CP, cp. or its variants may refer to:

Arts, entertainment, and media

* Cariyapitaka (Cp), a canonical Buddhist story collection *

The Canadian Press The Canadian Press (CP; , ) is a Canadian national news agency headquartered in Toronto, Ontario. Established in 1917 as a vehicle for Canadian newspapers to exchange news and information, The Canadian Press has been a privately-held company, pr ...

, a Canadian news agency *

Child pornography Child pornography (also abbreviated as CP, also called child porn or kiddie porn, and child sexual abuse material, known by the acronym CSAM (underscoring that children can not be deemed willing participants under law)), is Eroticism, erotic ma ...

* ''

The Christian Post ''The Christian Post'' is an American non-denominational, conservative, evangelical Christian online newspaper. Based in Washington, D.C., it was founded in March 2004. News topics include the Church, ministries, missions, education, Christi ...

'', an American newspaper * Competitive programming * ''

Club Penguin ''Club Penguin'' was a massively multiplayer online game (MMO) that ran from 2005 to 2017. The game featured a virtual world that included a wide range of online games and activities. It was created by New Horizon Interactive (now known as Di ...

'', a now defunct online multiplayer game * Combat power, used in

Pokémon Go ''Pokémon Go'' (stylized as ''Pokémon GO'') is a 2016 augmented reality (AR) mobile game originally developed and published by Niantic in collaboration with Nintendo and The Pokémon Company for iOS and Android devices. It uses mobile devic ...

to indicate how strong a Pokémon is in battle

Enterprises

Transportation companies

* Canadian Airlines (1987–2001) (IATA airline code CP) *

Canadian Pacific Railway The Canadian Pacific Railway () , also known simply as CPR or Canadian Pacific and formerly as CP Rail (1968–1996), is a Canadian Class I railway incorporated in 1881. The railway is owned by Canadian Pacific Kansas City, Canadian Pacific Ka ...

, reporting mark CP *

Central Pacific Railroad The Central Pacific Railroad (CPRR) was a rail company chartered by U.S. Congress in 1862 to build a railroad eastwards from Sacramento, California, to complete most of the western part of the "First transcontinental railroad" in North Americ ...

, a network of lines between California and Utah, US * , a French public railway company * , a Portuguese state-owned train company * CP Air or Canadian Pacific Air Lines (1942–1987), a Canadian airline *

CP Ships CP Ships was a large Canadian shipping company established in the 19th century. From the late 1880s until after World War II, the company was Canada's largest operator of Atlantic and Pacific steamships. Many immigrants travelled on CP ships fr ...

, a Canadian shipping company, part of TUI Group *

Cathay Pacific Cathay Pacific Airways Limited, or simply Cathay Pacific, is the flag carrier of Hong Kong, with its head office and main airline hub, hub located at Hong Kong International Airport. The airline's operations and its subsidiaries have schedule ...

, a Hong Kong–based major airline

Other enterprises

* C.P. Company, an Italian apparel brand *

Cedar Point Cedar Point is a amusement park located on a Lake Erie peninsula in Sandusky, Ohio, United States, owned and operated by Six Flags. It opened in 1870 and is considered the second-oldest operating amusement park in the US behind Lake Compounc ...

, an amusement park in Sandusky, Ohio, United States *

Charoen Pokphand The Charoen Pokphand Group Company, Ltd. (CP) (; ) is a Thai conglomerate based in Bangkok. It is Thailand's largest private company and the largest privately held Royal Warrant holder of the Thai Royal Family. The company describes itself as hav ...

(C.P. Group), a Thai agribusiness conglomerate *

Chicago Pneumatic Chicago Pneumatic, also known as "CP", is an industrial manufacturer providing power tools, air compressors, generators, light towers and hydraulic equipment. Products are sold in more than 150 countries through a worldwide distribution network. C ...

, an American manufacturer of tools and equipment *

Colgate-Palmolive The Colgate-Palmolive Company, commonly known as Colgate-Palmolive, is an American multinational corporation, multinational consumer products company headquartered on Park Avenue in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. The company specializes in ...

, an American consumer goods company *

Commercial Press The Commercial Press () is the first modern publishing organization in China. The Commercial Press is known for its academic publishing and translation work in humanities and social sciences, as well as the '' Xinhua Dictionary''. History In ...

, a Chinese publishing company *

Connaught Place, New Delhi Connaught Place, also known as Rajiv Chowk or CP, is one of the main financial, commercial and Central business district, business centres in New Delhi, Delhi, India. It houses the headquarters of several noted Indian firms and is a major shopp ...

