CPI

8 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  consumer price index \consumer price index\ n.
     An index of the cost of all goods and services to a typical
     consumer, calculated and published by the United States
     Bureau of Labor Statistics; abbreviated {CPI}, and usually
     referred to by that acronym. The Bureau maintains several
     indices for different groups of consumers, but the most


     commonly referred to is the index for "All urban consumers",
     called the {CPI-U}. The increase of this value each year is
     one measure of monetary inflation.
  
     Syn: CPI, cost-of-living index.
          [WordNet 1.5]
  
     Note: For a table of values from the Bureau of Labor
           Statistics of the CPI over time, see CPI-U from 1913 to
           1998.
           [PJC]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  CPI \CPI\ n.
     the {consumer price index}, an index of the cost of all goods
     and services to a typical consumer. The increase of this
     value each year is one measure of monetary inflation.
     [acronym]
  
     Syn: consumer price index, cost-of-living index.
          [WordNet 1.5]
  
     Note: For a table of values from the Bureau of Labor
           Statistics of the CPI over time, see CPI-U from 1913 to
           1998.
           [PJC] CPU

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  CPI
       n 1: an index of the cost of all goods and services to a typical
            consumer [syn: {consumer price index}, {cost-of-living
            index}]
       2: a self-report personality inventory originally derived from
          the MMPI; consists of several hundred yes-no questions and
          yields scores on a number of scales including dominance
          and self acceptance and self control and socialization and
          achievement etc. [syn: {California Personality Inventory}]

From Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002) [vera]:

  CPI
       Characters Per Inch
       
       

From Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002) [vera]:

  CPI
       Common Part Indicator (ATM)
       
       

From Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002) [vera]:

  CPI
       Common Programming Interface (IBM, SAA)
       
       

From Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002) [vera]:

  CPI
       Computer Private branch exchange Interface
       
       

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  CPI
       
          {Common Program Interface}