PAP
Appearance
PAP or Pap may refer to:
Places
- Ancient Pap, an archaeological site in Uzbekistan
- Pap, Hungary, a village in northeastern Hungary
- Paps of Anu, near Killarney, Ireland
- Paps of Fife in Scotland
- Paps of Jura, on the western side of the island of Jura, in the Inner Hebrides, Scotland
- Paps of Lothian in Scotland
- Maiden Paps, twin hills in Caithness, Scotland
- Maiden Paps, twin hills in the Kilpatrick Hills, Scotland
- Maiden Paps, twin hills south of Hawick in the Scottish Borders, Scotland
- Maiden Paps, another name for the Tunstall Hills near Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, England
- Maiden's Pap, another name for Schiehallion, Perth and Kinross, Scotland
- Pap of Glencoe in the Scottish Highlands
- Pap, Uzbekistan, a town and the administrative center of Pap District
- Pap District, Uzbekistan
People
Biology and medicine
- Nipple or teat
- Pap test or Pap smear, a method for detecting abnormalities in the cells of a woman's cervix
- Phosphatidic acid phosphatase, a key regulatory enzyme in lipid metabolism
- Plasmin-α2-antiplasmin complex, an inactive complex of plasmin and antiplasmin
- Polyadenylate polymerase, an enzyme involved in creation of mRNA tails
- Positive airway pressure, a method of respiratory ventilation used in the treatment of sleep apnea
- Prostatic acid phosphatase, an enzyme produced by the prostate
- Pulmonary alveolar proteinosis, a rare lung disorder
Chemistry
- Phenthoate or PAP, an insecticide poisonous to humans
- Purple acid phosphatases, metalloenzymes that hydrolyse phosphate esters and anhydrides
- Phthalimidoperoxycaproic acid, a bleaching agent
Organizations
- Pan-African Parliament, a legislative body of the African Union
- People's Action Party (disambiguation)
- People's Alternative Party, a political party in Malaysia
- People's Armed Police, a paramilitary police force in China
- Polish Press Agency (Polska Agencja Prasowa), a news agency in Poland
- Power to the People (Italy), a coalition of political parties in Italy
Technology
- Password Authentication Protocol
- Permissible Actions Protocol in cybersecurity
- Policy Administration Point, in the XACML markup language
- Printer Access Protocol, a network protocol for talking to printers in an AppleTalk network
- Push Access Protocol, part of the Wireless Application Protocol suite
Firearms
- PAP M59, nicknamed Papovka, Yugoslav variants of Soviet SKS semi-automatic military rifles
- Zastava PAP series, Poluautomatska puška (semi-automatic rifle/pistol), Serbian sporting weapons
Other
- pap, Papiamento or Papiamentu ISO 639-2 and 639-3 language code
- Pap, a Dutch word for porridge
- Pap or Maiden Paps are rounded Breast-shaped hills located mostly in Scotland.
- Pap or Bilz y Pap, a brand name of soft drinks in Chile
- PAP, a code for paper in recycling codes 20, 21, and 22
- PAP, IATA code for Toussaint L'Ouverture International Airport in Port-au-Prince, Haiti
- Perth–Augusta–Perth, a cycling event in Western Australia
- PAP-k, k primes in arithmetic progression in mathematics
- Post-activation potentiation, a physiological response utilized in sports training and especially in Complex training
- Pre-authorized payment, a term sometimes used for Direct debit
- An internet slang for Post a Picture
- Paap, a 2003 Indian Hindi-language film
- Paap (TV series), an Indian Bengali-language web series