, a commercial centre in India *

Curious Pastimes Curious Pastimes (sometimes abbreviated to CuPa) is an organisation that runs one of the best-known Describes Curious Pastimes as one of the "most well known" providers. live action role-playing campaigns in the UK. CuPa is a private, profit-makin ...

, a UK-based gaming company

Government, law, and military

Captain of the Parish The Captain of the Parish is an official in each parish in the Isle of Man—formerly the title was ''Captain of the Parish Militia'', but it is now only a titular honour. Historically the Captain of the Parish was authorised to raise his own mi ...

, a (now mainly ceremonial) appointment in the Isle of Man (post-nominal letters CP) *

Central Powers The Central Powers, also known as the Central Empires,; ; , ; were one of the two main coalitions that fought in World War I (1914–1918). It consisted of the German Empire, Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire, and the Kingdom of Bulga ...

, a military alliance before and during World War I, led by the German Empire * Certified Paralegal, an American legal qualification *

Charterparty A charterparty (sometimes charter-party) is a maritime contract between a shipowner and a hirer ("charterer") for the hire of either a ship for the carriage of passengers or cargo, or a yacht for leisure. Charterparty is a contract of carria ...

, a maritime contract for the hire of a ship *

Civil parish In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government. Civil parishes can trace their origin to the ancient system of parishes, w ...

, the lowest tier of government in England * Command Post, in military terminology *

Commissioner of Police A police commissioner is the head of a police department, responsible for overseeing its operations and ensuring the effective enforcement of laws and maintenance of public order. They develop and implement policies, manage budgets, and coordinate ...

, the top-ranking officer of the Police Force *

Consejo popular In Cuba, a consejo popular (; ; sometimes shortened to CP) is an electoral ward or political-administrative demarcation of the National Assembly of People's Power of Cuba Cuba, officially the Republic of Cuba, is an island country, compri ...

, an electoral ward of Cuba.

Science and technology

Biology and medicine

Cerebral palsy Cerebral palsy (CP) is a group of movement disorders that appear in early childhood. Signs and symptoms vary among people and over time, but include poor coordination, spasticity, stiff muscles, Paresis, weak muscles, and tremors. There may b ...

* Certified Prosthetist, an American medical qualification *

Ceruloplasmin Ceruloplasmin (or caeruloplasmin) is a ferroxidase enzyme that in humans is encoded by the ''CP'' gene. Ceruloplasmin is the major copper-carrying protein in the blood, and in addition plays a role in iron metabolism. It was first described in ...

, an enzyme encoded by the CP gene * Congenital

prosopagnosia Prosopagnosia, also known as face blindness, (" illChoisser had even begun tpopularizea name for the condition: face blindness.") is a cognitive disorder of face perception in which the ability to recognize familiar faces, including one's own f ...

, a type of inability to recognize faces *

Chronic pancreatitis Chronic pancreatitis is a long-standing inflammation of the pancreas that alters the organ's normal structure and functions. It can present as episodes of acute inflammation in a previously injured pancreas, or as chronic damage with persistent p ...

Chemistry

* Capensinidin (Cp), a blue-red plant dye * Carbon monophosphide, a diatomic radical chemical compound *

Cassiopium Lutetium is a chemical element; it has symbol Lu and atomic number 71. It is a silvery white metal, which resists corrosion in dry air, but not in moist air. Lutetium is the last element in the lanthanide series, and it is traditionally counted amo ...

(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 Copernicium is a synthetic chemical element; it has symbol Cn and atomic number 112. Its known isotopes are extremely radioactive, and have only been created in a laboratory. The most stable known isotope, copernicium-285, has a half-life of ap ...

(Cn) * Counterpoise method, a way to correct for basis set superposition error in quantum chemistry * Cross-polarization *

Cyclopentadienyl complex A cyclopentadienyl complex is a coordination complex of a metal and cyclopentadienyl groups (, abbreviated as Cp−). Cyclopentadienyl ligands almost invariably bind to metals as a pentahapto (''η''5-) bonding mode. The metal–cyclopentadien ...

(Cp), read as "C P", the cyclic fragment in a coordination complex ** The similar symbol Cp* ("C P star") represents pentamethylcyclopentadienyl, the ligand

Drugs

* Chlorphenamine, a first-generation alkylamine antihistamine *

Creatine phosphate Phosphocreatine, also known as creatine phosphate (CP) or PCr (Pcr), is a phosphorylated form of creatine that serves as a rapidly mobilizable reserve of high-energy phosphates in skeletal muscle, myocardium and the brain to recycle adenosine trip ...

