Cap (disambiguation)

Cap may refer to:

• Cap, a form of headgear
• Lid (container)
  • Bottle cap, a closure to seal bottles
  • Screw cap, a closure to seal bottles or jars
• Cap (sport), a statistic representing an athlete's appearance in a select team game
• Percussion cap, a small amount of percussion-sensitive explosive, held in a tape or small cup
• Pileus (mycology), the cap of a mushroom or related fungi
• Pipe cap, a pipe fitting used to seal the end of a pipe
• Polar ice cap
• Camper shell, raised, rigid covering for the rear bed of a pickup truck
• Cap and Gown Club, an eating club at Princeton University
• Cap and trade, in global warming
• Cape (geography), the French word for this commonly used in place names
• Capital Cities Communications

Medicine and biology

• Knee cap
• Crown (dentistry), a tooth cap
• Community-acquired pneumonia
• Cervical cap, contraceptive device
• Therapy cap, on per person Medicare spending
• 5' cap, part of an mRNA
• Cancer of the prostate
• CAP (protein), Cyclase Associated Protein
• Catabolite Activator Protein, a regulatory protein for mRNA Transcription in Prokaryotes, which binds cyclic AMP

Legal

Cap. Refers to a chapter within an act or statute. (Example: Cap. 19(1)(7) is Chapter 19, section 1, sub-section 7. Would sometimes be written in the format 19.1.7)

Science and technology

• Caprock, a layer of erosion-resistant rock overlying weaker rock
• Capping inversion, inhibits atmospheric convection
• Capability-based security, shorthand for this computer security concept
• CAP computer, an experimental machine built in Cambridge
• Bandwidth cap, on a computer network
• Capacitor, a type of electronic component
• Certification and Accreditation Professional, a credential regarding the process of certifying and accrediting security of information systems.
• CAP theorem, Consistency, Availability, Partition-tolerance theorem in computer science
• Spherical cap, portion of a sphere cut off by a plane
• Blasting cap, an explosive detonator
• Screenshot, a computer screen image capture
• Capricornus (constellation), astronomical constellation abbreviation "Cap", as standardized by the International Astronomical Union

Finance

• Interest rate cap
• Non-economic damages caps
• Tax cap
• Salary cap
• Market cap, a truncation of market capitalization

People

• Captain America, the character's nickname
• Caspar Weinberger, his nickname
• Vladislao Cap, an Argentine footballer
• Carlos Andrés Pérez, a Venezuelan president
• Cap Anson, 19th century baseball player

Capping

• Capping enzyme
• Capping phrase
• Capping stunt, a New Zealand university tradition of student pranks
• Capping week, week of graduation from New Zealand University
• Frequency capping, in advertising
• Session capping, in advertising
• Window capping, in building construction

CAP

CAP, as a three-letter acronym, may stand for:

• Constructions Aéronautiques Parisiennes, Apex Aircraft training and aerobatic aircraft
• Camel Application Part, a protocol used in CAMEL servers
• Canadian Action Party
• Canadian Association of Physicists
• CAP Group, Computer Analysts and Programmers a UK software company
• Capital Airlines, the ICAO airline designator for this airline
• Capital Assistance Program
• Carrierless Amplitude Phase Modulation
• Causal adequacy principle, a philosophical claim made by René Descartes
• Cellulose acetate phthalate, a cellulose-based polymer
• Center for American Progress, a left-of-centre think tank
• Central Arizona Project Aqueduct
• Central Atlanta Progress
• Certification and Accreditation Professional, information assurance certification
• Change Acceleration Process, a GE technique comprising best practices in organizational change management
• Chicago Area Project, a juvenile delinquency project
• ChildCare Action Project
• Children Awaiting Parents
• Chip Authentication Program, using EMV smartcards to authenticate online banking transactions
• 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
• Civil Air Patrol, the official US Air Force Auxiliary
• Claims Assistance Professional, medical billing assistance and patient advocacy
• Coded Anti-Piracy, an anti-piracy system for motion picture prints exhibited theatrically
• College of American Pathologists
• Combat Air Patrol
• Combined Action Program (AKA Combined Action Platoon), a United States Marine Corps Vietnam era special operation
• Committee for Another Policy (Comité voor een Andere Politiek / Comité pour une Autre Politique), a Belgian political movement
• Common Agricultural Policy, the European Union's agricultural subsidy system
• Common Alerting Protocol, an XML based data format for exchanging public warnings between different alerting technologies
• 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
• Concerned Alumni of Princeton
• Congress of Aboriginal Peoples, Canadian aboriginal organization
• Consolidated Appeals Process, a funding mechanism used by humanitarian aid organisations
• CAP (Italian: Codice di Avviamento Postale, literally: Postal Expedition Code), Italy's postal code system

See also

• All pages beginning with "cap"
• All pages with titles containing "cap"
• Caps (disambiguation)
• Cape (disambiguation)
• Capital (disambiguation)
• Cop (disambiguation)
• Cup (disambiguation)