CAP

CAP may refer to:

Certifications

 * Certified Administrative Professional, a IAAP certification
 * Certified Authorization Professional, a (ISC)² certification
 * Certified Automation Professional, a ISA certification

Companies

 * 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)
 * Christchurch Adventure Park, a mountain bike park opened in Christchurch, New Zealand, in 2016
 * Companhia Aeronáutica Paulista, a 1940s Brazilian aircraft manufacturer
 * Constructions Aéronautiques Parisiennes, Apex Aircraft training and aerobatic aircraft

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

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

Organisations

 * Canadian Action Party, a former Canadian political party
 * Canadian Association of Physicists, a professional society
 * Cascade AIDS Project, an HIV/AIDS support and advocacy organisation in Portland, Oregon, U.S.
 * Center for Adoption Policy, a New York-based organisation providing information on adoption
 * Center for American Progress, a left-of-centre think tank
 * Central Arizona Project, a diversion canal in Arizona, U.S.
 * Central Atlanta Progress, a not-for-profit business stimulus group in Atlanta, U.S.
 * 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, an American professional assoication
 * Committee of Advertising Practice, the British advertising regulatory body
 * Committee for Another Policy (Comité voor een Andere Politiek / Comité pour une Autre Politique), a Belgian political movement
 * Companions and Pets Party, an Australian political party
 * Concerned Alumni of Princeton, a former politically conservative student group at Princeton university
 * Congress of Aboriginal Peoples, Canadian aboriginal organization

Projects, programs, policies

 * Canada Assistance Plan, a former transfer program administrated by the government of Canada
 * Capital Assistance Program
 * Child access prevention laws, which punish adults who allow children to access guns
 * 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
 * Community Action Program, Lyndon Johnson's anti-poverty programs
 * Community Action Programme, United Kingdom workfare scheme
 * Copyright Agency Partnerships, an Australian art commissioning project
 * German Climate Action Plan 2050, a climate protection policy document approved in late-2016

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
 * Central aortic pressure, the blood pressure at the root of the aorta
 * Community-acquired pneumonia, a common but potentially-dangerous infectious disease of the lower respiratory tract
 * Cumulative accuracy profile is used in data science to visualize the discriminative power of a model
 * Compound action potential, an evoked potential

Other

 * Carlos Andrés Pérez (1922-2010), twice President of Venezuela
 * CAP Markets, social franchise and supermarket chain in Germany
 * 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