CAP

See also: Appendix:Variations of "cap"

English

Noun

CAP (countable and uncountable, plural CAPs)

1. Initialism of conservation action plan.
2. Initialism of catabolite activator protein.
3. (medicine) Initialism of community-acquired pneumonia.
4. (computing theory) Initialism of consistency, availability, partition-tolerance, three irreconcilable guarantees in distributed systems, a result known as Brewer's theorem.
5. Initialism of combat air patrol.
6. Initialism of change acceleration process.
7. Initialism of cold atmospheric plasma.
8. Initialism of colors and placements. (Can we add an example for this sense?)

Proper noun

CAP

1. (European Union) Initialism of Common Agricultural Policy.
   • 2023 September 30, Patrick Wintour, quoting Marija Golubeva, “‘No turning back’: how the Ukraine war has profoundly changed the EU”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian‎^[1], London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 17 October 2026:

     The fact remains that if Ukraine joins, the CAP budget will either have to be increased dramatically or will evaporate, given the sheer area of agricultural land in Ukraine (it’s bigger than the whole of Italy), with the average farm taking up about 1,000 hectares compared to 16 hectares in the rest of the EU.

2. (US) Initialism of Civil Air Patrol.
3. Initialism of Colleague Assistance Program.

See also

• CAP syndrome

Anagrams

• PAC, CPA, PCA, Pac, ACP, pac, APC, Pac., PAc

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkap/
• Rhymes: -ap

Proper noun

CAP m

1. abbreviation of codice di avviamento postale (“zip code, postcode”)

Portuguese

Proper noun

CAP f

1. (Portugal, labour) abbreviation of Confederação dos Agricultores de Portugal

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkap/ [ˈkap]
• Rhymes: -ap
• Syllabification: CAP

Proper noun

CAP f

1. acronym of Comisión Administradora del Petróleo