CAPS

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The initialism "CAPS", when used by itself, can refer to:

• the Canadian Association of Paediatric Surgeons
• the Catastrophic antiphospholipid syndrome
• the Center for Analysis and Prediction of Storms
• the Cirrus Aircraft Parachute System
• the Chicago Alternative Policing Strategy
• the Computer Animation Production System developed by Disney and Pixar
• Counseling and Psychological Services (Stanford) at Stanford University
• the SMTP Service Extension for Capabilities Exchange

• Computer Assisted Practice Systems, a pioneering document assembly tool and the predecessor of HotDocs

• Companion Animal Protection Society, a U.S. based animal protection organization

• Cassini Plasma Spectrometer [1], as listed in the Cassini-Huygens abbreviations

CAPS is also used as a reference to capital letters (or "caps"), written in capital letters itself. See caps for other uses in lowercase form.

In telephony CAPS means Call Attempts Per Second. It used to measure the sizing of telephony application servers.