CPS

CPS or cps may refer to:

Organisations

Canada

• Calgary Police Service, Alberta
• Canadian Paediatric Society
• Canadian Power and Sail Squadrons, recreational sailors
• Compendium of Pharmaceuticals and Specialties

United Kingdom

• Cambridge Philosophical Society, at the University of Cambridge
• Cambridge Positioning Systems, a GPS software company bought by CSR plc
• Centre for Policy Studies, a British think-tank
• Communist Party of Scotland
• Crown Prosecution Service, in England and Wales

United States

• Chicago Public Schools
• Child protective services, in many US jurisdictions
• Cincinnati Public Schools, Hamilton County, Ohio
• Civilian Public Service, a WWII alternative for conscientious objectors
• Cleveland Photographic Society, Ohio
• Coalition for Positive Sexuality, an education website
• The College Preparatory School, Oakland, California
• CPS Energy, formerly City Public Service Board of San Antonio, Texas

Elsewhere

• CPS (programadora) (Comunicaciones Producción y Servicios de Televisión), a Colombian TV program-maker, 1998–2003
• Colegio de la Preciosa Sangre de Pichilemu, a school in Chile
• College of Physicians and Surgeons (disambiguation)
• Conference of Presentation Sisters of North America, a congregation of the Presentation Sisters religious order
• Convention Panafricaine Sankariste, Burkina Faso

Science and technology

Biology and chemistry

• Capsaicin, a pungent component of chili peppers
• Carbamoyl phosphate synthase II, an enzyme that catalyzes a reaction yielding carbamoyl phosphate
• Carbamoyl phosphate synthetase, an enzyme that catalyzes a reaction yielding carbamoyl phosphate
• Chlorpyrifos, an organophosphate pesticide
• Concentrate of poppy straw, processed poppy straw
• Circumsporozoite protein, a protein secreted by the malaria parasite during the sporozoite stage

Computing

• CPS, a Corel Photo House image file format
• Certification Practice Statement, of a certificate authority
• Continuation-passing style, a programming technique
• Conversational Programming System, an IBM time-sharing operating system
• CP System, an arcade system board

Engineering

• Cyber-physical system or intelligent system, controlling a mechanism

Medicine

• Cancer Prevention Study, of the American Cancer Society
• Comorbidity–polypharmacy score

Physics

• Centipoise, a viscosity subunit, cP, but cps or cPs also used
• CERN Proton Synchrotron, a particle accelerator
• Counts per second (cps), detected by a radiation monitoring instrument
• Cycle per second (c.p.s.), now Hertz

Telecommunications

• Calls per second

Transport

• Caroline Springs railway station, Melbourne
• Clapham South tube station, London Underground station code
• IATA code for St. Louis Downtown Airport

Other uses

• Central Police Station (disambiguation)
• Clerk Police Sergeant, a former London Metropolitan Police rank of station sergeant
• Complex problem-solving
• Combination Product Set in hexany
• Constant Pressure System, a design used in water guns
• Cost-per-sale, an online advertising pricing system
• Current Population Survey, a US statistical survey
• Conventional Prompt Strike, a proposed class of US weapons systems