Critical Infrastructure Protection, an infrastructure security effort in the United States

Channel Interface Processor, a card used in Cisco series 7500 series routers that maintains CLAW definitions

Cahn-Ingold-Prelog priority rules, or CIP system, for the naming of molecules in organic chemistry

Continuation-in-part, in United States patent law; see continuing patent application

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

Congenital insensitivity to pain

Carbon in pulp, method of gold extraction

The Citizen Information Project in the United Kingdom

Common Indexing Protocol, a set of IETF RFCs for exchange of directory information

CIP-Tool, a tool for modelling event-driven processes and creating the associated software, distributed by a company of the same name

Clean-in-place, a common cleaning method used in manufacturing processes

Cataloging in Publication, data found in a book to assist librarians

Calf Intestinal Alkaline Phosphatase (CIP), an enzyme that removes the 5' phosophate group from DNA.

Common Industrial Protocol (CIP™), specification maintained by ODVA organization

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.

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.

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.