CPS
CPS may refer to any of the following.
Companies, associations, and other organisations
Africa
Asia
- Center for Planetary Science, an institution in Japan
Australia
Bangladesh
- Criminology and Police Science, CPS is a discipline studied by the department at Mawlana Bhashani Science and Technology University in Tangail, Bangladesh. Md. Afjal Hossain is one of the second batch student who has included this CPS in this wiki-page.
Canada
Chile
France
India
United Kingdom
United States
- Center for the Partially Sighted, an agency that promotes independent living for people of all ages with impaired sight, in Los Angeles, California
- Chicago Public Schools
- Child Protective Services, the name used in many United States jurisdictions for a state or local government agency which investigates child abuse and neglect
- ChoicePoint, whose New York Stock Exchange symbol was CPS until its buyout by Reed Elsevier
- Cincinnati Public Schools, Hamilton County, Ohio
- Civilian Public Service, a national system of work camps for conscientious objectors in the United States administered and paid for by the peace churches during World War II
- Coalition for Positive Sexuality, a self-described "guerrilla sex education" group
- The College Preparatory School, a high school in Oakland, California
- CPS Energy, San Antonio's municipally owned natural gas and electric company
- Current Population Survey, a statistical survey conducted by the United States Census Bureau for the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS)
- Columbia Public Schools
Science and technology
Automotive
Biology
Chemistry
- Capsaicin, a pungent component of chili peppers
- Concentrate of Poppy Straw (also called Poppy Straw Concentrate), a preparation of opium
Childhood psychology
Computing
- CPS (file format), a file format for raster graphics images produced by Corel Photo House, a discontinued forerunner of Corel Photo Paint and Paint Shop Pro
- Capcom Play Systems, CPS-1, CPS-2, and CPS-3, arcade system boards manufactured by Capcom in the early 1990s
- Certification Practice Statement, legal document that describes how the Certificate Authority manages the certificates it issues
- Characters per second is a measurement of the data transfer rate during a Direct Client-to-Client file transfer, like bytes per second
- Citrix Presentation Server, now known as Citrix XenApp.
- Collaborative portal server, an Open Source content management system that is used by the BBC[1] and other websites for generating content.
- Conversational programming system, an early time sharing operating system that ran on IBM System/360 mainframes
- Continuation-passing style, a programming technique
- Cyber-Physical Systems, the tight conjoining of and coordination between computational and physical resources
Economy
Manufacturing
- Constant pressure system, a technology used in some super soakers
Medicine
Metrology
- Centipoise, a measurement of viscosity
- counts per second, a measurement of the number of instrument-detected events per second, e.g., the number of photons per second in fluorescence spectroscopy
- Cycle(s) per second, now known as hertz, which is the SI unit for frequency
- Cells per second, bandwidth measurement unit for ATM protocol.
Music theory
- Combination Product Set, all ways of choosing the product of m distinct values from a set of n primes, treated as a subset of an n-dimensional lattice to create a musical scale with many just intonation chords
Optics
Polymer science
Telecommunications
- Calls per second in telephony or other telecommunications
- Carrier Preselect, a landline telephone option that lets European customers use a third party for call charges instead of using the national operator (British Telecom, KPN, Telekom, Swisscom, Belgacom, etc) without dialling a prefix
Miscellanea
- Caterpillar Production System, modeled after the Toyota Production System
- Central Park South, a street in New York City
- Certified Professional SafeTech, a qualification awarded by the Safe and Vault Technicians Association
- Certified Professional Secretary
- Claims processing system, a warranty processing system available for use by automobile dealerships
- Classroom Performance Systems, a technological student assessment system
- Clerk Police Sergeant, or Clerk Sergeant, a former rank in the London Metropolitan Police
- Computerized performance system, a technical system for manipulating audio, video, and symbols, and performing complex and repetitive mixing procedures for recorded or live performance
- Crane, Poole & Schmidt, a fictional law firm in the television series Boston Legal
- Current Population Survey, conducted by the United States Census Bureau to measure unemployment and other labor data