IMP
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IMP or imp may mean:
- Imp, a fantasy creature.
- Imp (Dungeons & Dragons), a type of fictional lower level devil in the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game.
- Imparja Television (callsign IMP), an Australian television broadcaster
- Hillman Imp, a British car of the 1960/70s
- IMP Society, a secret society at the University of Virginia
- A Latin abbreviation used on British coins up to 1947, such as the British two shilling coin ("IND IMP" is short for Indiae Imperator = "Emperor of India", or Indiae Imperatrix = "Empress of India")
- Imp (horse), American Champion Thoroughbred racehorse
- In falconry, 'imping' means mending broken flight feathers.
[edit] As an acronym
- IMP Group (Industrial Marine Products), a Canadian company.
- IMPS The Relentless (Imperial Military Personnel Stories), a series of fan films produced by Star Wars fans, portraying the lives of Imperial soldiers.
- Independent Motion Picture Company, an early film studio.
- Individual Meal Pack, a ration used by the Canadian Armed Forces.
- Information Module Profile, a subset of the Mobile Information Device Profile.
- Integral membrane protein, a class of proteins attached to cell membranes.
- Integrated Master Plan, a part of project planning
- Interface Message Processor, a packet-switching node for connecting computers to ARPANET (modern term: router).
- BBC iPlayer, a peer-to-peer media player from the BBC (formerly Interactive Media Player or iMP)
- International Masters Publishers, a Swedish based publisher
- International Match Points, one form of scoring in Duplicate bridge.
- International Moron Patrol, a popular cartoon flash series featured on Newgrounds, deviantArt and SheezyArt.
- International Music Publications, a British sheet music publisher
- Internet Messaging Program, a webmail client
- Ion Metal Plasma, used in semiconductor manufacturing
- Isle of Man pound
- Israeli Military Police (unofficial abbreviation)
- Interactive Mathematics Program (IMP), a Key Curriculum Press Interactive Math program
[edit] In chemistry
- Inosine monophosphate, a nucleotide
- Isopropylmethoxypyrazine, a component of the scent of cut grass and of peas, and a tobacco additive.
[edit] In computer science
- IMP programming language, a systems programming language for the CDC 6600
- Edinburgh IMP, a systems programming language used in the EMAS operating system
[edit] In literary fiction
- Imp, a character in the Clan Destine series of Marvel Comics
- Imp (She-Ra), a character from She-Ra: Princess of Power
[edit] In videogames
- Imp, an enemy in Doom (video game)
- Imp, a popular pet used by Warlocks in World of Warcraft. In particular a Horde Imp would be a pet belonging to an Undead or Orc warlock
- Imp, short for members of the Empire from Star Wars Galaxies and various Star Wars games
- Imp, a monster enemies in Geist
- Imp (Shattered Galaxy) is an infantry Unit in the MMORPG Shattered Galaxy
- Imp, worker units in RTS Dungeon Keeper and its successor Dungeon Keeper 2