CPS or cps may refer to:

Organisations

Canada

Calgary Police Service Calgary Police Service (CPS; ) is the municipal police service of the City of Calgary, Alberta, Canada. It is the largest municipal police service in Alberta and third largest municipal force in Canada behind the Toronto Police Service and the Mo ...

, Alberta * Canadian Paediatric Society * Canadian Power and Sail Squadrons, recreational sailors * Compendium of Pharmaceuticals and Specialties

United Kingdom

Cambridge Philosophical Society The Cambridge Philosophical Society (CPS) is a scientific society at the University of Cambridge. It was founded in 1819. The name derives from the medieval use of the word philosophy to denote any research undertaken outside the fields of law ...

, at the University of Cambridge * Cambridge Positioning Systems, a GPS software company bought by

CSR plc CSR plc (formerly Cambridge Silicon Radio) was a multinational fabless semiconductor company headquartered in Cambridge, United Kingdom. Its main products were connectivity, audio, imaging and location chips. CSR was listed on the London Sto ...

Centre for Policy Studies The Centre for Policy Studies (CPS) is a centre-right think tanks, think tank and advocacy group in the United Kingdom. Its goal is to promote coherent and practical policies based on its founding principles of: free markets, "small state," lo ...

, a British think-tank *

Communist Party of Scotland The Communist Party of Scotland (CPS; ''Pàrtaidh Co-Mhaoineach na h-Alba'') was a communist political party based in Scotland. It was established in January 1992 by former members of the Communist Party of Great Britain who disagreed with the ...

Crown Prosecution Service The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) is the principal public agency for conducting criminal prosecutions in England and Wales. It is headed by the Director of Public Prosecutions. The main responsibilities of the CPS are to provide legal adv ...

, in England and Wales

United States

Chicago Public Schools Chicago Public Schools (CPS), officially classified as City of Chicago School District #299 for funding and districting reasons, in Chicago, Illinois, is the List of the largest school districts in the United States by enrollment, fourth-large ...

* Child protective services, in many US jurisdictions *

Cincinnati Public Schools Cincinnati Public Schools (often abbreviated CPS) is the U.S. state of Ohio's second - largest public school district, by enrollment, after Columbus City Schools. Cincinnati Public Schools is the largest Ohio school district rated as 'effectiv ...

, Hamilton County, Ohio *

Civilian Public Service The Civilian Public Service (CPS) was a program of the United States government that provided conscientious objectors with an alternative service, alternative to military service during World War II. From 1941 to 1947, nearly 12,000 draftees, wil ...

, a WWII alternative for conscientious objectors * Cleveland Photographic Society, Ohio * Coalition for Positive Sexuality, an education website *

The College Preparatory School The College Preparatory School (CPS or College Prep) is a four-year private non-residential high school in Oakland, California. The school's motto is ''Mens Conscia Recti'', a Latin phrase adapted from Virgil's ''Aeneid'' that means "a mind a ...

, Oakland, California *

CPS Energy CPS Energy (formerly City Public Service Board of San Antonio) is the municipal electric utility serving the city of San Antonio, Texas. Acquired by the city in 1942, CPS Energy serves over 840,750 electricity customers and more than 352,585 natu ...

, formerly City Public Service Board of San Antonio, Texas

Elsewhere

CPS (programadora) Comunicaciones Producción y Servicios de Televisión (also known as CPS) was a Colombian ''programadora''. It operated between 1998 and 2003. History CPS was owned by Guillermo La Chiva Cortés, who was the consul of Colombia to Sevilla in 1997 a ...

(''Comunicaciones Producción y Servicios de Televisión''), a Colombian TV program-maker, 1998–2003 *

Colegio de la Preciosa Sangre de Pichilemu (, 'Pichilemu School of the Precious Blood'), often shortened to , is a mixed-sex education, coeducational Catholic Church, Roman Catholic Private school, private state-subsidized day school, serving students in preschool education, preschool ( ...

, a school in Chile * College of Physicians and Surgeons (disambiguation) * Conference of Presentation Sisters of North America, a congregation of the

Presentation Sisters The Presentation Sisters, officially the Sisters of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, are a religious institute of Roman Catholic women founded in Cork, Ireland, by Honora "Nano" Nagle in 1775. The sisters of the congregation use th ...

religious order * Convention Panafricaine Sankariste, Burkina Faso

Science and technology

Biology and chemistry

Capsaicin Capsaicin (8-methyl-''N''-vanillyl-6-nonenamide) (, rarely ) is an active component of chili peppers, which are plants belonging to the genus ''Capsicum''. It is a potent Irritation, irritant for Mammal, mammals, including humans, and produces ...

, a pungent component of chili peppers * Carbamoyl phosphate synthase II, an enzyme that catalyzes a reaction yielding carbamoyl phosphate *

Carbamoyl phosphate synthetase Carbamoyl phosphate synthetase catalyzes the ATP-dependent synthesis of carbamoyl phosphate from glutamine () or ammonia () and bicarbonate. This ATP-grasp enzyme catalyzes the reaction of Adenosine triphosphate, ATP and bicarbonate to produc ...

