CPS
Wikimedia disambiguation page
CPS or cps may refer to:
Organizations
Canada
Calgary Police Service, Alberta
Canadian Paediatric Society
Canadian Power and Sail Squadrons, recreational sailors
Compendium of Pharmaceuticals and Specialties
China
Chinese Poetry Society, a national literary society
United Kingdom
Cambridge Philosophical Society, a scientific society at the University of Cambridge
Cambridge Positioning Systems, a GPS software company bought by CSR plc
Centre for Policy Studies, a British think-tank
Communist Party of Scotland
Crown Prosecution Service, in England and Wales
United States
Child protective services, U.S. agencies responsible for child protection
Chicago Public Schools, a public school system in Chicago, Illinois
Cincinnati Public Schools, Hamilton County, Ohio
Civilian Public Service, a WWII alternative for conscientious objectors
Cleveland Photographic Society, Ohio
Coalition for Positive Sexuality, an educational website
The College Preparatory School, Oakland, California
CPS Energy, formerly City Public Service Board of San Antonio, Texas
Elsewhere
CPS (programadora) (Comunicaciones Producción y Servicios de Televisión), a Colombian TV program-maker (1998–2003)
Colegio de la Preciosa Sangre de Pichilemu, a school in Chile
College of Physicians and Surgeons (disambiguation)
Conference of Presentation Sisters of North America, a congregation of the Presentation Sisters religious order
Convention Panafricaine Sankariste, Burkina Faso
Science and technology
Biology and chemistry
Capsaicin, a pungent component of chili peppers
Carbamoyl phosphate synthase II, an enzyme that catalyzes a reaction yielding carbamoyl phosphate
Carbamoyl phosphate synthetase, an enzyme that catalyzes a reaction yielding carbamoyl phosphate
Chlorpyrifos, an organophosphate pesticide
Concentrate of poppy straw, processed poppy straw
Circumsporozoite protein, a protein secreted by the malaria parasite during the sporozoite stage
Computing
CPS, a Corel Photo House image file format
Certification Practice Statement, of a certificate authority
Common Package Specification, a JSON-based description format to include libraries, especially for C and C++
Continuation-passing style, a programming technique
Conversational Programming System, an IBM time-sharing operating system
CP System, an arcade system board
Engineering
Cyber-physical system, or intelligent system, controlling a mechanism
Medicine
Cancer Prevention Study, a series of cohort studies by the American Cancer Society
Comorbidity–polypharmacy score
Physics
Centipoise, a viscosity subunit, cP, but cps or cPs also used
CERN Proton Synchrotron, a particle accelerator
Counts per second (cps), detected by a radiation monitoring instrument
Cycle per second (c.p.s.), now Hertz
Telecommunications
Calls per second
Transport
St.
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