Nap

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Nap (as a non-acronym) can refer to:

• A short sleep. See also: power-nap, siesta, catnap, polyphasic sleep, Inemuri
• A variety of texture concepts:

• The direction in which the strands of hair or fur are oriented on the skin of an animal or human body; or similarly, the direction of the pile in a carpet or other textile such as baize.
• Strong curl in hair or fur; adjective: "nappy"
• Nap is also a term for the raised (fuzzy) surface of certain kinds of cloth, such as flannel and velvet
• A measure of the thickness of a paint roller

• A British horse racing/betting term for the best bet advised by an expert on a given day (from the Napoleon – the most valuable French coin at the time the phrase was first used.)
• The card game also known as Napoleon
• An obscure word for a small wooded area of land, e.g. "down in the nap"
• An equestrian term for a horse disobeying its rider and refusing to go forward; it hangs back or tries to return to its stable or other horses. The most extreme expression is rearing.

NAP (or nap as an acronym) may stand for:

• Naples International Airport, IATA airport code
• National Academies Press of the USA
• National Action Party of some Latin American and other countries
• A National Action Plan for Children (UNO)
• A National Action Plan on the elimination of child labour
• National Alliance Party, a political party of Papua New Guinea
• National Allocation Plan, part of the European Union Emission Trading Scheme
• National Association of Parliamentarians, a non-profit association of professional parliamentarians
• Neapolitan language (ISO 639 alpha-3 code: nap)
• Nebraska AIDS Project
• Network Access Point
• Network Access Protection
• Network Against Prohibition
• Neutral Access Point, more commonly known as Internet Exchange Point
• New African Poets, a French hip hop/rap group.
• New Azerbaijan Party, the ruling political party in Azerbaijan.
• Nocturnal Art Productions, a metal, especially black metal, record label
• Non-aggression pact, an agreement between two nations that they are not to attack each other regardless of the allegiances of third nations
• Non-aggression principle, an ethical prohibition against the initiation of force
• Normaal Amsterdams Peil or Normalnull, a Western European vertical datum for recording flood or sea water level
• "Not applicable", as used in banking (in other contexts it is more often abbreviated "n/a" or "n.a.")
• Nutrition Assistance for Puerto Rico (Programa de Asistencia Nutricional), a United States Federal assistance program for nutritional needs of impoverished families in Puerto Rico.

Naps or NAPS may refer to:

• New Abstracts and Papers in Sleep, a website where one can find papers on sleep research, and sign up for notification about new such papers
• A nickname for the Cleveland Indians, a Major League Baseball team in Ohio
• Naval Academy Preparatory School for the U.S. Naval Academy and U.S. Coast Guard Academy
• National Association for the Prevention of Starvation - Student missionary group based at Oakwood College
• Nishnawbe-Aski Police Service - an Aboriginal Canadian police force in Ontario, Canada.
• North American Precis Syndicate - feature releases distributor

[edit] See also

• Nappy (disambiguation)