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# mp

«mp» in Mova's school dictionary: **Member of Parliament: a person elected to make laws for…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

abbreviation (MP, MPs)

### meaning for a pupil

1) (UK, Canada, Australia, NZ, Ireland) Member of Parliament: a person elected to make laws for an area. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mp/#m1)

2) Military Police (MP): soldiers who act as police in the army. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mp/#m2)

3) (computing) mp in mp3 and mp4: file types for sound and video. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mp/#m3)

4) (music) mp: mezzo piano, meaning fairly quietly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mp/#m4)

5) (maths, computing) MP for megapixel(s) in cameras. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mp/#m5)

### sense in the lessons

In civics lessons in the UK and other parliamentary countries, «our local MP» is the person who represents your area; children can write to their MP. In music lessons «mp» on the score means play fairly softly. Phrases: local MP, write to your MP, become an MP.

### examples

- Our class wrote a letter to our local MP about the park. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mp/#x1)
- The MP visited our school and answered questions. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mp/#x2)
- There are hundreds of MPs in the House of Commons. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mp/#x3)
- The song is saved as an mp3 file. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mp/#x4)
- The music says mp, so play fairly quietly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mp/#x5)
- The MPs stopped the soldier at the gate. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mp/#x6)
- This camera has 12 MP. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mp/#x7)

### note

Abbreviation: written in capitals (MP, plural MPs, no apostrophe). Say «an MP» because it starts with the sound «em». In music, mp is lower case and comes between p (soft) and mf (fairly loud).

### In the corpora

- [Parliament is where elected representatives, called MPs in the UK, debate and vote on new laws.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/31-votes-parties-and-the-people-in-charge/15/)
- [A debate on a petition does not mean the law changes; it puts the idea in front of MPs.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/6-congress-and-parliament-how-a-law-is-made/16/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «mp» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mp/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.