CSP

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CSP Chartered Society of Physiotherapists (or Physiotherapy)
• Civil Service of Pakistan
• Computing communicating sequential processes
• Congregation of Saint Paul
• Council for Scientific Policy

The Oxford Dictionary of Abbreviations FRAN ALEXANDER , PETER BLAIR , JOHN DAINTITH , ALICE GRANDISON , VALERIE ILLINGWORTH , ELIZABETH MARTIN , ANNE STIBBS , JUDY PEARSALL , and SARA TULLOCH

CSP

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CSP Abbrev. for communicating sequential processes. A mathematically formal approach to the description of software that addresses the specification of a set of concurrent processes and the way in which they interact; it was developed by Tony Hoare. The means of interaction is limited to a “synchronous” protocol in which any pair of communicating processes must be simultaneously involved for communication to be achieved.

A Dictionary of Computing JOHN DAINTITH