Mars Volta
• E.S.P., song by Cacophony from their album Go Off!

Television

• E.S.P. (TV series)

Technology

Computing

• E-mail service provider, an organization offering e-mail services
• Elder Scrolls plugin, the .ESP file-format used in the computer games Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind and Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion
• Embedded Server Pages, an embeddable web page creation environment
• Encapsulating Security Payload, an encryption protocol within the IPsec suite
• Escapade, a server-side scripting language for database-to-web application
• ESP Game, an online human computation game
• EventScript:Python, used as reference to Eventscripts Addons written in Python
• Event Stream Processing, technology that acts on data streams
• Extended stack pointer in Intel IA-32 (x86/32-bit) assembler
• Enterprise Search Platform, software to search internal enterprise digital environment

Other technologies

• Early Site Permit, partial construction permit issued by US Nuclear Reactor Commission for approval of one or more sites
• Electric Submersible Pump, an artificial lift system that electrically drives multiple centrifugal stage pumps to lift oil and water from wells. The number of stages depends on the size of the well casing, depth and the amount of fluid lifted from the oil or water well.
• Electro Selective Pattern, Olympus-proprietary metering technology for digital cameras
• Electronic skip protection in portable CD players
• Electronic Stability Programme (from German "Elektronisches Stabilitätsprogramm"), Bosch's trademark for electronic stability control used in automobiles
• Electrostatic precipitator, a device that removes particles from a flowing gas
• Exchangeable Sodium Percentage, a general expression of the availability of sodium in soil expressed as a percentage of the overall exchangeable cations.
• External Stowage Platform, a type of cargo platform used on the International Space Station

Business

• Easy Software Products, a software-development company, originator of the Common UNIX Printing System (CUPS)
• Energy service provider, a company supplying an outsourced energy management service
• Entertainment Software Publishing, a Japanese video-game publisher
• Environmental Service Products, specializing in Environmental sampling supplies
• Every Serve Perfect, a UK-based company offering training courses in barwork etc.
• Electronic Sports Planet, a PT-based online news magazine about Electronic Sports, created in 2003.

Spain and Spanish

• Español, the Spanish language (non-ISO language code)
• ISO 3166-1, the 3-letter ISO code for
• Spanish peseta, the ISO 4217 code for the former currency of Spain

Other uses

• Equality, Sustainability and Peace, three intertwined and interconnected ideals formulated by Dr. Alberto Gomes.
• Equality, Sustainability and Peace: Community for AlterNative Development, a group that follows the ideals forumlated by Dr. Alberto Gomes, who feel equality, sustainability and peace are inherently related, and that to uphold people’s equal rights and access to resources and to develop and learn sustainable ways of living, is to naturally promote peace.
• Effective Sensory Projection, a term used in the Silva Method
• Electron spin trapping, a scientific technique
• Empire State Pullers, a New York Tractor Pulling Circuit
• Equally spaced polynomial in mathematics
• Eurosport, a sports channel
• Explosive Sticky Projectiles, an unlockable weapon in Battlefield 2142
• Empire State Plaze in Albany, New York, U.S.A