CAP may refer to:

Certifications

* Certified Administrative Professional, a IAAP certification * Certified Authorization Professional, a (ISC)² certification * Certified Automation Professional, a ISA certification

Companies

* CAP Group (Computer Analysts and Programmers), a UK software company * CAP S.A. ('), a Chilean mining and steel sector holding company *

CAP Scientific CAP Scientific Ltd was a British defence software company, and was part of CAP (Computer Analysts and Programmers)Group plc. In 1988, CAP Group merged with the French firm Sema-Metra SA in 1988 as Sema Group, Sema Group plc. In 1991 Sema Group ...

, a British defence software company (1979-1988) *

Christchurch Adventure Park Christchurch Adventure Park is an adventure park in the Port Hills of Christchurch, New Zealand. Built by the Canadian company Select Evolution, it had its opening function on 16 December 2016. The 1500 holders of special passes could ride from ...

, a mountain bike park opened in Christchurch, New Zealand, in 2016 *

Companhia Aeronáutica Paulista Companhia Aeronáutica Paulista usually known as CAP was a Brazilian aircraft manufacturer established in São Paulo. History It acquired the assets of Empresa Aeronáutica Ypiranga the same year it was founded and with them, the design that w ...

, a 1940s Brazilian aircraft manufacturer * Constructions Aéronautiques Parisiennes, Apex Aircraft training and aerobatic aircraft

Computing

CAP computer The Cambridge CAP computer was the first successful experimental computer that demonstrated the use of security capabilities, both in hardware and software.Levy, p.96 It was developed at the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory in the 19 ...

, an experimental machine built in Cambridge, UK *

CAP theorem In theoretical computer science, the CAP theorem, also named Brewer's theorem after computer scientist Eric Brewer, states that any distributed data store can provide only two of the following three guarantees:Seth Gilbert and Nancy Lynch"Brewer' ...

, Consistency, Availability, Partition-tolerance theorem in computer science * Camel Application Part, a protocol used in CAMEL servers *

Common Alerting Protocol The Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) is an XML-based data format for exchanging public warnings and emergencies between alerting technologies. CAP allows a warning message to be consistently disseminated simultaneously over many warning systems to m ...

, an XML based data format for exchanging public warnings between different alerting technologies

Military

* Combat air patrol *

Combined Action Program The Combined Action Program was a United States Marine Corps counterinsurgency tools during the Vietnam War. It was widely remembered by the Marine Corps as effective. Operating from 1965 to 1971, it placed a thirteen-member Marine rifle squad, au ...

(AKA Combined Action Platoon), a United States Marine Corps Vietnam era special operation *

Civil Air Patrol Civil Air Patrol (CAP) is a congressionally chartered, federally supported non-profit corporation that serves as the official civilian auxiliary of the United States Air Force (USAF). CAP is a volunteer organization with an aviation-minded mem ...

, the official US Air Force Auxiliary

Organisations

Canadian Action Party The Canadian Action Party (CAP) (french: Parti action canadienne, PAC) was a Canadian Canadian confederation, federal political party founded in 1997 and deregistered on 31 March 2017. The party stood for Canadian nationalism, monetary reform, mo ...

* Canadian Association of Physicists *

Cascade AIDS Project Cascade AIDS Project (CAP) is a nonprofit organization based in Portland, Oregon, in the United States. Its mission is to prevent HIV infections, to "support and empower" people affected and by HIV/AIDS, and to eliminate stigma associated with the ...

* Center for Adoption Policy * Center for American Progress, a left-of-centre think tank * Central Arizona Project *

Central Atlanta Progress Central Atlanta Progress (CAP), founded in 1941, as the Central Area Improvement Association, is a private, not-for-profit corporation, chartered to plan and promote Atlanta's Central Area, that strives to create a robust economic climate for downto ...

Chicago Area Project Chicago Area Project (CAP) is an American juvenile delinquency prevention association based in Chicago, Illinois. The association has been acting since early 20th century. The project was founded by University of Chicago criminologist Clifford Shaw ...

, a juvenile delinquency project *

Christian Appalachian Project The Christian Appalachian Project (CAP) is an interdenominational non-profit organization, based in Kentucky, US. Their mission is "building hope, transforming lives, and sharing Christ's love through service in Appalachia". CAP was establishe ...

, a program to assist disadvantaged persons in Kentucky and West Virginia * Christians Against Poverty, the UK charity *

Church Action on Poverty Church Action on Poverty is a UK-based national ecumenical Christian social justice charity, committed to tackling poverty in the United Kingdom. Church Action on Poverty works in partnership with churches and with people in poverty themselves t ...

, UK national ecumenical social justice charity established in 1982 *

College of American Pathologists The College of American Pathologists (CAP) is a member-based physician organization founded in 1946 comprising approximately 18,000 board-certified pathologists. It serves patients, pathologists, and the public by fostering and advocating ...

Committee of Advertising Practice The Committee of Advertising Practice (CAP) is a British organisation responsible for the UK Code of Non-Broadcast Advertising, Sales Promotion and Direct Marketing, which is the main code of practice for self-regulation of the non-broadcast a ...

Committee for Another Policy The Committee for Another Policy ( nl, Comité voor een Andere Politiek, french: Comité pour une Autre Politique), abbreviated to CAP, was a Belgian left-wing political movement that was established in 2005, and became a political party in 2006. ...

