CAP may refer to:

Certifications

* Certified Administrative Professional, a IAAP certification * Certified Authorization Professional, a (ISC)² certification * Certified Automation Professional, a ISA certification

Companies

CAP Group CAP Group was a British software house. Computer Analysts and Programmers Ltd (CAP) was founded in May 1962 and grew to be one of the foremost IT companies in the UK before merging with French company Sema-Metra in 1988 to form Sema Group. H ...

(Computer Analysts and Programmers), a UK software company *

CAP S.A. CAP is a Chilean holding company of the mining and steel sectors.https://www.fitchratings.com/entity/cap-sa-80360935 These sectors are represented by different affiliates. The first stage is done through Compañía Minera del Pacífico and inv ...

('), a Chilean mining and steel sector holding company *

CAP Scientific CAP Scientific Ltd was a British defence software company, and was part of CAP (Computer Analysts and Programmers)Group plc. In 1988, CAP Group merged with the French firm Sema-Metra SA in 1988 as Sema Group, Sema Group plc. In 1991 Sema Group ...

, a British defence software company (1979-1988) *

Christchurch Adventure Park Christchurch Adventure Park is an adventure park in the Port Hills of Christchurch, New Zealand. Built by the Canadian company Select Evolution, it had its opening function on 16 December 2016. The 1500 holders of special passes could ride from 1 ...

, a mountain bike park opened in Christchurch, New Zealand, in 2016 *

Companhia Aeronáutica Paulista Companhia Aeronáutica Paulista usually known as CAP was a Brazilian aircraft manufacturer established in São Paulo. History It acquired the assets of Empresa Aeronáutica Ypiranga the same year it was founded and with them, the design that w ...

, a 1940s Brazilian aircraft manufacturer * Constructions Aéronautiques Parisiennes,

Apex Aircraft Apex Aircraft was a French company devoted to light aeroplane manufacture. It markets three ranges of light aircraft which it brands Robin, Alpha and CAP. The "Robin" range is the former Avions Robin DR400 4-seater aircraft of wooden construction, ...

training and aerobatic aircraft

Computing

CAP computer The Cambridge CAP computer was the first successful experimental computer that demonstrated the use of Capability-based security, security capabilities, both in hardware and software.Levy, p.96 It was developed at the University of Cambridge Comp ...

, an experimental machine built in Cambridge, UK *

CAP theorem In theoretical computer science, the CAP theorem, also named Brewer's theorem after computer scientist Eric Brewer, states that any distributed data store can provide only two of the following three guarantees:Seth Gilbert and Nancy Lynch"Brewer ...

, Consistency, Availability, Partition-tolerance theorem in computer science * Camel Application Part, a protocol used in CAMEL servers *

Common Alerting Protocol The Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) is an XML-based data format for exchanging public warnings and emergencies between alerting technologies. CAP allows a warning message to be consistently disseminated simultaneously over many warning systems to m ...

, an XML based data format for exchanging public warnings between different alerting technologies

Military

Combat air patrol Combat air patrol (CAP) is a type of flying mission for fighter aircraft. A combat air patrol is an aircraft patrol provided over an objective area, over the force protected, over the critical area of a combat zone, or over an air defense area ...

Combined Action Program The Combined Action Program was a United States Marine Corps counterinsurgency tools during the Vietnam War. It was widely remembered by the Marine Corps as effective. Operating from 1965 to 1971, it placed a thirteen-member Marine rifle squad, au ...

(AKA Combined Action Platoon), a United States Marine Corps Vietnam era special operation *

Civil Air Patrol Civil Air Patrol (CAP) is a congressionally chartered, federally supported non-profit corporation that serves as the official civilian auxiliary of the United States Air Force (USAF). CAP is a volunteer organization with an aviation-minded mem ...

, the official US Air Force Auxiliary

Organisations

Canadian Action Party The Canadian Action Party (CAP) (french: Parti action canadienne, PAC) was a Canadian federal political party founded in 1997 and deregistered on 31 March 2017. The party stood for Canadian nationalism, monetary and electoral reform, and opposed ...

Canadian Association of Physicists Canadian Association of Physicists (CAP), or in French Association canadienne des physiciens et physiciennes (ACP) is a Canadian professional society that focuses on creating awareness among Canadians and Canadian legislators of physics issues, sp ...

Cascade AIDS Project Cascade AIDS Project (CAP) is a nonprofit organization based in Portland, Oregon, in the United States. Its mission is to prevent HIV infections, to "support and empower" people affected and by HIV/AIDS, and to eliminate stigma associated with the ...

