CAP explained

CAP may refer to:

Certifications

CAP Group (Computer Analysts and Programmers), a UK software company
CAP S.A. (Spanish; Castilian: Compañía de Acero del Pacífico), a Chilean mining and steel sector holding company
CAP Scientific, a British defence software company (1979-1988)
Christchurch Adventure Park, a mountain bike park opened in Christchurch, New Zealand, in 2016
Companhia Aeronáutica Paulista, a 1940s Brazilian aircraft manufacturer
Constructions Aéronautiques Parisiennes, Apex Aircraft training and aerobatic aircraft

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

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

Canadian Action Party, a former Canadian political party
Canadian Association of Physicists, a professional society
Cascade AIDS Project, an HIV/AIDS support and advocacy organisation in Portland, Oregon, U.S.
Center for Adoption Policy, a New York-based organisation providing information on adoption
Center for American Progress, a left-of-centre think tank
Central Arizona Project, a diversion canal in Arizona, U.S.
Central Atlanta Progress, a not-for-profit business stimulus group in Atlanta, U.S.
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, an American professional assoication
Committee of Advertising Practice, the British advertising regulatory body
Committee for Another Policy (Dutch; Flemish: Comité voor een Andere Politiek / French: Comité pour une Autre Politique), a Belgian political movement
Companions and Pets Party, an Australian political party
Concerned Alumni of Princeton, a former politically conservative student group at Princeton university
Congress of Aboriginal Peoples, Canadian aboriginal organization

Canada Assistance Plan, a former transfer program administrated by the government of Canada
Capital Assistance Program
Child access prevention laws, which punish adults who allow children to access guns
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
Community Action Program, Lyndon Johnson's anti-poverty programs
Community Action Programme, United Kingdom workfare scheme
Copyright Agency Partnerships, an Australian art commissioning project
German Climate Action Plan 2050, a climate protection policy document approved in late-2016

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
Central aortic pressure, the blood pressure at the root of the aorta
Community-acquired pneumonia, a common but potentially-dangerous infectious disease of the lower respiratory tract
Cumulative accuracy profile is used in data science to visualize the discriminative power of a model
Compound action potential, an evoked potential

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 (Spanish; Castilian: Compañía de Acero del Pacífico), a football stadium in Talcahuano, Chile