CAPS

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Caps is the plural of the word "cap"; see cap (disambiguation). "Caps" may also refer to:

• Caps (party) - a political faction in Sweden, during the 18th century.
• Capital letters (for example, in "Caps Lock key").
• Non-economic damages caps - a type of tort reform.
• Washington Capitals - an NHL hockey team.
• Caps (drinking game) - a drinking game which derives its name from the use of bottle caps during play.
• MDMA - Ecstasy tablets.
• Cap (sport), to denote the number of CAPS awarded in some sports when a player represents his country

The initialism "CAPS", when used by itself, can refer to:

• Calls per second - a unit of traffic measurement in telecommunications
• Call attempts per second - used to measure the sizing of telephony application servers.
• the Canadian Association of Paediatric Surgeons
• the Canadian Association of Professional Speakers
• the Catastrophic antiphospholipid syndrome
• the Center for Analysis and Prediction of Storms
• Central Auditory Processing Syndrome, now commonly referred to as Auditory processing disorder (APD)
• the Chicago Alternative Policing Strategy
• the Cirrus Aircraft Parachute System
• Cleaved Amplified Polymorphic Sequence - genetic markers used to detect a polymorphic sequence.
• the Comic Art Professional Society
• Companion Animal Protection Society, a U.S. based animal protection organization
• the Computer Animation Production System developed by Disney and Pixar
• Counseling and Psychological Services (Stanford) at Stanford University
• Sun Java Composite Application Platform Suite - a new Java framework created by Sun Microsystems.
• CAPS (N-cyclohexyl-3-aminopropanesulfonic acid), a buffering agent in biochemistry.