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• CP
  CP

  candlepower.
• cP
  cP

  centipoise.
• cp.
  cp.

  abbreviation

  compare.
• c.p.
  c.p.

  abbreviation

  chemically pure.
• C.P.
  C.P.

  abbreviation

  Chief Patriarch.
• cp
  cp

  abbreviation

  candlepower

CP

¹ American  

1. candlepower.

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cP ² American  

Or cp

1. centipoise.

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cp. ³ American  

abbreviation

1. compare.

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c.p. ⁴ American  

abbreviation

1. chemically pure.

2. circular pitch.

3. command post.

4. common pleas.

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C.P. ⁵ American  

abbreviation

1. Chief Patriarch.

2. command post.

3. Common Prayer.

4. Communist Party.

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CP ¹ British  

abbreviation

1. Canadian Press

2. military Command Post

3. Common Prayer

4. Communist Party

5. (formerly in Britain) Community Programme

6. Court of Probate

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cp ² British  

abbreviation

1. candlepower

2. chemically pure

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cp. ³ British  

abbreviation

1. compare

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Example Sentences

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CP cp. c.p. C.P. cp

The highest-profile title came for Jovane Cabral, who won the Portuguese league with Sporting CP in 2020-21.

From BBC ● Jul. 3, 2026

The conveyor belts take the materials on a journey past the facility’s 18 CP Group optical sorters, including one that uses artificial intelligence.

From Barron's ● Jun. 17, 2026

CP expects double digit EPS growth to resume in 2Q and strengthen into the back half as yields rebound, volumes accelerate and most segments improve.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 30, 2026

Chris Price, a.k.a. comedian CP, is a killer on the mic.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 10, 2025

However, in 1964 two more Americans, J. W. Cronin and Val Fitch, discovered that even the CP symmetry was not obeyed in the decay of certain particles called K-mesons.

From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking

In addition to these, blain, "to become white," is a Scand. loan-word, but rather from Dan. blegne than Norse blæikna, cp. blake above.

From Scandinavian influence on Southern Lowland Scotch by George Tobias Flom

Similarly we see that in other passages also the names of metres are used to denote other things which resemble those metres in certain numerical relations; cp. for instance, Ch.

From The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Sankaracarya Sacred Books of the East, Volume 1 by George Thibaut

There is no Scand. or L. G. word with original a to explain hale, but cp. the two words dwell 47and wail, to choose.

From Scandinavian influence on Southern Lowland Scotch by George Tobias Flom

It will run as large a lamp a 3-1/2 volts, 1 cp., for some time very satisfactorily.

From The Boy Mechanic: Volume 1 700 Things for Boys to Do by Popular Mechanics Co.

Our word has excrescent l, cp. chalmer, not uncommon. 46Gyrth, sb. a sanctuary, protection.

From Scandinavian influence on Southern Lowland Scotch by George Tobias Flom

Hence if the equivalent of 100 carbon filament 8 c.p. lamps is required in a building the maximum electric power-supply available must be 3000 watts or 3 kilowatts.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 2 "Ehud" to "Electroscope" by Various

EM Luminous intensity of a lamp, in candles. c.p.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 595, May 28, 1887 by Various

For the cardboard disc was substituted a light carriage, riding upon rigid parallel vertical wires and bearing a miniature ground-glass bulb enclosing an incandescent electric light of 0.5 c.p.

From Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory. by Hugo Münsterberg

The lamps were partly of the horseshoe filament paper-carbon type, and partly bamboo-filament lamps, and were of an efficiency of 95 to 100 watts per 16 c.p.

From Edison, His Life and Inventions by Frank Lewis Dyer

Lamps of 5 c.p. can be used with advantage in small bedrooms and passages.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 2 "Ehud" to "Electroscope" by Various

Once a cartoonist for his grammar school’s newspaper, he often returned to illustration as an outlet to connect visual art with the written word, producing series in response to poetry by C.P.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026

“The telecom and technology sectors are key to enabling Thailand to move up the development curve and to create broad-based prosperity,” it quoted C.P.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 22, 2021

Telenor and C.P. group will aim for an ownership share of around one-third each in the merged entity, the company said.

From Reuters ● Nov. 22, 2021

“As we have said throughout this process, C.P. remains committed to everything this opportunity presents,” Mr. Creel said.

From New York Times ● Sep. 12, 2021

Once, while waiting for a traffic light to change on his way home from work, C.P. spotted a long-haired white man, a quintessential hippie in C.P.’s eyes, in the car next to him.

From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson

O. L. G. slikken does not correspond. slake, sb. a kiss, deriv., cp.

From Scandinavian influence on Southern Lowland Scotch by George Tobias Flom

But this is easily explained by the position of Janus in prayers; cp.

From The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus by W. Warde Fowler

For the suit between Metellus and Curio cp.

From The Apologia and Florida of Apuleius of Madaura by Harold Edgeworth Butler

In the sense "to tan" especially W. Scand., cp.

From Scandinavian influence on Southern Lowland Scotch by George Tobias Flom

If aq − bp = −1 we obtain the general solution x = bt − cq, y = cp − at, which is of the same form as in the preceding case.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 7 "Equation" to "Ethics" by Various