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'', an American newspaper * Competitive programming * '' Club Penguin'', a now defunct online multiplayer game * Combat power, used in Pokémon Go 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, 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, 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, an amusement park in Sandusky, Ohio, United States * Charoen Pokphand (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, 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 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, 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 complex (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, 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 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 * Connection pool, a cache of database connections * The 'Content Profile' in the NISO standard Content Profile/Linked Document, a data serialisation format * Child process, Computing process created by another process

Mathematics

* Cauchy problem, in partial differential equations * Complex projective space (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 (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 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 (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 * Clock pulse, a signal type in electronics * Complementizer phrase, 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) * 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 * (''cp''), a Latin phrase commonly rendered as "all other things being equal" * Colored people ** 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 * 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 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, a territory with exceptional country code ''CP'' * Montenegrin Party (''Crnogorska partija''), a political party in Serbia * Cymru Premier, Welsh association football league {{disambiguation