CP

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CP, cp. or its variants may refer to:

Arts, entertainment, and media

Cariyapitaka (Cp), a canonical Buddhist story collection
The Canadian Press, a Canadian news agency
Child pornography
The Christian Post, an American newspaper
Competitive programming
Club Penguin, a now defunct online multiplayer game
Creepypasta, a form of internet horror story
Cyberpunk, a subgenre of science fiction

Enterprises

Transportation companies

Canadian Airlines (1987–2001) (IATA airline code CP)
Canadian Pacific Railway, reporting mark CP
Cebu Pacific, a Philippine airline company
Central Pacific Railroad, a network of lines between California and Utah, US
Chemins de Fer de Provence, a French public railway company
Comboios de Portugal, a Portuguese state-owned train company
CP Air or Canadian Pacific Air Lines (1942–1987), a Canadian airline
CP Ships, a Canadian shipping company, part of TUI Group
Cathay Pacific, a Hong Kong-based major airline

Other enterprises

C.P. Company, an Italian apparel brand
Cedar Point, an amusement park in Sandusky, Ohio, USA
Charoen Pokphand (C.P. Group), a Thai agribusiness conglomerate
Chicago Pneumatic, an American manufacturer of tools and equipment
Colgate-Palmolive, an American consumer goods company
Commercial Press, a Chinese publishing company
Connaught Place, New Delhi, a commercial centre in India
Curious Pastimes, a UK-based gaming company

Government, law, and military

Captain of the Parish, a (now mainly ceremonial) appointment in the Isle of Man (post-nominal letters CP)
Central Powers, a military alliance before and during World War I, led by the German Empire
Certified Paralegal, an American legal qualification
Civil parish, the lowest tier of government in England
Command Post, in military terminology
Commissioner of Police, the top-ranking officer of the Police Force
Consejo popular, an electoral ward of Cuba.

Science and technology

Biology and medicine

Cerebral palsy, a brain disorder
Certified Prosthetist, an American medical qualification
Ceruloplasmin, an enzyme encoded by the CP gene
Congenital prosopagnosia, a type of inability to recognize faces
Chronic pancreatitis

Chemistry

Capensinidin (Cp), a blue-red plant dye
Carbon monophosphide, a diatomic radical chemical compound
Cassiopium (Cp), a name formerly used for the chemical element Lutetium
Chlorinated paraffins (CPs), complex mixtures of polychlorinated n-alkanes
Cp, a proposed chemical symbol for the element Copernicium (Cn)
Counterpoise method, a way to correct for basis set superposition error in quantum chemistry
Cross-polarization
Cyclopentadienyl ligand (Cp), read as "C P", the cyclic C
₅H
₅ fragment in a coordination complex
- The similar symbol Cp* ("C P star") represents pentamethylcyclopentadienyl, the C
  ₅Me
  ₅ ligand

Drugs

Chlorphenamine, a first-generation alkylamine antihistamine
Creatine phosphate, a chemical used to store phosphates in the body
Cyclophosphamide, a medication to suppress the immune system

Computing

cp (Unix), a UNIX command for copying files and directories
Certificate policy, outlining (non)-intended uses of a digital certificate
Circuit Probe, a method of wafer testing
Code page, a table identifying the character set used to encode a set of glyphs
Constraint programming, a programming paradigm wherein relations between variables are stated in the form of constraints
Control Program, part of an operating system of the late 1960s; see CP/CMS
Connection pool, a cache of database connections
The 'Content Profile' in the NISO standard Content Profile/Linked Document, a data serialisation format

Mathematics

Cauchy problem, in partial differential equations
Complex projective space (CPⁿ), the projective space with respect to the field of complex numbers
Mallows's C_p, a statistic used in model selection
Process capability index, (C_p), a statistical measure of process capability

Physics

Candlepower (cp), a measure of luminous intensity
Centipoise (cP), a unit of viscosity
CP symmetry, in particle physics, the product of charge conjugation and parity
C_p, the specific heat capacity at constant pressure
Pressure coefficient (C_p), a parameter for studying the flow of fluids
Center of pressure (fluid mechanics), the point where the total sum of a pressure field acts on a body

Other uses in science and technology

Cathodic protection, a technique used to control the corrosion of a metal surface
Cellphone, a portable telephone device
Complementizer phrase, in linguistics, the syntactic head of a full clause
Continental Polar (cP), in meteorology, a type of air mass
Clock pulse, a signal type in electronics

Other uses

Adobe Captivate, an Adobe software
C. P. (name), shared by several notable individuals
Camp (disambiguation)
Central provinces (disambiguation) (C.P.)
- Central Provinces (1861–1936), a former province of India, succeeded by
- Central Provinces and Berar (1936–1950), corresponding to Madhya Pradesh in the post-partition republic
- Central Provinces and Berar Circuit or C. P.-Berar Circuit, a Hindi film distribution circuit comprising parts of Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Maharashtra
Ceteris paribus (cp), a Latin phrase commonly rendered as "all other things being equal"
Colored people
- see also colored people's time
Commercial paper, in global finance, a type of promissory note
Communist party, a political party that advocates communism through state policy
Customer profitability, the profit a firm makes from serving a customer
Member of the Passionists, a Roman Catholic religious order (post-nominal letters C.P.)
compare, a directive to the reader to compare to a cited source (used interchangeably with "cf."); see List of Latin abbreviations
Clipperton Island, a territory with exceptional country code CP
Montenegrin Party (Crnogorska partija), a political party in Serbia

Topics referred to by the same term

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