CPS

CPS may refer to:

Organisations

Australia

• Cat Protection Society of NSW, a no-kill cat shelter in Newtown, Sydney
• Chatswood Public School, a school in Sydney

Burkina Faso

• Convention Panafricaine Sankariste

Canada

• Calgary Police Service, the police service for the city of Calgary, Alberta
• Canadian Pacific Survey
• Canadian Paediatric Society
• Canadian Power and Sail Squadrons, an association that teaches safe boating
• Compendium of Pharmaceuticals and Specialties

Chile

• Colegio de la Preciosa Sangre de Pichilemu, a Chilean school from Pichilemu
  • Cheer C.P.S., the Colegio de la Preciosa Sangre cheerleading team

Colombia

• CPS (programadora) (Comunicaciones Producción y Servicios de Televisión), a Colombian programadora that operated between 1998 and 2003

France

• Committee of Public Safety, the de facto executive government in France, 1793–1794

India

• Children's Paradise School

United Kingdom

• Cambridge Philosophical Society, a scientific society at the University of Cambridge
• Centre for Policy Studies, a British think-tank
• Chamberlayne College for the Arts, formerly Chamberlayne Park School, Weston, Hampshire
• Crown Prosecution Service, in England and Wales
• Cambridge Positioning Systems, a GPS software company bought by CSR plc
• Communist Party of Scotland

United States

• Cambridge Public School District, Cambridge, Massachusetts
• Center for the Partially Sighted, an agency that promotes independent living for people with impaired sight, in Los Angeles, California
• Chicago Public Schools
• Child Protective Services, the name used in many United States jurisdictions for a state or local government agency which investigates child abuse and neglect
• ChoicePoint, whose New York Stock Exchange symbol was CPS until its buyout by Reed Elsevier
• Cincinnati Public Schools, Hamilton County, Ohio
• Civilian Public Service, a national system of work camps for conscientious objectors in the United States during World War II
• Cleveland Photographic Society, a non-profit photography organization, based in Cleveland, Ohio, USA
• Coalition for Positive Sexuality, a self-described "guerrilla sex education" group
• Columbia Public Schools, Missouri
• CPS Energy, San Antonio's municipally owned natural gas and electric company
• The College Preparatory School, a high school in Oakland, California

Science and technology

Automotive

• Cam Profile Switching, a variable valve timing technology in the CamPro engine by Malaysian carmaker Proton

Biology

• Carbamoyl phosphate synthetase, and
• Carbamoyl phosphate synthase II, two enzymes that catalyze a reaction yielding carbamoyl phosphate

Chemistry

• Capsaicin, a pungent component of chili peppers
• Concentrate of poppy straw, processed poppy straw

Childhood psychology

• Collaborative Problem Solving, a model to handle children and adolescents with behaviour problems

Computing

• CP System, arcade system boards manufactured by Capcom in the early and late 1990s
• Certification Practice Statement, legal document that describes how the Certificate Authority manages the certificates it issues
• Citrix Presentation Server, now known as Citrix XenApp
• Continuation-passing style, a programming technique
• Conversational Programming System, an early time sharing operating system that ran on IBM System/360 mainframes
• Cyber-physical system, the tight conjoining of and coordination between computational and physical resources
• File format for raster graphics images produced by Corel Photo House, a discontinued forerunner of Corel Photo-Paint and Paint Shop Pro

Manufacturing

• Constant Pressure System, a technology used in some Super Soakers

Medicine

• Chronic pain syndrome, an ongoing pain disorder
• Complex partial seizure, a type of partial seizure
• Cancer Prevention Study, a series of epidemiological studies conducted by the American Cancer Society

Metrology

• Centipoise, a unit of poise, a measurement of viscosity
• Cycle per second, now known as hertz, which is the SI unit for frequency
• Counts per second and counts per minute are widely used in ionising radiation metrology to signify the rate at which ionising events are detected by a radiological measurement instrument.

Music theory

• Combination Product Set, all ways of choosing the product of m distinct values from a set of n primes, used in hexany

Telecommunications

• Calls per second in telephony or other telecommunications
• Carrier preselect, a landline telephone option that lets European customers use a third party for call charges

Other uses

• Cost-per-sale, an online advertising pricing system
• Central Park South, a street in New York City
• Classroom Performance Systems, a technological student assessment system
• Current Population Survey, a statistical survey conducted by the United States Census Bureau for the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS)
• Certified Professional SafeTech, a qualification awarded by the Safe and Vault Technicians Association
• Clerk Police Sergeant, or Clerk Sergeant, a former rank of station sergeant in the London Metropolitan Police
• Crane, Poole & Schmidt, a fictional law firm in the television series Boston Legal