PAP or Pap may refer to: Prova de Aptidão Profissional (PAP)

Places

* Ancient Pap, an archaeological site in Uzbekistan * Pap, Hungary, a village in northeastern Hungary * Paps of Anu, near

Killarney Killarney ( ; , meaning 'church of sloes') is a town in County Kerry, southwestern Republic of Ireland, Ireland. The town is on the northeastern shore of Lough Leane, part of Killarney National Park, and is home to St Mary's Cathedral, Killar ...

Ireland Ireland (, ; ; Ulster Scots dialect, Ulster-Scots: ) is an island in the North Atlantic Ocean, in Northwestern Europe. Geopolitically, the island is divided between the Republic of Ireland (officially Names of the Irish state, named Irelan ...

* Paps of Fife in Scotland *

Paps of Jura The Paps of Jura () are three mountains on the western side of the island of Jura, Scotland, Jura, in the Inner Hebrides of Scotland. Their highest point is . They are steep-sided quartzite hills with distinctive conical shapes Breast-shaped h ...

, on the western side of the island of Jura, in the

Inner Hebrides The Inner Hebrides ( ; ) is an archipelago off the west coast of mainland Scotland, to the south east of the Outer Hebrides. Together these two island chains form the Hebrides, which experience a mild oceanic climate. The Inner Hebrides compri ...

, Scotland * Paps of Lothian in Scotland * Maiden Paps, twin hills in

Caithness Caithness (; ; ) is a Shires of Scotland, historic county, registration county and Lieutenancy areas of Scotland, lieutenancy area of Scotland. There are two towns, being Wick, Caithness, Wick, which was the county town, and Thurso. The count ...

, Scotland * Maiden Paps, twin hills in the Kilpatrick Hills, Scotland * Maiden Paps, twin hills south of

Hawick Hawick ( ; ; ) is a town in the Scottish Borders council areas of Scotland, council area and counties of Scotland, historic county of Roxburghshire in the east Southern Uplands of Scotland. It is south-west of Jedburgh and south-south-east o ...

in the

Scottish Borders The Scottish Borders is one of 32 council areas of Scotland. It is bordered by West Lothian, Edinburgh, Midlothian, and East Lothian to the north, the North Sea to the east, Dumfries and Galloway to the south-west, South Lanarkshire to the we ...

, Scotland * Maiden Paps, another name for the Tunstall Hills near

Sunderland Sunderland () is a port City status in the United Kingdom, city and metropolitan borough in Tyne and Wear, England. It is a port at the mouth of the River Wear on the North Sea, approximately south-east of Newcastle upon Tyne. It is the most p ...

Tyne and Wear Tyne and Wear () is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in North East England. It borders Northumberland to the north and County Durham to the south, and the largest settlement is the city of Newcastle upon Tyne. The county is ...

, England * Maiden's Pap, another name for Schiehallion,

Perth and Kinross Perth and Kinross (; ) is one of the 32 council areas of Scotland, and a Lieutenancy areas of Scotland, lieutenancy area. It is bordered by Highland (council area), Highland and Aberdeenshire to the north, Angus, Scotland, Angus, Dundee, and F ...

, Scotland * Pap of Glencoe in the

Scottish Highlands The Highlands (; , ) is a historical region of Scotland. Culturally, the Highlands and the Scottish Lowlands, Lowlands diverged from the Late Middle Ages into the modern period, when Scots language, Lowland Scots language replaced Scottish Gae ...

* 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 The nipple is a raised region of tissue on the surface of the breast from which, in lactating females, breast milk, milk from the mammary gland leaves the body through the lactiferous ducts to Breastfeeding, nurse an infant. The milk can flow th ...

or teat *

Pap test The Papanicolaou test (abbreviated as Pap test, also known as Pap smear (AE), cervical smear (BE), cervical screening (BE), or smear test (BE)) is a method of cervical screening used to detect potentially precancerous and cancerous processes i ...

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 Positive airway pressure (PAP) is a mode of respiratory ventilation used in the treatment of sleep apnea. PAP ventilation is also commonly used for those who are critically ill in hospital with respiratory failure, in newborn infants (neonates), ...

