CPS or cps may refer to:

Organisations

Australia

Cat Protection Society of NSW The Cat Protection Society of NSW is a not for profit charity operating in Newtown, NSW. The Society was created in 1958 as a means of reducing the street cat population through neutering and adoption. Their wikt:raison d'être, raison d'être is ...

, a cat shelter in Newtown, Sydney * Chatswood Public School, a school in Sydney

Canada

* Calgary Police Service, the police service for the city of Calgary, Alberta *

Canadian Pacific Survey The Canadian Pacific Survey or Canadian Pacific Railway Survey comprised many distinct geographical surveys conducted during the 1870s and 1880s, designed to determine the ideal route of the Canadian Pacific Railway. Although much of the survey's ...

Canadian Paediatric Society The Canadian Paediatric Society (CPS) is a national association of paediatricians. As a voluntary professional association, the CPS represents more than 3,000 paediatricians, paediatric subspecialists, paediatric residents, and other people wh ...

Canadian Power and Sail Squadrons Canadian Power and Sail Squadrons / Escadrille canadiennes de plaisance (CPS-ECP) is an organization of recreational boaters with about 26,000 active members. CPS is headquartered in Toronto, Ontario. Its volunteer instructors train recreational ...

, an association that teaches safe boating *

Compendium of Pharmaceuticals and Specialties The ''Compendium of Pharmaceuticals and Specialties: The Canadian Drug Reference for Health Professionals'', more commonly known by its abbreviation ''CPS'', is a reference book that contains drug monographs and numerous features which help healt ...

, drug reference for healthcare providers

United Kingdom

Cambridge Philosophical Society The Cambridge Philosophical Society (CPS) is a scientific society at the University of Cambridge. It was founded in 1819. The name derives from the medieval use of the word philosophy to denote any research undertaken outside the fields of law ...

, a scientific society at the University of Cambridge * Cambridge Positioning Systems, a GPS software company bought by CSR * Centre for Planetary Science, at

Birkbeck, University of London , mottoeng = Advice comes over nightTranslation used by Birkbeck. , established = , type = Public research university , endowment = £4.3 m (2014) , budget = £10 ...

* Centre for Policy Studies, a British think-tank * College of Psychic Studies, a non-profit organisation based in London * Communist Party of Scotland * Crown Prosecution Service, in England and Wales

United States

Cambridge Public School District ''For primary schools named "Cambridge" see: Cambridge Elementary School (disambiguation)'' The Cambridge Public School District or Cambridge Public Schools is a school district serving Cambridge, Massachusetts in Greater Boston, in the United Stat ...

, Cambridge, Massachusetts *

Center for the Partially Sighted The Center for the Partially Sighted is an American non-profit organization with the goal of promoting independent living for people with visual impairments. The center was founded in 1978 by Sam Genensky and two associates as an outreach progr ...

, an agency that promotes independent living for people with impaired sight, in Los Angeles, California * Chicago Public Schools * Child Protective Services, the name used in many United States jurisdictions for a state or local government agency which investigates child abuse and neglect * ChoicePoint, whose New York Stock Exchange symbol was CPS until its buyout by Reed Elsevier * Cincinnati Public Schools, Hamilton County, Ohio * Civilian Public Service, a national system of work camps for conscientious objectors in the United States during World War II *

Cleveland Photographic Society The Cleveland Photographic Society (CPS), founded in 1887, is one of the largest and oldest non-profit photography organizations of its kind. Its 300-plus members and associate members include professional and amateur photographers from all over O ...

, a non-profit photography organization, based in Cleveland, Ohio, USA *

Coalition for Positive Sexuality Coalition for Positive Sexuality is an internet-based comprehensive sexuality education website, for youth and young adults. The most commonly used feature of the CPS website is the "Let's Talk" feature, which allows youth members to post anonymous ...

, a self-described "guerrilla sex education" group * The College Preparatory School, a high school in Oakland, California * Columbia Public Schools, Missouri *

CPS Energy CPS Energy (formerly "City Public Service Board of San Antonio") is the municipal electric utility serving the city of San Antonio, Texas. Acquired by the city in 1942, CPS Energy serves over 840,750 electricity customers and more than 352,585 na ...

