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Caps

Wikimedia disambiguation page

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 8, 2026
Entity authorityQ412975
Source-derived summary

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, 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, markers used to detect a polymorphic sequence

Medical conditions

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

Catastrophic antiphospholipid syndrome

Cryopyrin-associated periodic syndrome, a spectrum of autoinflammatory syndrome

Other uses in biology, medicine and psychology

CAPS (buffer), N-cyclohexyl-3-aminopropanesulfonic acid, in biochemistry, a buffering agent

Cognitive-affective personality system, a model within psychology of personality

Other uses in science and technology

Cassini Plasma Spectrometer, a direct sensing instrument that measures the energy and electrical charge of particles

Cirrus Airframe Parachute System, 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

Companies and organizations

Californians for Population Stabilization

Captive Animals Protection Society

Center for Advanced Public Safety at the University of Alabama

Center for American Political Studies at Harvard University

Center for Analysis and Prediction of Storms

Citizen Action Party – Sikkim

Comic Art Professional Society

Policy Planning Staff (France), Centre d'Analyse, de Prévision et de Stratégie

Sports

Caps (gamer), Danish esports player

Cap (sport), a measure of a player's international appearances, especially in football

Washington Capitals, 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.

See also

All pages with titles beginning with Caps

All pages with titles containing Caps

Cap (disambiguation)

Capps (disambiguation)

St.

Editorial summary

“Caps” enters the record as wikimedia disambiguation page. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Caps, Wikimedia and disambiguation can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current 310-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Caps, Wikimedia and disambiguation.
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“Caps” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Caps, Wikimedia and disambiguation provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 8, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q412975. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference.

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This entry incorporates text from Caps” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.