CIP may refer to:

Business and finance

* Commercially Important Person * Construction in progress, a balance sheet assets item *

Continual improvement process A continual improvement process, also often called a continuous improvement process (abbreviated as CIP or CI), is an ongoing effort to improve products, services, or processes. These efforts can seek "incremental" improvement over time or "breakth ...

* "Carriage and Insurance Paid to" Incoterms *

Customer Identification Program A Customer Identification Program (CIP) is a United States requirement, where financial institutions need to verify the identity of individuals wishing to conduct financial transactions with them and is a provision of the USA Patriot Act. More co ...

, in US anti-money laundering

Government and military

* Capital improvement plan, in urban planning * Citizen Information Project in the UK * Classification of Instructional Programs, US Department of Education *

Commercial Import Program The Commercial Import Program, sometimes known as the Commodity Import Program (CIP), was an economic aid arrangement between South Vietnam and its main supporter, the United States. It lasted from January 1955 until the Fall of Saigon in 1975 and ...

, US-South Vietnam *

Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme The Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme (CIP) of the European Commission is meant to improve the competitiveness of European companies facing the challenges of globalization. The programme is mainly aimed at small and medium-sized ent ...

of the EU * Combat Identification Panel, a US identify-friend-or-foe device * Continuation in Part in US Patent law * Corps of Intelligence Police of US Army 1917-1941 * Critical Infrastructure Protection, US *

, in US anti-money laundering

Organizations and businesses

* Canadian Institute of Planners *

California Innocence Project The California Innocence Project is a non-profit based at California Western School of Law in San Diego, California, United States, which provides pro bono legal services to individuals who maintain their factual innocence of crime(s) for which ...

, for innocent prisoners * Center for Industrial Progress think tank, San Diego, California, US * Center for Islamic Pluralism, Washington D.C., US * Centro Internacional de la Papa, the International Potato Center in Peru * Center for Intellectual Property Studies, Gothenburg, Sweden *

Centre for Integrated Photonics The Centre for Integrated Photonics (CIP) was a research and development centre for photonic devices. It was based in Phoenix House at Adastral Park in Martlesham, UK. It was bought by Huawei in 2012, between 2003 and 2012 it was owned by EEDA, p ...

Center for International Policy The Center for International Policy (CIP) is a non-profit foreign policy research and advocacy think tank with offices in Washington, D.C. and New York City. It was founded in 1975 in response to the Vietnam War. The Center describes its mission ...

, Washington D.C, US *

Commission Internationale Permanente pour l'Epreuve des Armes à Feu Portatives Commission or commissioning may refer to: Business and contracting * Commission (remuneration), a form of payment to an agent for services rendered ** Commission (art), the purchase or the creation of a piece of art most often on behalf of anothe ...

(Permanent International Commission for the Proof of Small Arms) * Comitato Italiano Paralimpico, Italian Paralympic Committee * Crown International Pictures, US film studio * Crippled Intellect Publications, a record label

Science and technology

Biology and medicine

Calf-intestinal alkaline phosphatase Calf-intestinal alkaline phosphatase (CIAP/CIP) is a type of alkaline phosphatase that catalyzes the removal of phosphate groups from the 5' end of DNA strands and phosphomonoesters from RNA. This enzyme is frequently used in DNA sub-cloning, a ...

, an enzyme * Congenital insensitivity to pain *

Critical illness polyneuropathy Critical illness polyneuropathy (CIP) and critical illness myopathy (CIM) are overlapping syndromes of diffuse, symmetric, flaccid muscle weakness occurring in critically ill patients and involving all extremities and the diaphragm with relative ...

* CIP/KIP family of

Cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitor proteins Cyclin-dependent kinases (CDKs) are the families of protein kinases first discovered for their role in regulating the cell cycle. They are also involved in regulating transcription, mRNA processing, and the differentiation of nerve cells. They a ...

Chemistry

* Cahn–Ingold–Prelog priority rules, or ''CIP system'', for naming organic molecules *

Carbon in pulp Carbon in pulp (CIP) is an extraction technique for recovery of gold which has been liberated into a cyanide solution as part of the gold cyanidation process. Introduced in the early 1980s, Carbon in Pulp is regarded as a simple and cheap process. ...

, method of gold extraction *

Clean-in-place Clean-in-place (CIP) is an automated method of cleaning the interior surfaces of pipes, vessels, equipment, filters and associated fittings, without major disassembly. CIP is commonly used for equipment such as piping, tanks, and fillers. CIP empl ...

, without disassembly

Computing

CIP-Tool {{other uses of, CIP CIP-Tool (Communicating Interacting Processes) is a software tool for the modelling and implementation of event-driven applications. It is especially relevant for the development of software components of embedded systems. His ...

, for modelling event-driven processes *

Common Indexing Protocol The Common Indexing Protocol (CIP) was an attempt in the IETF working group FIND during the mid-1990s to define a protocol for exchanging index information between directory services. In the X.500 Directory model, searches scoped near the root of ...

, for exchanging index information * Common Industrial Protocol, automation protocol * Core Independent Peripherals, an implementation of autonomous peripheral operations in microcontrollers

Other uses in science and technology

* Cataloging in Publication, data for a work, in library science * Certified IRB Professional, a scientific research certification * Cold isostatic pressing {{Disambiguation