CSP may refer to:

Education

* College Student Personnel, an academic discipline * Commonwealth Supported Place, a category in Australian education * Concordia University (Saint Paul, Minnesota), US

Organizations

Caledonian Steam Packet Company The Caledonian Steam Packet Company provided a scheduled shipping service, carrying freight and passengers, on the west coast of Scotland. Formed in 1889 to complement the services of the Caledonian Railway, the company expanded by taking over r ...

, Scotland * California Society of Printmakers, US *

Cambridge Scholars Publishing Cambridge Scholars Publishing (CSP) is an academic book publisher based in Newcastle upon Tyne, England. It is not affiliated with the University of Cambridge or Cambridge University Press. It began as the hobby project of a Cambridge alumnus ...

, UK * Canadian Ski Patrol * Center for Security Policy, a think tank in Washington, D.C., US *

Chartered Society of Physiotherapy The Chartered Society of Physiotherapy (CSP) is the professional body and trade union for physiotherapists in the United Kingdom. Founded in 1894, the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy has grown to become the profession's largest membership o ...

, UK * Christopher Street Project, interest group and nonprofit in Washington, D.C., US *

Paulist Fathers The Paulist Fathers, officially named the Missionary Society of Saint Paul the Apostle (), abbreviated CSP, is a Catholic society of apostolic life of Pontifical Right for men founded in New York City in 1858 by Isaac Hecker in collaboration w ...

or the Congregation of St. Paul

Government

* California State Police, US *

Civil Services of Pakistan The Central Superior Services (CSS; or Civil Service) is a permanent elite civil service authority and the civil service that is responsible for running the bureaucratic operations and government secretariats and directorates of the Cabinet of ...

Colorado State Patrol The Colorado State Patrol (CSP) (originally known as the Colorado State Highway Courtesy Patrol), based in Lakewood, Colorado, is a division of the Colorado Department of Public Safety, and is one of the official state police agencies of Colorado ...

, US *

Committee of Public Safety The Committee of Public Safety () was a committee of the National Convention which formed the provisional government and war cabinet during the Reign of Terror, a violent phase of the French Revolution. Supplementing the Committee of General D ...

, France (1793-95) *

Connecticut State Police The Connecticut State Police (CSP) is the state police and highway patrol of the U.S. state of Connecticut, responsible for statewide traffic regulation and law enforcement, especially in areas not served by (or served by smaller) municipal police ...

, US

Political parties

Chicago Socialist Party The Chicago Socialist Party (CSP) is the local chapter of the Socialist Party USA in Chicago, Illinois and traces its origins back to the Cook County Socialist Party and the Socialist Party of America. It is a democratic socialist organization t ...

, US * Christian Social Party (disambiguation) * Christian Solidarity Party, Ireland *

Christlich Soziale Partei (Belgium) The Christian Social Party (, , CSP) is a Christian democratic political party operating in the German-speaking Community of Belgium. Its president is Luc Frank. In the 2004 European Parliament election The 2004 European Parliament election ...

Congress Socialist Party The Congress Socialist Party (CSP) was a socialist caucus within the Indian National Congress. It was founded in 1934 by Congress members who rejected what they saw as the anti-rational mysticism of Gandhi as well as the sectarian attitude of ...

, India

Transportation

Camas Prairie Railroad Camas Prairie Railroad Company was a short line railroad in northern Idaho jointly owned and operated by Northern Pacific Railway and Union Pacific. Parts of the former railroad are now operated by the Great Northwest Railroad and the BG&CM Rai ...

, Idaho, US * Camas Prairie RailNet, shortline railroad formerly owned by

North American RailNet North American RailNet, Inc., based in Bedford, Texas, was a holding company A holding company is a company whose primary business is holding a controlling interest in the Security (finance), securities of other companies. A holding company u ...

, US * Casper Air Service ( ICAO airline designator)

Science and technology

* Chiral stationary phase, in chiral column chromatography *

Concentrated solar power Concentrated solar power (CSP, also known as concentrating solar power, concentrated solar thermal) systems generate solar power by using mirrors or lenses to concentrate a large area of sunlight into a receiver. Electricity is generated whe ...

, a type of design for electricity generation and water warming *

Crystal structure prediction Crystal structure prediction (CSP) is the calculation of the crystal structures of solids from first principles. Reliable methods of predicting the crystal structure of a compound, based only on its composition, has been a goal of the physical scien ...