, formerly "City Public Service", San Antonio's municipally owned natural gas and electric company

Elsewhere

CPS (programadora) Comunicaciones Producción y Servicios de Televisión (also known as CPS) was a Colombian ''programadora''. It operated between 1998 and 2003. History CPS was owned by Guillermo La Chiva Cortés, who was the consul of Colombia to Sevilla in 1997 an ...

(''Comunicaciones Producción y Servicios de Televisión''), a Colombian ''programadora'' that operated between 1998 and 2003 * Colegio de la Preciosa Sangre de Pichilemu, a school in Pichilemu, Chile *

College of Physicians and Surgeons (disambiguation) There are several educational institutions that are called the College of Physicians and Surgeons: Canada *College of Physicians and Surgeons of Alberta *College of Physicians and Surgeons of British Columbia *College of Physicians and Surgeons of ...

Committee of Public Safety The Committee of Public Safety (french: link=no, Comité de salut public) was a committee of the National Convention which formed the provisional government and war cabinet during the Reign of Terror, a violent phase of the French Revolution. S ...

, the ''de facto'' executive government in France, 1793–1794 * Conference of Presentation Sisters of North America, a congregation of the Presentation Sisters religious order *

Convention Panafricaine Sankariste The Sankarist Pan-African Convention () was a political party in Burkina Faso. CPS was formed in 2000, through the merger of the Burkinabè Socialist Bloc, Party of United Social Democracy and a fraction of the Social Forces Front. The party ...

, Burkina Faso

Science and technology

Biology and chemistry

* Capsaicin, a pungent component of chili peppers *

Carbamoyl phosphate synthase II Carbamoyl phosphate synthetase (glutamine-hydrolysing) () is an enzyme that catalyzes the reactions that produce carbamoyl phosphate in the cytosol (as opposed to type I, which functions in the mitochondria). Its systemic name is ''hydrogen-carbon ...

, an enzyme that catalyzes a reaction yielding carbamoyl phosphate *

Carbamoyl phosphate synthetase Carbamoyl phosphate synthetase catalyzes the ATP-dependent synthesis of carbamoyl phosphate from glutamine () or ammonia () and bicarbonate. This enzyme catalyzes the reaction of ATP and bicarbonate to produce carboxy phosphate and ADP. Carb ...

, an enzyme that catalyzes a reaction yielding carbamoyl phosphate * Chlorpyrifos, an organophosphate pesticide * Concentrate of poppy straw, processed poppy straw *

Circumsporozoite protein Circumsporozoite protein (CSP) is a secreted protein of the sporozoite stage of the malaria parasite (''Plasmodium'' sp.) and is the antigenic target of RTS,S and other malaria vaccines. The amino-acid sequence of CSP consists of an immunodominan ...

, a protein secreted by the malaria parasite during the sporozoite stage

Computing

* CPS, a file format for raster graphics images produced by

Corel Photo House Corel Photo House is a End-of-life (product), discontinued raster graphics editor, replaced by Corel Photo-Paint. Corel Photo House was sometimes distributed free with image scanners such as the HP Scanjet. Corel Photo House saved images in the pro ...

Certification Practice Statement A Certification Practice Statement (CPS) is a document from a certificate authority or a member of a web of trust which describes their practice for issuing and managing public key certificates. Some elements of a CPS include documenting practices ...

, legal document that describes how the Certificate Authority manages the certificates it issues *

Characters Per Second In computing, a printer is a peripheral machine which makes a persistent representation of graphics or text, usually on paper. While most output is human-readable, bar code printers are an example of an expanded use for printers. Differ ...

, in printers *

Citrix Presentation Server Citrix Systems, Inc. is an American multinational corporation, multinational cloud computing and virtualization technology company that provides server, application and desktop virtualization, networking, software as a service (SaaS), and cloud ...

, now known as Citrix XenApp * Continuation-passing style, a programming technique * Conversational Programming System, an early time sharing operating system that ran on IBM System/360 mainframes * CP System, arcade system boards manufactured by Capcom in the early and late 1990s

Engineering

* Cyber-physical system, the tight conjoining of and coordination between computational and physical resources * Crankshaft position sensor, an electronic device used in IC engines to monitor the position of the crankshaft

Medicine

Cancer Prevention Study The Cancer Prevention Study (frequently abbreviated CPS) is the name of a series of cohort studies conducted in the United States by the American Cancer Society. CPS-I The first Cancer Prevention Study, known as CPS-I, recruited subjects between O ...

