Cp

• C_p, a process capability index
• Mallows' Cp
  Mallows' Cp
  In statistics, Mallows' Cp, named for Colin L. Mallows, is used to assess the fit of a regression model that has been estimated using ordinary least squares. It is applied in the context of model selection, where a number of predictor variables are available for predicting some outcome, and the...
  
  , a statistic used in model selection
• Capensinidin
  Capensinidin
  Capensinidin is an O-methylated anthocyanidin. It is a water soluble, blue-red plant dye. It is a 5-methoxy analog of malvidin, has been obtained from Plumbago capensis ....
  
  , an anthocyanidin
• Cariyapitaka
  Cariyapitaka
  The Cariyapitaka is a Buddhist scripture, part of the Pali Canon of Theravada Buddhism. It is included there in the Sutta Pitaka's Khuddaka Nikaya, usually as the last of fifteen books...
  
  , a canonical Buddhist story collection
• Cassiopium (Cp), a name formerly used for the chemical element Lutetium in German chemical literature
• Cp, a proposed symbol for Copernicium (Cn)
• Ceteris paribus
  Ceteris paribus
  or is a Latin phrase, literally translated as "with other things the same," or "all other things being equal or held constant." It is an example of an ablative absolute and is commonly rendered in English as "all other things being equal." A prediction, or a statement about causal or logical...
  
  , a Latin phrase
• Counterpart (disambiguation), an equivalent to something
• Cyclopentadienyl ligand, for which cyclopentadiene is a precursor
• Specific heat capacity at constant pressure (C_p or c_p)
• Compare, from the Latin compara
• Pressure coefficient
  Pressure coefficient
  The pressure coefficient is a dimensionless number which describes the relative pressures throughout a flow field in fluid dynamics. The pressure coefficient is used in aerodynamics and hydrodynamics...
  
  

Biology and medicine

• In the cerebellopontine angle
  Cerebellopontine angle
  The cerebellopontine angle is a structure at the margin of the cerebellum and pons.Breast cancer can metastasize to the cerebellopontine angle.It can be a site for lipoma.It is where acoustic neuromas are usually found.-External links:...
  
   ("CP angle"), cerebellum + pons
• Cerebral palsy
  Cerebral palsy
  Cerebral palsy is an umbrella term encompassing a group of non-progressive, non-contagious motor conditions that cause physical disability in human development, chiefly in the various areas of body movement....
  
  , a brain disorder
• Chronic prostatitis
• Certified Prosthetist
• Ceruloplasmin
  Ceruloplasmin
  Ceruloplasmin is a ferroxidase enzyme that in humans is encoded by the CP gene.Ceruloplasmin is the major copper-carrying protein in the blood, and in addition plays a role in iron metabolism. It was first described in 1948...
  
  , a gene
• Cicatricial Pemphigoid
  Cicatricial pemphigoid
  Cicatricial pemphigoid is a rare chronic autoimmune subepithelial blistering disease characterized by erosive skin lesions of the mucous membranes and skin that results in scarring of at least some sites of involvement.Cicatricial pemphigoid has been referred...
  
  , a blistering disease
• Congenital prosopagnosia
  Prosopagnosia
  Prosopagnosia is a disorder of face perception where the ability to recognize faces is impaired, while the ability to recognize other objects may be relatively intact...
  
  
• Control Pause, duration of breath control using the Buteyko method
  Buteyko method
  The Buteyko method or Buteyko Breathing Technique is a form of complementary or alternative physical therapy that proposes chronic "breathing retraining" as a treatment for asthma as well as other conditions. The method takes its name from the late Ukrainian doctor Konstantin Pavlovich Buteyko ,...
  
  
• Creatine phosphate
• Cyclophosphamide
  Cyclophosphamide
  Cyclophosphamide , also known as cytophosphane, is a nitrogen mustard alkylating agent, from the oxazophorines group....
  
  
• Crude protein

Science and technology

• Specific Heat, the amount of heat needed to raise an amount of substance by a certain temperature
• Candlepower
  Candlepower
  Candlepower is a now-obsolete unit which was used to express levels of light intensity in terms of the light emitted by a candle of specific size and constituents...
  
  , a measure of luminous intensity
• Cape Photographic Durchmusterung
• Carnivorous plant
  Carnivorous plant
  Carnivorous plants are plants that derive some or most of their nutrients from trapping and consuming animals or protozoans, typically insects and other arthropods. Carnivorous plants appear adapted to grow in places where the soil is thin or poor in nutrients, especially nitrogen, such as acidic...
  
