Definition of Cpi

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cpi
n : an index of the cost of all goods and services to a typical consumer [syn: consumer price index, cpi, cost-of-living index ]

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Noun
1. an index of the cost of all goods and services to a typical consumer
(synonym) consumer price index, cost-of-living index
(hypernym) price index, price level
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.
(synonym) California Personality Inventory
(hypernym) self-report personality inventory, self-report inventory

An index issued by the U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics. The CPI is designed to measure changes in the prices of goods and services bought by wage earners and clerical workers in urban areas. It represents the cost of a typical consumption bundle at current prices as a ratio to its cost at a base year. (DOE6)

Consumer Price Index.

characters per inch

A measure of inflation. See: Consumer price index.

consumer price index

1. compares the current cost of purchasing a fixed set of goods and services with the cost of the same set at a specific base year. The resulting measures can be compared over time.
2. an inflationary indicator that measures the change in the cost of a fixed basket of products and services, including housing, electricity, food, and transportation. The CPI is published monthly; also called cost-of-living index (see Retail Price Index and Producer Price Index.)

See consumer price index (CPI)    

A measure of changes over time in prices of consumption goods and services acquired or used by households.

Capital Properties, Inc.
Exchange: AMEX
Operates petroleum terminals; Operates public parking garage; Leases land for boards along interstate and primary highways for outdoor advertising purposes; And owns certain properties in downtown providence, rhode island.

CPI Aerostructures, Inc.
Exchange: AMEX
Produces structural aircraft parts and sub-assemblies, including pylons, aprons, spars and lower pan assemblies for commercial and military sectors of the aircraft industry; Provides engineering, technical and program management services; And manufactures precision machine parts and sub-assemblies for the electronic industry,

Chemical Processes Industries
  

crash position indicator
  

Computer Program Identification; Change Package Identification; Characters Per Inch

A measure of the average amount (price) paid for a market basket of goods and services by a typical U.S. consumer in comparison to the average paid for the same basket in an earlier base year. a price index in which the basket of goods is defined by what a typical consumer purchases

Central Patents Index

Abbreviation for characters per inch.

In a recording medium, a unit of linear packing density of characters. (188 )

Common Part Indicator;
Characters Per Inch;
Clock Per Instruction;
Common Programming Interface;
Coordination Proccessor Interface

These prices are collected in 85 urban areas selected to represent all urban consumers about 80 percent of the total U.S. population. The service stations are selected initially and on a replacement basis, in such a way that they represent the purchasing habits of the CPI population. Service stations in the current sample include those providing all types of service (i.e., full, mini, and self service).

Computer Processed Interpretations

Cebu Pacific Air (Phillipines)
IATA: 5J
ICAO: CPI
Web:
Aliances:
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characters per inch

Code Page Information (file name extension) [MS-DOS]

Clock Per Instruction

Characters Per Inch + Clock Per Instruction +

Short for characters per inch, a typographic measurement specifying the number of characters that can fit on a printed line one inch long. The measurement really makes sense only for fixed-pitch fonts where every character has the same width. For proportionally-spaced fonts, the cpi represents an average number rather than an absolute number.

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Odds ratio that depicts the likelihood of the alleged father being the biological father, in comparison to the likelihood of a random unrelated man in the population being the biological father.
  

Consumer Price Index.

Consumer Price Index.