• Cap
  Cap
  A cap is a form of headgear. Caps have crowns that fit very close to the head and have no brim or only a visor. They are typically designed for warmth and, when including a visor, blocking sunlight from the eyes...
  
  , a form of headgear
• Lid (container)
  Lid (container)
  A lid, also known as a cap, is part of a container, and serves as the cover or seal, usually one that completely closes the object.-History:...
  
  
  • Bottle cap
    Bottle cap
    Bottle caps are a type of closure used to seal the openings of bottles of many types. They can be small circular pieces of metal, usually steel, with plastic backings, and for plastic bottles a plastic cap is used instead. A bottle cap is typically colorfully decorated with the logo of the brand...
    
    , a closure to seal bottles
  • Screw cap, a closure to seal bottles or jars
• Cap (sport)
  Cap (sport)
  In sports, a cap is a metaphorical term for a player's appearance on a select team, such as a national team. The term dates from the practice in the United Kingdom of awarding a cap to every player in an international match of association football...
  
  , a statistic representing an athlete's appearance in a select team game
• Percussion cap
  Percussion cap
  The percussion cap, introduced around 1830, was the crucial invention that enabled muzzleloading firearms to fire reliably in any weather.Before this development, firearms used flintlock ignition systems which produced flint-on-steel sparks to ignite a pan of priming powder and thereby fire the...
  
  , a small amount of percussion-sensitive explosive, held in a tape or small cup
• Pileus (mycology)
  Pileus (mycology)
  The pileus is the technical name for the cap, or cap-like part, of a basidiocarp or ascocarp that supports a spore-bearing surface, the hymenium. The hymenium may consist of lamellae, tubes, or teeth, on the underside of the pileus...
  
  , the cap of a mushroom or related fungi
• Pipe cap, a pipe fitting used to seal the end of a pipe
• Polar ice cap
  Polar ice cap
  A polar ice cap is a high latitude region of a planet or natural satellite that is covered in ice. There are no requirements with respect to size or composition for a body of ice to be termed a polar ice cap, nor any geological requirement for it to be over land; only that it must be a body of...
  
  
• Camper shell
  Camper shell
  A camper shell is a small housing or rigid canopy used as a pickup truck accessory. The housing is usually made of fiberglass or aluminum, and is mounted atop the pickup truck's rear bed. It usually covers the entire bed of the pickup truck, and is large enough to be used for camping purposes...
  
  , raised, rigid covering for the rear bed of a pickup truck
• Cap and Gown Club
  Cap and Gown Club
  Cap and Gown Club, founded in 1890, is an eating club at Princeton University, in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. Colloquially known as "Cap", the club is one of the "Big Four" eating clubs at Princeton . Members are selected through a selective process called bicker...
  
  , an eating club at Princeton University
• Cap and trade, in global warming
• Cape (geography)
  Cape (geography)
  In geography, a cape or headland is a point or body of land extending into a body of water, usually the sea.A cape usually represents a marked change in trend of the coastline. Their proximity to the coastline makes them prone to natural forms of erosion, mainly tidal actions. This results in capes...
  
  , the French word for this commonly used in place names
• Capital Cities Communications
  Capital Cities Communications
  Capital Cities redirects here. For the article about the seat of a government, see Capital .Capital Cities Communications was an American media company best known for its surprise purchase of the much larger American Broadcasting Company in 1985...
  
  

Medicine and Biology

• Knee cap
• Crown (dentistry)
  Crown (dentistry)
  A crown is a type of dental restoration which completely caps or encircles a tooth or dental implant. Crowns are often needed when a large cavity threatens the ongoing health of a tooth. They are typically bonded to the tooth using a dental cement. Crowns can be made from many materials, which...
  
  , a tooth cap
• Community-acquired pneumonia
  Community-acquired pneumonia
  Community-acquired pneumonia is a term used to describe one of several diseases in which individuals who have not recently been hospitalized develop an infection of the lungs . CAP is a common illness and can affect people of all ages. CAP often causes problems like difficulty in breathing, fever,...
  