  
• Cathodic protection
  Cathodic protection
  Cathodic protection is a technique used to control the corrosion of a metal surface by making it the cathode of an electrochemical cell. The simplest method to apply CP is by connecting the metal to be protected with another more easily corroded "sacrificial metal" to act as the anode of the...
  
  
• An IBM mainframe
  IBM mainframe
  IBM mainframes are large computer systems produced by IBM from 1952 to the present. During the 1960s and 1970s, the term mainframe computer was almost synonymous with IBM products due to their marketshare...
  
   central processor
• A Certified Photogrammetrist, in photogrammetry
  Photogrammetry
  Photogrammetry is the practice of determining the geometric properties of objects from photographic images. Photogrammetry is as old as modern photography and can be dated to the mid-nineteenth century....
  
  
• Chlorinated paraffins
  Chlorinated paraffins
  Chlorinated paraffins are a complex mixture of polychlorinated n-alkanes and were introduced in the 1930s. The chlorination degree of CPs can vary between 30 and 70%. CPs are subdivided according to their carbon chain length into short chain CPs , medium chain CPs and long chain CPs...
  
  
• Chloroplast
  Chloroplast
  Chloroplasts are organelles found in plant cells and other eukaryotic organisms that conduct photosynthesis. Chloroplasts capture light energy to conserve free energy in the form of ATP and reduce NADP to NADPH through a complex set of processes called photosynthesis.Chloroplasts are green...
  
  
• Circuit Probe, a method of wafer testing
  Wafer testing
  Wafer testing is a step performed during semiconductor device fabrication. During this step, performed before a wafer is sent to die preparation, all individual integrated circuits that are present on the wafer are tested for functional defects by applying special test patterns to them. The wafer...
  
  
• Cleaner production
  Cleaner production
  Cleaner production is a preventive, company-specific environmental protection initiative. It is intendend to minimize waste and emissions and maximize product output. By analysing the flow of materials and energy in a company, one tries to identify options to minimize waste and emissions out of...
  
  
• Clock pulse or clock signal
  Clock signal
  In electronics and especially synchronous digital circuits, a clock signal is a particular type of signal that oscillates between a high and a low state and is utilized like a metronome to coordinate actions of circuits...
  
  , a pulse-width modulation digital signal in a circuit
• Code page
  Code page
  Code page is another term for character encoding. It consists of a table of values that describes the character set for a particular language. The term code page originated from IBM's EBCDIC-based mainframe systems, but many vendors use this term including Microsoft, SAP, and Oracle Corporation...
  
  
• Complementizer
  Complementizer
  In linguistics , a complementizer is a syntactic category roughly equivalent to the term subordinating conjunction in traditional grammar. For example, the word that is generally called a complementizer in English sentences like Mary believes that it is raining...
  
   phrase in linguistics
• Complex projective space
  Complex projective space
  In mathematics, complex projective space is the projective space with respect to the field of complex numbers. By analogy, whereas the points of a real projective space label the lines through the origin of a real Euclidean space, the points of a complex projective space label the complex lines...
  
  , an abstract space in mathematics
• Component Pascal
  Component Pascal
  Component Pascal is a programming language in the tradition of Niklaus Wirth's Pascal, Modula-2, Oberon and Oberon-2. It bears the name of the Pascal programming language but is incompatible with it. Instead, it is a minor variant and refinement of Oberon-2, designed and supported by a small ETH...
  
  
• Conceptual physics
  Conceptual physics
  Conceptual physics is a non-mathematical approach to studying physics, which was popularized by Paul G. Hewitt. It is believed that with a strong conceptual foundation in physics, students are better equipped to understand the equations and formulas of physics, and to make connections between the...
  
  , a non-mathematical approach to studying physics
• Conditional proof
  Conditional proof
  A conditional proof is a proof that takes the form of asserting a conditional, and proving that the antecedent of the conditional necessarily leads to the consequent....
  
  
• Constraint programming
  Constraint programming
  Constraint programming is a programming paradigm wherein relations between variables are stated in the form of constraints. Constraints differ from the common primitives of imperative programming languages in that they do not specify a step or sequence of steps to execute, but rather the properties...
  
  
• Control panel (disambiguation)
• IBM's CP/CMS
  CP/CMS
  CP/CMS was a time-sharing operating system of the late 60s and early 70s, known for its excellent performance and advanced features...
  
   operating system or the equivalent component of VM
• CP violation
  CP violation
  In particle physics, CP violation is a violation of the postulated CP-symmetry: the combination of C-symmetry and P-symmetry . CP-symmetry states that the laws of physics should be the same if a particle were interchanged with its antiparticle , and left and right were swapped...
  
