CAP
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CAP may refer to:
Certifications
[edit]- Certified Administrative Professional, a IAAP certification
- Certified Authorization Professional, a (ISC)² certification
- Certified Automation Professional, a ISA certification
Companies
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
See also
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