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- Chapman's, the largest independent ice cream and ice water products manufacturer in Canada
- Chapman Piloting, a boating reference work
- Chapman (magazine), the Scottish literary journal
- Chapman code, a superset of the ISO 3166-2:GB and BS 6879 codes identifying administrative divisions in the United Kingdom
- Chapman function, associated with the absorption integral of the Earth's atmosphere
- Chapman & Hall, was a British publishing house
- Chapman's Parakeet, a subspecies of the Mitred Parakeet
- Chapman Stick, a musical instrument
- Chapman strut, an automobile suspension device
- Chapman's Swift, a species of swift in the Apodidae family
- Chapman University, a private university located in Orange County, California
- Chapman–Kolmogorov equation, a mathematical identity relating the joint probability distributions of different sets of coordinates on a stochastic process
- af Chapman (ship), a steel full-rigged ship moored on the western shore of the islet Skeppsholmen in central Stockholm, Sweden, now serving as a youth hostel
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