CSP may refer to:

Education

College Student Personnel Student affairs, student support, or student services is the department or division of services and support for student success at institutions of higher education to enhance student growth and development. People who work in this field are know ...

, an academic discipline * Commonwealth Supported Place, a category in Australian education *

Concordia University (Saint Paul, Minnesota) Concordia University, St. Paul is a private university in Saint Paul, Minnesota. It was founded in 1893 and enrolls nearly 5,600 students. It is a member of the Concordia University System, which is operated by the second-largest Lutheran ch ...

, US

Organizations

* Caledonian Steam Packet Company, Scotland * California Society of Printmakers, US *

Cambridge Scholars Publishing Cambridge Scholars Publishing (CSP) is an academic book publisher based in Newcastle upon Tyne, England. It is not affiliated with the University of Cambridge or Cambridge University Press. The company publishes in health science, life scienc ...

, UK *

Canadian Ski Patrol The Canadian Ski Patrol (French: ''Patrouille canadienne de ski'') is a national, non-profit, registered charitable organization that is volunteer-based and provides advanced first aid and emergency response services at more than 230 ski resorts ...

Center for Security Policy The Center for Security Policy (CSP) is a US far-right, anti-Muslim, Washington, D.C.-based think tank. The organization's founder and current president is Frank Gaffney Jr. who is known for promoting falsehoods about former U.S. President ...

, a think tank in Washington, D.C., US *

Chartered Society of Physiotherapy The Chartered Society of Physiotherapy (CSP) is the professional body and trade union for physiotherapists in the United Kingdom. Founded in 1894, the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy has grown to become the profession's largest membership org ...

, UK *

Paulist Fathers The Paulist Fathers, officially named the Missionary Society of Saint Paul the Apostle ( la, Societas Sacerdotum Missionariorum a Sancto Paulo Apostolo), abbreviated CSP, is a Catholic society of apostolic life of Pontifical Right for men founded ...

or the Congregation of St. Paul

Government

California State Police The California State Police (CSP) was a state level security police agency founded on March 15, 1887 which primarily served to protect the State Capitol Building, the Governor, other state agencies located throughout the state, and thousands ...

, US *

Civil Services of Pakistan The Central Superior Services (CSS; or Civil Service) is a permanent elite civil service authority, and the civil service that is responsible for running the bureaucratic operations and government secretariats and directorates of the Cabinet of ...

* Colorado State Patrol, US *

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 ...

, France (1793-95) *

Connecticut State Police The Connecticut State Police (CSP) is a division of the Connecticut Department of Emergency Services and Public Protection responsible for traffic regulation and law enforcement across the state of Connecticut, especially in areas not served by ...

, US

Political parties

Chicago Socialist Party The Chicago Socialist Party (CSP) is the local chapter of the Socialist Party USA in Chicago, Illinois and traces its origins back to the Cook County Socialist Party and the Socialist Party of America. It is a democratic socialist organization ...

, US *

Christian Social Party (disambiguation) Christian Social Party may refer to: *Christian Social Party (Austria) * Christian Social Party (Belgium) *Christian Social Party (Belgium, defunct) * Christian Social Party (Germany) *Christian Social Union of Bavaria *Christian Socialist Party (H ...

Christian Solidarity Party The Christian Solidarity Party ( ga, Comhar Críostaí) was a minor political party in the Republic of Ireland. It had no representation at local or national level. Founded in 1991 as the Christian Principles Party, it stood candidates in the 1 ...

, Ireland * Christlich Soziale Partei (Belgium) *

Congress Socialist Party The Congress Socialist Party (CSP) was a socialist caucus within the Indian National Congress. It was founded in 1934 by Congress members who rejected what they saw as the anti-rational mysticism of Gandhi as well as the sectarian attitude of ...

, India

Transportation

Camas Prairie Railroad Camas Prairie Railroad Company was a short line railroad in northern Idaho jointly owned and operated by Northern Pacific Railway and Union Pacific. The Camas Prairie Railroad was known as the "railroad on stilts" due to the many wooden trestle ...

, Idaho, US * Camas Prairie RailNet, shortline railroad formerly owned by

North American RailNet North American RailNet, Inc., based in Bedford, Texas, was a holding company A holding company is a company whose primary business is holding a controlling interest in the securities of other companies. A holding company usually does not produ ...

, US * Casper Air Service ( ICAO airline designator)

Science and technology

Chiral stationary phase Chiral column chromatography is a variant of column chromatography that is employed for the separation of enantiomers, e. g. in racemates. The stationary phase contains a single enantiomer of a chiral compound. The chiral stationary phase can be ...

, in chiral column chromatography *

Concentrated solar power Concentrated solar power (CSP, also known as concentrating solar power, concentrated solar thermal) systems generate solar power by using mirrors or lenses to concentrate a large area of sunlight into a receiver. Electricity is generated when ...

, a type of design for electricity generation and water warming *

Crystal structure prediction Crystal structure prediction (CSP) is the calculation of the crystal structures of solids from first principles. Reliable methods of predicting the crystal structure of a compound, based only on its composition, has been a goal of the physical sci ...

Cavum septi pellucidi The cave of septum pellucidum (CSP), cavum septi pellucidi, or cavity of septum pellucidum is a slit-like space in the septum pellucidum that is present in fetuses but usually fuses during infancy. The septum pellucidum is a thin, laminated transl ...

, a common variation observed in brain anatomy *

Compulsive skin picking Excoriation disorder, more commonly known as dermatillomania, is a mental disorder on the obsessive–compulsive spectrum that is characterized by the repeated urge or impulse to pick at one's own skin, to the extent that either psychological or ...

