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Columbia Encyclopedia
asp, popular name for several species of viper, one of which, the European asp (Vipera aspis), is native to S Europe. It is also a name for the Egyptian cobra (Naja haja). It is believed that the asp Cleopatra used to commit suicide was either that cobra or the horned viper (Cerastes cornutus) of N Africa.
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Asp may refer to:
Snakes
- Asp (reptile), an archaic term for a venomous snake.
- Vipera aspis, a venomous viper found in Europe.
- Cerastes cerastes, a venomous viper found in the Sahara desert.
- Cerastes vipera, another venomous viper found in the Sahara desert.
- Naja haje, a venomous cobra found in North Africa and parts of the Middle East.
Places
- Asp, Spain, a town in the province of Alacant, Spain
- Asp, Switzerland, part of Densbüren, Aargau
Other
- Asp (caterpillar) (Megalopyge opercularis), a type of venomous hairy caterpillar
- Asp (fish) (Aspius aspius), a fish belonging to the family Cyprinidae. It can be found in Europe
- Asp (comics), snake-themed supervillain
- Asp (rocket), an American sounding rocket
- Asp, the abbreviation for the orchid genus Aspasia
- Aspen, a kind of tree sometimes called an Asp
- Aspartic acid, an amino acid, which is abbreviated as "Asp"
See also
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ASP is a three-letter acronym with numerous meanings in different contexts.
Aircraft
- Airborne Surveillance Platform A prototype/experimental AEW Aircraft design of India.
Astronomy
- Astronomical Society of the Pacific
- Astronaut Support Person, a NASA astronaut responsible for monitoring Orbiter status as it undergoes testing and maintenance
Business
- Average Selling Price
- ASP, Inc., a USA-based manufacturer and supplier of tactical weapons, including batons.
- Associate Safety Professional, one who has passed the BCSP Safety Fundamentals Exam and is on their way to obtaining a CSP (Certified Safety Professional) designation
Combat
- ASP (handgun), the name for a custom-designed 9 mm pistol based on the S&W Model 39
- Advanced Sound-ranging Programme, a portable, passive, acoustic sensing system for detecting and locating the source of artillery fire and loud detonations, operated by the Royal Artillery
- A type of extending baton often carried by police forces. ASP is actually a brand that manufactures this type of weapon (The ASP tactical baton), and the brand has come to casually refer to all telescopic batons.
- American Self Protection, a martial art
- Ammunition Supply Point,"ammo dump" storage facility for A&E Class V(W) items.
Computing
- Active Server Pages, a web-scripting interface by Microsoft
- Abstract Service Primitive, an entity exchanged between a test system and a system under test (ISO 9646)
- Advanced Simple Profile, an MPEG-4 video codec profile
- Answer set programming, a declarative programming paradigm
- Application service provider, a business that provides computer-based services to customers over a network
- Apple System Profiler, Apple Computer's system profiler
- AppleTalk Session Protocol, a session layer protocol used by the AppleTalk suite of protocols
- Association of Service Providers
- Association of Shareware Professionals
- ASPLinux, Russian Fedora Core-based GNU/Linux distribution.
- Attached Support Processor, an IBM mainframe that is attached to another of higher power and that is running Automated Spooling Program, a program that is also called Automated Spooling Package. See MVT.
- ATM (Asynchronous Transfer Mode) Switch Processor
- Automated Spooling Program, one of the two early IBM 360/370 mainframe programs for spooling print output and controlling input/output devices. ASP eventually evolved into Job Entry Subsystem 3 (JES3). The other was Houston Automated Spooling Program (HASP) which evolved into JES2.
- Auxiliary Storage Pool, a group of disk drives in the IBM i (aka OS/400) operating system
Education
- American School of Palestine
- Introduction to Anthropology, Sociology and Psychology
- Alta Scuola Politecnica, a school of excellence founded by Politecnico di Milano and Politecnico di Torino
- Australian Students Prize
Electronics
- Analog signal processing, processing electronic signals that represent continuous variables by use of analog circuitry
- Anti-Shock Protection, a protection of an audio compact disc playback, see Electronic skip protection
Entertainment
- ASP (band), the name of a German Neue Deutsche Härte/Alternative/Gothic band
- All Shall Perish, a deathcore band
- Archaia Studios Press, an American comic publisher
- ASP (film production company), Alain Siritzky Productions, owners of the official Emmanuelle movie and TV franchise
- Adult service provider, a provider of sexual services for consenting adults.
- Amy Sherman-Palladino, creator and former executive producer and writer on the television show Gilmore Girls
Medicine and biology
- Amnesic shellfish poisoning
- Adipocyte stimulating peptide
- Agouti signalling peptide
- C3 (complement), a protein in the Complement system
Politics
- Act of the Scottish Parliament, usually written in the lower case as asp.
Sports
Miscellaneous
- Abnormal situation prevention, preventing non-routine plant incidents outside the control of normal process automation systems
- Afro-Shirazi Party
- Albany Student Press
- Alice Springs Airport (IATA airport code)
- Allegany State Park
- Anglo-Saxon Protestant, as part of the acronym WASP
- American School of Paris, an American/International K-12 school located in the suburbs of Paris
- Anti-Smoking Partisans, the anti-smoking lobby
- Appalachia Service Project, a Christian volunteer organization operating in Central Appalachia
- Aspatria railway station, the National Rail code for the train station in the United Kingdom
- Assistant Superintendent of Police, a police rank
- Automatic Savings Plan, to automatically transfer money from one banking account to another for savings or investments.
- Avenal State Prison in California, USA
- Average Selling Price.
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