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CPI

name · noun · 8 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

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name

Meaning 1

Initialism of Communist Party of India, a political party.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism

Qualifier: Indian politics

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Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

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noun

Meaning 2

Initialism of consumer price index.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable

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3

noun

Meaning 3

Initialism of crash position indicator (“a deployable type of Emergency Locator Transmitter”).

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable

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noun

Meaning 4

Initialism of cost per install (“pricing model for mobile app campaigns”).

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable

Topics: business, marketing

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5

noun

Meaning 5

Initialism of characters per inch.

The measure of a number of typeset font characterss per inch used or supported by a digital display device

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Topics: arts, graphic-design, media, publishing, typography

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noun

Meaning 6

Initialism of characters per inch.

The measure of characters that can be stored in each inch of magnetic tape

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences

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noun

Meaning 7

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.

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: California Personality Inventory

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: self-report personality inventory, self-report inventory

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noun

Meaning 8

an index of the cost of all goods and services to a typical consumer

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

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Meaning relationships

Synonyms: consumer price index, cost-of-living index

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: price index, price level

History

Etymology

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