  
• Cervical cap
  Cervical cap
  The cervical cap is a form of barrier contraception. A cervical cap fits over the cervix and blocks sperm from entering the uterus through the external orifice of the uterus, called the os.-Terminology:...
  
  , contraceptive device
• Therapy cap
  Therapy cap
  In 1997 Congress established per-person Medicare spending limits, or therapy cap for nonhospital outpatient therapy, but responding to concerns that some people with Medicare need extensive services, it has since placed temporary moratoriums on the caps...
  
  , on per person Medicare spending
• 5' cap
  5' cap
  The 5' cap is a specially altered nucleotide on the 5' end of precursor messenger RNA and some other primary RNA transcripts as found in eukaryotes. The process of 5' capping is vital to creating mature messenger RNA, which is then able to undergo translation...
  
  , part of an mRNA
• Boundary cap, glial cells of the developing peripheral nervous system

Science and technology

• Caprock
  Caprock
  The Caprock is a region in the Panhandle of Texas . It is the land to the west of the Caprock Escarpment, which separates it from plains stretching to the east at a much lower elevation....
  
  , a layer of erosion-resistant rock overlying weaker rock
• Capping inversion
  Capping inversion
  A capping inversion is an elevated inversion layer that caps a convective boundary layer.The boundary layer is the part of the atmosphere which is closest to the ground. Normally, the sun heats the ground, which in turn heats the air just above it. Thermals form when this warm air rises into the...
  
  , inhibits atmospheric convection
• Capability-based security
  Capability-based security
  Capability-based security is a concept in the design of secure computing systems, one of the existing security models. A capability is a communicable, unforgeable token of authority. It refers to a value that references an object along with an associated set of access rights...
  
  , shorthand for this computer security concept
• CAP computer
  CAP computer
  The Cambridge CAP computer was the first successful experimental computer that demonstrated the use of security capabilities, both in hardware and software. It was developed at the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory in the 1970s...
  
  , an experimental machine built in Cambridge
• Bandwidth cap
  Bandwidth cap
  A bandwidth cap, also known as a bit cap, limits the transfer of a specified amount of data over a period of time. Internet service providers commonly apply a cap when a channel intended to be shared by many users becomes overloaded, or may be overloaded, by a few users...
  
  , on a computer network
• Capacitor
  Capacitor
  A capacitor is a passive two-terminal electrical component used to store energy in an electric field. The forms of practical capacitors vary widely, but all contain at least two electrical conductors separated by a dielectric ; for example, one common construction consists of metal foils separated...
  
  , a type of electronic component
• Certification and Accreditation Professional, a credential regarding the process of certifying and accrediting security of information systems.
• Prostate Cancer
  Prostate cancer
  Prostate cancer is a form of cancer that develops in the prostate, a gland in the male reproductive system. Most prostate cancers are slow growing; however, there are cases of aggressive prostate cancers. The cancer cells may metastasize from the prostate to other parts of the body, particularly...
  
  
• CAP theorem
  CAP theorem
  In theoretical computer science the CAP theorem, also known as Brewer's theorem, states that it is impossible for a distributed computer system to simultaneously provide all three of the following guarantees:...
  
  , Consistency, Availability, Partition-tolerance theorem in computer science.
• Spherical cap
  Spherical cap
  In geometry, a spherical cap is a portion of a sphere cut off by a plane. If the plane passes through the center of the sphere, so that the height of the cap is equal to the radius of the sphere, the spherical cap is called a hemisphere....
  
  , portion of a sphere cut off by a plane
• Blasting cap
  Blasting cap
  A blasting cap is a small sensitive primary explosive device generally used to detonate a larger, more powerful and less sensitive secondary explosive such as TNT, dynamite, or plastic explosive....
  
