Editing CP

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'''CP''', '''cp.''' or its variants may refer to:

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==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
* [[Competitive programming]]
* ''[[Club Penguin]]'', a now defunct online multiplayer game 
* Combat power, used in [[Pokémon Go]] to indicate how strong a Pokémon is in battle

==Enterprises==
===Transportation companies===
* [[Canadian Airlines]] (1987–2001) (IATA airline code CP)
* [[Canadian Pacific Railway]], reporting mark CP
* [[Central Pacific Railroad]], a network of lines between California and Utah, US
* {{lang|fr|[[Chemins de Fer de Provence]]}}, a French public railway company
* {{lang|pt|[[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 complex]] (Cp), read as "C P", the cyclic {{chem2|C5H5}} fragment in a coordination complex
** The similar symbol Cp* ("C P star") represents [[pentamethylcyclopentadienyl]], the {{chem2|C5Me5}} 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 [[CP/LD|Content Profile/Linked Document]], a data serialisation format
* [[Child process]], Computing process created by another process

===Mathematics===
* [[Cauchy problem]], in partial differential equations
* [[Complex projective space]] (CP{{sup|n}}), the projective space with respect to the field of complex numbers
* [[Mallows's Cp|Mallows's ''C<sub>p</sub>'']], a statistic used in model selection
* The field <math>\mathbb C_p</math>, see [[p-adic number#Algebraic closure]]
* [[Process capability index]], (''C<sub>p</sub>''), 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<sub>p</sub>, the [[specific heat capacity]] at constant pressure
* [[Pressure coefficient]] (C<sub>p</sub>), 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
* [[Mobile phone|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)]]<!--From https://www2.census.gov/geo/maps/DC2020/DC20BLK/st48_tx/place/p4805000_austin/DC20BLK_P4805000.pdf PDF p. 17/36 - The US Census Bureau uses "Cp" as a shorthand for "Camp", as in "Cp Mabry" -> "Camp Mabry" -->
* [[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
* {{lang|la|[[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

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