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CAP may refer to:
Science and medicine
- CaP, prostate cancer
- CAP (protein), cyclase-associated protein
- Carrierless amplitude phase modulation
- Catabolite activator protein, a regulatory protein for mRNA transcription in prokaryotes that binds cyclic AMP
- Cellulose acetate phthalate, a cellulose-based polymer
- Community-acquired pneumonia
Computing
- CAP computer, an experimental machine built in Cambridge, UK
- CAP theorem, Consistency, Availability, Partition-tolerance theorem in computer science
- Camel Application Part, a protocol used in CAMEL servers
- Common Alerting Protocol, an XML based data format for exchanging public warnings between different alerting technologies
Organisations
- Canadian Action Party
- Canadian Association of Physicists
- Center for Adoption Policy
- Center for American Progress, a left-of-centre think tank
- Central Atlanta Progress
- Chicago Area Project, a juvenile delinquency project
- Christian Appalachian Project, a program to assist disadvantaged persons in Kentucky and West Virginia
- Christians Against Poverty, the UK charity
- Church Action on Poverty, UK national ecumenical social justice charity established in 1982
- College of American Pathologists
- Committee of Advertising Practice
- Committee for Another Policy (Comité voor een Andere Politiek / Comité pour une Autre Politique), a Belgian political movement
- Concerned Alumni of Princeton
- Congress of Aboriginal Peoples, Canadian aboriginal organization
Companies
- Companhia Aeronáutica Paulista, a 1940s Brazilian aircraft manufacturer
- CAP Group (Computer Analysts and Programmers), a UK software company
- CAP S.A. (Compañía de Acero del Pacífico), a Chilean mining and steel sector holding company
- CAP Scientific, a British defence software company (1979-1988)
- Constructions Aéronautiques Parisiennes, Apex Aircraft training and aerobatic aircraft
Projects, programs, policies
- Common Agricultural Policy, the European Union's agricultural subsidy system
- Community Access Program, a government of Canada initiative to provide access to the Internet in remote areas
- Capital Assistance Program
- Community Action Program, Lyndon Johnson's anti-poverty programs
- Community Action Programme, United Kingdom workfare scheme
- Child access prevention laws, which punish adults who allow children to access guns
Military
- Combat air patrol
- Combined Action Program (AKA Combined Action Platoon), a United States Marine Corps Vietnam era special operation
- Civil Air Patrol, the official US Air Force Auxiliary
Certifications
- Certified Automation Professional, certification from the International Society of Automation
- Certified Administrative Professional, certification from the International Association of Administrative Professionals
Other
- Carlos Andrés Pérez (1922-2010), twice President of Venezuela
- CAP Markets, social franchise and supermarket chain in Germany
- Capital Airlines, the ICAO airline designator for this airline
- Causal adequacy principle, a philosophical claim made by René Descartes
- Central Arizona Project, the Colorado River diversion canal in Arizona
- Chip Authentication Program, using EMV smartcards to authenticate online banking transactions
- Coded Anti-Piracy, an anti-piracy system for motion picture prints exhibited theatrically
- Consolidated Appeals Process, a funding mechanism used by humanitarian aid organisations
- Codice di Avviamento Postale, literally Postal Expedition Code, Italy's postal code system
- Estadio CAP (Compañía de Acero del Pacífico), a football stadium in Talcahuano, Chile
See also
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