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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

I enjoyed Nat’s company and we often went places together, including a number of lectures and CP meetings.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela

Buik, "book," seems to show the intermediate stage, cp. also tyeuk, "took."

From Scandinavian influence on Southern Lowland Scotch by George Tobias Flom

On this change of ou to oi cp. the same word in Norse, laupa and loipa.

From Scandinavian influence on Southern Lowland Scotch by George Tobias Flom

The palatal sh is unusual, but cp. dash from daska.

From Scandinavian influence on Southern Lowland Scotch by George Tobias Flom

E before r + consonant is broken and appears as either ea or eo, cp. eorthe, earthe.

From Scandinavian influence on Southern Lowland Scotch by George Tobias Flom

For change of ai to aw cp. agent and awgent; various and vawrious, in Aberdeen dial.

From Scandinavian influence on Southern Lowland Scotch by George Tobias Flom

It consisted of one small dynamo of a capacity of two hundred and eighty lights of 10 c.p. each, and was housed in an unpretentious wooden shed.

From Edison, His Life and Inventions by Frank Lewis Dyer

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

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

As an example taken from actual practice, the following figures give the capacity of the plant put down to supply 500 8 c.p. lamps in a hospital.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 2 "Ehud" to "Electroscope" 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 Marcus J. Martin

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

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

“I thought I had a one-on-one opportunity with the defensive end and I thought he was crashing down on C.P. and maybe I had a chance to get a run.”

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 28, 2022

But it’s the capacity for evil that drives a West End revival of “Good,” a 1982 play by C.P.

From New York Times ● Nov. 3, 2022

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

C.P. watched dumbfounded as the councilman waded through traffic like a man crossing a fast-flowing river, finally emerging on the other side and then hurrying down the sidewalk.

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 George Tobias Flom

That is, x = bt + cq and y = at + cp.

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

Now type cp temprc .newsrc and hit enter.

From Big Dummy's Guide to the Internet by Electronic Frontier Foundation

For the personification of a people or tribe, cp.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 5 "Gassendi, Pierre" to "Geocentric" 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

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