PAP
Appearance
PAP can mean:
People
- King Pap of Armenia
- Arthur Pap, philosopher
- The nickname of Mike Papantonio, a Florida-based trial attorney and co-host of Ring of Fire on Air America Radio
- Pap Finn, Huck's father in the novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, also a general nickname for someone's father (short for pappy).
Places
- Pap, a village in northeastern Hungary
- PAP, the IATA airport code for Port-au-Prince International Airport
- Port-au-Prince, capital city of Haiti
Organizations
- Pan-African Parliament, legislative body of the African Union
- Partido Aprista Peruano, political party in Peru
- People's Action Party, political party in Singapore
- People's Armed Police, police force in the People's Republic of China
- Polska Agencja Prasowa, news agency in Poland
- Promociones Antonio Peña, professional wrestling promotion based in Mexico
- Provincial Assembly of the Punjab, house of elected representatives in Pakistan
Technology
- Password authentication protocol, for identifying computer users to a remote server
- Picture and Picture, two image sources displayed side by side on a television screen
- Plastic Animation Paper, 2D animation software
- Plug-and-play, automated computer hardware configuration
- Push Access Protocol, part of the Wireless Application Protocol suite
- PEX-AL-PEX, a special type of Cross-linked polyethylene (PEX) pipe with the additional layer of aluminum
Biology and medicine
- Polyadenine polymerase, enzyme involved in messenger RNA processing
- Polyadenylate polymerase, enzyme involved in creation of mRNA tails
- Positive airway pressure, method of respiratory ventilation used primarily in the treatment of sleep apnea
- Prostatic acid phosphatase
- Pulmonary Arterial Pressure
- Purple acid phosphatases
- Pap is often used as a slang expression for excretion. This is most common in the North East of England (e.g "Im ganning for a pap like").
Other
- Pablum, cereal for infants
- pap, the ISO 639 individual language code for the Caribbean language of Papiamento or Papiamentu
- Pap (food), type of South African food
- Pap smear, method for detecting abnormalities in the cells of a woman's cervix
- Personal auto policy, a vehicle insurance term
- Pole Aerial Photography, photography utilizing a pole or telescoping mast
- PAP, Principle of Alternate Possibilities, Philosophy of the Mind
- Paper Air Plane or Paper Plane