CPM explained

CPM may refer to:

Advertising

• Cost per mille, the advertising cost per thousand views
• Cost per thousand impressions, the online advertising equivalent

Management

• Certified practising marketer, a qualification for Australian marketers
• Certified Property Manager
• Certified Public Manager
• Comparable Profits Method, a commonly used transfer pricing method for managing internal sales between two divisions of the same company
• Corporate performance management is another name for business performance management used in Gartner reports on software systems
• Critical path method, an algorithm for scheduling project activities

Organizations

Asia

• The Pentecostal Mission (formerly Ceylon Pentecostal Mission), Sri Lanka
• Communist Party of India (Marxist)
• Communist Party of Malaya, the Malayan Communist Party

Europe

• Coalition for Melilla (Spanish; Castilian: Coalición por Melilla|links=no), a political party in Melilla
• Party of Communists of the Republic of Moldova
• Congregatio Presbyterorum a Misericordia or Fathers of Mercy, a Catholic order in France

North America

• Central Park Media, a U.S. entertainment company
• Chicago Public Media, a National Public Radio member organization
• Chosen People Ministries, a Messianic Jewish evangelical organization
• Clement Payne Movement, a Barbadian political party
• Content Planning Module, a component of the U.S. Navy's Authoring Instructional Materials

Science, technology, and medicine

Biology and medicine

• Carboxypeptidase M, an enzyme
• Cellular Potts model, a computer simulation of cellular structures
• Central pontine myelinolysis, a neurological disease
• Certified Professional Midwife, a direct-entry midwife certification
• Chinese patent medicine, herbal medicines in Traditional Chinese medicine
• Chlorphenamine, an antihistamine drug
• Confined placental mosaicism, a condition of pregnancy
• Continuous passive motion, a physical therapy technique
• CPM (gene), the human gene to encode carboxypeptidase M
• Cucurbit powdery mildew, a fungal infection of melons and cucumbers
• Cyclopropylmescaline, a psychedelic drug

Computing

• CP/M, an early microcomputer operating system
• Compressed pattern matching, string searches within uncompressed text
• Communications Processor Module, a networking engine in Motorola/Freescale QUICC processors
• Characters per minute, the speed of a typist; WPM (words per minute) is CPM divided by five
• Cloud management platform software, in cloud computing
• Combinatorial pattern matching, a research area (and a conference) for algorithms

Other uses in science and technology

• Clique percolation method, a clustering algorithm for networks
• Continuous phase modulation, a data modulation method commonly used in wireless modems
• Counts per minute, a unit of radioactivity
• C_pm, a process capability index
• Crucible Particle Metallurgy, a steel-making process developed by Crucible Industries
• Cycle per minute, a unit similar to revolution per minute

Other uses

• Challenge ProMode Arena, a modification to the game Quake III Arena
• Church planting movement
• Colonial Police Medal
• Communication privacy management theory, a theory of privacy in interpersonal communication
• Compton/Woodley Airport (IATA code CPM)