CPS or cps may refer to:

Organizations

Canada

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

China

  • Chinese Poetry Society, a national literary society

United Kingdom

  • Cambridge Philosophical Society, a scientific 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

  • Child protective services, U.S. agencies responsible for child protection
  • Chicago Public Schools, a public school system in Chicago, Illinois
  • Cincinnati Public Schools, Hamilton County, Ohio
  • Civilian Public Service, a WWII alternative for conscientious objectors
  • Cleveland Photographic Society, Ohio
  • Coalition for Positive Sexuality, an educational 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

Science and technology

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, a series of cohort studies by 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

  • St. Louis Downtown Airport, United States (IATA code: CPS)
  • Caroline Springs railway station, Australia (VicTrack code: CPS)
  • Clapham South tube station, England (London Underground code: CPS)

Other uses

  • Central Police Station (disambiguation)
  • Clerk Police Sergeant, a former London Metropolitan Police rank of station sergeant
  • Complex problem-solving, a type of 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, an American statistical survey
  • Conventional Prompt Strike, a proposed class of U.S. military weapon systems
  • Capiznon language (ISO 639-3 code: cps)

See also