Center for Adoption Policy The Center for Adoption Policy (CAP) is a New York based 501(c)(3) organization. Its mission is to provide research, analysis, advice and education to practitioners and the public about current legislation and practices governing domestic and in ...

Center for American Progress The Center for American Progress (CAP) is a public policy research and advocacy organization which presents a liberal viewpoint on economic and social issues. It has its headquarters in Washington, D.C. The president and chief executive of ...

, a left-of-centre think tank *

Central Arizona Project The Central Arizona Project (CAP) is a 336 mi (541 km) diversion canal in Arizona in the southern United States. The aqueduct diverts water from the Colorado River to the Bill Williams Wildlife Refuge south portion of Lake Havasu ...

Central Atlanta Progress Central Atlanta Progress (CAP), founded in 1941, as the Central Area Improvement Association, is a private, not-for-profit corporation, chartered to plan and promote Atlanta's Central Area, that strives to create a robust economic climate for downto ...

Chicago Area Project Chicago Area Project (CAP) is an American juvenile delinquency prevention association based in Chicago, Illinois. The association has been acting since early 20th century. The project was founded by University of Chicago The University of Chica ...

, a juvenile delinquency project *

Christian Appalachian Project The Christian Appalachian Project (CAP) is an interdenominational non-profit organization, based in Kentucky, US. Their mission is "building hope, transforming lives, and sharing Christ's love through service in Appalachia". CAP was established ...

, a program to assist disadvantaged persons in Kentucky and West Virginia *

Christians Against Poverty Christians Against Poverty (CAP) is a Christian charitable company in the United Kingdom founded in Bradford, West Yorkshire by John Kirkby in 1996. It is a national organisation specialising in debt counselling for people in financial diff ...

, the UK charity *

Church Action on Poverty Church Action on Poverty is a UK-based national ecumenical Christian social justice charity, committed to tackling poverty in the United Kingdom. Church Action on Poverty works in partnership with churches and with people in poverty themselves to ...

, UK national ecumenical social justice charity established in 1982 *

College of American Pathologists The College of American Pathologists (CAP) is a member-based physician organization founded in 1946 comprising approximately 18,000 board-certified pathologists. It serves patients, pathologists, and the public by fostering and advocating ...

Committee of Advertising Practice The Committee of Advertising Practice (CAP) is a British organisation responsible for the UK Code of Non-Broadcast Advertising, Sales Promotion and Direct Marketing, which is the main code of practice for self-regulation of the non-broadcast a ...

Committee for Another Policy The Committee for Another Policy ( nl, Comité voor een Andere Politiek, french: Comité pour une Autre Politique), abbreviated to CAP, was a Belgian left-wing political movement that was established in 2005, and became a political party in 2006. ...

(' / '')'', a Belgian political movement *

Concerned Alumni of Princeton The Concerned Alumni of Princeton (CAP) was a group of politically conservative former Princeton University students that existed between 1972 and 1986. CAP was born in 1972 from the ashes of the Alumni Committee to Involve Itself Now (ACTIIN), w ...

Congress of Aboriginal Peoples The Congress of Aboriginal Peoples (CAP) (formerly the Native Council of Canada and briefly the Indigenous Peoples Assembly of Canada), founded in 1971, is a national Canadian aboriginal organization, that represents Aboriginal peoples ( Non-Stat ...

, Canadian aboriginal organization

Projects, programs, policies

* Canada Assistance Plan, a former transfer program administrated by the

government of Canada The government of Canada (french: gouvernement du Canada) is the body responsible for the federal administration of Canada. A constitutional monarchy, the Crown is the corporation sole, assuming distinct roles: the executive, as the ''Crown-i ...

Capital Assistance Program The Capital Assistance Program is a U.S. Treasury program that provides capital injections in exchange for mandatory convertible preferred stock and warrants to bank holding companies. Background and timeline As part of the Emergency Economic St ...

Child access prevention law A child access prevention law (often abbreviated CAP law; also sometimes called a safe storage law) makes it illegal for an adult to keep a gun in a place and manner so that a child can easily access and fire it. Proponents of these laws, such as th ...

s, which punish adults who allow children to access guns *

Common Agricultural Policy The Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) is the agricultural policy of the European Union. It implements a system of agricultural subsidies and other programmes. It was introduced in 1962 and has since then undergone several changes to reduce th ...

, the European Union's agricultural subsidy system *

Community Access Program The Community Access Program (CAP, also seen as C@P) was an initiative of the Government of Canada which aimed to provide Canadians with affordable public access to the Internet and the skills they need to use it effectively. The program was adminis ...