, a chemical used to store phosphates in the body *

Cyclophosphamide Cyclophosphamide (CP), also known as cytophosphane among other names, is a medication used as chemotherapy and to suppress the immune system. As chemotherapy it is used to treat lymphoma, multiple myeloma, leukemia, ovarian cancer, breast cancer ...

, a medication to suppress the immune system

Computing

cp (Unix) cp is a shell command for copying files and directories. If the user has write access to a target file, the command copies the content by opening it in update mode. This preserves the file's inode instead of creating a new file with default ...

, 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 A wafer is a crisp, often sweet, very thin, flat, light biscuit, often used to decorate ice cream, and also used as a Garnish (food), garnish on some sweet dishes. They frequently have a waffle surface pattern but may also be patterned with insi ...

Code page In computing, a code page is a character encoding and as such it is a specific association of a set of printable character (computing), characters and control characters with unique numbers. Typically each number represents the binary value in a s ...

, a table identifying the character set used to encode a set of glyphs *

Constraint programming Constraint programming (CP) is a paradigm for solving combinatorial problems that draws on a wide range of techniques from artificial intelligence, computer science, and operations research. In constraint programming, users declaratively state t ...

, 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 CP/CMS (Control Program/Cambridge Monitor System) is a discontinued time-sharing operating system of the late 1960s and early 1970s. It is known for its excellent performance and advanced features. Among its three versions, CP-40/CMS was an im ...

Connection pool In software engineering, a connection pool is a cache of reusable database connections managed by the client or middleware. It reduces the overhead of opening and closing connections, improving performance and scalability in database applications. ...

, a cache of database connections * The 'Content Profile' in the NISO standard Content Profile/Linked Document, a data serialisation format *

Child process A child process (CP) in computing is a process created by another process (the parent process). This technique pertains to multitasking operating systems, and is sometimes called a subprocess or traditionally a subtask. There are two major proce ...

, Computing process created by another process

Mathematics

Cauchy problem A Cauchy problem in mathematics asks for the solution of a partial differential equation that satisfies certain conditions that are given on a hypersurface in the domain. A Cauchy problem can be an initial value problem or a boundary value problem ...

, in partial differential equations *

Complex projective space In mathematics, complex projective space is the projective space with respect to the field of complex numbers. By analogy, whereas the points of a real projective space label the lines through the origin of a real Euclidean space, the points of a ...

(CP), the projective space with respect to the field of complex numbers * Mallows's ''C_p'', a statistic used in model selection * The field

\mathbb C_p

, see p-adic number#Algebraic closure *

Process capability index The process capability index, or process capability ratio, is a statistical measure of process capability: the ability of an engineering process to produce an output within specification limits. The concept of process capability only holds mean ...

, (''C_p''), a statistical measure of process capability

Physics

Candlepower Candlepower (abbreviated as cp or CP) is a unit of measurement for luminous intensity. It expresses levels of light intensity relative to the light emitted by a candle of specific size and constituents. The historical candlepower is equal to 0.981 ...

(cp), a measure of luminous intensity *

Centipoise The poise (symbol P; ) is the unit of dynamic viscosity (absolute viscosity) in the centimetre–gram–second system of units (CGS). It is named after Jean Léonard Marie Poiseuille (see Hagen–Poiseuille equation). The centipoise (1 cP = ...

(cP), a unit of viscosity * CP symmetry, in particle physics, the product of charge conjugation and parity * C_p, the

specific heat capacity In thermodynamics, the specific heat capacity (symbol ) of a substance is the amount of heat that must be added to one unit of mass of the substance in order to cause an increase of one unit in temperature. It is also referred to as massic heat ...

at constant pressure *

Pressure coefficient In fluid dynamics, the pressure coefficient is a dimensionless number which describes the relative pressures throughout a flow field. The pressure coefficient is used in aerodynamics and hydrodynamics. Every point in a fluid flow field has its ...

(C_p), a parameter for studying the flow of fluids *

Center of pressure (fluid mechanics) In fluid mechanics, the center of pressure is the point on a body where a single force acting at that point can represent the total effect of the pressure field acting on the body. The total force vector acting at the center of pressure is the s ...

