# CAP

CAP may refer to:

## Certifications

* Certified Administrative Professional, a IAAP certification
* Certified Authorization Professional, a (ISC)² certification
* Certified Automation Professional, a ISA certification

## Companies

* CAP Group (Computer Analysts and Programmers), a UK software company
* CAP S.A. (Compañía de Acero del Pacífico), a Chilean mining and steel sector holding company
* CAP Scientific, a British defence software company (1979-1988)
* Christchurch Adventure Park, a mountain bike park opened in Christchurch, New Zealand, in 2016
* Companhia Aeronáutica Paulista, a 1940s Brazilian aircraft manufacturer
* Constructions Aéronautiques Parisiennes, Apex Aircraft training and aerobatic aircraft

## Computing

* CAP computer, an experimental machine built in Cambridge, UK
* CAP theorem, Consistency, Availability, Partition-tolerance theorem in computer science
* Camel Application Part, a protocol used in CAMEL servers
* Common Alerting Protocol, an XML based data format for exchanging public warnings between different alerting technologies

## Military

* Combat air patrol
* Combined Action Program (AKA Combined Action Platoon), a United States Marine Corps Vietnam era special operation
* Civil Air Patrol, the official US Air Force Auxiliary

## Organisations

* Canadian Action Party, a former Canadian political party
* Canadian Association of Physicists, a professional society
* Cascade AIDS Project, an HIV/AIDS support and advocacy organisation in Portland, Oregon, U.S.
* Center for Adoption Policy, a New York-based organisation providing information on adoption
* Center for American Progress, a left-of-centre think tank
* Central Arizona Project, a diversion canal in Arizona, U.S.
* Central Atlanta Progress, a not-for-profit business stimulus group in Atlanta, U.S.
* Chicago Area Project, a juvenile delinquency project
* Christian Appalachian Project, a program to assist disadvantaged persons in Kentucky and West Virginia
* Christians Against Poverty, the UK charity
* Church Action on Poverty, UK national ecumenical social justice charity established in 1982
* College of American Pathologists, an American professional association
* Committee of Advertising Practice, the British advertising regulatory body
* Committee for Another Policy (Comité voor een Andere Politiek / Comité pour une Autre Politique), a Belgian political movement
* Companions and Pets Party, an Australian political party
* Concerned Alumni of Princeton, a former politically conservative student group at Princeton university
* Congress of Aboriginal Peoples, Canadian aboriginal organization

## Projects, programs, policies

* Canada Assistance Plan, a former transfer program administrated by the government of Canada
* Capital Assistance Program
* Child access prevention laws, which punish adults who allow children to access guns
* Common Agricultural Policy, the European Union's agricultural subsidy system
* Community Access Program, a government of Canada initiative to provide access to the Internet in remote areas
* Community Action Program, Lyndon Johnson's anti-poverty programs
* Community Action Programme, United Kingdom workfare scheme
* Copyright Agency Partnerships, an Australian art commissioning project
* German Climate Action Plan 2050, a climate protection policy document approved in late-2016

## Science and medicine

* CaP, prostate cancer
* CAP (protein), cyclase-associated protein
* Carrierless amplitude phase modulation
* Catabolite activator protein, a regulatory protein for mRNA transcription in prokaryotes that binds cyclic AMP
* Cellulose acetate phthalate, a cellulose-based polymer
* Central aortic pressure, the blood pressure at the root of the aorta
* Community-acquired pneumonia, a common but potentially-dangerous infectious disease of the lower respiratory tract
* Cumulative accuracy profile is used in data science to visualize the discriminative power of a model
* Compound action potential, an evoked potential

## Other

* Carlos Andrés Pérez (1922-2010), twice President of Venezuela
* CAP Markets, social franchise and supermarket chain in Germany
* Capital Airlines, the ICAO airline designator for this airline
* Causal adequacy principle, a philosophical claim made by René Descartes
* Central Arizona Project, the Colorado River diversion canal in Arizona
* Chip Authentication Program, using EMV smartcards to authenticate online banking transactions
* Coded Anti-Piracy, an anti-piracy system for motion picture prints exhibited theatrically
* Consolidated Appeals Process, a funding mechanism used by humanitarian aid organisations
* Codice di Avviamento Postale, literally Postal Expedition Code, Italy's postal code system
* Estadio CAP (Compañía de Acero del Pacífico), a football stadium in Talcahuano, Chile