CP

CP, cp. or its variants may refer to:

Arts, entertainment, and media

 * Cariyapitaka (Cp), a canonical Buddhist story collection
 * The Canadian Press, a Canadian news agency
 * Child pornography
 * The Christian Post, an American newspaper
 * Competitive programming
 * Club Penguin, a now defunct online multiplayer game
 * Creepypasta, a form of internet horror story
 * Cyberpunk, a subgenre of science fiction

Transportation companies

 * Canadian Airlines (1987–2001) (IATA airline code CP)
 * Canadian Pacific Railway, reporting mark CP
 * Cebu Pacific, a Philippine airline company
 * Central Pacific Railroad, a network of lines between California and Utah, US
 * Chemins de Fer de Provence, a French public railway company
 * Comboios de Portugal, 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, USA
 * 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
 * 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
 * Consejo popular, an electoral ward of Cuba.

Biology and medicine

 * Cerebral palsy, a brain disorder
 * 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
 * Cp, a proposed chemical symbol for the element Copernicium (Cn)
 * Counterpoise method, a way to correct for basis set superposition error in quantum chemistry
 * Cross-polarization
 * Cyclopentadienyl ligand (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
 * The 'Content Profile' in the NISO standard Content Profile/Linked Document, a data serialisation format

Mathematics

 * Cauchy problem, in partial differential equations
 * Complex projective space (CP$n$), the projective space with respect to the field of complex numbers
 * Mallows's Cp, a statistic used in model selection
 * 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

Other uses

 * Adobe Captivate, an Adobe software
 * C. P. (name), shared by several notable individuals
 * Camp (disambiguation)
 * 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
 * Ceteris paribus (cp), a Latin phrase commonly rendered as "all other things being equal"
 * Colored people
 * see also colored people's time
 * Commercial paper, in global finance, a type of promissory note
 * Communist party, a political party that advocates communism through state policy
 * Customer profitability, the profit a firm makes from serving a customer
 * 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
 * Clipperton Island, a territory with exceptional country code CP
 * Montenegrin Party (Crnogorska partija), a political party in Serbia