"CAP" meaning in English

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Proper name

Head templates: {{en-proper noun}} CAP
  1. (European Union) Initialism of Common Agricultural Policy. Tags: European-Union, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism Alternative form of: Common Agricultural Policy Categories (place): European Union
    Sense id: en-CAP-en-name-9TB3PT5l Categories (other): English links with redundant alt parameters, English links with redundant wikilinks
  2. (US) Initialism of Civil Air Patrol. Tags: US, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism Alternative form of: Civil Air Patrol
    Sense id: en-CAP-en-name--1QBJxiV Categories (other): American English, English links with redundant alt parameters, English links with redundant wikilinks, English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 7 14 9 18 5 7 14 20 1 6
  3. Initialism of Colleague Assistance Program. Tags: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism Alternative form of: Colleague Assistance Program
    Sense id: en-CAP-en-name-UmFy9OBF

Noun

Forms: CAPs [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} CAP (countable and uncountable, plural CAPs)
  1. Initialism of conservation action plan. Tags: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable Alternative form of: conservation action plan
    Sense id: en-CAP-en-noun-rcK8ikjo Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 7 14 9 18 5 7 14 20 1 6
  2. Initialism of catabolite activator protein. Tags: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable Alternative form of: catabolite activator protein
    Sense id: en-CAP-en-noun-AR4InSFp
  3. (medicine) Initialism of community-acquired pneumonia. Tags: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable Alternative form of: community-acquired pneumonia Categories (topical): Medicine
    Sense id: en-CAP-en-noun-7KXMUX3- Topics: medicine, sciences
  4. (computing theory) Initialism of consistency, availability, partition-tolerance, three irreconcilable guarantees in distributed systems, a result known as Brewer's theorem. Tags: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable Alternative form of: consistency (extra: a result known as Brewer's theorem), availability (extra: a result known as Brewer's theorem), partition-tolerance (extra: a result known as Brewer's theorem), three irreconcilable guarantees in distributed systems (extra: a result known as Brewer's theorem) Categories (topical): Theory of computing
    Sense id: en-CAP-en-noun-JkXXYTyz Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 7 14 9 18 5 7 14 20 1 6 Topics: computing, computing-theory, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences
  5. Initialism of combat air patrol. Tags: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable Alternative form of: combat air patrol
    Sense id: en-CAP-en-noun-Mzg52Gjy Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 7 14 9 18 5 7 14 20 1 6
  6. Initialism of change acceleration process. Tags: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable Alternative form of: change acceleration process
    Sense id: en-CAP-en-noun-x41mzEG~
  7. Initialism of colors and placements. Tags: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable Alternative form of: colors and placements
    Sense id: en-CAP-en-noun-Raf5AkcH

Inflected forms

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