, a series of epidemiological studies conducted by the American Cancer Society * Chronic pain syndrome, an ongoing pain disorder * Complex partial seizure, a type of partial seizure

Physics

* Centipoise (cP), a unit of

poise Poise may mean: * Poise (unit), a measure of viscosity * A concept similar to gracefulness * Ferdinand Poise image:Ferdinand Poise 1892.jpg, Jean Alexandre Ferdinand Poise (3 June 1828 – 13 May 1892) was a French composer, mainly of opéra ...

, a measurement of viscosity, sometimes written cps or cPs *

CERN Proton Synchrotron The Proton Synchrotron (PS, sometimes also referred to as CPS) is a particle accelerator at CERN. It is CERN's first synchrotron, beginning its operation in 1959. For a brief period the PS was the world's highest energy particle accelerator. I ...

, a particle accelerator *

Counts per second The measurement of ionizing radiation is sometimes expressed as being a ''rate'' of counts per unit time as registered by a radiation monitoring instrument, for which counts per minute (cpm) and counts per second (cps) are commonly used quantities ...

(cps), also counts per minute (cpm), the rate at which ionising events are detected by a radiological measurement instrument * Cycle per second (c.p.s.), a unit of frequency now known as Hertz

Telecommunications

Calls per second Call or Calls may refer to: Arts, entertainment, and media Games * Call, a type of betting in poker * Call, in the game of contract bridge, a bid, pass, double, or redouble in the bidding stage Music and dance * Call (band), from Lahore, Paki ...

, the measurement system of call volume in telephony or other telecommunications * Carrier preselect, a landline telephone option that lets European customers use a third party for call charges

Transport

Clapham South tube station Clapham South is a station on London Underground's Northern line between and Balham. The station is located at the corner of Balham Hill (A24) and Nightingale Lane, at the southern edge of Clapham Common. It is in both Travelcard Zone 2 and Tr ...

, London, London Underground station code * IATA code for

St. Louis Downtown Airport St. Louis Downtown Airport is a public-use airport located in Greater St. Louis, one mile (2 km) east of the central business district of Cahokia Heights, in St. Clair County, Illinois, United States. It is owned by the Bi-State Develop ...

, formerly Curtiss-Parks Airport and originally Curtiss-Steinberg Airport

Other uses

* Central Park South, a street in New York City *

Central Police Station (disambiguation) Central Police Station may refer to: *77 North Front Street, former Central Police Station of Columbus, Ohio *Central Police Station (Hong Kong) *Central Police Station (St. Joseph, Missouri) *Central Police Station, Bristol *Central Police Station ...

Classroom Performance Systems Educational technology (commonly abbreviated as edutech, or edtech) is the combined use of computer hardware, software, and educational theory and practice to facilitate learning. When referred to with its abbreviation, edtech, it often refers ...

, a technological student assessment system * Clerk Police Sergeant, or Clerk Sergeant, a former rank of station sergeant in the London Metropolitan Police *

Collaborative problem-solving Problem solving is the process of achieving a goal by overcoming obstacles, a frequent part of most activities. Problems in need of solutions range from simple personal tasks (e.g. how to turn on an appliance) to complex issues in business an ...

, people working together face-to-face or in online workspaces * Combination Product Set, all ways of choosing the product of m distinct values from a set of n primes, used in hexany * Constant Pressure System, a design used in water guns *

Cost-per-sale Pay-per-sale or PPS (sometimes referred to as cost-per-sale or CPS) is an online advertisement pricing system where the publisher or website owner is paid on the basis of the number of sales that are directly generated by an advertisement. It is ...

, an online advertising pricing system * Crane, Poole & Schmidt, a fictional law firm in the television series ''

Boston Legal ''Boston Legal'' is an American legal drama and comedy drama television series created by former lawyer and Boston native David E. Kelley, produced in association with 20th Century Fox Television for ABC. The series aired from October 3, 2004, t ...

'' * Current Population Survey, a statistical survey conducted by the United States Census Bureau for the Bureau of Labor Statistics {{disambiguation