OAP
noun
OAP is a noun meaning “Initialism of orthogonal array processor” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled O-A-P, and it appears about once in every 8 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of OAP is OAPs.
What does OAP mean?
noun
- 1
Initialism of orthogonal array processor.
- 2
Initialism of one-act play.
- 3
IrelandUKInitialism of old-age pensioner.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce OAP?
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-OAP.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of OAP
- OAPs plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is OAP?
OAP appears about once in every 8 million words in written English, the 83,271st most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).