(' / '')'', a Belgian political movement *

Concerned Alumni of Princeton The Concerned Alumni of Princeton (CAP) was a group of politically conservative former Princeton University students that existed between 1972 and 1986. CAP was born in 1972 from the ashes of the Alumni Committee to Involve Itself Now (ACTIIN), whi ...

Congress of Aboriginal Peoples The Congress of Aboriginal Peoples (CAP) (formerly the Native Council of Canada and briefly the Indigenous Peoples Assembly of Canada), founded in 1971, is a national Canadian aboriginal organization, that represents Aboriginal peoples ( Non-Sta ...

, Canadian aboriginal organization

Projects, programs, policies

* Canada Assistance Plan, a former transfer program administrated by the

government of Canada The government of Canada (french: gouvernement du Canada) is the body responsible for the federal administration of Canada. A constitutional monarchy, the Crown is the corporation sole, assuming distinct roles: the executive, as the ''Crown ...

* Capital Assistance Program *

Child access prevention law A child access prevention law (often abbreviated CAP law; also sometimes called a safe storage law) makes it illegal for an adult to keep a gun in a place and manner so that a child can easily access and fire it. Proponents of these laws, such as th ...

s, which punish adults who allow children to access guns *

Common Agricultural Policy The Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) is the agricultural policy of the European Union. It implements a system of agricultural subsidies and other programmes. It was introduced in 1962 and has since then undergone several changes to reduce the ...

, the European Union's agricultural subsidy system *

Community Access Program The Community Access Program (CAP, also seen as C@P) was an initiative of the Government of Canada which aimed to provide Canadians with affordable public access to the Internet and the skills they need to use it effectively. The program was adminis ...

, a government of Canada initiative to provide access to the Internet in remote areas *

Community Action Program In the United States and its territories, Community Action Agencies (CAA) are local private and public non-profit organizations that carry out the Community Action Program (CAP), which was founded by the 1964 Economic Opportunity Act to fight pov ...

, Lyndon Johnson's anti-poverty programs *

Community Action Programme The Community Action Programme (CAP) also known as Support for the very long-term unemployed is a workfare programme in the United Kingdom whereby long-term unemployed people who have been unemployed for over three years must work for their benef ...

, 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

* CaP,

prostate cancer Prostate cancer is cancer of the prostate. Prostate cancer is the second most common cancerous tumor worldwide and is the fifth leading cause of cancer-related mortality among men. The prostate is a gland in the male reproductive system that sur ...

* CAP (protein), cyclase-associated protein *

Carrierless amplitude phase modulation Carrierless amplitude phase modulation (CAP) is a variant of quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM). Instead of modulating the amplitude of two carrier waves, CAP generates a QAM signal by combining two PAM signals filtered through two filters desig ...

* Catabolite activator protein, a regulatory protein for mRNA transcription in prokaryotes that binds cyclic AMP *

Cellulose acetate phthalate Cellulose acetate phthalate (CAP), also known as cellacefate (INN) and cellulosi acetas phthalas, is a commonly used polymer phthalate in the formulation of pharmaceuticals, such as the enteric coating of tablets or capsules and for controlled ...

, a cellulose-based polymer * 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

Other

Carlos Andrés Pérez Carlos Andrés Pérez Rodríguez (27 October 1922 – 25 December 2010) also known as CAP and often referred to as '' El Gocho'' (due to his Andean origins), was a Venezuelan politician and the president of Venezuela from 12 March 1974 to 12 M ...

(1922-2010), twice President of Venezuela *

CAP Markets CAP Märkte (CAP Markets) are medium-sized neighbourhood supermarkets in Germany employing disabled people. Each unit is typically run by a local disablement association, but the brand is owned by a co-operative of sheltered workshops. As well as ...

, social franchise and supermarket chain in Germany *

Capital Airlines Capital Airlines may refer to: * Beijing Capital Airlines, an airline based in China formerly named Deer Air * Capital Airlines (United States), a now-defunct 20th-century American airline * Capital Airlines (Nigeria), a now-defunct airline based i ...

, the ICAO airline designator for this airline *

Causal adequacy principle Causality (also referred to as causation, or cause and effect) is influence by which one event, process, state, or object (''a'' ''cause'') contributes to the production of another event, process, state, or object (an ''effect'') where the cau ...

, a philosophical claim made by René Descartes * Central Arizona Project, the Colorado River diversion canal in Arizona *

Chip Authentication Program 250px, A Gemalto EZIO CAP device with Barclays PINsentry styling The Chip Authentication Program (CAP) is a MasterCard initiative and technical specification for using EMV banking smartcards for authenticating users and transactions in online and ...

, using EMV smartcards to authenticate online banking transactions * Coded Anti-Piracy, an anti-piracy system for motion picture prints exhibited theatrically *

Consolidated Appeals Process The Consolidated Appeals Process (CAP) is an advocacy tool for humanitarian financing, in which projects managed by the United Nations, NGOs and other stakeholders come together to approach the donor community funding international development acti ...

, a funding mechanism used by humanitarian aid organisations * Codice di Avviamento Postale, literally ''Postal Expedition Code'', Italy's postal code system *

Estadio CAP Estadio Huachipato-CAP Acero (''Compañía de Acero del Pacífico''), is a football stadium in Talcahuano, Chile. It is the home field of the Huachipato football team. Until 2012, Naval also played its home matches there until 2012. Opened in ...

('), a football stadium in Talcahuano, Chile