Cap (disambiguation)

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A cap is a form of headgear.

Cap may refer to:

Lids, covers, closures

• Lid (container)
• Pipe cap, a pipe fitting used to seal the end of a pipe
• Camper shell, raised, rigid covering for the rear bed of a pickup truck
• Cap (crown), the cap which fills the inner space of a modern crown

Science and technology

• Pileus (mycology), the cap of a mushroom or related fungi
• Blasting cap, an explosive detonator
• Capricornus, the International Astronomical Union abbreviation
• Crown (dentistry), a tooth cap
• Percussion cap, a small amount of percussion-sensitive explosive, held in a tape or small cup
• A set of tuples of integer remainder classes that does not contain a line. This is a popular mathematical problem known from Set (game).
• Capacitor, slang 'cap'

People

• Cap (nickname), a list of people with the nickname Cap
• Čáp, a list of people with the Czech surname
• Vladislao Cap (1934–1982), Argentine footballer
• Cap R. Carden (1866–1935), U.S. Representative from Kentucky

Places

• El Capitan, often shortened to "El Cap", a rock formation in Yosemite National Park
• Nga Ying Chau or Cap Island, a former island in Hong Kong, now part of Tsing Yi Island
• Cap River, New Caledonia
• Cap Point, northernmost point of Saint Lucia

Entertainment

• The Cap (film), a 1984 Canadian short film
• Cap Radio (Morocco), a Moroccan radio station
• Cap, a character in the comic strip Cap Stubbs and Tippie

Other uses

• Cap (sport), a metaphorical term for an athlete's appearance at international level
• Interest rate cap and floor, in economics and business
• cap, ISO 639-3 code for the Chipaya language, spoken in Bolivia
• Cap, a winemaking term for the layer of grape skins that rise to the top of the fermentation vessel

See also

• CAP (disambiguation)
• Capping (disambiguation)
• Caps (disambiguation)