CMP

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CMP might be an acronym or abbreviation for:

In medicine:

• Cardiomyopathy a heart muscle disease.
• Chondromalacia Patellae, a degenerative condition of the knee cap (patella).
• Comprehensive Metabolic Panel a group of 14 blood tests.
• Cytidine monophosphate, an RNA nucleotide.

In military and firearms:

• Canadian Military Pattern, a truck design in WWII.
• Civilian Marksmanship Program, a U.S. government program that promotes firearms safety training and rifle practice.
• Compact machine pistol, a class of firearm that encompasses small fully automatic firearms.

In computing:

• "compare", comparison instruction in assembly language.
• cmp (Unix), the Unix command for byte-comparing two files.
• Chip-level multiprocessing, see multi-core (computing).
• An acronym for "Comment My Pictures/Photos/Pics", coined by MySpace users for convenience in telling everyone to comment their photos.
• Certificate Management Protocol, as defined in RFC 4210 and RFC 4211.
• Container-Managed Persistence in Enterprise JavaBeans.

In microtechnology:

• Chemical-mechanical planarization or Chemical-mechanical polishing, a technique used in semiconductor fabrication.

In construction:

• Corrugated Metal Pipe

In Physics

• Condensed matter physics a branch of Physics.

Other:

• C. M. Padmanabhan Nair, an Indian politician.
• Compagnie du chemin de fer métropolitain de Paris, the company operating the Paris Métro system up to 1948.
• Communal Music Project, a community dedicated to the advancement of music.
• CMP Technology (formerly CMP Media) and CMP Information, divisions of media company United Business Media.
• Carolina Motorsports Park 3662 Kershaw Hwy Kershaw, South Carolina 29067
• Chris, Matt, and Phil, the founders of Blue Man Group, as referred to by their fans.
• Center for Machine Perception CMP, research group at Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic