Snap or SNAP may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

* ''Snap'', the original release title for the 2013 film ''

Enter the Dangerous Mind ''Enter the Dangerous Mind'', also known under its original title of ''Snap'', is a 2013 psychological thriller film that was directed by Youssef Delara and Victor Teran. The film had its world premiere on 11 March 2013 at the South by Southwest Fi ...

'' *''Snap'' (TV series), a CITV programme * ''

The Stanly News and Press ''The Stanly News and Press'' is a newspaper published on Tuesday and Saturday in Stanly County, North Carolina, USA. History ''The Second Century The 2nd century is the period from 101 ( CI) through 200 ( CC) in accordance with the Juli ...

'', a newspaper in Albemarle, North Carolina, US

Games and sport

Snap (gridiron football) A snap (colloquially called a "hike", "snapback", or "pass from center") is the backward passing of the ball in gridiron football at the start of play from scrimmage. Action The ball begins on the ground with its long axis parallel to the sidel ...

, the start of a play in gridiron football *

Scalable Network Application Package Scalable Network Application Package (SNAP) or SNAP Mobile is an online gaming platform from Nokia. It is intended for use for Java multiplayer online games. It consists of SNAP Mobile API for the client and it uses HTTP or TCP to connect to the ...

, an online gaming platform * ''

Pokémon Snap is a 1999 first-person photography game with rail shooter style gameplay mechanics developed by HAL Laboratory and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo 64. It was first released in Japan in March 1999 and was later released in July 1999 in N ...

'', a 1999 video game **''

New Pokémon Snap ''New Pokémon Snap'' is an on-rails first-person photography game developed by Bandai Namco Studios and published by Nintendo and The Pokémon Company for the Nintendo Switch. It is a sequel to the 1999 Nintendo 64 game ''Pokémon Snap.'' Ann ...

'', the 2021 sequel * Snap, any putdown used in

the Dozens The Dozens is a game played between two contestants in which the participants insult each other until one of them gives up. Common in African-American communities, the Dozens is almost exclusively played in front of an audience, who encourage the ...

Card games

Snap (card game) Snap is a card game in which players deal cards and react quickly to spot pairs of cards of the same rank. Cards are either dealt into separate piles around the table, one per player, or (particularly when played with young children) into a singl ...

Strong Notrump After Passing (SNAP) Strong notrump after passing (SNAP) is a bridge bidding convention originated by Jeremy Flint and Tony Priday and is a one notrump (1NT) bid by a passed hand in response to a one-level opening by his partner. Similar to the Drury convention, SNAP ...

, a contract bridge bidding convention

Music

Snap music Snap music (also known as ringtone rap or snap rap) is a subgenre of hip hop music derived from crunk that originated in southern United States in the 2000s, in Bankhead, West Atlanta, United States.Vibe Jun 2006, "Oh Snap!" It achieved mai ...

, a hip hop subgenre *

Snap! Snap! is a German Eurodance group formed in 1989 by Record producer, producers Michael Münzing and Luca Anzilotti. The act has been through a number of line-up changes over the years, including American singers, songwriters and rappers Thea A ...

, a German music group * ''Snap!'' (album), by the Jam, 1983 * "Snap" (Rosa Linn song), 2022 * "Snap", a song by Nav from '' Bad Habits'', 2019 * "Snap", a song by Slipknot from '' Slipknot'', 2009 reissue * "Snap!", a song from the TV series '' Boo!''

Aviation

Dallair Aeronautica FR-100 Snap! The Dallair Aeronautica FR-100 Snap! is a homebuilt aerobatic aircraft that can be certified in multiple categories. Design and development The Snap! is imported to the United States and may be certified as an Experimental-Exhibition model, S-L ...

, an Italian aerobatic aircraft *

Tecnam Snap The Tecnam Snap is an Italian aerobatic ultralight aircraft, designed by Fabio Russo and produced by Tecnam of Casoria, Metropolitan City of Naples, introduced at the AERO Friedrichshafen show in 2013. The aircraft was intended to be supplied c ...

, an Italian aerobatic aircraft

Computing

Snap (computer graphics) In computer graphics, snapping allows an object to be easily positioned in alignment with grid lines, guide lines or another object, by causing it to automatically jump to an exact position when the user drags it to the proximity of the desired lo ...

, an aid to positioning an object relative to grid lines or another object *

Snap (web framework) Snap is a web development framework written in the Haskell programming language. Overview The Snap framework comprises: * snap-core, a generic Haskell web server API. * snap-server, a fast HTTP server that implements the snap-core interface ...

, a Web framework written in Haskell * Snap Server, a computer storage device *

SNAP Points SNAP is the acronym for "Software Non-functional Assessment Process", a measurement of the size of the software derived by quantifying the non-functional user requirements for the software. The SNAP sizing method complements ISO/IEC 20926:2009, ...

(software non-functional assessment process), a measurement of non-functional software size *

Snap! (programming language) Snap''!'' (formerly Build Your Own Blocks) is a free, block-based educational graphical programming language and online community allowing students to explore, create, and remix interactive animations, games, stories, and more, while learning a ...

, an educational graphical programming language *

ITK-SNAP ITK-SNAP is an interactive software application that allows users to navigate three-dimensional medical images, manually delineate anatomical regions of interest, and perform automatic image segmentation. The software was designed with the audien ...

