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Cap may refer to:
- Cap, a form of headgear
- Lid (container)
- 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
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- 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
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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
- Capricornus (constellation), standard astronomical abbreviation
- 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
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