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CAP

A cap is a form of headgear.Cap may also refer to:* Bottle cap, a closure to seal bottles* Screw cap, a closure to seal bottles or jars...
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Bottle cap
Bottle cap

Bottle caps, or Closures, are used to seal the openings of bottles of many types. They can be small circular pieces of metal with plastic backings, and for plastic bottles a plastic cap is used instead....
, a closure to seal bottles
Screw cap, a closure to seal bottles or jars
Cap (sport)
Cap (sport)

A cap is an appearance for a select team, such as a school, county or international team in sports. The term dates from the practice in the United Kingdom of awarding a cap to every player in an international match of soccer; however, the act of awarding a cap is now international and is applied to other sports....
, a sporting cap awarded to players representing their country
Cape (geography), the French word for this commonly used in placenames
Percussion cap
Percussion cap

The percussion cap, introduced around 1830, was the crucial invention that enabled Muzzleloader firearms to fire reliably in any weather. Before this development, firearms used flintlock ignition systems which produced flint-on-steel sparks to ignite a pan of priming powder and thereby fire the gun's main powder charge....
, a small amount of percussion-sensitive explosive, held in a tape or small cup
Pileus (mycology)
Pileus (mycology)

The pileus is the technical name for what is commonly known as the cap of a fungal fruiting body. It is particularly characteristic of agarics, boletes, and some polypores, tooth fungi, and ascocarps....
, the cap of a mushroom or related fungi
Pipe cap, a pipe fitting used to seal the end of a pipe
Polar ice cap
Polar ice cap

A polar ice cap is a high-latitude region of a planet or natural satellite that is covered in ice. There are no requirements with respect to size or composition for a body of ice to be termed a polar ice cap, nor any geological requirement for it to be over land; only that it must be a body of solid phase matter in the polar region....
Capping (MST3K), a screenshot-captioning fandom activity
Camper shell
Camper shell

A camper shell, sometimes known as a topper or cap, is a small housing or rigid canopy used as a pickup truck accessory. The housing is usually made of fiberglass or aluminum, and is mounted atop the pickup truck's rear bed....
, a type of caravan
Cap and Gown Club
Cap and Gown Club

Cap and Gown Club, founded in 1891, is an Eating club at Princeton University, in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. Members are selected through a selective process called bicker....
, an eating club at Princeton University

In medicine:

Crown (dentistry)
Crown (dentistry)

File:Dental crown 29 PFM on Die.JPGFile:Dental crown 29 die.JPGCrown refers to the Dental restorations using materials that are fabricated by indirect methods which are cemented into place....
, a tooth cap
Cervical cap
Cervical cap

The cervical cap is form of barrier contraception. A cervical cap fits over the cervix and blocks sperm from entering the uterus through the external orifice of the uterus, called the os....
, contraceptive device.
Therapy cap
Therapy cap

In 1997 Congress established per-person Medicare spending limits, or therapy cap for nonhospital outpatient therapy, but responding to concerns that some people with Medicare need extensive services, it has since placed temporary moratoriums on the caps....
, on per person Medicare spending

In science and technology:

Capping inversion
Capping inversion

A capping inversion is an elevated inversion layer that caps a convective planetary boundary layer.The boundary layer is the part of the atmosphere which is closest to the ground....
, inhibits atmospheric convection
Capability-based security
Capability-based security

Capability-based security is a concept in the design of secure computing systems. A capability is a communicable, unforgeable token of authority....
, shorthand for this computer security concept
The CAP computer
CAP computer

File:CAP Computer - Cambridge University.JPGThe Cambridge CAP computer was the first successful experimental computer that demonstrated the use of Capability-based security, both in hardware and software....
, an experimental machine built in Cambridge
Cable modem speed cap
Cable modem

File:Sb5120.jpgA cable modem is a type of modem that provides bi-directional data communication via radio frequency channels on a cable television infrastructure....
Digital subscriber line
Digital Subscriber Line

