CPS

CPS or cps may refer to:

Canada

 * Calgary Police Service, Alberta
 * Canadian Paediatric Society
 * Canadian Power and Sail Squadrons, recreational sailors
 * Compendium of Pharmaceuticals and Specialties

United Kingdom

 * Cambridge Philosophical Society, at the University of Cambridge
 * Cambridge Positioning Systems, a GPS software company bought by CSR plc
 * Centre for Policy Studies, a British think-tank
 * Communist Party of Scotland
 * Crown Prosecution Service, in England and Wales

United States

 * Chicago Public Schools
 * Child protective services, in many US jurisdictions
 * Cincinnati Public Schools, Hamilton County, Ohio
 * Civilian Public Service, a WWII alternative for conscientious objectors
 * Cleveland Photographic Society, Ohio
 * Coalition for Positive Sexuality, an education website
 * The College Preparatory School, Oakland, California
 * CPS Energy, formerly City Public Service Board of San Antonio, Texas

Elsewhere

 * CPS (programadora) (Comunicaciones Producción y Servicios de Televisión), a Colombian TV program-maker, 1998–2003
 * Colegio de la Preciosa Sangre de Pichilemu, a school in Chile
 * College of Physicians and Surgeons (disambiguation)
 * Conference of Presentation Sisters of North America, a congregation of the Presentation Sisters religious order
 * Convention Panafricaine Sankariste, Burkina Faso

Biology and chemistry

 * Capsaicin, a pungent component of chili peppers
 * Carbamoyl phosphate synthase II, an enzyme that catalyzes a reaction yielding carbamoyl phosphate
 * Carbamoyl phosphate synthetase, an enzyme that catalyzes a reaction yielding carbamoyl phosphate
 * Chlorpyrifos, an organophosphate pesticide
 * Concentrate of poppy straw, processed poppy straw
 * Circumsporozoite protein, a protein secreted by the malaria parasite during the sporozoite stage

Computing

 * CPS, a Corel Photo House image file format
 * Certification Practice Statement, of a certificate authority
 * Continuation-passing style, a programming technique
 * Conversational Programming System, an IBM time-sharing operating system
 * CP System, an arcade system board

Engineering

 * Cyber-physical system or intelligent system, controlling a mechanism

Medicine

 * Cancer Prevention Study, of the American Cancer Society
 * Comorbidity–polypharmacy score

Physics

 * Centipoise, a viscosity subunit, cP, but cps or cPs also used
 * CERN Proton Synchrotron, a particle accelerator
 * Counts per second (cps), detected by a radiation monitoring instrument
 * Cycle per second (c.p.s.), now Hertz

Telecommunications

 * Calls per second

Transport

 * Caroline Springs railway station, Melbourne
 * Clapham South tube station, London Underground station code
 * IATA code for St. Louis Downtown Airport

Other uses

 * Central Police Station (disambiguation)
 * Clerk Police Sergeant, a former London Metropolitan Police rank of station sergeant
 * Complex problem-solving
 * Combination Product Set in hexany
 * Constant Pressure System, a design used in water guns
 * Cost-per-sale, an online advertising pricing system
 * Current Population Survey, a US statistical survey
 * Conventional Prompt Strike, a proposed class of US weapons systems