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
  • Combat power, used in Pokémon Go to indicate how strong a Pokémon is in battle

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, United States
  • 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.

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
  • 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 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
  • The 'Content Profile' in the NISO standard Content Profile/Linked Document, a data serialisation format
  • Child process, Computing process created by another process

Mathematics

  • Cauchy problem, in partial differential equations
  • Complex projective space (CP), the projective space with respect to the field of complex numbers
  • Mallows's C<sub>p</sub>, a statistic used in model selection
  • The field <math>\mathbb C_p</math>, see p-adic number#Algebraic closure
  • Process capability index, (C<sub>p</sub>), 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
  • C<sub>p</sub>, the specific heat capacity at constant pressure
  • Pressure coefficient (C<sub>p</sub>), 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)<!--From https://www2.census.gov/geo/maps/DC2020/DC20BLK/st48_tx/place/p4805000_austin/DC20BLK_P4805000.pdf PDF p. 17/36 - The US Census Bureau uses "Cp" as a shorthand for "Camp", as in "Cp Mabry" -> "Camp Mabry" -->
  • 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
  • (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
  • Congestion pricing
  • 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
  • Cymru Premier, Welsh association football league
  • Crystal Palace F.C., English Association Football Club