  , an explosive detonator
• Screenshot
  Screenshot
  A screenshot , screen capture , screen dump, screengrab , or print screen is an image taken by a computer to record the visible items displayed on the monitor, television, or another visual output device...
  
  , a computer screen image capture

Finance

• Interest rate cap
• Non-economic damages caps
  Non-economic damages caps
  Non-economic damages caps are controversial tort reforms to limit damages for intangible harms such as severe pain, physical and emotional distress, disfigurement, loss of the enjoyment of life that an injury has caused, including sterility, physical impairment and loss of a loved one, etc...
  
  
• Tax cap
  Tax cap
  A tax cap places an upper bound on the amount of government tax a person might be required to pay. In this case the tax is said to be capped. Tax caps typically affect a commercial property, or the commercial portion of a mixed commercial/residential property....
  
  
• Salary cap
  Salary cap
  In professional sports, a salary cap is a cartel agreement between teams that places a limit on the amount of money that can be spent on player salaries. The limit exists as a per-player limit or a total limit for the team's roster, or both...
  
  
• Market cap
  Market capitalization
  Market capitalization is a measurement of the value of the ownership interest that shareholders hold in a business enterprise. It is equal to the share price times the number of shares outstanding of a publicly traded company...
  
  , a truncation of market capitalization

People

• Captain America
  Captain America
  Captain America is a fictional character, a superhero that appears in comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character first appeared in Captain America Comics #1 , from Marvel Comics' 1940s predecessor, Timely Comics, and was created by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby...
  
  , the character's nickname
• Caspar Weinberger
  Caspar Weinberger
  Caspar Willard "Cap" Weinberger , was an American politician, vice president and general counsel of Bechtel Corporation, and Secretary of Defense under President Ronald Reagan from January 21, 1981, until November 23, 1987, making him the third longest-serving defense secretary to date, after...
  
  , his nickname
• Vladislao Cap
  Vladislao Cap
  Vladislao Wenceslao Cap was an Argentine football defender of Polish and Hungarian descent, who represented his native country at the 1962 FIFA World Cup in Chile...
  
  , an Argentine footballer
• Carlos Andrés Pérez
  Carlos Andrés Pérez
  Carlos Andrés Pérez Rodríguez , also known as CAP and often referred to as El Gocho , was a Venezuelan politician, President of Venezuela from 1974 to 1979 and again from 1989 to 1993. His first presidency was known as the Saudi Venezuela due to its economic and social prosperity thanks to...
  
  , a Venezuelan president
• Cap Anson
  Cap Anson
  Adrian Constantine Anson , nicknamed "Cap" and "Pop", was a National Association and Major League Baseball first baseman...
  
  , 19th century baseball player

Capping

• Capping enzyme
  Capping enzyme
  A capping enzyme is a guanylyl transferase enzyme that catalyzes the attachment of the 5' cap to messenger RNA molecules that are in the process of being synthesized in the cell nucleus during the first stages of gene expression. The addition of the cap occurs co-transcriptionally, after the...
  
  
• Capping phrase
• Capping stunt
  Capping stunt
  A capping stunt or capping is a New Zealand university tradition of student pranks wherein students perpetrate hoaxes or practical jokes upon an unsuspecting population...
  
  , a New Zealand university tradition of student pranks
• Capping week
  Capping week
  Capping Week is a term used in New Zealand for the week of graduation from university. This is when graduates of the university are presented with their degrees and Capped....
  
  , week of graduation from New Zealand University
• Frequency capping
  Frequency capping
  Frequency capping is a term in advertising that means restricting the number of times a specific visitor to a website is shown a particular advertisement...
  
  , in advertising
• Session capping
  Session capping
  Session capping is a term in online advertising that means restricting the amount of specific advertising sessions a visitor to a website is allowed to have.It greatly diminishes the amount of money the advertiser can earn....
  
  , in advertising
• Window capping
  Window capping
  In building construction, window capping refers to the application of one material over another to provide a weather-proof layer, intended to control the infiltration of weather elements....
  
