Cup

A cup is any of a variety of drinkware used to consume food or beverage. Cup or cups may also refer to:

In archaeology

• For Cup and ring marks, the cup refers to a type of carved hole in petroglyphs

In cooking:

• Measuring cup, a measuring instrument for liquids and powders, used primarily in cooking
• Cup (unit), a customary unit of volume and measure.
• A type of traditional English punch

In clothing

• The cup of a brassiere, the part that covers the breasts
• A protective cup in a jockstrap designed to protect the male genitalia

In mathematics, science and technology:

• Silphium perfoliatum or "Cup-plant", a member of the sunflower family, native to North America
• The cup product in algebraic topology, denoted by the operator $\smile$
• Common Unix Printing System, commonly known as CUPS, a Unix print server
• Cup (volume), a customary unit of volume

In music:

• "Cups", a song by Underworld

In other contexts:

• Fuddling cup, a three dimensional puzzle
• A cup-shaped trophy or sports winning prize, e.g. World Cup, Davis Cup or League Cup
  • Cup, a nickname for the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series
• The Suit of Cups, one of the four traditional suits of the Italian suited Tarot deck or of Latin suited playing cards
• A object the general shape of a drinking cup and capable of holding fluid, whether it holds a cup (measure) or not.

See also

• Stemware
• The Cup (disambiguation)
• CUP (disambiguation)