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 * 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, 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, 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, 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 * Charterparty, a maritime contract for the hire of a ship * 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 * 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 * 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 CP/LD, 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 Cp, Mallows's ''C_p'', a statistic used in model selection * The field

\mathbb C_p

, see p-adic number#Algebraic closure * 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 * Mobile phone, 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 * 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 * Commercial paper, 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 * 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