CIP explained

CIP may refer to:

Business and finance

• Commercially Important Person
• Construction in progress, a balance sheet assets item
• Continual improvement process
• "Carriage and Insurance Paid to" Incoterms
• Customer Identification Program, in US anti-money laundering

Government and military

• Capital improvement plan, in urban planning
• Citizen Information Project in the UK
• Classification of Instructional Programs, US Department of Education
• Commercial Import Program, US-South Vietnam
• Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme of the EU
• Combat Identification Panel, a US identify-friend-or-foe device
• Continuation in Part in US Patent law
• Corps of Intelligence Police of US Army 1917-1941
• Critical Infrastructure Protection, US
• Customer Identification Program, in US anti-money laundering

Organizations and businesses

• Canadian Institute of Planners
• California Innocence Project, for innocent prisoners
• Center for Industrial Progress think tank, San Diego, California, US
• Center for Islamic Pluralism, Washington D.C., US
• Centro Internacional de la Papa, the International Potato Center in Peru
• Center for Intellectual Property Studies, Gothenburg, Sweden
• Centre for Integrated Photonics
• Center for International Policy, Washington D.C, US
• Commission Internationale Permanente pour l'Epreuve des Armes à Feu Portatives (Permanent International Commission for the Proof of Small Arms)
• Comitato Italiano Paralimpico, Italian Paralympic Committee
• Crown International Pictures, US film studio
• Crippled Intellect Publications, a record label

Science and technology

Biology and medicine

• Calf-intestinal alkaline phosphatase, an enzyme
• Congenital insensitivity to pain
• Critical illness polyneuropathy
• CIP/KIP family of Cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitor proteins

Chemistry

• Cahn–Ingold–Prelog priority rules, or CIP system, for naming organic molecules
• Carbon in pulp, method of gold extraction
• Clean-in-place, without disassembly

Computing

• CIP-Tool, for modelling event-driven processes
• Common Indexing Protocol, for exchanging index information
• Common Industrial Protocol, automation protocol
• Core Independent Peripherals, an implementation of autonomous peripheral operations in microcontrollers

Military

• Class Improvement Project, a minor type of ship upgrade created by the US Navy Ship Characteristics Board 1945-1975

Other uses in science and technology

• Cataloging in Publication, data for a work, in library science
• Certified IRB Professional, a scientific research certification
• Cold isostatic pressing