CIP

CIP may refer to:

Business

• Carriage and Insurance Paid to, an Incoterm
• Clark Institute of the Philippines, an English instruction institute in Angeles, Pampanga, Philippines
• Commercially Important Person, referring to high value customers of a business.
• Computers In Personnel, a company concerning human resources
• Construction in Progress, in accountancy, a balance sheet assets item used for assets being constructed, e.g. buildings
• Continuation-in-part, in United States patent law; see continuing patent application
• Continuous Improvement Process
• Crippled Intellect Publications, a record label for experimental music
• Critical infrastructure protection, in preparedness and response to incidents that involve critical infrastructure
• Customer Identification Program as part of Anti Money Laundering.
• Culinary Important People - refers to foodies, influencers on and offline - invented and used by VisitFlanders #flandersforfoodies

Government

• Citizen Information Project in the United Kingdom
• Critical Infrastructure Protection, an infrastructure security effort in the United States
• Classification of Instructional Programs, a United States Department of Education classification system for college degrees
• Crown International Pictures, an American independent low-budget film company
• Capital Improvement Plan
• Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme of the European Union
• Commercial Import Program, US economic development initiative for South Vietnam
• Customer Identification Program, US law requiring identity of each customer

Organizations

• Canadian Institute of Planners, the Canadian urban planners trade organization
• Center for Islamic Pluralism, a Washington D.C. based think tank.
• International Potato Center (translated from Spanish: Centro Internacional de la Papa
• Centro Israelita do Paraná, synagogue and community center in Curitiba-PR, Brazil
• Center for Intellectual Property Studies, founded by Gothenburg University and Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden
• CipSoft, the Regensburg, Germany-based creators of the online computer game Tibia
• Commission Internationale Permanente pour l'Epreuve des Armes à Feu Portatives, "Permanent International Commission for the Proof of Small Arms"—body that sets standards for firearms and ammunition in participating countries
• Congregação Israelita Paulista, synagogue in São Paulo-SP, Brazil
• Creative Industries Precinct, part of the Queensland University of Technology campus in Brisbane, Australia
• Comitato Italiano Paralimpico, Italian Paralympic Committee

Science and technology

• Cahn-Ingold-Prelog priority rules, or CIP system, for the naming of molecules in organic chemistry
• Calf Intestinal Alkaline Phosphatase (CIP), an enzyme that removes the 5' phosophate group from DNA
• Carbon in pulp, method of gold extraction
• Certified IRB Professional, a scientific research certification
• Clean-in-place, a common cleaning method used in manufacturing processes
• Cast-in-place, a common construction method for concrete structures

Computer science

• CIP-Tool, a tool for modelling event-driven processes and creating the associated software, distributed by a company of the same name
• Common Indexing Protocol, a set of IETF RFCs for exchange of directory information
• Common Industrial Protocol (CIP), specification maintained by ODVA organization

Medicine

• Congenital insensitivity to pain with anhidrosis
• Congenital insensitivity to pain
• Critical illness polyneuropathy
• Chronic intestinal pseudo-obstruction, an uncommon human disease that causes bowel difficulties
• The antibiotic ciprofloxacin, abbreviated
• CIP/KIP family of Cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitor proteins

Military

• Combat Identification Panel, a device used by the US military to distinguish friendly ground vehicles from the enemy following friendly fire incidents in the first Gulf War.

Mining

• Carbon-in-pulp, a technology used to extract gold from ore.

Miscellaneous

• Cataloging in Publication/Catalogue in Publishing, data found in a book to assist librarians
• Concrete Insulated Panel/Concrete Insulated Panel, used in architectural applications