, 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 The Pan-African Parliament (PAP), also known as the African Parliament, is the legislative body of the African Union. It held its inaugural session in March 2004. The Parliament exercises oversight, and has advisory and consultative powers, ha ...

, 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 ) , abbreviation = PAP ("People's Armed Police") CAPF ("Chinese Armed Police Force"), formerly abbreviated''Wujing'' ( zh , s = 武警 , p = Wǔjǐng , l = Armed Police , labels = no ), or WJ as on vehicle license plates , patch ...

, a paramilitary police force in China *

Polish Press Agency The Polish Press Agency (, PAP) is Poland's national news agency, producing and distributing political, economic, social, and cultural news as well as events information. It was founded in 1918 as Polish Telegraphic Agency (PAT). PAP serves pri ...

(''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 Computer security (also cybersecurity, digital security, or information technology (IT) security) is a subdiscipline within the field of information security. It consists of the protection of computer software, systems and networks from thr ...

* Policy Administration Point, in the

XACML __NOTOC__ The eXtensible Access Control Markup Language (XACML) is an XML-based standard markup language for specifying access control policies. The standard, published by OASIS (organization), OASIS, defines a declarative fine-grained, attribute ...

markup language * Printer Access Protocol, a

network protocol A communication protocol is a system of rules that allows two or more entities of a communications system to transmit information via any variation of a physical quantity. The protocol defines the rules, syntax, semantics, and synchronization of ...

for talking to printers in an

AppleTalk AppleTalk is a discontinued proprietary suite of networking protocols developed by Apple Computer for their Macintosh computers. AppleTalk includes a number of features that allow local area networks to be connected with no prior setup or the ...

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 Papiamento () or Papiamentu (; ) is a Portuguese-based creole language spoken in the Dutch Caribbean. It is the most widely spoken language on Aruba, Bonaire, and Curaçao ( ABC Islands). The language, spelled in Aruba and in Bonaire and ...

or Papiamentu ISO 639-2 and 639-3 language code * Pap, a Dutch word for

porridge Porridge is a food made by heating, soaking or boiling ground, crushed or chopped starchy plants, typically grain, in milk or water. It is often cooked or served with added flavourings such as sugar, honey, fruit, or syrup to make a sweet cereal ...

** Pap, a colloquial term for some types of

baby food Baby food is any soft, easily consumed Human food, food other than breastmilk or infant formula that is made specifically for human babies between six months and two years old. The food comes in many varieties and flavors that are purchased ready ...

, particularly those homemade from soft bread ** Pap or

mieliepap Ugali, also known as posho, nsima, papa, pap, sadza, isitshwala, akume, amawe, ewokple, akple, and #Names, other names, is a type of maize, corn meal made from maize flour, maize or corn or ''mahindi'' flour in several African countries: Kenya, ...

(Afrikaans for maize porridge), a traditional porridge/polenta and staple food in South Africa * Pap or Maiden Paps are rounded

breast-shaped hill Some breast-shaped hills are named "wikt:pap#Etymology 2, pap", an archaic word for the breast or nipple of a woman, particularly those with a small hilltop protuberance. Such anthropomorphic geographic features are found in different parts of t ...

s located mostly in

Scotland Scotland is a Countries of the United Kingdom, country that is part of the United Kingdom. It contains nearly one-third of the United Kingdom's land area, consisting of the northern part of the island of Great Britain and more than 790 adjac ...

* 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 Complex training, also known as contrast training or post-activation potentiation training, involves the integration of strength training and plyometrics in a training system designed to improve explosive power. According to Jace Derwin: Comple ...

* Pre-authorized payment, a term sometimes used for

Direct debit A direct debit or direct withdrawal is a financial transaction in which one organisation withdraws funds from a payer's bank account. Formally, the organisation that calls for the funds ("the payee") instructs their bank to collect (i.e., debit) ...

* An internet slang for Post a Picture * '' Paap'', a 2003 Indian Hindi-language film * ''Paap'' (TV series), an Indian Bengali-language web series {{disambiguation, geo