* Cavum septi pellucidi, a common variation observed in brain anatomy * Compulsive skin picking * Chemosensory protein * Cyclic sieving phenomenon, in combinatorics and representation theory * Circumsporozoite protein *

Competence stimulating peptide Competence stimulating peptides (CSP) are chemical messengers that assist the initiation of quorum sensing, and exist in many bacterial genera. Bacterial transformation of DNA is driven by CSP-coupled quorum sensing. Competence stimulating peptid ...

Computing

* Credential service provider, a trusted entity * Common spatial pattern, in signal processing and statistical data analysis * Carriage service provider *

Chip-scale package A chip scale package or chip-scale package (CSP) is a type of integrated circuit package. Originally, CSP was the acronym for ''chip-size packaging.'' Since only a few packages are chip size, the meaning of the acronym was adapted to ''chip-scal ...

, or chip-size package * Client-side prediction, a network programming technique in video games *

Communicating sequential processes In computer science, communicating sequential processes (CSP) is a formal language for describing patterns of interaction in concurrent systems. It is a member of the family of mathematical theories of concurrency known as process algebras, or p ...

, a formal language for describing patterns of interaction in concurrent systems *

Communications service provider A telecommunications company is a kind of electronic communications service provider, more precisely a telecommunications service provider (TSP), that provides telecommunications services such as telephony and data communications access. Many t ...

, for example telecommunications *

Constraint satisfaction problem Constraint satisfaction problems (CSPs) are mathematical questions defined as a set of objects whose state must satisfy a number of constraints or limitations. CSPs represent the entities in a problem as a homogeneous collection of finite const ...

, a formalism for defining constrained decision problems *

Content Security Policy Content Security Policy (CSP) is a computer security standard introduced to prevent cross-site scripting (XSS), clickjacking and other code injection attacks resulting from execution of malicious content in the trusted web page context. It is a Ca ...

, a security standard introduced to prevent certain kinds of cross-site scripting-based attacks * Control Storage Processor, a processor architecture used in the IBM System/32,

IBM System/34 The IBM System/34 was an IBM midrange computer introduced in 1977. It was withdrawn from marketing in February 1985. It was a multi-user, multi-tasking successor to the single-user System/32. It included two processors, one based on the System/3 ...

and

IBM System/36 The IBM System/36 (often abbreviated as S/36) was a midrange computer marketed by IBM from 1983 to 2000 - a multi-user, multi-tasking successor to the System/34. Like the System/34 and the older System/32, the System/36 was primarily prog ...

computers. * Critical security parameter, in cryptography * IBM Cross System Product, a defunct 4GL for IBM mainframes * Cryptographic Service Provider, in Microsoft Windows *

Cubesat Space Protocol CubeSat Space Protocol (CSP) is a small network-layer delivery protocol designed for CubeSats. The idea was developed by a group of students from Aalborg University in 2008, and further developed for the AAUSAT3 CubeSat mission that was launched ...

, a small network-layer delivery protocol for cubesats *

Cloud service provider Cloud computing is "a paradigm for enabling network access to a scalable and elastic pool of shareable physical or virtual resources with self-service provisioning and administration on-demand," according to ISO. Essential characteristics ...

Clip Studio Paint Clip Studio Paint (previously marketed as Manga Studio in North America), informally known in Japan as ,A clipping of the Japanese pronunciation of its name, ''Kurippu Sutajio Peinto''. is a family of software applications developed by Japane ...

, digital art software

Other uses

* Centro Sportivo Paraibano, Brazilian football (soccer) club * Certified Scrum Professional, a certification for Scrum Agile Project Management * Certified Safety Professional, an accredited status in the United States * Certified Speaking Professional, an accredited status in the US * Club Sportivo Patria, Argentinian football club * Conservation Security Program, a voluntary agricultural land conservation program in the US * Corporate sustainable profitability *

Council Shoulder Patch Scouting America use uniforms and insignia to give a Scouting, Scout visibility and create a level of identity within both the unit and the community. The uniform is used to promote equality while showing individual achievement. While all uniform ...

, insignia of the Boy Scouts of America *

Limoges CSP Limoges Cercle Saint-Pierre, commonly referred to as Limoges CSP or CSP, is a French professional basketball club based in the city of Limoges. History The club was founded in 1929, but its peak was during the 1980s and 1990s, when they became t ...

, a French basketball club