CPP and cpp may refer to:

Economics and finance

Canada Pension Plan The Canada Pension Plan (CPP; french: Régime de pensions du Canada) is a contributory, earnings-related social insurance program. It forms one of the two major components of Canada's public retirement income system, the other component being Old ...

, a contributory, earnings-related social insurance program in Canada *

Capital Purchase Program The Capital Purchase Program or CPP is a preferred stock and equity warrant purchase program conducted by the US Treasury Office of Financial Stability as part of Troubled Asset Relief Program (aka, TARP). According to the first congressionally man ...

, a preferred stock and equity warrant purchase program in the US * Consistent pricing process, any representation of "prices" of assets in a market * Cost per point, the cost of an advertising campaign, relative to the rating points delivered

Companies

* Cleveland Public Power, an electricity generation and distribution company in Ohio, US *

CPP Group CPP Group plc is a provider of assistance and insurance products which reduce disruptions to everyday life for millions of customers across the world. It is headquartered in Leeds, UK and has about 11 million customers. It is listed on the Alter ...

, a British company selling life assistance products

Organizations

* Centre for Public Policy, a policy think tank in India

Political parties

Cambodian People's Party The Cambodian People's Party (CPP), UNGEGN: , ALA-LC: ; is a Cambodian political party which has ruled Cambodia since 1979. Founded in 1951, it was originally known as the Kampuchean People's Revolutionary Party (KPRP)., UNGEGN: , ALA-LC: ; ...

, a political party of Cambodia *

Chin Progressive Party The Chin Progressive Party ( my, ချင်းတိုးတက်ရေးပါတီ; abbreviated CPP) is a Chin political party in Myanmar. History The party was formed on 24 March 2010.Communist Party of Pakistan The Communist Party of Pakistan ( abbr. CPP; ur, کمیونسٹ پارٹی آف پاکستان) is a communist party in Pakistan. History Founding The CPP was founded in Calcutta, India, soon after the establishment of Pakistan on 6 March 1948 ...

, a political party in Pakistan *

Communist Party of the Philippines The Communist Party of the Philippines ( fil, Partido Komunista ng Pilipinas) is a far-left, Marxist-Leninist-Maoist revolutionary organization and communist party in the Philippines, formed by Jose Maria Sison on 26 December 1968. It is desi ...

, a political party in the Philippines *

Convention People's Party The Convention People's Party (CPP) is a Socialism, socialist political party in Ghana based on the ideas of the first President of Ghana, Kwame Nkrumah. The CPP was formed in June 1949 after Nkrumah broke away from the United Gold Coast Conven ...

, a socialist political party in Ghana *

Pan-African Patriotic Convergence The Pan-African Patriotic Convergence (french: Convergence patriotique panafricaine) is a political party in Togo. Former Prime Minister Edem Kodjo is the President of the CPP as of 2007. The CPP was created in August 1999

(French: ''Convergence patriotique panafricaine''), a political party in Togo

Professional certifications

* Certified Payroll Professional, a professional certification conferred by the

American Payroll Association The American Payroll Association (APA) is a professional association for individuals responsible for processing company payrolls. The Association conducts payroll training courses and seminars on a yearly basis and publishes a library of payroll r ...

*Certified Pharmacist Practitioner, a certification on licenses of pharmacists in the state of Montana * Certified Professional Photographer, degree or certification given by the

Professional Photographers of America Professional Photographers of America (PPA) is a nonprofit trade association of professional photographers. As of August 2022, PPA has 34,000 members. History 19th century The association began in December 1868 as the National Photographic Ass ...

and used after your signature as initials, CPP * Certified Protection Professional, a security management designation conferred by ASIS International

Science and technology

C preprocessor The C preprocessor is the macro preprocessor for the C, Objective-C and C++ computer programming languages. The preprocessor provides the ability for the inclusion of header files, macro expansions, conditional compilation, and line control ...

, a program that processes the C programming language before it is compiled *

C++ C++ (pronounced "C plus plus") is a high-level general-purpose programming language created by Danish computer scientist Bjarne Stroustrup as an extension of the C programming language, or "C with Classes". The language has expanded significan ...

(file extension: .cpp), a programming language *

Carte parallelogrammatique projection The equirectangular projection (also called the equidistant cylindrical projection or la carte parallélogrammatique projection), and which includes the special case of the plate carrée projection (also called the geographic projection, lat/lon ...

, an equirectangular map projection *

Chinese postman problem In graph theory, a branch of mathematics and computer science, Guan's route problem, the Chinese postman problem, postman tour or route inspection problem is to find a shortest closed path or circuit that visits every edge of an (connected) undire ...

