# CP

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
* Coldplay, a British pop rock band
* Competitive programming
* Club Penguin, a now defunct online multiplayer game
* Creepypasta, a form of internet horror story
* Cyberpunk, a subgenre of science fiction

## Enterprises
### Transportation companies

* Canadian Airlines (1987–2001) (IATA airline code CP)
* Canadian Pacific Railway, reporting mark CP
* Cebu Pacific, a Philippine airline company
* Central Pacific Railroad, a network of lines between California and Utah, US
* Chemins de Fer de Provence, a French public railway company
* Comboios de Portugal, 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
* 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
* 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 ligand (Cp), read as "C P", the cyclic C $_5$H $_5$ fragment in a coordination complex
** The similar symbol Cp* ("C P star") represents pentamethylcyclopentadienyl, the C $_5$Me $_5$ 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

### Mathematics

* Cauchy problem, in partial differential equations
* Complex projective space (CP$^n$), the projective space with respect to the field of complex numbers
* Mallows's C$_p$, a statistic used in model selection
* Process capability index, (C$_p$), 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$_p$, the specific heat capacity at constant pressure
* Pressure coefficient (C$_p$), 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)
* 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
* Ceteris paribus (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
* Communist party, a political party that advocates communism through state policy
* 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