STP

STP

1. (international standards) ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 country code for São Tomé and Príncipe.

   Synonym: ST (alpha-2)

STP (countable and uncountable, plural STPs)

1. Initialism of sewage treatment plant.
2. (physics, chemistry) Initialism of standard temperature and pressure.
3. (networking) Initialism of spanning tree protocol.
4. (electronics) Initialism of shielded twisted pair.
5. (especially LGBT) Initialism of stand-to-pee.
6. (uncountable, dated drug slang) Initialism of serenity, tranquility and peace, a former street name for DOM.
   • 1968, Joan Didion, “Slouching Towards Bethlehem”, in Slouching Towards Bethlehem:

     “Don,” she cries, breathless. “We got some STP today.” At this time STP is a pretty big deal, remember; nobody yet knew what it was and it was relatively, although just relatively, hard to come by.

STP

1. (construction) Initialism of subject to planning.

   This building would suit alternative uses STP.

(shielded twisted pair):

• UTP, TP
• silver tape

• spanning tree protocol
• twisted pair, unshielded twisted pair

• PST, PTS, PTs, SPT, TPS, TPs, TSP, pst, pts, pts., tp's, tsp