HP - Wiktionary

See also: hp and H&P

㏋ U+33CB, ㏋ SQUARE HP ← ㏊[U+33CA] CJK Compatibility ㏌ →[U+33CC]

English

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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IPA(key): /eɪt͡ʃˌpiː/

• Audio (Canada):

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Proper noun

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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[1], 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

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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.
   • 1995, HAL Laboratory, EarthBound, Nintendo, Super Nintendo Entertainment System:If you stay at a hotel, you'll wake up with full HP and PP.
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

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• (hydrogen peroxide): PO, HPO, H₂O₂

Derived terms

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• (hydrogen peroxide): LHP (“liquid hydrogen peroxide”), HPGP (“hydrogen peroxide gas plasma”), HPV (“hydrogen peroxide vapor”), VHP (“vaporous hydrogen peroxide”), AHP (“alkaline hydrogen peroxide”)

Translations

[edit] horse power — see hp (video games) hit point — see hit point

Anagrams

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• P&H, PH, Ph, ph

Danish

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Etymology

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Borrowed from English HP.

Noun

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HP

1. (gaming) hit point(s)

French

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French Wikipedia has an article on:HPWikipedia fr

Etymology

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Initialism of haut potentiel.

Pronunciation

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• IPA(key): /aʃ.pe/

Noun

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HP m (plural HPs)

1. intellectually gifted person Synonyms: haut potentiel, surdoué

German

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Noun

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HP

1. (apartment listing) Abbreviation of Hochparterre.

Indonesian

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Pronunciation

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• (Standard Indonesian) IPA(key): /ˈhape/ [ˈha.pe]
• Rhymes: -ape

Noun

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

1. HP:
   1. Initialism of handphone.
   2. (video games, mostly role-playing games) hit points; health points
2. (mathematics) Initialism of himpunan penyelesaian (“solution set”).

Japanese

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Noun

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HP(ホームページ) • (hōmupēji) 

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

Polish

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Pronunciation

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• IPA(key): /ˈxa ˈpɛ/
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Proper noun

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HP n (indeclinable)

1. The Hewlett-Packard Company Mam notebooka z HP. ― I've got an HP notebook.

Further reading

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• HP in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• HP in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Spanish

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Etymology 1

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Noun

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HP m (uncountable)

1. Acronym of hijoputa. Synonym: HDP

Etymology 2

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Borrowed from English HP

Noun

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HP m (uncountable)

1. (video games) HP