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Sharp or SHARP may refer to:

Short for

  • Self Help Addiction Recovery Program, a charitable organisation founded in 1991 by Barbara Bach and Pattie Boyd
  • Sexual Harassment/Assault Response & Prevention, a US Army program dealing with sexual harassment
  • Skinheads Against Racial Prejudice, an anti-racist Trojan skinhead organization formed to combat White power skinheads
  • Stationary High Altitude Relay Platform, a 1980s beamed-power aircraft
  • Super High Altitude Research Project, a 1990s project to develop a high-velocity gun

Organisations and companies

  • I. P. Sharp Associates, a former Canadian computer services company
  • Sharp Airlines, Australian airline
  • Sharp Corporation, a Japanese electronics manufacturer
  • Sharp Entertainment, US TV program producer
  • Sharp HealthCare, a hospital system in San Diego, California
  • Sharp Solar, a manufacturer of photovoltaic cells and films
  • Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing

Music

  • Sharp (Angela Winbush album)
  • Sharp (band), English band featuring ex-Jam members
  • Sharp (Etnica album), 2004
  • Sharp (music), a musical notation sign ()
  • Sharp (South Korean band), pop music group
  • The Sharp, Australian pop/rock band

Places and geographical features

Antarctica

  • Sharp Glacier, Antarctica
  • Sharp Peak, Livingston Island, hill in Antarctica
  • Sharp Valley, valley in Antarctica
  • Mount Sharp (Antarctica), mountain in Antarctica

Other places

  • Sharp, Missouri, United States
  • Sharp County, Arkansas, United States
  • Sharp Glacier (Greenland)
  • Sharp Island, island of Hong Kong
  • Sharp Island (Ontario), island in Georgian Bay, Canada
  • Sharp Peak, hill in Hong Kong
  • Sharp (crater), a crater on the moon
  • Aeolis Mons, a small mountain in Gale on Mars, originally known to NASA as Sharp Mountain

Publications

  • Sharp (magazine), Canadian magazine
  • Sharp Daily, a free newspaper published in Taiwan and Hong Kong

Other uses

  • Sharp (automobile)
  • Sharp (flour), a flour made from hard wheat
  • SHARP (helmet ratings), a British motorcycle helmet safety rating scheme
  • Sharp (science), also called a hypodermic needle
  • Sharp (set theory)
  • Sharp (surname)
  • Sharp (TV series)
  • Sharp Scale, measure of paper opacity
  • Sharp, a type of sewing needle
  • Sharp, a swindler at games of chance and skill, e.g. card sharp
  • Sharp, a mathematics term often applied to upper and lower bounds; see Mathematical jargon

See also

  • 5426 Sharp, asteroid
  • Justice Sharp (disambiguation)
  • Sharp House (disambiguation)
  • Sharpe (disambiguation)
  • Sharpening
  • Sharpie (disambiguation)
  • Sharpness (disambiguation)
  • Sharps (disambiguation)
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