CPI

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does CPI mean? 

• CPI (noun)
  The noun CPI has 2 senses:

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

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.

  Familiarity information: CPI used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CPI (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

consumer price index; cost-of-living index; CPI

Hypernyms ("CPI" is a kind of...):

price index; price level (an index that traces the relative changes in the price of an individual good (or a market basket of goods) over time)

Sense 2

Meaning:

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.

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

California Personality Inventory; CPI

Hypernyms ("CPI" is a kind of...):

self-report inventory; self-report personality inventory (a personality inventory in which a person is asked which of a list of traits and characteristics describe her or him or to indicate which behaviors and hypothetical choices he or she would make)

 Context examples 

Upon administration, the BET inhibitor CPI-0610 binds to the acetylated lysine recognition motifs on the bromodomain of BET proteins, thereby preventing the interaction between the BET proteins and acetylated histone peptides.

(BET Inhibitor CPI-0610, NCI Thesaurus)

The inhibitory activity of CPI is regulated by its own phosphorylation state; when CPI is phosphorylated, its inhibitory activity is increased.

(Myosin Phosphatase Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

CPI, a factor that binds to and inhibits myosin phosphatase, is a target of phosphorylation by PKC and PKN.

(Myosin Phosphatase Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

The action of histamine in vasoconstriction, for example, may be mediated by activation of PKC through the histamine receptor, resulting in phosphorylation of CPI-17, increased inhibition of myosin phosphatase, and increased smooth muscle contraction.

(Myosin Phosphatase Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

The activation of signal transduction cascades such as GPCR pathways can lead to activation of PKC, phosphorylation of CPI, inhibition of myosin phosphatase, increased myosin phosphorylation, and increased smooth muscle contraction or platelet release.

(Myosin Phosphatase Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)