# CPS

CPS or cps may refer to:

## Organisations
### Canada

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

### United Kingdom

* Cambridge Philosophical 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

* Chicago Public Schools
* Child protective services, in many US jurisdictions
* Cincinnati Public Schools, Hamilton County, Ohio
* Civilian Public Service, a WWII alternative for conscientious objectors
* Cleveland Photographic Society, Ohio
* Coalition for Positive Sexuality, an education 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, of 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

* Caroline Springs railway station, Melbourne
* Clapham South tube station, London Underground station code
* IATA code for St. Louis Downtown Airport

## Other uses

* Central Police Station (disambiguation)
* Clerk Police Sergeant, a former London Metropolitan Police rank of station sergeant
* Complex 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, a US statistical survey
* Conventional Prompt Strike, a proposed class of US weapons systems