  , in building construction

CAP

• Constructions Aéronautiques Parisiennes, Apex Aircraft
  Apex Aircraft
  Apex Aircraft is a French company devoted to light aeroplane manufacture. It markets three ranges of light aircraft which it brands Robin, Alpha and CAP...
  
   training and aerobatic aircraft
• Camel Application Part
  Camel Application Part
  The CAMEL Application Part is a signalling protocol used in the Intelligent Network architecture. CAP is a Remote Operations Service Element user protocol, and as such is layered on top of the Transaction Capabilities Application Part of the SS#7 protocol suite...
  
  , a protocol used in CAMEL servers
• Canadian Action Party
  Canadian Action Party
  The Canadian Action Party is a Canadian federal political party founded in 1997. It promotes Canadian nationalism, monetary and electoral reform, and opposes neoliberal globalization and free trade agreements.- Background :The Canadian Action Party was founded by Paul T...
  
  
• Canadian Association of Physicists
  Canadian Association of Physicists
  The Canadian Association of Physicists , or in French Association canadienne des physiciens et physiciennes is a Canadian professional society that focuses on creating awareness amongst Canadians and Canadian legislators of physics issues, sponsoring physics related events, and publishes Physics...
  
  
• CAP Group, Computer Analysts and Programmers a UK software company
• Capital Airlines
  Capital Airlines
  Capital Airlines was an airline serving the eastern United States that merged into United Airlines in 1961. Its primary hubs were National Airport near Washington, DC, and Allegheny County Airport near Pittsburgh. In the 1950s it was the largest US domestic carrier after the Big Four . Its...
  
  , the ICAO airline designator for this airline
• Capital Assistance Program
  Capital Assistance Program
  The Capital Assistance Program is a U.S. Treasury program that provides capital injections in exchange for mandatory convertible preferred stock and warrants to bank holding companies.-Background and timeline:...
  
  
• Capricornus (constellation), standard astronomical abbreviation
• Carrierless Amplitude Phase Modulation
  Carrierless Amplitude Phase Modulation
  Carrierless amplitude phase modulation is a variant of quadrature amplitude modulation . Instead of modulating the amplitude of two carrier waves, CAP generates QAM signal by combining two PAM signals filtered through two filters designed so that their impulse responses form a Hilbert pair.CAP...
  
  
• Catabolite Activator Protein
  Catabolite Activator Protein
  Catabolite Activator Protein or CAP is a transcriptional activator that exists as a homodimer in solution, with each subunit comprising a ligand-binding domain at the N-terminus , which is also responsible for the dimerization of the protein, and a DNA-binding domain at the C-terminus...
  
  
• Causal adequacy principle
  Causal adequacy principle
  The "causal adequacy principle" is a philosophical claim made by René Descartes that the cause of an object must contain at least as much reality as the object itself, whether formally or eminently....
  
  , a philosophical claim made by René Descartes
• Cellulose acetate phthalate
  Cellulose acetate phthalate
  Cellulose acetate phthalate , also known as cellacefate and cellulosi acetas phthalas, is a commonly used polymer phthalate in the formulation of pharmaceuticals, such as the enteric coating of tablets or capsules and for controlled release formulations...
  
  , a cellulose-based polymer
• Center for American Progress
  Center for American Progress
  The Center for American Progress is a progressive public policy research and advocacy organization. Its website states that the organization is "dedicated to improving the lives of Americans through progressive ideas and action." It has its headquarters in Washington D.C.Its President and Chief...
  
  , a left-of-centre think tank
• Central Arizona Project Aqueduct
  Central Arizona Project Aqueduct
  The Central Arizona Project is a 336 mi diversion canal in Arizona in the United States. The aqueduct diverts water from the Colorado River from Lake Havasu City near Parker into central and southern Arizona. The CAP is the largest and most expensive aqueduct system ever constructed in the...
  
