CP

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CP, Cp, cP, cp, cp., or C.P. may refer to:

In arts and entertainment

In literature

• The Canadian Press, a Canadian news agency
• The Christian Post, a news web site
• Chuck Palahniuk (born 1962), American writer
• The Complete Peerage, a reference work on titled aristocracy
• City Pages, an alternative weekly in Minneapolis-Saint Paul

In music

• Christina Perri (born 1986), American singer and songwriter
• Coldplay, a British alternative band
• Crash Parallel, a Canadian contemporary/rock band

Other uses in arts and entertainment

• Captain Planet, a fictional character
• Carnival Phantasm, a Japanese animated series
• Cipher Pol, a governmental organization from the One Piece manga and anime series
• Club Penguin, an online game
• Comedy person, a comedy person kartik
• Curious Pastimes, a UK-based gaming company

In business and finance

• CafePress, an online retailer of print-on-demand products
• Charoen Pokphand, a Thai agribusiness conglomerate
• Crowne Plaza hotels
• Commercial paper
• Construction permit
• Customer profitability

Transport companies

• Canadian Airlines, IATA airline code CP
• Canadian Pacific Airlines, known at one time as CP Air
• Canadian Pacific Railway, known at one time as CP Rail
• CP Ships, formerly Canadian Pacific Steamships
• Cathay Pacific, a Hong Kong-based airline
• Cebu Pacific, a Philippine low-cost airlin
• Central Pacific Railroad
• Comboios de Portugal, Portuguese Trains
• Chemins de fer de Provence, a French public railway company

Places

• Caesars Palace, a hotel and casino in Las Vegas
• Candlestick Park, a former stadium in San Francisco, California
• Cedar Point, an amusement park in Sandusky, Ohio
• Center Point (disambiguation)
• Centre Point, a building in Central London
• Central Park (disambiguation)
• Central Province (disambiguation), any of various subnational entities
• Central Provinces, a province of British India
• Clifton Park, a town in Saratoga County, New York
• Clipperton Island
• College Park (disambiguation)]
• College Point, Queens, New York
• Connaught Place, New Delhi
• Crystal Palace, London

In politics and law

• Captain of the Parish, a postnominal
• Canadian Party
• Certified Paralegal
• Civil parish
• Colombo Plan
• Commissioner of Police (Singapore)
• Communist Party
• Comparative politics
• Condition precedent
• Constitution Party (disambiguation)
• Consumer proposal
• Corporal punishment
• Court of Common Pleas (disambiguation)

In science and technology

In biology and medicine

• CP, a prefix code used by Pfizer for its drugs
• Carnivorous plant
• Cerebellopontine angle ("CP angle"), a brain structure
• Cerebral palsy, a brain disorder
• Certified Prosthetist (CP)
• Ceruloplasmin, a gene
• Chloroplast
• Chronic prostatitis (disambiguation), any of various conditions
• Cicatricial Pemphigoid, a blistering disease
• Congenital prosopagnosia
• Control Pause, duration of breath control using the Buteyko method
• Creatine phosphate
• Crude protein
• Cyclophosphamide

In chemistry

• Capensinidin, an anthocyanidin
• Car–Parrinello molecular dynamics software package
• Cassiopium (Cp), a name formerly used for the chemical element Lutetium in German chemical literature
• Chlorinated paraffins
• Chlorophyll
• Copernicium (Cn) also has Cp as a proposed symbol, also known as Ununbium
• Counterpoise method, a way to correct for basis set superposition error in quantum chemistry
• Cyclopentadienyl ligand, for which cyclopentadiene is a precursor
• Pentamethylcyclopentadienyl ligand (abbrev. Cp*), related to pentamethylcyclopentadiene

In computing and telecommunications

• cp (Unix), the Unix "copy file" command
• Central processor, the main execution circuitry of a computer, especially an IBM mainframe when referred to as "CP"
  • CP/CMS, IBM mainframe operating system software
• Circuit Probe, a method of wafer testing
• Clock pulse, in electronics
• Code page
• Command prompt, in computing
• Component Pascal, a programming language
• Constraint programming
• cPanel, a web-based managing tool for websites

In mathematics

• Complex projective space, in mathematics
• Conditional proof
• Mallows's C_p, a statistic used in model selection
• C_p, a process capability index

In physics

• Candlepower, a measure of luminous intensity
• Centipoise, a unit of viscosity
• Charge parity, in physics
• Conceptual physics
• Constant pressure, referring to specific heat capacity at constant pressure (C_p or c_p)
• Pressure coefficient

Other uses in science and technology

• Cape Photographic Durchmusterung, an astrometric star catalogue
• Cathodic protection
• Certified Photogrammetrist, in photogrammetry
• Cleaner production, the act of minimizing waste and emissions in industrial processes
• Complementizer, a lexical category in linguistics
• Continental Polar air mass, in meteorology
• Control panel (disambiguation)
• Control point (rail)

Other uses

• Cariyapitaka, a canonical Buddhist story collection
• Ceteris paribus, a Latin phrase commonly rendered as "all other things being equal"
• Chi Phi, a fraternity
• Child pornography
• Cheese pizza
• Chris Paul (born 1985), American basketball player
• Close protection, or bodyguard
• College Prep, a school or course of study taken to prepare for college
• Command post
• Conductive pedagogy, for disabled pupils
• Congregation Passionis Iesu Christi, a Roman Catholic religious order (also called Passionists)
• Corporal punishment
• Counterpart (disambiguation)
• Cuddle party, or cuddle puddle
• cp., an abbreviation for "compare", similar to cf.