alp

IPA: ˈæɫp

A very high mountain. Specifically, one of the Alps, the highest chain of mountains in Europe.
An alpine meadow
(Australia) Initialism of Australian Labor Party.
Initialism of arm's length principle. [The principle that the parties in a transaction should be independent and on an equal footing, without any favorable treatment, fiduciary duties, etc.]
Acronym of axion-like particle.
(biochemistry) Initialism of alkaline phosphatase. [(biochemistry) Any of a group of phosphatases that are most active in an alkaline environment]

Examples of "alp" in Sentences

Congrats Chris. ahmet alp balkan said at 1am on Jan 8th # |
March 25th, 2010 at 2:40 pm i wish i could ask alp questions..
Just as the funders for alp includes unions supporting hillary.
Angling upward to a point, like a child's drawing of an alp, it is not quite a high-rise.
Sitting on a shelf, Thomas Mann's "Magic Mountain" stares down as coldly and harshly as an alp in winter.
I'm fairly certain snob was referencing the idiocy of "alp duez" by comparing him to an Egyptian president.
It's not like I'd be giving reports about this or that alp, or playing domestique on some tour de coolness.
Those seven summers worth of tedious work sit "wie ein alp" as a certain philosopher once said on my memory.
You know you see those pictures of Lance Armstrong or Alberto Contador finishing an 80 mile stage straight up an alp and they look cool and collected?
Alpion; because the word alp, in some of the original western languages, generally signifies very high lands, or hills; as this isle appears to those who approach it from the Continent.