  , a violation of the postulated CP symmetry in physics
• Pentamethylcyclopentadienyl ligand (abbrev. Cp*), related to pentamethylcyclopentadiene
  Pentamethylcyclopentadiene
  1,2,3,4,5-Pentamethylcyclopentadiene is a cyclic diolefin with the formula C5Me5H . 1,2,3,4,5-Pentamethylcyclopentadiene is the precursor to the ligand 1,2,3,4,5-pentamethylcyclopentadienyl, which is often denoted as Cp*...
  
  

Places

• Caesars Palace
  Caesars Palace
  Caesars Palace is a luxury hotel and casino located on the Las Vegas Strip in Paradise, Nevada, an unincorporated township in Clark County, Nevada, United States in the Las Vegas metropolitan area. Caesars Palace is owned and operated by Caesars Entertainment Corp....
  
  , a hotel and casino in Las Vegas
• Cedar Point
  Cedar Point
  Cedar Point is a 364 acre amusement park located in Sandusky, Ohio, United States on a narrow peninsula jutting into Lake Erie. Cedar Point is the only amusement park with four roller coasters that are taller than...
  
  
• Center Point (disambiguation) or
• Centre Point
  Centre Point
  Centre Point is a substantial concrete and glass office building in central London, England, occupying 101-103 New Oxford Street, WC1, close to St Giles Circus and almost directly above Tottenham Court Road tube station. The site was once occupied by a gallows...
  
  
• Central Park (disambiguation)
  Central Park (disambiguation)
  Central Park is a large public urban park in the borough of Manhattan in New York City. It may also refer to:In the United States:* Central Park, Nassau County, New York, a former name of Bethpage, New York...
  
  
• Central Province (disambiguation), one of various subnational entities
• Central Provinces
  Central Provinces
  The Central Provinces was a province of British India. It comprised British conquests from the Mughals and Marathas in central India, and covered parts of present-day Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Maharashtra states. Its capital was Nagpur....
  
  , a province of British India corresponding roughly to Madhya
• Clifton Park
• Clipperton Island
  Clipperton Island
  Clipperton Island is an uninhabited nine-square-kilometre coral atoll in the eastern Pacific Ocean, southwest of Mexico and west of Central America, at...
  
  
• College Park (disambiguation)
• College Point, Queens
  College Point, Queens
  College Point is a working-middle class neighborhood in the New York City borough of Queens. It is located north of Flushing on Flushing Bay and the East River and is part of the Queens Community Board 7. Willets Point Boulevard and the Whitestone Expressway are often the neighborhood's...
  
  , New York
• Connaught Place, New Delhi
  Connaught Place, New Delhi
  Connaught Place Connaught Place Connaught Place (Hindi: कनॉट प्लेस, (officially Rajiv Chowk) is one of the largest financial, commercial and business centers in Delhi. It is often abbreviated as CP and houses the headquarters of several Indian firms. Its surroundings occupy a place of pride...
  
  
• Crystal Palace, London
  Crystal Palace, London
  Crystal Palace is a residential area in south London, England named from the former local landmark, The Crystal Palace, which occupied the area from 1854 to 1936. The area is located approximately 8 miles south east of Charing Cross, and offers impressive views over the capital...
  
  

Transport

• Canadian Airlines
  Canadian Airlines
  Canadian Airlines International Ltd. was a Canadian airline that operated from 1987 until 2001. The airline was Canada's second largest airline after Air Canada, and carried more than 11.9 million passengers to over 160 destinations in 17 countries on five continents at its height in 1996...
  
  , IATA airline code CP
• Canadian Pacific Airlines
  Canadian Pacific Airlines
  Canadian Pacific Air Lines was a Canadian airline that operated from 1942 to 1987. It operated under the name CP Air from 1968 to 1986...
  
  , known at one time as CP Air
• Canadian Pacific Railway
  Canadian Pacific Railway
  The Canadian Pacific Railway , formerly also known as CP Rail between 1968 and 1996, is a historic Canadian Class I railway founded in 1881 and now operated by Canadian Pacific Railway Limited, which began operations as legal owner in a corporate restructuring in 2001...
  
  , known at one time as CP Rail
• CP Ships
  CP Ships
  CP Ships was a large Canadian container shipping company, prior to being taken over by Hapag Lloyd in late 2005. CP Ships had its head office in the City of Westminster in London and later in the City Place Gatwick development on the property of London Gatwick Airport in Crawley, West Sussex.The...
  