  
• Central Atlanta Progress
  Central Atlanta Progress
  Central Atlanta Progress , founded in 1941, is a private, not-for-profit corporation that strives to create a robust economic climate for downtown Atlanta, Georgia, in the United States. The Board of Directors includes business leaders from the Atlanta area...
  
  
• Certification and Accreditation Professional, information assurance certification
• Change Acceleration Process, a GE technique comprising best practices in organizational change management
• Chicago Area Project
  Chicago Area Project
  Chicago Area Project is a Juvenile delinquency prevention association based in Chicago, Illinois, United States. The association has been acting since early 20th century. The project was founded by Clifford R. Shaw. As of 2006, its current Executive Director is David E...
  
  , a juvenile delinquency project
• ChildCare Action Project
  ChildCare Action Project
  The ChildCare Action Project: Christian Analysis of American Culture Ministry) is a Christian entertainment media analysis service that reports on the content of films for interested "parents, grandparents, pastors, youth pastors and others" who desire such information to help them screen movies...
  
  
• Children Awaiting Parents
  Children Awaiting Parents
  Children Awaiting Parents is a national not-for-profit charitable organization that recruits foster and adoptive families for special needs children who have been waiting the longest for a "forever" family...
  
  
• Chip Authentication Program
  Chip Authentication Program
  thumb|right|250px|A GemAlto EZIO CAP Device Whitelabeled as Barclays PINSentryThe Chip Authentication Program is a MasterCard initiative and technical specification for using EMV banking smartcards for authenticating users and transactions in online and telephone banking. It was also adopted by...
  
  , using EMV smartcards to authenticate online banking transactions
• Christian Appalachian Project
  Christian Appalachian Project
  The Christian Appalachian Project is an interdenominational, non-profit Christian organization committed to serving people in need in Appalachia by providing physical, spiritual and emotional support through a wide variety of programs and services....
  
  , a program to assist disadvantaged persons in Kentucky and West Virginia
• Christians Against Poverty
  Christians Against Poverty
  Christians Against Poverty is a Christian charitable company in the United Kingdom founded in Bradford, West Yorkshire by John Kirkby in 1996...
  
  , the UK charity
• Church Action on Poverty
  Church Action on Poverty
  Church Action on Poverty is a UK-based national ecumenical Christian social justice charity, committed to tackling poverty in the United Kingdom. CAP works in partnership with churches and with people in poverty themselves to find solutions to poverty, locally, nationally and globally.CAP was...
  
  , UK national ecumenical social justice charity established in 1982
• Civil Air Patrol
  Civil Air Patrol
  Civil Air Patrol is a Congressionally chartered, federally supported, non-profit corporation that serves as the official civilian auxiliary of the United States Air Force . CAP is a volunteer organization with an aviation-minded membership that includes people from all backgrounds, lifestyles, and...
  
  , the official US Air Force Auxiliary
• Claims Assistance Professional
  Claims Assistance Professional
  In the United States, claims assistance professionals assist individuals and families in managing medical claims. This can include: documenting, submitting, and monitoring the progress of an insurance claim to a health insurance company, negotiating with providers, educating patients on insurance...
  
  , medical billing assistance and patient advocacy
• Coded Anti-Piracy
  Coded Anti-Piracy
  Coded Anti-Piracy is an anti-copyright infringement technology which marks each film print of a motion picture with a distinguishing patterns of dots, used as a forensic identifier to identify the source of illegal copies....
  
  , an anti-piracy system for motion picture prints exhibited theatrically
• College of American Pathologists
  College of American Pathologists
  The College of American Pathologists , is a medical society serving more than 17,000 physician members and the laboratory community throughout the world....
  
  
• Combat Air Patrol
  Combat air patrol
  Combat air patrol is a type of flying mission for fighter aircraft.A combat air patrol is an aircraft patrol provided over an objective area, over the force protected, over the critical area of a combat zone, or over an air defense area, for the purpose of intercepting and destroying hostile...
  
