In Science and Technology
- Serum protein electrophoresis
- Solar proton event, in which protons emitted by the Sun become accelerated to very high energies
- Solid phase extraction, a separation process used to isolate compounds from a mixture
- Solid-phase epitaxy, a method for forming crystalline materials from amorphous precursors
- The Sound Pattern of English, in phonology, a book by Noam Chomsky and Morris Halle; also, a method of notation of phonological rules described in that book
- Stanford Prison Experiment, in psychology, an infamous study of prisoner and prison guard roles
- Subgame perfect equilibrium, in game theory, a refinement of a Nash equilibrium used in dynamic games
- Synchronous payload envelope, in telecommunications, related to synchronous optical networking
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