cep

plural ceps · alternative cèpe · alternative cepe

1. An edible mushroom (Boletus edulis).

   Ask yourself this question: How do we know that it is not dangerous for us to eat ceps and chanterelle mushrooms, but that we must never touch some others, such as deathcap mushrooms?

   2015 April 20, David Khayat, The Anticancer Diet: Reduce Cancer Risk Through the Foods You Eat, W. W. Norton & Company, →ISBN

   Synonyms: penny bun, porcini

plural CEPs

1. An initialism of three synonymous phrases, namely:
   1. abbreviationinitialismballisticsInitialism of circular error probable.

      The Circular Error Probable (CEPs) of SLBMs and SLCMs ought thus to be deliberately kept above the 'Hard Target Kill' (HTK) level.

      1989, Marlies ter Borg-Neervoort, Wim Smit, Non-provocative Defence as a Principle of Arms Reduction

   2. abbreviationinitialismballisticsInitialism of circular error probability.
   3. abbreviationinitialismballisticsInitialism of circle of equal probability.
2. SingaporeabbreviationinitialismInitialism of current estimated potential, a prediction of a civil servant's highest attainable grade and his/her talent