Pause

Pause may refer to

Computing

• Pause key, the Pause/Break key on computer keyboards
• pause, a DOS command
• Stop playing audio or video, with the possibility to continue (in the case of video: with a still image)
  • The Pause key or symbol on media players
• The Perl Authors Upload Server (PAUSE), an interface for uploading Perl modules to the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network

Arts and entertainment

Film and television

• Pause (film), a 2014 Swiss film
• "Pause" (The Boondocks), a 2010 episode from the third season of The Boondocks

Literature

• "The Pause", a science fiction short story by Isaac Asimov
• The Pause (novel), 2015 novel

Music

• Rest (music), musical pause
• Fermata, a musical pause of indefinite duration
• "Pause" (Run–D.M.C. song), a 1990 song by Run-D.M.C. on their album Back from Hell
• "Pause" (Jay Dee song), a 2001 song by Jay Dee (a.k.a. J Dilla)
• "Pause" (Pitbull song), a 2011 song by Pitbull from his sixth album Planet Pit
• Pause (album), a 2001 album by Four Tet
• Pause (P-Model album), a 1994 live album by P-Model
• Pause (musician) (born 1982), American musician and rap artist

Video games

• Pause (video gaming), the option to temporarily suspend play of a video game.

Other uses

• Pause (slang), in hip hop culture, a synonym of "no homo"
• Pausa, in linguistics, the end of an utterance