Business

• Carriage and Insurance Paid to, an Incoterm
• Construction in Progress, in accountancy, a balance sheet assets item used for assets being constructed, e.g. buildings.
• Continuation-in-part, in United States patent law; see continuing patent application
• Continuous Improvement Process
• Crippled Intellect Publications, a record label for experimental music.

Government

• The Citizen Information Project in the United Kingdom
• Critical Infrastructure Protection, an infrastructure security effort in the United States
• Classification of Instructional Programs, a United States Department of Education classification system for college

degrees

• Capital Improvement Plan
• Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme of the European Union

Organisations

• Center for Intellectual Property Studies, founded by Gothenburg University and Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden
• CipSoft, the Regensburg, Germany-based creators of the online computer game Tibia
• Commission Internationale Permanente pour l'Epreuve des Armes à Feu Portatives, Permanent International Commission for Firearms Testing, commonly abbreviated as C.I.P. or CIP. The European ammunition and fire arms standards organisation C.I.P. safeguards that every civil firearm with a C.I.P. registered chambering (generally these are all non-wildcat chamberings) gets professionally proofed at C.I.P. certified test facilities before it can be sold to consumers in a C.I.P. regulated country. C.I.P.They also publish industry standards such as ammunition and chamber dimension specifications and maximum allowed chamber pressures that have undisputable legal status in C.I.P. member states.
• Committee for International Peace, a peace organization
• Congregação Israelita Paulista
• Creative Industries Precinct, part of the Queensland University of Technology campus in Brisbane, Australia

Science & technology

• Cahn-Ingold-Prelog priority rules, or CIP system, for the naming of molecules in organic chemistry
• Calf Intestinal Alkaline Phosphatase (CIP), an enzyme that removes the 5' phosophate group from DNA.
• Carbon in pulp, method of gold extraction
• Cellular IP, a micromobility protocol
• Clean-in-place, a common cleaning method used in manufacturing processes
• Cold isostatic pressing, an industrial process

Computer Science

• Channel Interface Processor, a card used in Cisco series 7500 series routers that maintains CLAW definitions
• CIP-Tool, a tool for modelling event-driven processes and creating the associated software, distributed by a company of the same name
• Classical IP over ATM
• Common Indexing Protocol, a set of IETF RFCs for exchange of directory information
• Common Industrial Protocol (CIP), specification maintained by ODVA organization
• Cubic-Interpolated Pseudo-particle

Medical terms

• Congenital insensitivity to pain with anhidrosis
• congenital indifference to pain
• Critical illness polyneuropathy
• Chronic Intestinal Pseudo-obstruction, an uncommon human disease that causes bowel difficulties

Military

• Combat Identification Panel, a device used by the US military to distinguish friendly ground vehicles from the enemy following friendly fire incidents in the first Gulf War.

Other

• Cataloging in Publication, data found in a book to assist librarians
• Circulating International Program
• Computer-Investitions-Programm, German computer support program for universities