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tsp

tsp is the abbreviation of teaspoon.

Meaning of teaspoon

Noun

teaspoon (plural teaspoons)

  1. A small spoon used to stir the contents of a cup or glass.
  2. A unit of measure, equivalent to one-third of a tablespoon in the United States or one-quarter of a tablespoon in Australia, or roughly five milliliters.
    Synonyms:
    teaspoonful, tsp, f℥j

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Proper noun capitalized: TSP

TSP

  1. (US, abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of Thrift Savings Plan.

Noun capitalized: TSP

TSP (countable and uncountable, plural TSPs)

  1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of trisodium phosphate
  2. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of travelling salesman problem.
  3. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of textured soy protein (“textured vegetable protein”).

Forms of tsp

pluraltsp
pluraltsps
alternative formtsp.
pluralTSPs

Origin of tsp

Abbreviation.

Questions about tsp

What is tsp the abbreviation of?
Tsp is the abbreviation of teaspoon.
What part of speech is tsp?
Tsp can be a proper noun or a noun.

Words near tsp in the dictionary

  1. tsouris
  2. Tsoy
  3. Tsoying
  4. Tsoys
  5. Tsoyun
  6. tsp
  7. tspn.
  8. tspns.
  9. tsps
  10. tspt.
  11. TSR

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tsp (page history and authors); TSP (page history and authors); teaspoon (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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