Science and Technology
- Cerebellopontine angle, a structure at the margin of the cerebellum and pons
- Cyclophosphamide
- Chirped pulse amplification, a technique for amplifying an ultrashort laser pulse
- Coherent perfect absorber, a device which absorbs coherent light and converts it to some form of internal energy such as heat or electrical energy
- Coherent potential approximation, a method, in physics, of finding the Green's function of an effective medium
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