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Contents 1 Companies, associations, and other organisations 1.1 Africa 1.2 Australia 1.3 Canada 1.4 France 1.5 India 1.6 United Kingdom 1.7 United States 2 Science and technology 2.1 Automotive 2.2 Metrology 2.3 Chemistry 2.4 Music theory 2.5 Childhood psychology 2.6 Computing 2.7 Manufacturing 2.8 Optics 2.9 Polymer science 2.10 Telecommunications 3 Miscellanea

[edit] Companies, associations, and other organisations

[edit] Africa

• Convention Panafricaine Sankariste

[edit] Australia

• Corporate Protective Services, Sydney based GPS monitoring company
• Chatswood Public School, a school in Sydney.

[edit] 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

[edit] France

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

[edit] India

• Children's Paradise School

[edit] United Kingdom

• Cambridge Philosophical Society, a scientific society at the University of Cambridge
• Centre for Policy Studies, a British think-tank
• Chamberlayne Park School, now Chamberlayne College for the Arts, Weston, Hampshire
• Crown Prosecution Service, in England and Wales
• Compass International Airways (ICAO airline designator)
• Cambridge Positioning Systems (bought by CSR - Cambridge Silicon Radio)

[edit] United States

• Center for the Partially Sighted, an agency that promotes independent living for people of all ages with impaired sight, in Los Angeles, California
• Chicago Public Schools
• Child Protective Services, a state or local government agency in the United States which investigates child abuse and neglect
• ChoicePoint, whose New York Stock Exchange symbol is CPS
• Cincinnati Public Schools, Hamilton County, Ohio
• Civilian Public Service, a national system of work camps for conscientious objectors in the United States administered and paid for by the peace churches during World War II
• Coalition for Positive Sexuality, a self-described "guerrilla sex education" group
• The College Preparatory School, a high school in Oakland, California
• CPS Energy, San Antonio's municipally owned natural gas and electric company
• Current Population Survey, a statistical survey conducted by the United States Census Bureau for the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS)

[edit] Science and technology

[edit] Automotive

• Cam Profile Switching (CPS), a variable valve timing technology by Malaysian carmaker Proton.

[edit] Metrology

• Centipoise, a measurement of viscosity
• counts per second, a measurement of the number of instrument-detected events per second, e.g., the number of photons per second in fluorescence spectroscopy
• Cycle(s) per second, now known as hertz, which is the SI unit for frequency
• Cells per second, bandwidth measurement unit for ATM protocol.

[edit] Chemistry

• Capsaicin, a pungent component of chili peppers
• Concentrate of Poppy Straw (also called Poppy Straw Concentrate), a preparation of opium

[edit] Music theory

• Combination Product Set, all ways of choosing the product of m distinct values from a set of n primes, treated as a subset of an n-dimensional lattice to create a musical scale with many just intonation chords

[edit] Childhood psychology

• Collaborative problem solving (from the book Explosive Child, a model to handle children and adolescents with behaviour problems)

[edit] Computing

• Capcom Play Systems, CPS-1, CPS-2, and CPS-3, arcade system boards manufactured by Capcom in the early 1990s
• Certification Practice Statement, legal document that describes how the Certificate Authority manages the certificates it issues
• Characters per second is a measurement of the data transfer rate during a Direct Client-to-Client file transfer, like bytes per second
• Citrix Presentation Server, now known as Citrix XenApp.
• Collaborative portal server
• Conversational programming system, an early time sharing operating system that ran on IBM System/360 mainframes
• Continuation-passing style, a programming technique
• Cyber-Physical Systems, the tight conjoining of and coordination between computational and physical resources

[edit] Manufacturing

• Constant pressure system, a technology used in some super soakers

[edit] Optics

• Compensating phase shift

[edit] Polymer science

• Compact polystyrene

[edit] 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 instead of using the national operator (British Telecom, KPN, Telekom, Swisscom, Belgacom, etc) without dialling a prefix

[edit] Miscellanea

• Caterpillar Production System, modeled after the Toyota Production System
• Central Park South, a street in New York City
• Certified Professional SafeTech, a qualification awarded by the Safe and Vault Technicians Association
• Certified Professional Secretary
• Claims processing system, a warranty processing system available for use by automobile dealerships
• Classroom Performance Systems, a technological student assessment system
• Clerk Police Sergeant, or Clerk Sergeant, a former rank in the London Metropolitan Police
• Computerized performance system, a technical system for manipulating audio, video, and symbols, and performing complex and repetitive mixing procedures for recorded or live performance
• Crane, Poole & Schmidt, a fictional law firm in the television series Boston Legal
• Current Population Survey, conducted by the United States Census Bureau to measure unemployment and other labor data