For CAP we have terms and definitions in 40 topics. The topics are Accounting, Acting and Modeling, Avian, Beer Brewing, Canine, Child Care Acronyms, Cigar, Construction, Customs, Derivatives, Dream, Drugs, Ecology, Environment, Environmental Acronyms, Explosives, Finance, Financial, Ham Radio, Hats, Home Windows, Housing, Import Cars, Microbiology, Mortgage, Motorcross, Natural Gas, Phamaceutical Industry Acronyms, Plastic Acronyms, Prostate Cancer, Purchasing A Home, Real Estate, SEO Acronyms, Shipping, Soccer, Swimming, Toxic Substances, Vietnam War, Weather and William Shakespeare.

CAP (Accounting)

To limit. Capital - ASSETS intended to further production. The amount invested in a PROPRIETORSHIP, PARTNERSHIP, or CORPORATION by its owners.

CAP (Acting and Modeling)

This indicates that an actor has completed his scene or a portion of a scene.

CAP (Avian)

Top of the crown.

CAP (Beer Brewing)

See Classic American Pilsener.

CAP (Canine)

Darkly shaded color pattern on the skull of some breeds.

CAP (Child Care Acronyms)

Customer Access Point

CAP (Cigar)

A circular piece of tobacco leaf placed at the head or uncut end of the cigar to secure the wrapper; mostly on Havana cigars. Dominican cigars and those from most other countries are usually secured with a twist of the wrapper which is then gummed onto the uncut end, or tied off as a pigtail, and known as the flag.

CAP (Construction)

The upper member of a column, pilaster, door cornice, molding, or fireplace.

CAP (Customs)

Refer to: Common Agricultural Policy,

CAP (Derivatives)

A strip of Caplets (q.v.) - that is, a portfolio of Caplets with sequential accrual periods. Also known as a Ceiling.

CAP (Dream)

For a woman to dream of seeing a cap, she will be invited to take part in some festivity.
For a girl to dream that she sees her sweetheart with a cap on, denotes that she will be bashful and shy in his presence.
To see a prisoner's cap, denotes that your courage is failing you in time of danger.
To see a miner's cap, you will inherit a substantial competency.

CAP (Drugs)

Crack Cocaine; LSD; a capsule of a drug

CAP (Ecology)

The top "umbrella-like" part of a fungus; espcially a mushroom. Underneath the cap, most mushrooms have gills which release spores.

CAP (Environment)

A layer of clay, or other impermeable material installed over the top of a closed landfill to prevent entry of rainwater and minimize leachate.

CAP (Environmental Acronyms)

Corrective Action Plan. Cost Allocation Procedure. Criteria Air Pollutant

CAP (Explosives)

1) Detonator, Blasting Cap.
2) Nosepiece on a projectile.

CAP (Finance)

An upper limit on the interest rate on a floating-rate note (FRN) or an adjustable-rate mortgage (ARM).

CAP (Financial)

Is the ceiling, upper limit price, or interest rate which would be paid. It is analogous to a long call position. Is the ceiling, upper limit price, or interest rate which would be paid. It is analogous to a long call position.

CAP (Ham Radio)

Capacitor (formerly condenser)

CAP (Hats)

A hat with a small brim at the front.

CAP (Home Windows)

Decorative molded projection, or cornice, covering the lintel of a window.

CAP (Housing)

A limit, such as that placed on an adjustable rate mortgage, on how much a monthly payment or interest rate can increase or decrease.

CAP (Import Cars)

1. A cover or lid for a container. 2. That part of the distributor that directs electrical energy to the spark plugs. 3. A small metal part, usually of hardened steel, that acts as an interference between the valve-stem end and the rocker arm. 4. The half round, removable part of a connecting rod or main bearing.

CAP (Microbiology)

All eukaryotes have at the 5' end of their messages a structure called a "cap", consisting of a 7-methylguanosine in 5'-5' triphosphate linkage with the first nucleotide of the mRNA. It is added post-transcriptionally, and is not encoded in the DNA.

CAP (Mortgage)

Same as Float-down.

CAP (Motorcross)

construction

CAP (Natural Gas)

A cup-shaped fitting placed on the end of a pipe to seal the pipe, usually threaded on the inside and screwed over the end of the pipe. Also, the act of placing a cap on a pipe. Also, to close off a gas or oil well.

CAP (Phamaceutical Industry Acronyms)

Cellulose Acetate Propionate

CAP (Plastic Acronyms)

Cellulose acetate-proplonate.

CAP (Prostate Cancer)

Cancer of the prostate; also PC, PCa
carboplatin:a platinum based compound that is used as a cancer chemotherapeutic agent

CAP (Purchasing A Home)

A provision of an adjustable-rate mortgage (ARM) that limits how much the interest rate or mortgage payments may increase or decrease. See lifetime payment cap, periodic payment cap, and periodic rate cap.

CAP (Real Estate)

A provision of an adjustable-rate mortgage (ARM) that limits how much the interest rate or mortgage payments may increase or decrease.

CAP (SEO Acronyms)

Content Acquisition Program (Yahoo!)

CAP (Shipping)

Capacity

CAP (Soccer)

A recognition earned by a player for each appearance in an international game for his country.

CAP (Swimming)

The silicone or latex covering worn on the head of swimmers. Sometimes to aid in reducing drag and should be used in practice if the swimmer has long hair.

CAP (Toxic Substances)

[See Community Assistance Panel.]

CAP (Vietnam War)

Civil action program. U.S. military personnel working with Vietnamese civilians.

CAP (Weather)

Composed of a layer of warmer, dryer air aloft which may suppress or delay the development of thunderstorms. As an air parcel rises, it becomes cooler relative to the ambient, or surrounding, air in the cap and therefore, less buoyant and unable to rise further. Also referred to as a lid.

CAP (William Shakespeare)

A head-covering; give up for lost; top, chief.

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