CIP

CIP can refer to:

Business

• Carriage and Insurance Paid to, an Incoterm
• 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.
• Corporate Image Identity Program
• Commercially Important Person, in aviation/air travel
• Critical infrastructure protection, in preparedness and response to incidents that involve critical infrastructure

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 (1955–1975)
• Customer Identification Program, US law requiring identity of each customer

Organizations

• Centro Internacional de la Papa, The International Potato Center
• 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 Firearms Testing" - body that sets standards for firearms and ammunition in participating countries
• Committee for International Peace, a peace organization
• Congregação Israelita Paulista, synagogue in São Paulo-SP, Brazil
• Creative Industries Precinct, part of the Queensland University of Technology campus in Brisbane, Australia

Science & 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
• Carbonyl Iron Powder, a material with a wide range of industrial applications
• Cellular IP, a micromobility protocol
• Certified IRB Professional, a scientific research certification
• Clean-in-place, a common cleaning method used in manufacturing processes
• Cold isostatic pressing, an industrial process
• Cast in Place Concrete, Concrete that is cast in place
• Collection de l'Institut Pasteur, french collection of bacterial type strains

Computer science

• Channel Interface Processor, a card used in Cisco series 7500 series routers that maintains CLAW definitions
• CIP-Tool, a tool for modelling event-driven processes and creating the associated software, distributed by a company of the same name
• Classical IP over ATM
• Common Indexing Protocol, a set of IETF RFCs for exchange of directory information
• Common Industrial Protocol (CIP), specification maintained by ODVA organization
• Cubic-Interpolated Pseudo-particle
• Customizable Intermittent Pseudo-Paradigm

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

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.

Miscellanea

• Cataloging in Publication/Catalogue in Publishing, data found in a book to assist librarians
• Circulating International Program
• Clean-in-place, Method of cleaning the interior surfaces of pipes, vessels, process equipment
• Computer-Investitions-Programm, German computer support program for universities