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cP

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cp.

C.P.

1. Chief Patriarch.
2. command post.
3. Common Prayer.
4. Communist Party.

c.p.

1. chemically pure.
2. circular pitch.
3. command post.
4. common pleas.

cen⋅ti⋅poise

[sen-tuh-poiz]
–noun
a centimeter-gram-second unit of viscosity, equal to 1/100 poise. Abbreviation: cP, cp

Origin:
1915–20; centi- + poise 2
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can·dle·pow·er   (kān'dl-pou'ər)   
n.   Abbr. cp
Luminous intensity expressed in candelas.
cen·ti·poise   (sěn'tə-poiz')   
n.   Abbr. cP
A centimeter-gram-second unit of dynamic viscosity equal to one hundredth (10-2) of a poise.
command post  
n.   Abbr. CP
  1. The field headquarters used by the commander of a military unit.

  2. A headquarters, as for communications, used by a team or organization: a mobile news command post for election night coverage.

cp  
abbr.  candlepower
cP  
abbr.  centipoise
CP  
abbr.  
  1. chemically pure

  2. command post

  3. Communist Party

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Legal Dictionary

Main Entry: CP
Function: abbreviation
court of common pleas
Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of Law, © 1996 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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Medical Dictionary

Main Entry: cen·ti·poise
Pronunciation: 'sent-&-"poiz
Function: noun
: a unit of viscosity equal to 1/100 poise

Main Entry: CP
Function: abbreviation
1 capillary pressure
2 cerebral palsy
3 chemically pure
4 compare
5 constant pressure
6 cor pulmonale
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Medical Dictionary

centipoise cen·ti·poise (sěn'tə-poiz')
n.
A unit in the centimeter-gram-second system that is of dynamic viscosity equal to one hundredth (10-2) of a poise.

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Science Dictionary
centipoise   (sěn'tə-poiz')  Pronunciation Key 
A centimeter-gram-second unit of dynamic viscosity equal to 0.01 poise.
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Computing Dictionary

CP
A concurrent Prolog.
"The Concurrent Logic Programming Language CP": Definition and Operational Semantics", V. Saraswat, 14th POPL, ACM 1987, pp.49-62.

The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, © 1993-2007 Denis Howe
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Abbreviations & Acronyms
cp
candlepower
cP
centipoise
CP
  1. cerebral palsy

  2. chemically pure

  3. chest pain

  4. command post

  5. Common Prayer

  6. Communist Party

  7. copy protected

  8. creatine phosphate

  9. cultural practices

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