Quap
Appearance
The word Quap might refer to:
- noun. a hypothetical nuclear particle consisting of a quark and an antiproton (found mainly in word lists, with little or no real usage)
- noun. A fictional mineral described in the novel Tono-Bungay by H. G. Wells (1909) "quap...it's the most radio-active stuff in the world. It's a festering mass of earths and heavy metals, polonium, radium, ythorium, thorium, carium, and new things, too."
- Placename: Hon Quap (Cat's Tooth Mountain) southwest of Danang near My Son, Vietnam
- Placename: Cubitje Quap—a waterhole in the Kalahari Gemsbok National Park
- Acronym: Quality Program (QUAP) for photovoltaics and other sciences
- a small family remnant of Germanic-Celtic genealogical roots living in North America and NW Germany, the Quap (Quapp, Quappe) branch thought to be German, but possibly of Dutch and/or Mennonite (Anabaptist) derivation