CIP may refer to:

Business and finance

Construction in progress An accountancy term, construction in progress (CIP) asset or capital work in progress entry records the cost of construction work, which is not yet completed (typically, applied to capital budget items). A CIP item is not depreciated In acco ...

, 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 The Incoterms or International Commercial Terms are a series of pre-defined commercial terms published by the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) relating to international commercial law. Incoterms define the responsiblities of exporters and ...

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 United Kingdom, the Citizen Information Project (CIP) was a plan by the Office for National Statistics to build a national population register. On 18 April 2006 it was announced that instead of continuing as a separate project, it would be ...

in the UK *

Classification of Instructional Programs The Classification of Instructional Programs (CIP) is a taxonomy of academic disciplines at institutions of higher education in the United States and Canada. The CIP was originally developed by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) o ...

, 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 The Combat Identification Panel (CIP), also known as a Coalition Identification Panel, is an Identification friend or foe device mounted on military ground vehicles used by United States Armed Forces' United States Army with United States Marine ...

, a US identify-friend-or-foe device * Continuation in Part in US Patent law *

Corps of Intelligence Police The Corps of Intelligence Police (CIP) was founded by Ralph Van Deman in 1917 as an intelligence agency within the United States Army, and the War Department. In World War I, many of the intelligence disciplines still in use today were deployed fo ...

of US Army 1917-1941 *

Critical Infrastructure Protection Critical infrastructure protection (CIP) is a concept that relates to the preparedness and response to serious incidents that involve the critical infrastructure of a region or nation. The American Presidential directive PDD-63 of May 1998 set up ...

, US *

, in US anti-money laundering

Organizations and businesses

Canadian Institute of Planners The Canadian Institute of Planners (CIP) is a professional organization in Canada for those involved in land use planning. It is responsible for advocating at national and international levels for members, developing public policy positions, and ...

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 The Center for Islamic Pluralism (CIP) is a U.S.-based Islamic think tank challenging Islamist interpretations of Islam. It was founded in 2004 by eight people including the Sufi Muslim author Stephen Suleyman Schwartz and officially opened o ...

, Washington D.C., US * Centro Internacional de la Papa, the International Potato Center in Peru *

Center for Intellectual Property Studies The Center for Intellectual Property Studies (CIP) is a development center at the intersection of industry and academia. Founded in a joint effort between Chalmers University of Technology and School of Business, Economics, and Law at the University ...

, 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 The Italian Paralympic Committee ( it, Comitato Italiano Paralimpico; CIP), founded in 1990 and a member of the International Paralympic Committee (IPC), is responsible for the development and management of paralympic sports in Italy. President ...

, Italian Paralympic Committee *

Crown International Pictures Crown International Pictures (CIP) was an independent film studio and distribution company formed in 1959 by Newton P. Jacobs. History Jacobs was a branch head of RKO Pictures until 1947, when he formed Favorite Films, an organization which relea ...

, US film studio *

Crippled Intellect Publications Crippled Intellect Productions (C.I.P.) is a record label for experimental music based in Chicago, Illinois, and run by the sound artist Blake Edwards. Edwards performs and records under the name Vertonen, and is a member of Anatomy of Habit, Sta ...

, 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 Congenital insensitivity to pain (CIP), also known as congenital analgesia, is one or more extraordinarily rare conditions in which a person cannot feel (and has never felt) physical pain. The conditions described here are separate from the HSAN g ...

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 In organic chemistry, the Cahn–Ingold–Prelog (CIP) sequence rules (also the CIP priority convention; named for R.S. Cahn, C.K. Ingold, and Vladimir Prelog) are a standard process to completely and unequivocally name a stereoisomer of a ...

, 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, for exchanging index information *

Common Industrial Protocol The Common Industrial Protocol (CIP) is an industrial protocol for industrial automation applications. It is supported by ODVA. Previously known as Control and Information Protocol, CIP encompasses a comprehensive suite of messages and services f ...

, automation protocol * Core Independent Peripherals, an implementation of autonomous peripheral operations in microcontrollers

Other uses in science and technology

Cataloging in Publication In publishing and library science, Cataloging in Publication (CIP, or Cataloguing in Publication) data are basic library catalog, cataloging data for a work, prepared before publication by the national library of the country where the work is prin ...

, data for a work, in library science *

Certified IRB Professional The Certified IRB Professional (CIP) program is a certification initiative in the United States for individuals administering and overseeing the daily activities of institutional review boards (IRBs). IRBs are committees that are charged with determ ...

, a scientific research certification * Cold isostatic pressing {{Disambiguation