, a government of Canada initiative to provide access to the Internet in remote areas *

Community Action Program In the United States and its territories, Community Action Agencies (CAA) are local private and public non-profit organizations that carry out the Community Action Program (CAP), which was founded by the 1964 Economic Opportunity Act to fight po ...

, Lyndon Johnson's anti-poverty programs *

Community Action Programme The Community Action Programme (CAP) also known as Support for the very long-term unemployed is a workfare programme in the United Kingdom whereby long-term unemployed people who have been unemployed for over three years must work for their benef ...

, United Kingdom workfare scheme * Copyright Agency Partnerships, an Australian art commissioning project * German Climate Action Plan 2050, a climate protection policy document approved in late-2016

Science and medicine

* CaP,

prostate cancer Prostate cancer is cancer of the prostate. Prostate cancer is the second most common cancerous tumor worldwide and is the fifth leading cause of cancer-related mortality among men. The prostate is a gland in the male reproductive system that su ...

CAP (protein) "Where U Been?" is a song by American rapper 2 Chainz from his second studio album '' B.O.A.T.S. II: Me Time''. (2013) The song was released as the album's first promotional single on August 1, 2013. It was produced by frequent collaborator Mike ...

, cyclase-associated protein *

Carrierless amplitude phase modulation Carrierless amplitude phase modulation (CAP) is a variant of quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM). Instead of modulating the amplitude of two carrier waves, CAP generates a QAM signal by combining two PAM signals filtered through two filters desi ...

Catabolite activator protein Catabolite activator protein (CAP; also known as cAMP receptor protein, CRP) is a trans-acting transcriptional activator that exists as a homodimer in solution. Each subunit of CAP is composed of a ligand-binding domain at the N-terminus (CAPN, ...

, a regulatory protein for mRNA transcription in prokaryotes that binds cyclic AMP * Cellulose acetate phthalate, a cellulose-based polymer *

Community-acquired pneumonia Community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) refers to pneumonia (any of several lung diseases) contracted by a person outside of the healthcare system. In contrast, hospital-acquired pneumonia (HAP) is seen in patients who have recently visited a hospital ...

, a common but potentially-dangerous infectious disease of the lower respiratory tract *

Cumulative accuracy profile A cumulative accuracy profile (CAP) is a concept utilized in data science Data science is an interdisciplinary field that uses scientific methods, processes, algorithms and systems to extract or extrapolate knowledge and insights from noisy, ...

is used in data science to visualize the discriminative power of a model

Other

Carlos Andrés Pérez Carlos Andrés Pérez Rodríguez (27 October 1922 – 25 December 2010) also known as CAP and often referred to as '' El Gocho'' (due to his Andean origins), was a Venezuelan politician and the president of Venezuela from 12 March 1974 to 12 M ...

(1922-2010), twice President of Venezuela *

CAP Markets CAP Märkte (CAP Markets) are medium-sized neighbourhood supermarkets in Germany employing disabled people. Each unit is typically run by a local disablement association, but the brand is owned by a co-operative of sheltered workshops. As well as ...

, social franchise and supermarket chain in Germany * Capital Airlines, the ICAO airline designator for this airline *

Causal adequacy principle Causality (also referred to as causation, or cause and effect) is influence by which one event, process, state, or object (''a'' ''cause'') contributes to the production of another event, process, state, or object (an ''effect'') where the ca ...

, a philosophical claim made by René Descartes *

, the Colorado River diversion canal in Arizona *

Chip Authentication Program 250px, A Gemalto EZIO CAP device with Barclays PINsentry styling The Chip Authentication Program (CAP) is a MasterCard initiative and technical specification for using EMV banking smartcards for authenticating users and transactions in online an ...

, using EMV smartcards to authenticate online banking transactions *

Coded Anti-Piracy Coded anti-piracy (CAP) is an anti-copyright infringement technology which marks each film print of a motion picture with a distinguishing pattern of dots, used as a forensic identifier to identify the source of illegal copies. They are not to b ...

, an anti-piracy system for motion picture prints exhibited theatrically * Consolidated Appeals Process, a funding mechanism used by humanitarian aid organisations * Codice di Avviamento Postale, literally ''Postal Expedition Code'', Italy's postal code system *

Estadio CAP Estadio Huachipato-CAP Acero (''Compañía de Acero del Pacífico''), is a football stadium in Talcahuano, Chile. It is the home field of the Huachipato football team. Until 2012, Naval A navy, naval force, or maritime force is the bran ...

('), a football stadium in Talcahuano, Chile