, an enzyme that catalyzes a reaction yielding carbamoyl phosphate *

Chlorpyrifos Chlorpyrifos (CPS), also known as chlorpyrifos ethyl, is an organophosphate pesticide that has been used on crops, animals, in buildings, and in other settings, to kill several pests, including insects and worms. It acts on the nervous systems ...

, an organophosphate pesticide * Concentrate of poppy straw, processed

poppy straw Poppy straw (also known as opium straw, mowed opium straw, crushed poppy capsule, poppy chaff, or poppy husk) is derived from opium poppies (''Papaver somniferum'') that are harvested when fully mature and dried by mechanical means. Opium poppy s ...

Circumsporozoite protein Circumsporozoite protein (CSP) is a secreted protein of the sporozoite stage of the malaria parasite (''Plasmodium'' sp.) and is the antigenic target of RTS,S and other malaria vaccines. The amino-acid sequence of CSP consists of an immunodomina ...

, a protein secreted by the malaria parasite during the sporozoite stage

Computing

* CPS, a

Corel Photo House Corel Photo House is a discontinued raster graphics editor, replaced by Corel Photo-Paint. Corel Photo House was sometimes distributed free with image scanners such as the HP ScanJet. Corel Photo House saved images in the proprietary CPS image fil ...

image file format *

Certification Practice Statement A Certification Practice Statement (CPS) is a document from a certificate authority or a member of a web of trust which describes their practice for issuing and managing public key certificates. Some elements of a CPS include documenting practices ...

, of a certificate authority *

Continuation-passing style In functional programming, continuation-passing style (CPS) is a style of programming in which control is passed explicitly in the form of a continuation. This is contrasted with direct style, which is the usual style of programming. Gerald Jay S ...

, a programming technique *

Conversational Programming System Conversational Programming System or CPS is an early Time-sharing system offered by IBM which runs on System/360 mainframe computer, mainframes ''circa'' 1967 through 1972 in a partition of OS/360 Release 17 MFT II or MVT or above. CPS is imple ...

, an IBM time-sharing operating system *

CP System The , also known as Capcom Play System, CPS for short, and retroactively as CPS-1, is an arcade system board developed by Capcom that ran game software stored on removable daughterboards. More than two dozen arcade titles were released for CPS- ...

, an arcade system board

Engineering

* Cyber-physical system or intelligent system, controlling a mechanism

Medicine

* Cancer Prevention Study, of the American Cancer Society * Comorbidity–polypharmacy score

Physics

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 = ...

, a viscosity subunit, cP, but cps or cPs also used *

CERN Proton Synchrotron The Proton Synchrotron (PS, sometimes also referred to as CPS) is a particle accelerator at CERN. It is CERN's first synchrotron, beginning its operation in 1959. For a brief period the PS was the world's highest energy particle accelerator. It ...

, a particle accelerator * Counts per second (cps), detected by a radiation monitoring instrument *

Cycle per second The cycle per second is a once-common English name for the unit of frequency now known as the ''hertz'' (Hz). Cycles per second may be denoted by c.p.s., c/s, or, ambiguously, just "cycles" (Cyc., Cy., C, or c). The term comes from repetitive p ...

(c.p.s.), now Hertz

Telecommunications

Calls per second Call or Calls may refer to: Arts, entertainment, and media Games * Call (poker), a bet matching an opponent's * Call, in the game of contract bridge, a bid, pass, double, or redouble in the bidding stage Music and dance * Call (band), from L ...

Transport

Caroline Springs railway station Caroline Springs railway station is a regional railway station on the Ararat line, part of the Victorian railway network. It serves the western suburb of Ravenhall, in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Caroline Springs station is a ground leve ...

, Melbourne *

Clapham South tube station Clapham South () is a London Underground station. It is on the Northern line between and Balham stations, and is in both Travelcard Zone 2 and Travelcard Zone 3. The station is located at the corner of Balham Hill (A24) and Nightingale Lane, ...

, London Underground station code * IATA code for St. Louis Downtown Airport

Other uses

* Central Police Station (disambiguation) * Clerk Police Sergeant, a former London Metropolitan Police rank of

station sergeant Station sergeant (also known as crown sergeant, senior sergeant or staff sergeant) is a police rank senior to sergeant and junior to inspector in some British and Commonwealth police forces. The rank insignia is usually a sergeant's three chevrons ...

* Complex problem-solving * Combination Product Set in

hexany In musical tuning systems, the hexany, invented by Erv Wilson, represents one of the simplest structures found in his combination product sets. It is referred to as an uncentered structure, meaning that it implies no tonic. It achieves this b ...

Constant Pressure System The Constant Pressure System, or CPS, is a powerful design used for certain water guns. CPS water guns are powered by a rubber bladder inflated with water. It was patented by Bruce M. D'Andrade as "bladder water gun". Design All Constant Pressur ...

, a design used in water guns * Cost-per-sale, an online advertising pricing system *

Current Population Survey The Current Population Survey (CPS) is a monthly survey of about 60,000 U.S. households conducted by the United States Census Bureau for the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). The BLS uses the data to publish reports early each month called the Em ...

, a US statistical survey *

Conventional Prompt Strike Conventional Prompt Strike (CPS), formerly called Prompt Global Strike (PGS), is a United States military effort to develop a system that can deliver a precision-guided conventional weapon strike anywhere in the world within one hour, in a sim ...

, a proposed class of US weapons systems {{disambiguation