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, a series of cohort studies by 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==