  , formerly Canadian Pacific Steamships
• Cathay Pacific
  Cathay Pacific
  Cathay Pacific is the flag carrier of Hong Kong, with its head office and main hub located at Hong Kong International Airport, although the airline's registered office is on the 33rd floor of One Pacific Place...
  
  
• Cebu Pacific
  Cebu Pacific
  Cebu Air, Inc., operating as Cebu Pacific Air, is based on the grounds of Ninoy Aquino International Airport , Pasay City, Metro Manila, the Philippines. It offers scheduled flights to both domestic and international destinations...
  
  
• Central Pacific Railroad
  Central Pacific Railroad
  The Central Pacific Railroad is the former name of the railroad network built between California and Utah, USA that formed part of the "First Transcontinental Railroad" in North America. It is now part of the Union Pacific Railroad. Many 19th century national proposals to build a transcontinental...
  
  
• Comboios de Portugal
  Comboios de Portugal
  thumb|250px|right|CP suburban trains at São Bento Station in Oporto.CP — Comboios de Portugal, EPE is a state-owned company which operates freight and passenger trains in Portugal...
  
  , Portuguese Trains, before 2004 Caminhos de Ferro Portugueses, Portuguese Railways
• Control point, in rail terminology
  Rail terminology
  Rail terminology is a form of technical terminology. The difference between the American term railroad and the international term railway is the most obvious difference in rail terminology...
  
  , interlockings on railway trackage

Music and literature

• The Canadian Press, a Canadian news agency
• The Christian Post
  The Christian Post
  The Christian Post is a pan-denominational, Evangelical Christian newspaper based in Washington, D.C..Launched initially as an online publication, the newspaper was founded in 2000 to deliver news, information, and commentaries relevant to Christians across denominational lines and to bring greater...
  
  , a Christian news web site
• Chuck Palahniuk
  Chuck Palahniuk
  Charles Michael "Chuck" Palahniuk is an American transgressional fiction novelist and freelance journalist. He is best known for the award-winning novel Fight Club, which was later made into a film directed by David Fincher and starring Brad Pitt, Edward Norton, and Helena Bonham Carter...
  
  , a minimalist writer
• Cipher Pol, a governmental organization from the One Piece manga and anime series
• Coldplay
  Coldplay
  Coldplay are a British alternative rock band formed in 1996 by lead vocalist Chris Martin and lead guitarist Jonny Buckland at University College London. After they formed Pectoralz, Guy Berryman joined the group as a bassist and they changed their name to Starfish. Will Champion joined as a...
  
  , a British alternative band
• The Complete Peerage
  The Complete Peerage
  The Complete Peerage The Complete Peerage The Complete Peerage (full title: The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom Extant, Extinct, or Dormant; first edition by George Edward Cokayne, Clarenceux King of Arms; 2nd edition revised by the Hon...
  
  , a standard reference work
• Crash Parallel
  Crash Parallel
  Crash Parallel is an alternative band from Mississauga, Ontario, Canada who have been compared to Lifehouse, Counting Crows, the Fray, Coldplay, and David Gray. Their debut album, World We Know, was released May 6, 2008 and includes the first single and title track, "World We...
  
  , a Canadian adult contemporary/rock band
• Christina Perri
  Christina Perri
  Christina Judith Perri is an American singer and songwriter from Philadelphia. Her song "Jar of Hearts" charted in the United States after it was featured on the Fox television show So You Think You Can Dance in 2010. Rolling Stone named her the "Band of the Week" on October 26, 2010...
  
  , an American singer and songwriter

Politics and law

• Captain of the Parish
  Captain of the Parish
  The Captain of the Parish is an official in each parish in the Isle of Man—formerly the title was Captain of the Parish Militia, but it is now only a titular honour...
  
  , a postnominal
• Canadian Party
  Canadian Party
  For the mid-19th century French Canadian party see Parti canadienFor the World War II era party see Parti canadien The Canadian Party was a group founded by John Christian Schultz in 1869, in the Red River Settlement...
  
  
• City Police
• Civil parish
  Civil parish
  In England, a civil parish is a territorial designation and, where they are found, the lowest tier of local government below districts and counties...
  
  
• Colombo Plan
  Colombo Plan
  The Colombo Plan is a regional organization that embodies the concept of collective inter-governmental effort to strengthen economic and social development of member countries in the Asia-Pacific Region...
  
