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 Chatswood Public School is a primary and Public school (government funded), public school that was founded in 1883, located in the suburb of Chatswood, New South Wales, Chatswood in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. This school provides a playgr ...

, a school in Sydney

Canada

Calgary Police Service Calgary Police Service (CPS) is the municipal police service of the City of Calgary, Alberta, Canada. It is the largest municipal police service in Alberta and third largest municipal force in Canada behind the Toronto Police Service and the Mont ...

, the police service for the city of Calgary, Alberta * Canadian Pacific Survey *

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 The Centre for Policy Studies (CPS) is a think tank and pressure group in the United Kingdom. Its goal is to promote coherent and practical policies based on its founding principles of: free markets, "small state," low tax, national independe ...

, a British think-tank *

College of Psychic Studies The College of Psychic Studies (founded in 1884 as the London Spiritualist Alliance) is a non-profit organisation based in South Kensington, London. It is dedicated to the study of psychic and spiritualist phenomena. History British National Assoc ...

, a non-profit organisation based in London *

Communist Party of Scotland The Communist Party of Scotland (CPS; ''Pàrtaidh Co-Mhaoineach na h-Alba'') was a communist political party based in Scotland. It was established in January 1992 by former members of the Communist Party of Great Britain who disagreed with the ...

Crown Prosecution Service The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) is the principal public agency for conducting criminal prosecutions in England and Wales. It is headed by the Director of Public Prosecutions. The main responsibilities of the CPS are to provide legal adv ...

, in England and Wales

United States

* Cambridge Public School District, Cambridge, Massachusetts * Center for the Partially Sighted, an agency that promotes independent living for people with impaired sight, in Los Angeles, California *

Chicago Public Schools Chicago Public Schools (CPS), officially classified as City of Chicago School District #299 for funding and districting reasons, in Chicago, Illinois, is the third-largest school district in the United States, after New York and Los Angeles. ...

* 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 LexisNexis Risk Solutions is a global data and analytics company that provides data and technology services, analytics, predictive insights and fraud prevention for a wide range of industries. It is headquartered in Alpharetta, Georgia (part of ...

, whose New York Stock Exchange symbol was CPS until its buyout by Reed Elsevier *

Cincinnati Public Schools Cincinnati Public Schools (often abbreviated CPS) is the U.S. state of Ohio's third-largest public school district, by enrollment, after Columbus City Schools and Cleveland Metropolitan School District. Cincinnati Public Schools is the largest O ...

, Hamilton County, Ohio *

Civilian Public Service The Civilian Public Service (CPS) was a program of the United States government that provided conscientious objectors with an alternative to military service during World War II. From 1941 to 1947, nearly 12,000 draftees, willing to serve their ...

, a national system of work camps for conscientious objectors in the United States during World War II * Cleveland Photographic Society, a non-profit photography organization, based in Cleveland, Ohio, USA * Coalition for Positive Sexuality, a self-described "guerrilla sex education" group *

The College Preparatory School The College Preparatory School (CPS or College Prep) is a four-year private high school in Oakland, California. The school's motto is ''Mens Conscia Recti'', a Latin phrase adapted from Virgil's ''Aeneid'' that means "a mind aware of what is r ...

, a high school in Oakland, California *

Columbia Public Schools The Columbia Public School District is located in Columbia, Boone County, Missouri. The district is Accredited with Distinction by the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education. 19,052 students are enrolled as of 2020. The dist ...

, Missouri * CPS Energy, 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 (, English: "Pichilemu School of the Precious Blood"), often shortened to , is a coeducational Roman Catholic private state-subsidized day school, serving students in preschool (Chile's ') through twelfth grade ('), located in the commune of P ...

, a school in Pichilemu, Chile * College of Physicians and Surgeons (disambiguation) *

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 The Presentation Sisters, officially the Sisters of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, are a religious institute of Roman Catholic women founded in Cork, Ireland, by the Venerable Honora "Nano" Nagle in 1775. The Sisters of the congre ...

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 Capsaicin (8-methyl-''N''-vanillyl-6-nonenamide) ( or ) is an active component of chili peppers, which are plants belonging to the genus ''Capsicum''. It is a chemical irritant for mammals, including humans, and produces a sensation of burning ...

