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3-letter words containing p

  • cfp — certified financial planner
  • chp — Combined Heat and Power: the production of both heat and electricity from the same device or power plant
  • cip — Cataloging in Publication
  • clp — 1. Cornell List Processor. 2. Constraint Logic Programming.
  • cmp — 1. cellular multiprocessing. 2. Container Managed Persistance. 3. Configuration Management Plan.
  • cop — A cop is a policeman or policewoman.
  • cpa — CPA is an abbreviation for certified public accountant.
  • cpb — Corporation for Public Broadcasting
  • cpd — compound
  • cpi — CPI is an abbreviation for consumer price index.
  • cpl — Combined Programming Language. U Cambridge and U London. A very complex language, syntactically based on ALGOL 60, with a pure functional subset. Provides the ..where.. form of local definitions. Strongly typed but has a "general" type enabling a weak form of polymorphism. Functions may be defined as either normal or applicative order. Typed array and polymorphic list structures. List selection is through structure matching. Partially implemented on the Titan (Atlas 2) computer at Cambridge. Led to the much simpler BCPL. "The Main Features of CPL", D.W. Barron et al, Computer J 6(2):134-143 (Jul 1963).
  • cpm — critical path method: a mathematically based method of scheduling the steps required to carry out a project
  • cpo — Chief Petty Officer
  • cpp — C preprocessor.
  • cpr — CPR is a medical technique for reviving someone whose heart has stopped beating by pressing on their chest and breathing into their mouth. CPR is an abbreviation for cardiopulmonary resuscitation.
  • cps — cycles per second
  • cpu — In a computer, the CPU is the part that processes all the data and makes the computer work. CPU is an abbreviation for 'central processing unit'.
  • crp — Central Reserve Police
  • csp — Congregation of Saint Paul
  • cup — A cup is a small round container that you drink from. Cups usually have handles and are made from china or plastic.
  • d/p — documents against presentation
  • dap — to fish with a natural or artificial fly on a floss silk line so that the wind makes the fly bob on and off the surface of the water
  • dcp — definitional constraint programming
  • ddp — a method of organizing data processing that uses a central computer in combination with smaller local computers or terminals, which communicate with the central computer and perhaps with one another.
  • dep — Deposit.
  • dip — to plunge (something, as a cloth or sponge) temporarily into a liquid, so as to moisten it, dye it, or cause it to take up some of the liquid: He dipped the brush into the paint bucket.
  • dlp — (language)   Distributed Logic Programming.
  • dop — a tool for holding gemstones for cutting or polishing.
  • dpa — Data Protection Act
  • dpb — /d*-pib'/ The PDP-10 instruction "DePosit Byte" that inserts some bits into the middle of some other bits. Hackish usage has been kept alive by the Common LISP function of the same name.
  • dpc — Damp-proof course.
  • dph — Diploma in Public Health
  • dpi — Dots per inch, a measure of the resolution of printers, scanners, etc.
  • dpl — DECmmp Parallel Language. A C-like parallel language for the DECmpp machine.
  • dpm — Damp-proof membrane, a sheet of material used to make a structure such as a solid concrete floor damp-proof.
  • dpn — Decomposed Petri Net
  • dpp — Dining Philosophers Problem
  • dps — 1.   (language, text)   Display PostScript. 2.   (language)   A real-time language with direct expression of timing requests.
  • dpt — department
  • dpw — Department of Public Works
  • dsp — Digital Signal Processing
  • dtp — medicine; diphtheria, tetanus toxoids, and pertussis vaccine
  • dup — to open.
  • dwp — Department for Work and Pensions
  • ecp — 1. Engineering Change Proposal. 2. Enhanced Capabilities Port. 3. Extended Capabilities Port. 4. Extended Concurrent Prolog.
  • edp — Electronic Data Processing
  • eep — (onomatopoeia) An expression of surprise or dismay.
  • egp — Exterior Gateway Protocol
  • elp — 1. English Language Programs. Language for testing avionics equipment, on Varian 620/i. "Multiband Automatic test Equipment - A Computer Controlled Checkout System", T. Kuroda et al, Proc SJCC, 38 (1971). 2. Equational Logic Programming. A semantically pure, fully lazy language by M.J. O'Donnell <[email protected]>.
  • emp — Employee.
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