  
• Commissioner of Police (Singapore)
  Commissioner of Police (Singapore)
  The Commissioner of Police is the top-ranking police officer of the Singapore Police Force. Assisted by the Deputy Commissioner of Police, he reports to the Minister for Home Affairs....
  
  
• Communist Party
  Communist party
  A political party described as a Communist party includes those that advocate the application of the social principles of communism through a communist form of government...
  
  
• Comparative politics
  Comparative politics
  Comparative politics is a subfield of political science, characterized by an empirical approach based on the comparative method. Arend Lijphart argues that comparative politics does not have a substantive focus in itself, but rather a methodological one: it focuses on "the how but does not specify...
  
  
• Condition precedent
  Condition precedent
  Condition precedent refers to an event or state of affairs that is required before something else will occur. In contract law, a condition precedent is an event which must occur, unless its non-occurrence is excused, before performance under a contract becomes due, i.e., before any contractual...
  
  
• Constitution Party (disambiguation)
• Consumer proposal
• Corporal punishment
  Corporal punishment
  Corporal punishment is a form of physical punishment that involves the deliberate infliction of pain as retribution for an offence, or for the purpose of disciplining or reforming a wrongdoer, or to deter attitudes or behaviour deemed unacceptable...
  
  
• Court of Common Pleas (disambiguation)

Business and finance

• Charoen Pokphand
  Charoen Pokphand
  The Charoen Pokphand Group is a transnational conglomerate that consists of three core businesses that operate in the agribusiness and food, retail and distribution, and the telecommunications industries with investment in 15 countries. Founded in 1921, the CP Group currently employs over 280,000...
  
  , Thai agribusiness conglomerate
• Crowne Plaza
  Crowne Plaza
  Crowne Plaza is a chain of full service, upscale hotels catering to business travelers and to the meetings and conventions market. It forms part of the InterContinental Hotels Group family of brands, which include InterContinental and Holiday Inn and operates in 52 countries, usually located in...
  
   hotels
• Curious Pastimes
  Curious Pastimes
  Curious Pastimes is an organisation that runs one of the best known Live Roleplaying campaigns in the UK. CP is a private, profit-making company head-quartered in Moreton in the Wirral in Northern England...
  
  , a game company based in the UK
• Commercial paper
  Commercial paper
  In the global money market, commercial paper is an unsecured promissory note with a fixed maturity of 1 to 270 days. Commercial Paper is a money-market security issued by large banks and corporations to get money to meet short term debt obligations , and is only backed by an issuing bank or...
  
  
• Construction permit
  Construction permit
  A construction permit or building permit is a permit required in most jurisdictions for new construction, or adding on to pre-existing structures, and in some cases for major renovations. Generally, the new construction must be inspected during construction and after completion to ensure compliance...
  
  
• CafePress, an online retailer of print-on-demand products

Other

• Child pornography
  Child pornography
  Child pornography refers to images or films and, in some cases, writings depicting sexually explicit activities involving a child...
  
  , images or films depicting sexually explicit activities involving a child
• City Pages
  City Pages
  City Pages is an alternative weekly newspaper serving the Minneapolis-St. Paul metropolitan area. It features news, film, theatre and restaurant reviews, and music criticism. It is printed in a tabloid format, and is available free every Wednesday...
  
  , an alternative weekly in Minneapolis-Saint Paul
• Club Penguin
  Club Penguin
  Club Penguin is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game involving a virtual world containing a range of online games and activities, by Club Penguin Entertainment . Players use cartoon penguin-avatars and play in a winter-set virtual world...
  
  , a massive multiplayer online game (MMOG)
• Initials used by professed members of the Congregation of Discalced Clerks of the Most Holy Cross and Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ (Passionist Congregation), an Order of the Roman Catholic Church
• Protected cruiser
  Protected cruiser
  The protected cruiser is a type of naval cruiser of the late 19th century, so known because its armoured deck offered protection for vital machine spaces from shrapnel caused by exploding shells above...
  
  , a type of naval vessel
• Command post
• Cuddle party
  Cuddle party
  A cuddle party or cuddle puddle is an event designed with the intention of allowing people to experience non-sexual group physical intimacy through cuddling....
  
  , or cuddle puddle
• Close protection, or bodyguard

cP

• Centipoise a unit of viscosity
• cPanel
  CPanel
  cPanel is a Linux based web hosting control panel that provides a graphical interface and automation tools designed to simplify the process of hosting a web site...
  
  , a web-based managing tool for websites