H.P.

  

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H.P.

Definitions: H.P.

H.P.

Noun

1. A unit of power equal to 746 watts H2O n : binary compound that occurs at room temperature as a clear colorless odorless.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 



Specialty Definitions: H.P.

DomainDefinitions

Computing

HP Hewlett-Packard. Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing.

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: H.P.

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.

EntrySourceExpressionField

h.p.

EnglishHigh pressureGeography, Meteorology & Standards

h.p.

FrenchHaute pressionGeography, Meteorology & Standards

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Crosswords: H.P.

Specialty definitions using "H.P.": crawling horror. (references)

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Modern Usage: H.P.

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Cento H.P. (1915)

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Commercial Usage: H.P.

DomainTitle

References

  • H.P. Bulmer Holdings P.L.C.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

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Books

  • Rastus Reilly -- or -- Dashiell Hammett, Charles Dickens, H.P. Lovecraft, Stan Laurel, and Oliver Hardy on Bad Acid (reference)

  • Iced on Aran (New Adventures in H.P. Lovecraft's Dreamlands, Vol 4) (reference)

  • Best of H.P. Lovecraft : Bloodcurdling Tales of Horror and the Macabre (reference)

  • The Dream Cycle of H.P. Lovecraft: Dreams of Terror and Death (reference)

  • A concordance of H.P. Sastri's catalogue of the Durbar Library and the microfilms of the Nepal-German manuscript preservation project (reference)

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Music

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Photo Album: H.P.

ThumbnailDescription & CreditThumbnailDescription & Credit

A bad stream to ford Level party of H.P. Odessey.Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

[John Bell] / H.P. Briggs R.A. 1838. H.B. Hall 1849.Credit: National Library of Medicine.

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Non-Fiction Usage: H.P.

SubjectTopicQuote

Business

The firm also plans to install an 8,900 H.P. compressor at La Carlota and a 15,000 H.P. compressor at Baldissera. (references)

Among the transport companies, TGN is currently building a new compression plant in Pichanal with two turbocompressors, one of 15,000 H.P. and the other with 7,100 H.P. the company is also planning the construction of 318.5 kilometers of loop to serve the Uruguayana export pipeline. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: H.P.

"H.P." is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 56.67% of the time. "H.P." is used about 30 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)56.67%1785,106
Noun (common)43.33%1397,576
                    Total100.00%30N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Usage in Company Names: H.P.

CountryName
United Kingdom

H.P. Bulmer Holdings P.L.C.

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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.

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Modern Translations: H.P.

Language Translations for "H.P."; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Chinese 

  

马力。. (various references)

   

French

  

HP, haute pression, h.p.. (various references)

   

German

  

Hochdruck (high pressure, high tension, high voltage, HiVO, letterpress, letterpress printing, relief print, relief printing, surface printing, typographical printing), HD (high pressure). (various references)

   

Italian

  

alta pressione (high pressure), a.p. (high pressure). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

馬力 (horse-power). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

ばりき (horse-power). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

마 .. (various references)

   

Manx

  

conaant maillee (H.P. agreement). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

лошадиная сила....высокое напряжение. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

alta presión (high pressure), a.p. (high pressure). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: H.P.

Scrabble® YAWL-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters ".-.-h-p"

-2 letters: ph.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: H.P.


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

48 2E 50 2E

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001000 00101110 01010000 00101110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#72 &#46 &#80 &#46

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0048 002E 0050 002E

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

42165016

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Images: Photo Album
6. Quotations: Non-fiction
7. Usage Frequency
8. Names: Company Usage
9. Translations: Modern
10. Abbreviations
11. Acronyms
12. Anagrams
13. Orthography
14. Bibliography


  

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