[kap] 
noun, verb, capped, cap⋅ping.| 1. | a close-fitting covering for the head, usually of soft supple material and having no visor or brim. |
| 2. | a brimless head covering with a visor, as a baseball cap. |
| 3. | mobcap. |
| 4. | a headdress denoting rank, occupation, religious order, or the like: a nurse's cap. |
| 5. | mortarboard (def. 2). |
| 6. | Mathematics. the symbol ∩, used to indicate the intersection of two sets. Compare intersection (def. 3a). |
| 7. | anything resembling or suggestive of a covering for the head in shape, use, or position: a cap on a bottle. |
| 8. | summit; top; acme. |
| 9. | a maximum limit, as one set by law or agreement on prices, wages, spending, etc., during a certain period of time; ceiling: a 9 percent cap on pay increases for this year. |
| 10. | Mycology. the pileus of a mushroom. |
| 11. | Botany. calyptra (def. 1). |
| 12. | Mining. a short, horizontal beam at the top of a prop for supporting part of a roof. |
| 13. | a percussion cap. |
| 14. | British Sports. a selection for a representative team, usually for a national squad. |
| 15. | a noise-making device for toy pistols, made of a small quantity of explosive wrapped in paper or other thin material. |
| 16. | Nautical. a fitting of metal placed over the head of a spar, as a mast or bowsprit, and having a collar for securing an additional spar. |
| 17. | a new tread applied to a worn pneumatic tire. |
| 18. | Architecture. a capital. |
| 19. | Carpentry. a metal plate placed over the iron of a plane to break the shavings as they rise. |
| 20. | Fox Hunting. capping fee. |
| 21. | Chiefly British Slang. a contraceptive diaphragm. |
| 22. | to provide or cover with or as if with a cap. |
| 23. | to complete. |
| 24. | follow up with something as good or better; surpass; outdo: to cap one joke with another. |
| 25. | to serve as a cap, covering, or top to; overlie. |
| 26. | to put a maximum limit on (prices, wages, spending, etc.). |
| 27. | British Sports. to select (a player) for a representative team. |
| 28. | Fox Hunting. to hunt with a hunting club of which one is not a member, on payment of a capping fee. |
| 29. | cap in hand, humbly; in supplication: He went to his father cap in hand and begged his forgiveness. |
| 30. | set one's cap for, to pursue as being a potential mate. |
cap
An upper limit on the interest rate to be paid on a floating-rate note.
See capitalization.
CAP abbr.
catabolite gene activator protein