DSL or xDSL, is a family of technologies that provides digital data transmission over the wires of a local access network. DSL originally stood for digital subscriber loop, although in recent years, the term digital subscriber line has been widely adopted as a more marketing-friendly term for ADSL, which is the most popular...
speed cap
5' cap
5' cap

The 5' cap is a specially altered nucleotide on the 5' end of precursor messenger RNA and some other primary RNA transcripts as found in eukaryotes and, as a special exception, caliciviruses such as norovirus....
, part of an mRNA
Capacitor
Capacitor

A capacitor or condenser is a Passive component electronic component consisting of a pair of electrical conductor separated by a dielectric....
, electronics slang
Blasting cap
Blasting cap

A blasting cap is a small explosive device generally used to detonator a larger, more powerful explosive such as dynamite.Blasting caps come in a variety of types, some of which are: non-electric caps, electric caps and fuse caps....
, an explosive detonator
Screenshot
Screenshot

A screenshot, screen capture, or screen dump is an taken by the computer to record the visible items displayed on the Computer display or another visual output device....
, slang for a computer screen image capture
Common Alerting Protocol
Common Alerting Protocol

The Common Alerting Protocol is an XML-based data format for exchanging Emergency population warning and emergencies between alerting technologies....

In finance:

Interest rate cap
Non-economic damages caps
Non-economic damages caps

Non-economic damages caps are somewhat controversial tort reforms to limit damages for intangible harms such as severe pain, physical and emotional distress, disfigurement, loss of the enjoyment of life that an injury has caused, including sterility, loss of sexual organs, physical impairment and loss of a loved one, etc....
Tax cap
Tax cap

A tax cap places an upper bound on the amount of tax a person might be required to pay. In this case the tax is said to be capped. Tax caps typically affect a commercial property, or the commercial portion of a mixed commercial/residential property....
Salary cap
Salary cap

In professional sports, a salary cap is a limit on the amount of money a team can spend on player salaries, either as a per-player limit or a total limit for the team's roster ....
Market capitalization
Market capitalization

Market capitalization/capitalisation is a measurement of corporate or economic wealth equal to the share price times the number of shares outstanding of a public company....
, a truncation of this phrase

People with the name:

Captain America
Captain America

Captain America is a Character that appears in comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character First appearance in Captain America Comics #1 , from Marvel Comics' 1940s predecessor, Timely Comics, and was created by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby....
, the character's nickname
Caspar Weinberger
Caspar Weinberger

Caspar Willard "Cap" Weinberger GBE , was an Politics of the United States and United States Secretary of Defense under President Ronald Reagan from January 21, 1981, until November 23, 1987, making him the third longest-serving defense secretary to date, after Robert McNamara and Donald Rumsfeld....
, his nickname
Vladislao Cap
Vladislao Cap

Vladislao Wenceslao Cap was an Argentina football Defender , who represented his native country at the 1962 FIFA World Cup in Chile. Twelve years later he was the manager of the Argentina national football team at the 1974 FIFA World Cup....
, an Argentine footballer
Carlos Andres Pérez
Carlos Andrés Pérez

Carlos Andr?s P?rez Rodr?guez , best known as CAP and often referred to as "El Gocho" , was President of Venezuela of Venezuela from 1974 to 1979 and again from 1989 to 1993....
, a Venezuelan president
Cap Anson
Cap Anson

Adrian Constantine Anson , known by the nicknames "Cap" and "Pop", was a professional baseball player in the National Association of Professional Baseball Players and Major League Baseball....
, 19th century baseball player and member of the Baseball Hall of Fame

CAP may stand for:

Apex Aircraft
Apex Aircraft

Apex Aircraft is a French company devoted to light aeroplane manufacture. It markets three ranges of light aircraft which it brands Robin, Alpha and CAP....
's range of CAP (Constructions Aéronautiques Parisiennes) training and aerobatic aircraft.
Camel Application Part
Camel Application Part

