FRAP

FRAP or frap may stand for:

As an acronym

• Facilitated Risk Analysis Process.
• Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure.
• Ferric Reducing Ability of Plasma, also Ferric ion reducing antioxidant power, a simple assay of antioxidant content in foods.
• Fluorescence recovery after photobleaching, an experimental technique in cell biology.
• Fluoride-resistant acid phosphatase.
• Frenetic Random Acts of Play / Frantic Running and Playing (dog behavior).
• Frente de Acción Popular, a Chilean coalition gathering left-wing parties from 1956 to 1969.
• Frente Revolucionario Antifascista y Patriótico (Revolutionary Anti-Fascist Patriotic Front), a Marxist–Leninist revolutionary organization (1971–1978) using violence against the Francoist dictatorship in Spain.
• Front d'action politique was a municipal political party in Montreal, formed as a loose federation of workers' and citizens' committees in 1969. It is a left wing activist group associated with McGill University in Quebec. In 1970, the "October Crisis of 1970" occurred. At this time, FRAP's civil liberties were suspended, as Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau suspected FRAP to be associated with the criminal actions if the FLQ(Front de Liberation du Quebec). FRAP was concluded in 1971. The most well known member of FRAP is the current official opposition in Canadian politics: NDP's Jack Layton.

As a word

• A method of tightening a lashing (ropework) by wrapping the rope around the lashing's core to help enforce it.
• An abbreviation for Frappuccino, a trademarked coffee beverage.
• Frapping, an alternate term for clawhammer banjo technique.

See also

• Frop (disambiguation).
• Fraps, the video utility software.