PAP

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PAP or Pap can refer to a number of things.

People

• Pap, 4th century CE Armenian prince.

Places

• Toussaint L'Ouverture International Airport, Port-au-Prince, Haiti, IATA code
• Pap, a village in northeastern Hungary
• Pap, Uzbekistan, a town and district of the same name in Namangan Region, Uzbekistan

Organizations

• Pan-African Parliament, legislative body of the African Union
• People's Action Party, the ruling party of Singapore since it gained self-government in 1959
  • also, the People's Action Parties of Ghana, Papua New Guinea, Vanuatu and Vietnam
• People's Armed Police, People's Republic of China
• Polska Agencja Prasowa, news agency in Poland

Firearms

• Zastava PAP series, Poluautomatska puška (semi-automatic rifle/pistol), Serbian sporting weapons
• PAP M59, nickname Papovka, Yugoslav variants of Soviet SKS semi-automatic military rifles,

Technology

• Password authentication protocol in computing
• Phenthoate, an insecticide
• Push Access Protocol, part of the Wireless Application Protocol suite
• Policy Administration Point, in the XACML markup language

Biology and medicine

• Nipple or teat
• Pap test, method for detecting abnormalities in the cells of a woman's cervix
• Polyadenylate polymerase, enzyme involved in creation of mRNA tails
• Positive airway pressure, method of respiratory ventilation used in the treatment of sleep apnea
• Prostatic acid phosphatase
• Purple acid phosphatases
• Phosphatidic acid phosphatase
• Pulmonary alveolar proteinosis

Geography

In geography a pap is a rounded, breast-like hill or peak.

• Pap of Glencoe
• Paps of Jura
• Paps of Anu
• Paps of Fife
• Several hills are known as the Maiden Paps (disambiguation)
• Two hills known as the Paps of Lothian (disambiguation)

Services

• Direct debit or pre-authorized payment
• Personal Articles Policy, insurance policy

Other

• PAP, an abbreviation of "paper" corresponding to recycling codes 20, 21, and 22
• Audax Australia Cycling Club Perth-Albany-Perth randonnee
• pap, the ISO 639 individual language code for the Caribbean language of Papiamento or Papiamentu
• Pap, a type of South African food
• PAP-k, k primes in arithmetic progression

See also

• Papp, a Hungarian surname