"CPS" meaning in English

See CPS in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Proper name

Head templates: {{en-proper noun}} CPS
  1. (UK, law) Initialism of Crown Prosecution Service. Tags: UK, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism Alternative form of: Crown Prosecution Service Categories (topical): Law
    Sense id: en-CPS-en-name-hPgDKxfW Categories (other): British English Topics: law
  2. (UK politics) Initialism of Centre for Policy Studies. Tags: UK, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism Alternative form of: Centre for Policy Studies Categories (topical): UK politics
    Sense id: en-CPS-en-name-5u01GtjX Topics: government, politics

Noun

Forms: CPSes [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|~|es}} CPS (countable and uncountable, plural CPSes)
  1. (telecommunications) Initialism of characters per second. Tags: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable Alternative form of: characters per second Categories (topical): Telecommunications
  2. (video games) Initialism of clicks per second. Tags: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable Alternative form of: clicks per second Categories (topical): Video games
    Sense id: en-CPS-en-noun-be-J18WI Topics: video-games
  3. (US) Initialism of child protective services. Tags: US, abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable Alternative form of: child protective services
    Sense id: en-CPS-en-noun-gaMz-CZr Categories (other): American English
  4. Initialism of clean plate syndrome. Tags: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable Alternative form of: clean plate syndrome
    Sense id: en-CPS-en-noun-DCGlbOfM
  5. (US) Initialism of Current Population Survey. Tags: US, abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable Alternative form of: Current Population Survey
    Sense id: en-CPS-en-noun-S~QncCRo Categories (other): American English
  6. (computing) Initialism of cyber-physical system. Tags: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable Alternative form of: cyber-physical system Categories (topical): Computing
    Sense id: en-CPS-en-noun-G2Ed0Ozw Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences
  7. (functional programming, uncountable) Initialism of continuation-passing style. Tags: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, uncountable Alternative form of: continuation-passing style Categories (topical): Programming
    Sense id: en-CPS-en-noun-Q69onQbj Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 7 2 9 5 4 0 19 13 40 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 5 4 8 5 3 1 20 13 41 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 4 3 9 6 3 1 22 13 41

Inflected forms

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-11-06 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-10-02 using wiktextract (fbeafe8 and 7f03c9b). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.