, the point where the total sum of a pressure field acts on a body

Other uses in science and technology

Cathodic protection Cathodic protection (CP; ) is a technique used to control the corrosion of a metal surface by making it the cathode of an electrochemical cell. A simple method of protection connects the metal to be protected to a more easily corroded " sacrifi ...

, a technique used to control the corrosion of a metal surface *

Cellphone A mobile phone or cell phone is a portable telephone that allows users to make and receive calls over a radio frequency link while moving within a designated telephone service area, unlike fixed-location phones ( landline phones). This radio ...

, a portable telephone device *

Clock pulse In electronics and especially synchronous digital circuits, a clock signal (historically also known as ''logic beat'') is an electronic logic signal (voltage or current) which oscillates between a high and a low state at a constant frequency and ...

, a signal type in electronics *

Complementizer phrase In linguistics (especially generative grammar), a complementizer or complementiser (glossing abbreviation: ) is a functional category (part of speech) that includes those words that can be used to turn a clause into the subject or object of a ...

, in linguistics, the syntactic head of a full clause * Continental Polar (cP), in meteorology, a type of

air mass In meteorology, an air mass is a volume of air defined by its temperature and humidity. Air masses cover many hundreds or thousands of square miles, and adapt to the characteristics of the surface below them. They are classified according to ...

* Control point, a section of track where switches and signals control trains within a centralized traffic control

Other uses

* Adobe Captivate, an Adobe software * C. P. (name), shared by several notable individuals *

Camp (disambiguation) Camp may refer to: Areas of confinement, imprisonment, or for execution * Concentration camp, an internment camp for political prisoners or politically targeted demographics, such as members of national or minority ethnic groups * Extermination ...

* Central provinces (disambiguation) (C.P.) **

Central Provinces The Central Provinces was a province of British India. It comprised British conquests from the Mughals and Marathas in central India, and covered parts of present-day Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Maharashtra states. Nagpur was the primary ...

(1861–1936), a former province of India, succeeded by **

Central Provinces and Berar The Central Provinces and Berar was a province of British India and later the Dominion of India which existed from 1903 to 1950. It was formed by the merger of the Central Provinces with the province of Berar, which was territory leased by the ...

(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 * (''cp''), a Latin phrase commonly rendered as "all other things being equal" *

Colored people ''Colored'' (or ''coloured'') is a racial descriptor historically used in the United States during the Jim Crow era to refer to an African American. In many places, it may be considered a slur. Dictionary definitions The word ''colored'' was ...

** see also

colored people's time African time (or Africa time) is the perceived cultural tendency in parts of Africa and the Caribbean toward a more relaxed attitude to time. This is sometimes used in a pejorative sense, about tardiness in appointments, meetings and events. T ...

Commercial paper Commercial paper, in the global financial market, is an Unsecured debt, unsecured promissory note with a fixed Maturity (finance), maturity of usually less than 270 days. In layperson terms, it is like an "IOU" but can be bought and sold becaus ...

, in global finance, a type of promissory note * Communist party, a political party that advocates communism through state policy *

Congestion pricing Congestion pricing or congestion charges is a system of surcharging users of public goods that are subject to congestion through excess demand, such as through higher peak charges for use of bus services, electricity, metros, railways, tel ...

Customer profitability Customer profitability (CP) is the profit the firm makes from serving a customer or customer group over a specified period of time, specifically the difference between the revenues earned from and the costs associated with the customer relationship ...

, the profit a firm makes from serving a customer * Member of the

Passionists The Passionists, officially named the Congregation of the Passion of Jesus Christ (), abbreviated CP, are a Catholic clerical religious congregation of pontifical right for men, founded by Paul of the Cross in 1720, with a special emphasis on ...

, 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 This is a list of common Latin abbreviations. Nearly all the abbreviations below have been adopted by Modern English. However, with some exceptions (for example, ''versus'' or '' modus operandi''), most of the Latin referent words and phrases a ...

Clipperton Island Clipperton Island ( ; ), also known as Clipperton Atoll and previously as Clipperton's Rock, is an uninhabited French coral atoll in the eastern Pacific Ocean. The only French territory in the North Pacific, Clipperton is from Paris, France ...

, a territory with exceptional country code ''CP'' * Montenegrin Party (''Crnogorska partija''), a political party in Serbia *

Cymru Premier The Cymru Premier, known as the JD Cymru Premier for sponsorship reasons, is the national football league of Wales. It has both professional and semi-professional status clubs and is at the top of the Welsh football league system. It was found ...

, Welsh association football league {{disambiguation