Caps are flat headgear. Caps or CAPS may also refer to:

Science and technology

Computing

* CESG Assisted Products Service, provided by the U.K. Government Communications Headquarters * Composite Application Platform Suite, by Java Caps, a Java framework *

Computer Animation Production System The Computer Animation Production System (CAPS) was a proprietary collection of software, scanning camera systems, servers, networked computer workstations, and custom desks developed by The Walt Disney Company and Pixar in the late 1980s. Although ...

, a film animation post-production system developed by Walt Disney Feature Animation and Pixar

Biology, medicine and psychology

Genetics

* Calcyphosin, the CAPS gene and its protein *

Cleaved amplified polymorphic sequence The cleaved amplified polymorphic sequence (CAPS) method is a technique in molecular biology for the analysis of genetic markers. It is an extension to the restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) method, using polymerase chain reaction (PC ...

, markers used to detect a polymorphic sequence

Medical conditions

* Auditory processing disorder (APD), formerly Central Auditory Processing Syndrome *

Catastrophic antiphospholipid syndrome Catastrophic antiphospholipid syndrome (CAPS), also known as Asherson's syndrome, is a rare autoimmune disease in which widespread, intravascular clotting causes multi-organ failure. The syndrome is caused by antiphospholipid antibodies that targ ...

* Cryopyrin-associated periodic syndrome, a spectrum of autoinflammatory syndrome

Other uses in biology, medicine and psychology

CAPS (buffer) CAPS is the common name for ''N''-cyclohexyl-3-aminopropanesulfonic acid, a chemical used as buffering agent in biochemistry Biochemistry or biological chemistry is the study of chemical processes within and relating to living organisms. A s ...

, N-cyclohexyl-3-aminopropanesulfonic acid, in biochemistry, a buffering agent *

Cognitive-affective personality system The cognitive-affective personality system or cognitive-affective processing system (CAPS) is a contribution to the psychology of personality proposed by Walter Mischel and Yuichi Shoda in 1995. According to the cognitive-affective model, behavior ...

, a model within psychology of personality

Other uses in science and technology

Cassini Plasma Spectrometer Cassini may refer to: People * Cassini (surname) * Oleg Cassini (1913-2006), American fashion designer :Cassini family: * Giovanni Domenico Cassini (1625–1712), Italian mathematician, astronomer, engineer, and astrologer * Jacques Cassini (167 ...

, a direct sensing instrument that measures the energy and electrical charge of particles *

Cirrus Airframe Parachute System The Cirrus Airframe Parachute System (CAPS) is a whole-plane ballistic parachute recovery system designed specifically for Cirrus Aircraft's line of general aviation light aircraft including the SR20, SR22 and SF50. The design became the firs ...

, a whole-aircraft emergency parachute system developed by Ballistic Recovery Systems and Cirrus * Collective Awareness Platforms for Sustainability and Social Innovation, a program of the

European Commission The European Commission (EC) is the executive of the European Union (EU). It operates as a cabinet government, with 27 members of the Commission (informally known as "Commissioners") headed by a President. It includes an administrative body o ...

Companies and organizations

* Californians for Population Stabilization *

Captive Animals Protection Society Freedom for Animals (FFA) is the working name of the Captive Animals' Protection Society, a charity registered in England campaigning to end the display of animals in zoos, and the use of animals in entertainment, such as circuses, the exotic p ...

* Center for Advanced Public Safety at the University of Alabama * Center for Analysis and Prediction of Storms * Comic Art Professional Society * Policy Planning Staff (France), ''Centre d'Analyse, de Prévision et de Stratégie''

Sport

* Caps (gamer), Danish esports player *

Cap (sport) In sport, a cap is a player's appearance in a game at international level. The term dates from the practice in the United Kingdom of awarding a cap to every player in an international match of rugby football and association football. In the ea ...

, a measure of a player's international appearances, especially in football *

Washington Capitals The Washington Capitals (colloquially known as the Caps) are a professional ice hockey team based in Washington, D.C. The team competes in the National Hockey League (NHL) as a member of the Metropolitan Division in the Eastern Conference (NHL) ...

, an American ice hockey team

Other uses

* Caps (party), an 18th-century Swedish political faction * All caps, formatting text to only use capital/uppercase letters * Caps, Texas, Taylor County, Texas, U.S. * Chicago Alternative Policing Strategy, a government program in Illinois, U.S.