PAP explained

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

• Pap (surname)
• Pap (given name)
• Pap (nickname)

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, a colloquial term for some types of baby food, particularly those homemade from soft bread
  • Pap or mieliepap (Afrikaans for maize porridge), a traditional porridge/polenta and staple food in South Africa
• 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