  
• Combined Action Program
  Combined action program
  Drawing from previous experience in "small wars", the United States Marine Corps operated the Combined Action Program during the Vietnam War, from 1965 to 1971. "The Combined Action Platoon's genesis was not a deliberate plan from a higher headquarters, rather, it was a solution to one infantry...
  
   (AKA Combined Action Platoon), a United States Marine Corps Vietnam era special operation
• Committee for Another Policy
  Committee for Another Policy
  The Committee for Another Policy , abbreviated to CAP, is a Belgian left-wing political movement that was established in 2005, and became a political party since 2006.-Formation:...
  
   (Comité voor een Andere Politiek / Comité pour une Autre Politique), a Belgian political movement
• Common Agricultural Policy
  Common Agricultural Policy
  The Common Agricultural Policy is a system of European Union agricultural subsidies and programmes. It represents 48% of the EU's budget, €49.8 billion in 2006 ....
  
  , the European Union's agricultural subsidy system
• Common Alerting Protocol
  Common Alerting Protocol
  The Common Alerting Protocol is an XML-based data format for exchanging public warnings and emergencies between alerting technologies. CAP allows a warning message to be consistently disseminated simultaneously over many warning systems to many applications...
  
  , an XML based data format for exchanging public warnings between different alerting technologies
• Community Access Program
  Community Access Program
  The Community Access Program is an initiative of the Government of Canada which aims to provide Canadians with affordable public access to the Internet and the skills they need to use it effectively. The program is administered by Industry Canada as part of their youth initiative.-History of...
  
  , a Government of Canada initiative to provide access to the Internet in remote areas
• Community Action Program, Lyndon Johnson's anti-poverty programs
• Concerned Alumni of Princeton
  Concerned Alumni of Princeton
  The Concerned Alumni of Princeton was a group of politically conservative former Princeton University students that existed between 1972 and 1986. CAP was born in 1972 from the ashes of the Alumni Committee to Involve Itself Now , which was founded in opposition to the college going coed in 1969...
  
  
• Congress of Aboriginal Peoples
  Congress of Aboriginal Peoples
  Congress of Aboriginal Peoples founded in 1971 as the Native Council of Canada, is a Canadian aboriginal organization, that represents Aboriginal Peoples who live off Indian reserves, either in urban and rural areas across Canada.Each CAP affiliate has its own constitution and is separately...
  
  , Canadian aboriginal organization
• Consolidated Appeals Process
  Consolidated Appeals Process
  The Consolidated Appeals Process is an advocacy tool for humanitarian financing, in which projects managed by the United Nations, NGOs and other stakeholders come together to approach the donor community funding international development activities...
  
  , a funding mechanism used by humanitarian aid organisations
• CAP (protein)
  CAP (protein)
  Adenylate Cyclase Associated Protein is an actin-binding protein that was originally identified as a binding partner for adenylate cyclase. It binds actin monomers and sequesters them from the polymerization process. The yeast ortholog of CAP is called Srv2....
  
  , Cyclase Associated Protein

See also

• Caps (disambiguation)
• Cape (disambiguation)
  Cape (disambiguation)
  Cape commonly refers to an article of clothing.For the geographical feature, see Cape .In people:* Joey Cape, singer* Safford Cape, American conductor and musicologistIn other uses* The Cape of Good Hope...
  
  
• Capital (disambiguation)
  Capital (disambiguation)
  Capital may refer to:* Capital city, the area of a country, province, region, or state, regarded as enjoying primary status, usually but not always the seat of the government...
  
  
• Cop (disambiguation)
  CoP (disambiguation)
  "CoP" may refer to:* Code of Points , scoring systems for gymnastics and figure skating* Community of Practice, a learning process* Crowns of Power, a MMORPG in development by Rampid Interactive* College of Paramedics...
  
  
• Cup (disambiguation)