, a mathematical problem in graph theory *

meta-Chlorophenylpiperazine ''meta''-Chlorophenylpiperazine (mCPP) is a psychoactive drug of the phenylpiperazine class. It was initially developed in the late-1970s and used in scientific research before being sold as a designer drug in the mid-2000s. It has been detected ...

, a chemical * Controllable-pitch propeller, is a type of propeller used in

Marine propulsion Marine propulsion is the mechanism or system used to generate thrust to move a watercraft through water. While paddles and sails are still used on some smaller boats, most modern ships are propelled by mechanical systems consisting of an electr ...

. It may also refer to a controllable-pitch propeller used in aeronautics. *

Cycloparaphenylene A cycloparaphenylene is a molecule that consists of several benzene rings connected by covalent bonds in the para positions to form a hoop- or necklace-like structure. Its chemical formula is or Such a molecule is usually denoted 'n''PP where ...

Medicine

Cell-penetrating peptide Cell-penetrating peptides (CPPs) are short peptides that facilitate cellular intake and uptake of molecules ranging from nanosize particles to small chemical compounds to large fragments of DNA. The "cargo" is associated with the peptides either ...

, are short polycationic sequences *

Central precocious puberty In medicine, precocious puberty is puberty occurring at an unusually early age. In most cases, the process is normal in every aspect except the unusually early age and simply represents a variation of normal development. In a minority of childr ...

, a condition in which puberty begins abnormally early *

Cerebral perfusion pressure Cerebral perfusion pressure, or CPP, is the net pressure gradient causing cerebral blood flow to the brain (brain perfusion). It must be maintained within narrow limits because too little pressure could cause brain tissue to become ischemic (having ...

, regarding blood flow to the brain *

Coronary perfusion pressure Coronary perfusion pressure (CPP) refers to the pressure gradient that drives coronary blood pressure. The heart's function is to perfuse blood to the body, however the heart's myocardium must, itself, be supplied for its own muscle function. The ...

, regarding blood flow to the heart muscle *

Certificate of pharmaceutical product The certificate of pharmaceutical product (abbreviated: CPP) is a certificate issued in the format recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO), which establishes the status of the pharmaceutical product and of the applicant for this certific ...

, a certificate which establishes the status of a pharmaceutical product *

Chronic pelvic pain Pelvic pain is pain in the area of the pelvis. Acute pain is more common than chronic pain. If the pain lasts for more than six months, it is deemed to be chronic pelvic pain. It can affect both the male and female pelvis. Common causes in inclu ...

, a medical condition *

Critical process parameters Critical process parameters (CPP) in pharmaceutical manufacturing are key variables affecting the production process. CPPs are attributes that are monitored to detect deviations in standardized production operations and product output quality or cha ...

, key variables affecting the production process * Chronic pain patients , a medical group with multiple painful conditions

Other uses

California State Polytechnic University, Pomona California State Polytechnic University, Pomona (Cal Poly Pomona, CPP, or Cal Poly"Cal Poly" may also refer to California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo in San Luis Obispo. See the '' name'' section of this article for more info ...

(Cal Poly Pomona), a four-year university in California, US * '' Canadian Public Policy'', a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal *

Coal preparation plant 300px, A coal "washer" in Eastern Kentucky A modern coal breaker in Mahanoy City, Pennsylvania combines washing, crushing, grading, sorting, stockpiling, and shipping in one facility built into a stockpile of anthracite coal below a mountain top ...

, a processing facility for washing raw coal * Concrete Pavement Preservation * Conditioned place preference, a form of Pavlovian conditioning * ''

Celebrity Paranormal Project ''Celebrity Paranormal Project'' (sometimes abbreviated as ''CPP'') is a paranormal reality television series that originally aired from October 22 to December 17, 2006, on VH1. Except for a different title and use of celebrities, the VH1 show i ...

'', an American reality TV show which aired in 2006 *

Counter promenade position The counter promenade position (abbreviated as CPP in dance diagrams) is a dance position in ballroom and other dances. It is described differently in various dance categories, but essentially it is the opposite of the promenade position. Ballro ...

, a dance position *

Clean Power Plan The Clean Power Plan was an Obama administration policy aimed at combating anthropogenic climate change (global warming) that was first proposed by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in June 2014. The final version of the plan was unveil ...

, US policy attempting to curb emissions from electricity generation * Child-Parent Psychotherapy, a dyadic psychotherapy for children and parents who have experienced trauma, especially through domestic-violence