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

"Sporting CP, Club Brugge and Bodo have similarities in their success this season. Their scouting is great and their academies perform well," he explained.

From BBC • Feb. 24, 2026

The PQ symmetry addresses the strong CP problem, which asks why experiments fail to detect the tiny electric dipole moment that theory predicts for the neutron.

From Science Daily • Dec. 7, 2025

But if the inverted ordering proves correct, this research suggests neutrinos could indeed violate CP symmetry, offering a powerful clue to why matter exists.

From Science Daily • Oct. 30, 2025

Getting into Hart’s orbit has been a major bucket-list moment since the show started in July 2024, CP said.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 29, 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