HP

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does HP mean? 

• HP (noun)
  The noun HP has 1 sense:

1. a unit of power equal to 746 watts

  Familiarity information: HP used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HP (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A unit of power equal to 746 watts

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Synonyms:

H.P.; horsepower; HP

Hypernyms ("HP" is a kind of...):

power unit (a measure of electric power)

Meronyms (parts of "HP"):

W; watt (a unit of power equal to 1 joule per second; the power dissipated by a current of 1 ampere flowing across a resistance of 1 ohm)

 Context examples 

Human HP wild-type allele is located in the vicinity of 16q22.1 and is approximately 6 kb in length.

(HP wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

Haptoglobin (406 aa, ~45 kDa) is encoded by the human HP gene.

(Haptoglobin, NCI Thesaurus)