The Customized Application of Mobile Enhanced Logic Application Part is a signalling protocol used in the intelligent network architecture. CAP is a remote operations service element protocol user protocol, and as such is layered on top of the Transaction Capabilities Application Part of the Signaling System 7 protocol suite....
, a protocol used in CAMEL servers.
Canadian Action Party
Canadian Action Party

The Canadian Action Party is a Canada Canadian confederation political party founded in 1997. It promotes Canadian nationalism, monetary reform, and electoral reform and opposes globalization and free trade agreements....
Canadian Association of Physicists
Canadian Association of Physicists

The Canadian Association of Physicists is a Canadian Lobbying that focuses on creating awareness amongst Canadians and Canadian lawmaker of Physics issues....
CAP Group, Computer Analysts and Programmers a UK software company
Capital Airlines
Capital Airlines

Capital Airlines was an airline serving the eastern United States which was merged into United Airlines in 1961. Its primary hubs were Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport near Washington, DC and Allegheny County Airport near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania....
, the ICAO airline designator for this airline
Capricornus (constellation), standard astronomical abbreviation
Carrierless Amplitude Phase Modulation
Carrierless Amplitude Phase Modulation

Carrierless amplitude phase modulation is a non-standard variation of quadrature amplitude modulation . Instead of modulating the amplitude of two carrier waves, CAP generates QAM signal by combining two pulse-amplitude modulation signals filtered through two filters designed so that their impulse responses form a Hilbert transform....
Catabolite Activator Protein
Catabolite Activator Protein

Catabolite Activator Protein or CAP is a transcriptional activator that exists as a homodimer in solution, with each subunit comprising a Ligand -binding domain at the N-terminus , which is also responsible for the dimerization of the protein, and a DNA-binding domain at the C-terminus ....
Cellulose acetate phthalate
Cellulose acetate phthalate

Cellulose acetate phthalate , also known as Cellacefate and Cellulosi acetas phthalas, is a commonly used polymer phthalate in the formulation of pharmaceuticals, such as the enteric coating of tablets or capsule and for controlled release formulations....
, a cellulose-based polymer
Center for American Progress
Center for American Progress

The Center for American Progress is a Modern liberalism in the United States political policy think tank and advocacy organization. Its website describes it as "......
, a left-of-centre think tank
Central Arizona Project Aqueduct
Central Arizona Project Aqueduct

The Central Arizona Project is a 336 mi aqueduct in Arizona in the United States. The aqueduct diverts water from the Colorado River from Lake Havasu City near Parker, Arizona into central and southern Arizona....
Central Atlanta Progress
Central Atlanta Progress

Central Atlanta Progress , founded in 1941, is a private, not-for-profit corporation that strives to create a robust economic climate for downtown Atlanta, Georgia, in the United States....
(ISC)²
(ISC)²

The International Information Systems Security Certification Consortium or , is a non-profit organization headquartered in Palm Harbor, Florida that educates and certifies information security professionals throughout their careers....
, Certification and Accreditation Professional, Information assurance certification
Chicago Area Project
Chicago Area Project

Chicago Area Project is a Juvenile delinquency prevention association based in Chicago, Illinois, United States. The association has been acting since early 20th century....
, a juvenile delinquency project
ChildCare Action Project
ChildCare Action Project

The ChildCare Action Project is a Fundamentalist Christian entertainment media analysis service devoted to reviewing the content of films, as opposed to reviewing the message, entertainment or artistic value of the film itself....
Children Awaiting Parents
Children Awaiting Parents

Children Awaiting Parents is a national not-for-profit charitable organization that recruits Foster care and adoption families for special needs children who have been waiting the longest for a "forever" family....
Chip Authentication Program
Chip Authentication Program

The Chip Authentication Program is a MasterCard initiative and technical specification for using EMV banking smartcards for authentication users and transactions in online and telephone banking....
– using EMV smartcards to authenticate online banking transactions
Christian Appalachian Project
Christian Appalachian Project

