CIP

CIP may refer to:

Business

• Commercially Important Person, referring to high value customers of a business, a term often used in the context of a "CIP" airport lounge
• 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
• Continual improvement process, an ongoing effort to improve products, services, or processes
• Crippled Intellect Publications, a record label for experimental music
• Critical infrastructure protection, in preparedness and response to incidents that involve critical infrastructure
• Customer Identification Program as part of anti-money laundering in the United States
• "Carriage and Insurance Paid to", Incoterms used in international trade

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, a short-range plan in urban planning
• Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme of the European Union
• Commercial Import Program, US economic development initiative for South Vietnam
• Corps of Intelligence Police,the original name of what was renamed as Counter Intelligence Corps in 1942, the US War department's spy agency
• Customer Identification Program, US law requiring identity of each customer
• Continuation in Part, US Patent law, adding new material to a patent

Organizations

• Canadian Institute of Planners, the Canadian urban planners trade organization
• Center for Industrial Progress, a think tank based in San Diego, California
• Center for Islamic Pluralism, a Washington D.C. based think tank
• Centro Internacional de la Papa, the International Potato Center in Peru
• Centro Israelita do Paraná, synagogue and community center in Curitiba, 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 the Proof of Small Arms), a body which sets standards for firearms and ammunition in participating countries
• Congregação Israelita Paulista, synagogue in São Paulo, Brazil
• Creative Industries Precinct, part of the Queensland University of Technology campus in Brisbane, Australia
• Comitato Italiano Paralimpico, Italian Paralympic Committee
• California Innocence Project, exoneration project
• Centre for Integrated Photonics was a research and development centre for photonic devices.

Science and technology

Biochemistry

• Calf Intestinal Alkaline Phosphatase (CIP), an enzyme that removes the 5' phosphate group from DNA

Certification

• Certified IRB Professional, a scientific research certification

Chemistry

• Cahn-Ingold-Prelog priority rules, or CIP system, for the naming of molecules in organic chemistry
• Carbon in pulp, method of gold extraction
• Clean-in-place, a common cleaning method used in manufacturing processes

Computer science

• CIP-Tool, a tool for modelling event-driven processes and creating the associated software, distributed by a company of the same name
• Common Indexing Protocol, a set of IETF RFCs for exchange of directory information
• Common Industrial Protocol (CIP), specification maintained by ODVA organization
• Core Independent Peripherals, an implementation of autonomous peripheral operations in microcontrollers

Concrete

• Cast-in-place, a common construction method for concrete structures
• Concrete Insulated Panel, a panel used in architectural applications

Economics

• Covered interest rate parity

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
• CIP/KIP family of Cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitor proteins

Metallurgy

• Cold Isostatic Pressing

Other uses

• Cataloging in Publication, data on the title verso of a book to assist librarians
• 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
• Cross Island Parkway, a parkway on Long Island, New York
• Clean-in-place, a method of cleaning the interior surfaces of pipes etc without disassembly.