, a pungent component of chili peppers * Carbamoyl phosphate synthase II, 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 Chlorpyrifos (CPS), also known as Chlorpyrifos ethyl, is an organophosphate pesticide that has been used on crops, animals, and buildings, and in other settings, to kill several pests, including insects and worms. It acts on the nervous systems ...

, an organophosphate pesticide * Concentrate of poppy straw, processed

poppy straw Poppy straw (also known as opium straw, mowed opium straw, crushed poppy capsule, poppy chaff, or poppy husk) is derived from opium poppies (''Papaver somniferum'') that are harvested when fully mature and dried by mechanical means, minus the rip ...

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. Diffe ...

, 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 In functional programming, continuation-passing style (CPS) is a style of programming in which control is passed explicitly in the form of a continuation. This is contrasted with direct style, which is the usual style of programming. Gerald Jay Suss ...

, a programming technique *

Conversational Programming System Conversational Programming System or CPS was an early Time-sharing system offered by IBM which ran on System/360 mainframes ''circa'' 1967 through 1972 in a partition of OS/360 Release 17 MFT II or MVT or above. CPS was implemented as an inte ...

, an early time sharing operating system that ran on IBM System/360 mainframes *

CP System The is an arcade system board developed by Capcom that ran game software stored on removable daughterboards. More than two dozen arcade titles were released for CPS-1, before Capcom shifted game development over to its successor, the CP System ...

, arcade system boards manufactured by Capcom in the early and late 1990s

Engineering

Cyber-physical system A cyber-physical system (CPS) or intelligent system is a computer system in which a mechanism is controlled or monitored by computer-based algorithms. In cyber-physical systems, physical and software components are deeply intertwined, able to oper ...

, the tight conjoining of and coordination between computational and physical resources *

Crankshaft position sensor A crank sensor (CKP) is an electronic device used in an internal combustion engine, both petrol and diesel, to monitor the position or rotational speed of the crankshaft. This information is used by engine management system An engine contro ...

, an electronic device used in IC engines to monitor the position of the crankshaft

Medicine

* Cancer Prevention Study, a series of epidemiological studies conducted by the American Cancer Society *

Chronic pain syndrome Chronic pain is classified as pain that lasts longer than three to six months. In medicine, the distinction between acute and chronic pain is sometimes determined by the amount of time since onset. Two commonly used markers are pain that continues ...

, an ongoing pain disorder * Complex partial seizure, a type of

partial seizure Focal seizures (also called partial seizures and localized seizures) are seizures which affect initially only one hemisphere of the brain. The brain is divided into two hemispheres, each consisting of four lobes – the frontal, temporal, parie ...

Physics

* Centipoise (cP), a unit of poise, 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 (cps), also counts per minute (cpm), the rate at which ionising events are detected by a radiological measurement instrument *

Cycle per second The cycle per second is a once-common English name for the unit of frequency now known as the hertz (Hz). The plural form was typically used, often written cycles per second, cycles/second, c.p.s., c/s, or, ambiguously, just cycles (Cy./Cyc.). The ...

(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 Carrier preselect is a term relating to the telecommunications industry. It is a method of routing calls for least-cost routing (LCR) without the need for programming of PBX telephone system. This is the process whereby a telephone subscriber whos ...

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

Other uses

Central Park South 59th Street is a crosstown street in the New York City borough (New York City), borough of Manhattan, running from York Avenue and Sutton Place on the East Side (Manhattan), East Side of Manhattan to the West Side Highway on the West Side (Manha ...

, a street in New York City * Central Police Station (disambiguation) * Classroom Performance Systems, 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 In musical tuning systems, the hexany, invented by Erv Wilson, represents one of the simplest structures found in his combination product sets. It is referred to as an uncentered structure, meaning that it implies no tonic. It achieves this b ...

Constant Pressure System The Constant Pressure System, or CPS, is a powerful design used for certain water guns. CPS water guns are powered by a rubber bladder inflated with water. It was patented by Bruce M. D'Andrade as "bladder water gun." Design All Constant Pressure ...

, a design used in water guns * Cost-per-sale, 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 The Current Population Survey (CPS) is a monthly survey of about 60,000 U.S. households conducted by the United States Census Bureau for the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). The BLS uses the data to publish reports early each month called the Emp ...

, a statistical survey conducted by the United States Census Bureau for the Bureau of Labor Statistics {{disambiguation