The Christian Appalachian Project is an interdenominational, non-profit organization Christian organization committed to serving people in need in Appalachia by providing physical, spiritual and emotional support through a wide variety of programs and services....
a program to assist disadvantaged persons in Kentucky and West Virginia
Christians Against Poverty
Christians Against Poverty

Christians Against Poverty is a Christian Charitable organization in the United Kingdom founded in Bradford, West Yorkshire by John Kirkby in 1996....
, the UK charity
Church Action on Poverty
Church Action on Poverty

Church Action on Poverty is a national ecumenical Christian social justice charitable organization, committed to tackling poverty in the UK. It works in partnership with churches and with people in poverty themselves to find solutions to poverty, locally, nationally and globally....
, UK national ecumenical social justice charity established in 1982
Civil Air Patrol
Civil Air Patrol

The Civil Air Patrol is a United States Congress chartered, federally supported, Non-profit organization corporation that serves as the official Auxiliaries of the United States Air Force ....
, the official US Air Force Auxiliary
Claims Assistance Professional
Claims Assistance Professional

In the United States Claims Assistance Professionals assist individuals and families in managing medical claims. This can include: documenting, submitting, and monitoring the progress of an insurance claim to a health insurance company, negotiating with providers, educating patients on insurance benefits and options....
, medical billing assistance and patient advocacy
Clube Atlético Paranaense
Clube Atlético Paranaense

Atl?tico Paranaense is a Brazilian Football League Teams from Curitiba in Paran? , founded on March 26, 1924. The club won the Campeonato Brasileiro S?rie A in 2001....
, a Brazilian football club
Coded Anti-Piracy
Coded Anti-Piracy

Coded Anti-Piracy, or CAP, is an anti-piracy technology which marks each film print of a motion picture with a distinguishing patterns of dots, used as a forensic identification to identify the source of illegal copies....
, an anti-piracy system for motion picture prints exhibited theatrically.
College of American Pathologists
College of American Pathologists

The College of American Pathologists , is a medical society serving more than 16,000 physician members and the laboratory community throughout the world....
Combat Air Patrol
Combat air patrol

Combat air patrol is a type of flying mission for fighter aircraft.A combat air patrol is an aircraft patrol provided over an objective area, over the force protected, over the critical area of a combat zone, or over an air defense area, for the purpose of intercepting and destroying hostile aircraft before they reach their target....
Committee for Another Policy
Committee for Another Policy

The Committee for Another Policy is a Belgium Left-wing politics politics movement, established in 2005, and party since 2007.Formation...
(Comité voor een Andere Politiek / Comité pour une Autre Politique) a Belgian political movement
Common Agricultural Policy
Common Agricultural Policy

The Common Agricultural Policy is a system of European Union agricultural subsidies and programmes. It represents 46.7% of the European Union Budget, ?49.8 billion in 2006 ....
, the European Union's agricultural subsidy system.
Community Access Program
Community Access Program

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, a Government of Canada initiative to provide access to the Internet in remote areas.
Community Action Program, Lyndon Johnson's anti-poverty programs.
Community-acquired pneumonia
Community-acquired pneumonia

Community-acquired pneumonia is a disease in which individuals who have not recently been hospitalized develop an infection of the lungs . CAP is a common illness and can affect people of all ages....
Concerned Alumni of Princeton
Concerned Alumni of Princeton

The Concerned Alumni of Princeton was a group of politically American conservatism former Princeton University students that existed between 1972 and 1986....
Consolidated Appeals Process
Consolidated Appeals Process

The Consolidated Appeals Process is a funding mechanism in which projects managed by the United Nations, NGOs and other stakeholders come together to approach the donor community funding international development activities....
a funding mechanism used by humanitarian aid organisations.
CAP (protein)
CAP (protein)

Adenylate Cyclase Associated Protein is an actin-binding protein that was originally identified as a binding partner for adenylate cyclase. It binds actin monomers and sequesters them from the polymerization process....
, Cyclase Associated Protein

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