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

[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

[edit] In literary fiction

[edit] In videogames