CAP

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CAP may refer to:

Science and medicine

• CaP, prostate cancer
• CAP (protein), cyclase-associated protein
• Carrierless amplitude phase modulation
• Catabolite activator protein, a regulatory protein for mRNA transcription in prokaryotes that binds cyclic AMP
• Cellulose acetate phthalate, a cellulose-based polymer
• Community-acquired pneumonia

Computing

• CAP computer, an experimental machine built in Cambridge, UK
• CAP theorem, Consistency, Availability, Partition-tolerance theorem in computer science
• Camel Application Part, a protocol used in CAMEL servers
• Common Alerting Protocol, an XML based data format for exchanging public warnings between different alerting technologies

Organisations

• Canadian Action Party
• Canadian Association of Physicists
• Center for Adoption Policy
• Center for American Progress, a left-of-centre think tank
• Central Atlanta Progress
• Chicago Area Project, a juvenile delinquency project
• Christian Appalachian Project, a program to assist disadvantaged persons in Kentucky and West Virginia
• Christians Against Poverty, the UK charity
• Church Action on Poverty, UK national ecumenical social justice charity established in 1982
• College of American Pathologists
• Committee of Advertising Practice
• Committee for Another Policy (Comité voor een Andere Politiek / Comité pour une Autre Politique), a Belgian political movement
• Concerned Alumni of Princeton
• Congress of Aboriginal Peoples, Canadian aboriginal organization

Companies

• Companhia Aeronáutica Paulista, a 1940s Brazilian aircraft manufacturer
• CAP Group (Computer Analysts and Programmers), a UK software company
• CAP S.A. (Compañía de Acero del Pacífico), a Chilean mining and steel sector holding company
• CAP Scientific, a British defence software company (1979-1988)
• Constructions Aéronautiques Parisiennes, Apex Aircraft training and aerobatic aircraft

Projects, programs, policies

• Common Agricultural Policy, the European Union's agricultural subsidy system
• Community Access Program, a government of Canada initiative to provide access to the Internet in remote areas
• Capital Assistance Program
• Community Action Program, Lyndon Johnson's anti-poverty programs
• Community Action Programme, United Kingdom workfare scheme

Military

• Combat air patrol
• Combined Action Program (AKA Combined Action Platoon), a United States Marine Corps Vietnam era special operation
• Civil Air Patrol, the official US Air Force Auxiliary

Certifications

• Certified Automation Professional, certification from the International Society of Automation
• Certified Administrative Professional, certification from the International Association of Administrative Professionals

Other

• Carlos Andrés Pérez (1922-2010), twice President of Venezuela
• Capital Airlines, the ICAO airline designator for this airline
• Causal adequacy principle, a philosophical claim made by René Descartes
• Central Arizona Project, the Colorado River diversion canal in Arizona
• Chip Authentication Program, using EMV smartcards to authenticate online banking transactions
• Coded Anti-Piracy, 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 (Compañía de Acero del Pacífico), a football stadium in Talcahuano, Chile

See also

• CAP code (disambiguation)
• Cap (disambiguation)