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TP (countable and uncountable, plural TPs)

1. (colloquial) Initialism of toilet paper.
   • 1994, “The Great Cornholio” (4:31 from the start), in Beavis and Butt-Head, season 4, episode 31, spoken by Beavis (Mike Judge):

     I need TP for my bung-hole.

2. (anatomy) Initialism of transverse process.
3. (physiology) Initialism of threshold potential.
4. (medicine) Initialism of trigger point.
5. (linguistics) Initialism of tense phrase.
6. (mathematics) Initialism of transportation problem.
7. (baseball) Initialism of triple play.
8. (engineering) Initialism of true position.
9. Initialism of textile paper.
10. Initialism of true positive.

    Coordinate terms: TN, FN, FP

    • 2022 February 11, Kennedy, Brendan, Ashwini Ashokkumar, Ryan L. Boyd, Morteza Dehghani, “Text Analysis for Psychology: Methods, Principles, and Practices”, in Morteza Dehghani, Ryan L. Boyd, editors, Handbook of Language Analysis in Psychology, Guilford Publications, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 35:

      Recall, on the other hand, computes the ratio of correct predictions to how many TPs there were—alternatively, TPs divided by the sum of TPs and the number of false negatives (FNs).

11. (networking) Initialism of termination point.
12. (military) Initialism of torpedo boat.