Cap

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A cap is a form of headgear.

Cap may also refer to:

• Bottle cap, a closure to seal bottles
• Screw cap, a closure to seal bottles or jars
• Cap (sport), a statistic representing an athlete's appearance in a select team game
• Cape (geography), the French word for this commonly used in placenames
• Percussion cap, a small amount of percussion-sensitive explosive, held in a tape or small cup
• Pileus (mycology), the cap of a mushroom or related fungi
• Pipe cap, a pipe fitting used to seal the end of a pipe
• Polar ice cap
• Capping (MST3K), a screenshot-captioning fandom activity
• Camper shell, a type of caravan
• Cap and Gown Club, an eating club at Princeton University

In medicine:

• Crown (dentistry), a tooth cap
• Cervical cap, contraceptive device.
• Therapy cap, on per person Medicare spending

In science and technology:

• Capping inversion, inhibits atmospheric convection
• Capability-based security, shorthand for this computer security concept
• The CAP computer, an experimental machine built in Cambridge
• A bandwidth cap on a computer network
• 5' cap, part of an mRNA
• Capacitor, electronics slang
• Blasting cap, an explosive detonator
• Screenshot, slang for a computer screen image capture
• Common Alerting Protocol

In finance:

• Interest rate cap
• Non-economic damages caps
• Tax cap
• Salary cap
• Market capitalization, a truncation of this phrase

People with the name:

• Captain America, the character's nickname
• Caspar Weinberger, his nickname
• Vladislao Cap, an Argentine footballer
• Carlos Andres Pérez, a Venezuelan president
• Cap Anson, 19th century baseball player and member of the Baseball Hall of Fame

CAP may stand for:

• Apex Aircraft's range of CAP (Constructions Aéronautiques Parisiennes) training and aerobatic aircraft.
• Camel Application Part, a protocol used in CAMEL servers.
• Canadian Action Party
• Canadian Association of Physicists
• CAP Group, Computer Analysts and Programmers a UK software company
• Capital Airlines, the ICAO airline designator for this airline
• Capital Assistance Program
• Capricornus (constellation), standard astronomical abbreviation
• Carrierless Amplitude Phase Modulation
• Catabolite Activator Protein
• Causal adequacy principle, a philosophical claim made by René Descartes
• Cellulose acetate phthalate, a cellulose-based polymer
• Center for American Progress, a left-of-centre think tank
• Central Arizona Project Aqueduct
• Central Atlanta Progress
• Certification and Accreditation Professional, information assurance certification
• Chicago Area Project, a juvenile delinquency project
• ChildCare Action Project
• Children Awaiting Parents
• Chip Authentication Program – using EMV smartcards to authenticate online banking transactions
• Christian Appalachian Project a program to assist disadvantaged persons in Kentucky and West Virginia
• Christians Against Poverty, the UK charity
• Church Action on Poverty, UK national ecumenical social justice charity established in 1982
• Civil Air Patrol, the official US Air Force Auxiliary
• Claims Assistance Professional, medical billing assistance and patient advocacy
• Clube Atlético Paranaense, a Brazilian football club
• Coded Anti-Piracy, an anti-piracy system for motion picture prints exhibited theatrically.
• College of American Pathologists
• Combat Air Patrol
• Combined Action Program United States Marine Corps Vietnam era special operation also known as Combined Action Platoon.

• Committee for Another Policy (Comité voor een Andere Politiek / Comité pour une Autre Politique) a Belgian political movement
• Common Agricultural Policy, the European Union's agricultural subsidy system.
• Community Access Program, a Government of Canada initiative to provide access to the Internet in remote areas.
• Community Action Program, Lyndon Johnson's anti-poverty programs.
• Community-acquired pneumonia
• Concerned Alumni of Princeton
• Consolidated Appeals Process a funding mechanism used by humanitarian aid organisations.
• CAP (protein), Cyclase Associated Protein

See also

• Caps

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