Chemosensory protein Chemosensory proteins (CSPs) are small soluble proteins which mediate olfactory recognition at the periphery of sensory receptors in insects, similarly to odorant-binding proteins. The typical structure of CSPs is made of six or seven α-helical ...

Cyclic sieving phenomenon In combinatorial mathematics, cyclic sieving is a phenomenon by which evaluating a generating function for a finite set at roots of unity counts symmetry classes of objects acted on by a cyclic group. Definition Let ''C'' be a cyclic group gen ...

, in combinatorics and representation theory *

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 immunodomina ...

Computing

* Credential service provider, a trusted entity *

Common spatial pattern Common spatial pattern (CSP) is a mathematical procedure used in signal processing for separating a Multivariate analysis, multivariate signal into Additive map, additive subcomponents which have maximum differences in variance between two Window ...

, in signal processing and statistical data analysis * Carriage service provider *

Chip-scale package A chip scale package or chip-scale package (CSP) is a type of integrated circuit package. Originally, CSP was the acronym for ''chip-size packaging.'' Since only a few packages are chip size, the meaning of the acronym was adapted to ''chip-scal ...

, or chip-size package *

Client-side prediction Client-side prediction is a network programming technique used in video games intended to conceal negative effects of high latency connections. The technique attempts to make the player's input feel more instantaneous while governing the player's ...

, a network programming technique in video games *

Communicating sequential processes In computer science, communicating sequential processes (CSP) is a formal language for describing patterns of interaction in concurrent systems. It is a member of the family of mathematical theories of concurrency known as process algebras, or ...

, a formal language for describing patterns of interaction in concurrent systems *

Communications service provider A telephone company, also known as a telco, telephone service provider, or telecommunications operator, is a kind of communications service provider (CSP), more precisely a telecommunications service provider (TSP), that provides telecommunic ...

, for example telecommunications *

Constraint satisfaction problem Constraint satisfaction problems (CSPs) are mathematical questions defined as a set of objects whose state must satisfy a number of constraints or limitations. CSPs represent the entities in a problem as a homogeneous collection of finite constr ...

, a formalism for defining constrained decision problems *

Content Security Policy Content Security Policy (CSP) is a computer security standard introduced to prevent cross-site scripting (XSS), clickjacking and other code injection attacks resulting from execution of malicious content in the trusted web page context. It is a ...

, a security standard introduced to prevent certain kinds of cross-site scripting-based attacks * Control Storage Processor, a processor architecture used in the IBM System/32,

IBM System/34 The IBM System/34 was an IBM midrange computer introduced in 1977. It was withdrawn from marketing in February 1985. It was a multi-user, multi-tasking successor to the single-user System/32. It included two processors, one based on the System/ ...

and

IBM System/36 The IBM System/36 (often abbreviated as S/36) was a midrange computer marketed by IBM from 1983 to 2000 - a multi-user, multi-tasking successor to the System/34. Like the System/34 and the older System/32, the System/36 was primarily progr ...

computers. * Critical security parameter, in cryptography *

IBM Cross System Product IBM's Cross System Product (CSP) was an application generator intended to create online systems on IBM's mainframe platforms. Introduced in 1981, CSP consisted of a set of source code generators that allowed developers to interactively define, tes ...

, a defunct 4GL for IBM mainframes * Cryptographic Service Provider, in Microsoft Windows * Cubesat Space Protocol, a small network-layer delivery protocol for cubesats *

Cloud service provider Cloud computing is the on-demand availability of computer system resources, especially data storage ( cloud storage) and computing power, without direct active management by the user. Large clouds often have functions distributed over mul ...

Clip Studio Paint Clip Studio Paint (previously marketed as Manga Studio in North America), informally known in Japan as ,A clipping of the Japanese pronunciation of its name, ''Kurippu Sutajio Peinto''. is a family of software applications developed by Japanese ...

, digital art software

Other uses

* Centro Sportivo Paraibano, Brazilian football (soccer) club * Certified Scrum Professional, a certification for

Scrum Scrum may refer to: Sport * Scrum (rugby), a method of restarting play in rugby union and rugby league ** Scrum (rugby union), scrum in rugby union * Scrum, an offensive melee formation in Japanese game Bo-taoshi Media and popular culture * M ...

Agile Project Management * Certified Safety Professional, an accredited status in the United States *

Certified Speaking Professional The National Speakers Association (NSA) is a US based association that supports motivational and other public speakers. It is the oldest and largest of 13 international associations comprising the Global Speakers Federation. History NSA was fo ...

, an accredited status in the US * Club Sportivo Patria, Argentinian football club *

Conservation Security Program The Conservation Security Program (CSP) was a voluntary conservation program in the United States that supported stewardship of private agricultural lands by providing payments and technical assistance for maintaining and enhancing natural resou ...

, a voluntary agricultural land conservation program in the US *

Corporate sustainable profitability Corporate sustainable profitability (CSP) revolves around the idea that companies who take responsibility from an economical, environmental and social perspective can become more profitable. The stairway to CSP Sustainable profitability can be ...

Council Shoulder Patch The uniform and insignia of the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) gives a Scouting, Scout visibility and creates a level of identity within both the unit and the community. The uniform is used to promote equality while showing individual achievement. Whi ...

, insignia of the Boy Scouts of America *

Limoges CSP Limoges Cercle Saint-Pierre, commonly referred to as Limoges CSP or CSP, is a French professional basketball club based in the city of Limoges. History The club was founded in 1929, but its peak was during the 1980s and 1990s, when they became t ...

, a French basketball club