CPS

CPS may refer to:

Organisations

Australia

• Cat Protection Society of NSW, a cat shelter in Newtown, Sydney
• Chatswood Public School, a school in Sydney

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, drug reference for healthcare providers

United Kingdom

• Cambridge Philosophical Society, a scientific society at the University of Cambridge
• Cambridge Positioning Systems, a GPS software company bought by CSR
• Centre for Planetary Science, at Birkbeck, University of London
• Centre for Policy Studies, a British think-tank
• Chamberlayne College for the Arts, formerly Chamberlayne Park School, Weston, Hampshire
• Communist Party of Scotland
• Crown Prosecution Service, in England and Wales

United States

• Cambridge Public School District, Cambridge, Massachusetts
• Center for the Partially Sighted, an agency that promotes independent living for people with impaired sight, in Los Angeles, California
• Chicago Public Schools
• Child Protective Services, the name used in many United States jurisdictions for a state or local government agency which investigates child abuse and neglect
• ChoicePoint, whose New York Stock Exchange symbol was CPS until its buyout by Reed Elsevier
• Cincinnati Public Schools, Hamilton County, Ohio
• Civilian Public Service, a national system of work camps for conscientious objectors in the United States during World War II
• Cleveland Photographic Society, a non-profit photography organization, based in Cleveland, Ohio, USA
• Coalition for Positive Sexuality, a self-described "guerrilla sex education" group
• The College Preparatory School, a high school in Oakland, California
• Columbia Public Schools, Missouri
• CPS Energy, formerly "City Public Service", San Antonio's municipally owned natural gas and electric company

Elsewhere

• CPS (programadora) (Comunicaciones Producción y Servicios de Televisión), a Colombian programadora that operated between 1998 and 2003
• Children's Paradise School, India
• Colegio de la Preciosa Sangre de Pichilemu, a school in Pichilemu, Chile
• Committee of Public Safety, the de facto executive government in France, 1793–1794
• Conference of Presentation Sisters of North America, a congregation of the Presentation Sisters religious order
• Convention Panafricaine Sankariste, Burkina Faso

Science and technology

Biology and chemistry

• Capsaicin, a pungent component of chili peppers
• Carbamoyl phosphate synthase II, an enzyme that catalyzes a reaction yielding carbamoyl phosphate
• Carbamoyl phosphate synthetase, an enzyme that catalyzes a reaction yielding carbamoyl phosphate
• Chlorpyrifos, an organophosphate pesticide
• Concentrate of poppy straw, processed poppy straw

Computing

• CPS, a file format for raster graphics images produced by Corel Photo House
• Certification Practice Statement, legal document that describes how the Certificate Authority manages the certificates it issues
• Characters Per Second, in printers
• Citrix Presentation Server, now known as Citrix XenApp
• Continuation-passing style, a programming technique
• Conversational Programming System, an early time sharing operating system that ran on IBM System/360 mainframes
• CP System, arcade system boards manufactured by Capcom in the early and late 1990s

Engineering

• Cyber-physical system, the tight conjoining of and coordination between computational and physical resources

Medicine

• Cancer Prevention Study, a series of epidemiological studies conducted by the American Cancer Society
• Chronic pain syndrome, an ongoing pain disorder
• College of Physicians and Surgeons (disambiguation)
• Complex partial seizure, a type of partial seizure

Physics

• Centipoise (cP), a unit of poise, a measurement of viscosity, sometimes written cps or cPs
• Counts per second (cps), the rate at which ionising events are detected by a radiological measurement instrument
• Cycle per second (c.p.s.), a unit of frequency

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

Other uses

• Central Park South, a street in New York City
• Central Police Station (disambiguation)
• Classroom Performance Systems, a technological student assessment system
• Clerk Police Sergeant, or Clerk Sergeant, a former rank of station sergeant in the London Metropolitan Police
• Collaborative problem-solving, people working together face-to-face or in online workspaces
• Combination Product Set, all ways of choosing the product of m distinct values from a set of n primes, used in hexany
• Constant Pressure System, a design used in water guns
• Cost-per-sale, an online advertising pricing system
• Crane, Poole & Schmidt, a fictional law firm in the television series Boston Legal
• Current Population Survey, a statistical survey conducted by the United States Census Bureau for the Bureau of Labor Statistics
• IATA code for St. Louis Downtown Airport, formerly Curtiss-Parks Airport and originally Curtiss-Steinberg Airport