CSP

See also: csp

English

Proper noun

CSP

1. Initialism of California Society of Printmakers.
2. (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this sense?) Initialism of Center for Systemic Peace.
   • 2022 January 24, Barbara F. Walter, “Why should we worry that the U.S. could become an ‘anocracy’ again? Because of the threat of civil war.”, in The Washington Post‎^[1], Washington, D.C.: The Washington Post Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 26 January 2022:

     The CSP ranking, called the “Polity Score” — well regarded partly because of its historical and geographic scope — uses various criteria to place governments on a scale ranging from -10 (most autocratic) to +10 (most democratic).

Noun

CSP (countable and uncountable, plural CSPs)

1. (computer security) Abbreviation of Content Security Policy.
2. (solar energy) Abbreviation of concentrated solar power.
3. (law enforcement) Initialism of chief superintendent (a police rank).

   Synonyms: Ch. Supt., Ch Supt, CS

   Coordinate terms: SSP, SP, supt., DSupt, DCS

4. (telecommunications) Initialism of communications service provider (“telecommunications company or telco”).
5. (computer science) Initialism of communicating sequential processes, a formal language for describing concurrent systems.
   • 2017, Katherine Cox-Buday, Concurrency in Go […] , O'Reilly, →ISBN, page 28:

     Most popular languages favor sharing and synchronizing access to the memory to CSP’s message-passing style. There are exceptions, but unfortunately these are confined to languages that haven’t seen wide adoption.

6. (mathematics) Initialism of constraint satisfaction problem.
   • 1986 August 11, Rina Dechter, “Learning while searching in constraint-satisfaction-problems”, in Proceedings of the Fifth AAAI National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI'86), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: AAAI Press, →DOI, pages 178–183:

     In this paper we examine several learning schemes as they apply to solving general CSPs.

8. (medicine, pharmacy) Initialism of compounded sterile preparation or initialism of compounded sterile product.
9. (biochemistry) Initialism of circumsporozoite protein.

Alternative forms

• C.S.P., C. S. P., C S P

Anagrams

• CPS, CPs, PCS, PCs, PSC, SCP, SPC, cps, pcs, pcs., psc

French

Etymology

Acronym of catégorie socioprofessionnelle.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /se.ɛs.pe/

• Audio (France (Somain)):

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Noun

CSP f (invariable)

1. socio-professional category

   Hyponym: CSP+

Italian

Noun

CSP m

1. (rare) initialism of codice di sblocco personale: PUK