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Cup (disambiguation)

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

Cooking

  • Cup (unit), a legal unit of volume and measure: in the USA and Liberia
  • Cups, a type of traditional English punch
  • Measuring cup, a measuring instrument for liquids and powders, used primarily in cooking

Clothing

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

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
  • Common Unix Printing System, commonly known as CUPS, a Unix print server
  • Copper units of pressure, a type of chamber pressure measurement in firearms
  • The cups of an anemometer

Music

Sports

Other

  • Cup and ring mark, a form of prehistoric art found mainly in Atlantic Europe
  • Fuddling cup, a three-dimensional puzzle
  • The Suit of Cups, one of the four traditional suits of the Italian suited Tarot deck or of Latin suited playing cards

See also