CP
CP
1 American
cP
2
American
Or
cp
cp.
3
American
abbreviation
c.p.
4
American
abbreviation
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chemically pure.
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circular pitch.
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command post.
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common pleas.
C.P.
5
American
abbreviation
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Chief Patriarch.
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command post.
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Common Prayer.
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Communist Party.
CP
1
British
abbreviation
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Canadian Press
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military Command Post
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Common Prayer
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Communist Party
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(formerly in Britain) Community Programme
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Court of Probate
cp
2
British
abbreviation
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candlepower
-
chemically pure
cp.
3
British
abbreviation
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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
The combined findings suggest there may be a difference in how neutrinos and antineutrinos oscillate, indicating a possible violation of CP symmetry.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 3, 2026
I cited many occasions when the ANC and the CP had differed on policy and the ANC had prevailed, but this did not seem to impress them.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
This dynamo has an output of 12 watts, and will produce from 18 to 25 cp., according to the water pressure obtainable.
From The Boy Mechanic: Volume 1 700 Things for Boys to Do by Popular Mechanics Co.
This also appears in connection with fracture other than that from O. E. ā: cp. yirth, yird, for "earth."
From Scandinavian influence on Southern Lowland Scotch by Flom, George Tobias
Evidently from O. N. apr, sharp, cp. en aprasta hrið, "sharp fighting," cited in Cl. and V. Cl. and V. compares N. Ic. napr, "snappish," cp. furthermore apirsmert, adj.
From Scandinavian influence on Southern Lowland Scotch by Flom, George Tobias
One of a number of words in Sco. formed with ram, cp. ramshackle, ramstam, rammous, etc.
From Scandinavian influence on Southern Lowland Scotch by Flom, George Tobias
Our word has excrescent l, cp. chalmer, not uncommon. 46Gyrth, sb. a sanctuary, protection.
From Scandinavian influence on Southern Lowland Scotch by Flom, George Tobias
In lighting a private house or building, the first thing to be done is to settle the total number of incandescent lamps and their size, whether 32 c.p.,
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
The efficiency of the Nernst lamp is fairly high, being only 1.45 to 1.75 watts per c.p.
From Wireless Transmission of Photographs Second Edition, Revised and Enlarged 1919 by Martin, Marcus J.
The electric lamp L is about 8 c.p., and is placed just within the focus of a lens which has a focal length of 3/4 inch.
From Wireless Transmission of Photographs Second Edition, Revised and Enlarged 1919 by Martin, Marcus J.
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
C.P. just sneered at the idea, saying, “Wilbur, I don’t particularly like you and I don’t even want to discuss it with you.”
From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson
Blained, adj. "half dry," said of linen hung out to dry, is, of course, simply the pp. of blain, cp.
From Scandinavian influence on Southern Lowland Scotch by Flom, George Tobias
The explanation of the name is no doubt wrong; but all the rest of this passage can be relied on; cp.
From The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus by Fowler, W. Warde
Converting a b into a continued fraction and proceeding as before, we obtain, in the case of aq − bp = 1, x = cq − bt, y = at − cp.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 7 "Equation" to "Ethics" by Various
Picti with the Pictones and Pictavi of Gaul, but in Irish they are known as Cruithne, which appears in Welsh as Prydyn, “Pict”; cp.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 "Cat" to "Celt" by Various
Vo, Vomer. s, Symphysis of lower jaw. id, Inferior dental canal. cp, Coronoid process of lower jaw. cd, Condyle. a, Angle. sh, Stylo-hyal. bh, Basi-hyal. th, Thyro-hyal.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 7 "Cerargyrite" to "Charing Cross" by Various
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