CIP may refer to:

Business and finance

  • Commercially Important Person
  • Construction in progress, a balance sheet assets item
  • Continual improvement process
  • "Carriage and Insurance Paid to" Incoterms
  • Customer Identification Program, in US anti-money laundering

Government and military

  • Capital improvement plan, in urban planning
  • Citizen Information Project in the UK
  • Classification of Instructional Programs, US Department of Education
  • Commercial Import Program, US-South Vietnam
  • Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme of the EU
  • Combat Identification Panel, a US identify-friend-or-foe device
  • Continuation in Part in US Patent law
  • Corps of Intelligence Police of US Army 1917-1941
  • Critical Infrastructure Protection, US
  • Customer Identification Program, in US anti-money laundering

Organizations and businesses

  • Canadian Institute of Planners
  • California Innocence Project, for innocent prisoners
  • Center for Industrial Progress think tank, San Diego, California, US
  • Center for Islamic Pluralism, Washington D.C., US
  • Centro Internacional de la Papa, the International Potato Center in Peru
  • Center for Intellectual Property Studies, Gothenburg, Sweden
  • Centre for Integrated Photonics
  • Center for International Policy, Washington D.C, US
  • Commission Internationale Permanente pour l'Epreuve des Armes à Feu Portatives (Permanent International Commission for the Proof of Small Arms)
  • Comitato Italiano Paralimpico, Italian Paralympic Committee
  • Crown International Pictures, US film studio
  • Crippled Intellect Publications, a record label

Science and technology

Biology and medicine

  • Calf-intestinal alkaline phosphatase, an enzyme
  • Congenital insensitivity to pain
  • Critical illness polyneuropathy
  • CIP/KIP family of Cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitor proteins
  • Cannabis Induced Psychosis

Chemistry

  • Cahn–Ingold–Prelog priority rules, or CIP system, for naming organic molecules
  • Carbon in pulp, method of gold extraction
  • Clean-in-place, without disassembly

Computing

  • CIP-Tool, for modelling event-driven processes
  • Common Indexing Protocol, for exchanging index information
  • Common Industrial Protocol, automation protocol
  • Core Independent Peripherals, an implementation of autonomous peripheral operations in microcontrollers

Military

  • Class Improvement Project, a minor type of ship upgrade created by the US Navy Ship Characteristics Board 1945-1975

Other uses in science and technology

  • Cataloging in Publication, data for a work, in library science
  • Certified IRB Professional, a scientific research certification
  • Cold isostatic pressing