title: P2
text: # P2
  
  P2, P02, P.2, or P-2 might refer to several subjects:
  
  ## Technology
  
  * P2 (storage media), a "Professional Plug-in" solid state data storage technology employed by Panasonic
  * DSC-P2, a Sony Cyber-shot P series camera model
  * Honda P2, a 1996 Honda P series of robots, an ASIMO predecessor
  * Intel 80286, 2nd generation processor architecture
  * Pentium II, 6th generation Intel central processing unit
  * Samsung P2, a 2007 flash memory based Yepp portable media player
  * P2 audio connector, see Phone connector (audio)
  
  ## Science
  
  * Bacteriophage P2, a temperate phage of the family Myoviridae that infects E. coli
  * P2 laboratory, biosafety-level-2 laboratory
  * P2 receptor, a purinergic and pyrimidinergic cell surface receptor
  * P2, a pulmonic valve closure sound
  * Nix (moon) (former designation P2), a moon of Pluto
  * P200 or P2, a component of brain evoked-response potential
  * ATC code P02 Anthelmintics, a subgroup of the Anatomical Therapeutic Chemical Classification System
  * Buffer P2, a lysis buffer solution
  * Period 2, of the periodic table
  * Pollution prevention in the US, an environmental management strategy emphasizing avoiding waste rather than treating it
  * Diphosphorus (P $_2),$ an inorganic chemical
  * SARS-CoV-2 Zeta variant, one of the variants of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19
  
  ## Transportation
  
  * P2 transport, a World War II passenger ship/troop ship design of the United States Maritime Commission
  * P2, a State 1st class road in Latvia
  * LNER Class P2, a class of 6 British 2-8-2 locomotives designed by Sir Nigel Gresley
  
  ### Aircraft
  
  * P-2 Hawk, a variant of the 1923 P-1 Hawk biplane fighter of the United States Army Air Corps
  * P-2 Neptune, known as "P2V Neptune" until 1962, a United States Navy maritime patrol and antisubmarine warfare aircraft introduced in 1947
  * Piaggio P.2, a 1923 Italian fighter prototype
  * Pilatus P-2, a Swiss Air Force trainer aircraft in service from 1946 to 1981
  * Polikarpov P-2, a Soviet Polikarpov biplane trainer prototype
  
  ### Automobiles
  
  * Alfa Romeo P2, an iconic 1920s racing automobile
  * Prodrive P2, an automobile built by Prodrive
  * Volvo P2 platform, an automobile platform
  
  ## Entertainment
  
  * P2 (film), a 2007 suspense/thriller film directed by Franck Khalfoun
  * P2 virus, a fictional virus in the novel The Second Angel
  * DR P2, a Danish radio channel playing classical music and jazz, literary programming and radio dramas
  * NRK P2, a Norwegian radio channel playing cultural programming operated by Norsk rikskringkasting
  * Sveriges Radio P2, a Swedish radio channel playing classical music, jazz and world music operated by Sveriges Radio
  * Persona 2, 1999 and 2000 role-playing video games by Atlus
  * Portal 2, a 2011 puzzle-platform video game by Valve
  * Postal 2, a 2003 first-person shooter by Running with Scissors
  * "P2" (song), a 2020 song by Lil Uzi Vert from the album Eternal Atake
  
  ## Other uses
  
  * P2 (panel building), a design for blocks of flats used in East Germany
  * Papyrus 2 $(P^2,$ $𝔓^2),$ a papyrus New Testament manuscript
  * Propaganda Due, an Italian Masonic lodge, legal 1945–76 and afterwards clandestine and conspiratorial
  