CP, cp or variants may refer to:
Arts and media Cariyapitaka (Cp), a canonical Buddhist story collection The Canadian Press, a Canadian news agency Cartoon Planet, Cartoon Network television programming block Cartoon pornography Child pornography The Christian Post, an American newspaper Competitive programming Club Penguin, a now defunct online multiplayer game Combat power, used in Pokémon Go to indicate how strong a Pokémon is in battle
Business and finance terminology Commercial paper, in global finance, a type of promissory note Congestion pricing Customer profitability, the profit a firm makes from serving a customer
Enterprises Transportation companies Canadian Airlines (1987–2001) (IATA airline code CP) Canadian Pacific Railway, reporting mark CP Central Pacific Railroad, a network of lines between California and Utah, US , a French public railway company , a Portuguese state-owned train company CP Air or Canadian Pacific Air Lines (1942–1987), a Canadian airline CP Ships, a Canadian shipping company, part of TUI Group Cathay Pacific, a Hong Kong–based major airline
Other enterprises C.P. Company, an Italian apparel brand Cedar Point, an amusement park in Sandusky, Ohio, US Central Partnership, a Russian film distributor and production company Charoen Pokphand (C.P. Group), a Thai agribusiness conglomerate Chicago Pneumatic, an American manufacturer of tools and equipment Colgate-Palmolive, an American consumer goods company Commercial Press, a Chinese publishing company Connaught Place, New Delhi, a commercial centre in India Curious Pastimes, a UK-based gaming company
Government, law, and military Captain of the Parish, a (now mainly ceremonial) appointment in the Isle of Man (post-nominal letters CP) Central Powers, a military alliance before and during World War I, led by the German Empire Certified Paralegal, an American legal qualification Charterparty, a maritime contract for the hire of a ship Civil parish, the lowest tier of government in England Command Post, in military terminology Commissioner of Police, the top-ranking officer of the Police Force Communist party, a political party that advocates communism through state policy Consejo popular, an electoral ward of Cuba Montenegrin Party (Crnogorska partija), a political party in Serbia
Places Central provinces (disambiguation) (C.P.) Central Provinces (1861–1936), a former province of India, succeeded by Central Provinces and Berar (1936–1950), corresponding to Madhya Pradesh in the post-partition republic Central Provinces and Berar Circuit or C. P.-Berar Circuit, a Hindi film distribution circuit comprising parts of Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Maharashtra Clipperton Island, a territory with exceptional country code CP
Science and technology Biology and medicine Cerebral palsy Certified Prosthetist, an American medical qualification Ceruloplasmin, an enzyme encoded by the CP gene Congenital prosopagnosia, a type of inability to recognize faces Chronic pancreatitis
Chemistry Capensinidin (Cp), a blue-red plant dye Carbon monophosphide, a diatomic radical chemical compound Cassiopium (Cp), a name formerly used for the chemical element Lutetium Chlorinated paraffins (CPs), complex mixtures of polychlorinated n-alkanes Copernicium, a chemical element, with proposed symbol Cp Counterpoise method, a way to correct for basis set superposition error in quantum chemistry Cross-polarization Cyclopentadienyl complex (Cp), read as "C P", the cyclic fragment in a coordination complex The similar symbol Cp* ("C P star") represents pentamethylcyclopentadienyl, the ligand
Drugs Chlorphenamine, a first-generation alkylamine antihistamine Creatine phosphate, a chemical used to store phosphates in the body Cyclophosphamide, a medication to suppress the immune system
Computing cp (Unix), a UNIX command for copying files and directories Certificate policy, outlining (non)-intended uses of a digital certificate Circuit Probe, a method of wafer testing Code page, a table identifying the character set used to encode a set of glyphs Constraint programming, a programming paradigm wherein relations between variables are stated in the form of constraints Control Program, part of an operating system of the late 1960s; see CP/CMS Connection pool, a cache of database connections 'Content Profile' in the NISO standard Content Profile/Linked Document, a data serialisation format Child process, computing process created by another process Adobe Captivate, a software application
Mathematics Cauchy problem, in partial differential equations Complex projective space (CP), the projective space with respect to the field of complex numbers Mallows's Cp, a statistic used in model selection The field ; see p-adic number#Algebraic closure Process capability index, (Cp), a statistical measure of process capability
Physics Candlepower (cp), a measure of luminous intensity Centipoise (cP), a unit of viscosity CP symmetry, in particle physics, the product of charge conjugation and parity Cp, the specific heat capacity at constant pressure Pressure coefficient (Cp), a parameter for studying the flow of fluids Center of pressure (fluid mechanics), the point where the total sum of a pressure field acts on a body
Other uses in science and technology Cathodic protection, a technique used to control the corrosion of a metal surface Cellphone, a portable telephone device Clock pulse, a signal type in electronics Complementizer phrase, in linguistics, the syntactic head of a full clause Continental Polar (cP), in meteorology, a type of air mass Control point, a section of track where switches and signals control trains within a centralized traffic control
Sport Cymru Premier, Welsh association football league Crystal Palace F.C., English Association Football Club
Other uses C. P. (name), shared by several notable individuals Camp (disambiguation); the US Census Bureau uses "Cp" as a shorthand for "Camp" (cp), a Latin phrase commonly rendered as "all other things being equal" Colored people See also colored people's time Member of the Passionists, a Roman Catholic religious order (post-nominal letters C.P.) Compare, a directive to the reader to compare to a cited source (used interchangeably with "cf."); see List of Latin abbreviations