, a medical imaging software application *

Subnetwork Access Protocol The Subnetwork Access Protocol (SNAP) is a mechanism for multiplexing, on networks using IEEE 802.2 LLC, more protocols than can be distinguished by the 8-bit 802.2 Service Access Point (SAP) fields. SNAP supports identifying protocols by EtherT ...

(SNAP), a network link protocol *

Snap (package manager) Snap is a software packaging and deployment system developed by Canonical for operating systems that use the Linux kernel and the systemd init system. The packages, called ''snaps'', and the tool for using them, ''snapd'', work across a range of ...

, whose packages are called "Snaps" * a

memory dump In computing, a core dump, memory dump, crash dump, storage dump, system dump, or ABEND dump consists of the recorded state of the working memory of a computer program at a specific time, generally when the program has crashed or otherwise terminat ...

, or "snapshot dump", taken "on the fly" to provide a snapshot of the status of a running program or system at a particular moment

Organizations

Snap (coach company) Snap was an on-demand coach company in the United Kingdom, based in London. Snap did not operate its own coaches. It chartered coaches from local operators to satisfy demand by users booking journeys online via its Getasnap mobile app. It ran c ...

, a demand-responsive coach company in the United Kingdom *

Snap Inc. Snap Inc. is an American camera and social media company, founded on September 16, 2011, by Evan Spiegel, Bobby Murphy, and Reggie Brown based in Santa Monica, California. The company developed and maintains technological products and services, ...

, developer of the Snapchat social media application **

Snapchat Snapchat is an American multimedia instant messaging app and service developed by Snap Inc., originally Snapchat Inc. One of the principal features of Snapchat is that pictures and messages are usually only available for a short time before the ...

, social media application *

Sarawak National Party The Sarawak National Party known by its acronym as "SNAP", is now a defunct political party in Malaysia. It was a member party of the Alliance Party from 1963 to 1966 and a member of Barisan Nasional (BN) coalition from 1976 until its expulsion ...

(SNAP), a defunct Sarawak based political party in Malaysia *

Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests The Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, known as SNAP, established in 1989, is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization support group of survivors of clergy sexual abuse and their supporters in the United States. Barbara Blaine, a survivor of ...

, in the United States

Places

Snap, Kentucky Snap is an unincorporated community in Grayson County, Kentucky Kentucky ( , ), officially the Commonwealth of Kentucky, is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States and one of the states of the Upper South. It borders Ill ...

, United States *

Snap, Wiltshire Snap is an abandoned village near Aldbourne in Wiltshire, England. It is unusual in that it was not abandoned until the 20th century. The village was recorded in 1268 under the name of Snape. It was always a small place: in the 14th century the ...

, England, a deserted village

Science

Snap (physics) In physics, the fourth, fifth and sixth derivatives of position are defined as derivatives of the position vector with respect to time – with the first, second, and third derivatives being velocity, acceleration, and jerk, respectively. Unlik ...

or jounce, in physics, the fourth derivative of the position vector with respect to time * ''S''-Nitroso-''N''-acetylpenicillamine, a chemical compound *

Schedule for Nonadaptive and Adaptive Personality The Schedule for Nonadaptive and Adaptive Personality (SNAP) is a self-reporting questionnaire for assessment of personality disorders (Axis II of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders) introduced in 1993 by Lee Anna Clark. I ...

(SNAP), a questionnaire for personality disorder assessment *

Significant New Alternatives Policy The Significant New Alternatives Policy (also known as Section 612 of the Clean Air Act (United States), Clean Air Act or SNAP, promulgated at 40 CFR part 82 Subpart G) is a program of the EPA to determine acceptable chemical substitutes, and esta ...

, a US EPA ozone-depleting chemicals program *

Supernova/Acceleration Probe The Joint Dark Energy Mission (JDEM) was an Einstein probe that planned to focus on investigating dark energy. JDEM was a partnership between NASA and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). In August 2010, the Board on Physics and Astronomy of ...

, a proposed spacecraft *

Systems for Nuclear Auxiliary Power The Systems Nuclear Auxiliary POWER (SNAP) program was a program of experimental radioisotope thermoelectric generators (RTGs) and space nuclear reactors flown during the 1960s by NASA. Odd-numbered SNAPs: radioisotope thermoelectric generators ...

, experimental electricity generators in the 1960s *

Snap bean Green beans are young, unripe fruits of various cultivars of the common bean (''Phaseolus vulgaris''), although immature or young pods of the runner bean (''Phaseolus coccineus''), yardlong bean ( ''Vigna unguiculata'' subsp. ''sesquipedalis' ...

, the unripe, young fruit and protective pods of various cultivars of the common bean *

Soluble NSF attachment protein Soluble ''N''-ethylmaleimide-Sensitive Factor Attachment Proteins (SNAP, or Sec17p in yeast) are a family of cytosolic adaptor proteins involved in vesicular fusion at membranes during intracellular transport and exocytosis. SNAPs interact with p ...

, a family of proteins involved in vesicle membrane binding ** Proteins in the SNAP-receptor (

SNARE (protein) SNARE proteins – " SNAP REceptor" – are a large protein family consisting of at least 24 members in yeasts, more than 60 members in mammalian cells, and some numbers in plants. The primary role of SNARE proteins is to mediate vesicle fu ...

) family, including: ***

SNAP23 Synaptosomal-associated protein 23 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the ''SNAP23'' gene. Two alternative transcript variants encoding different protein isoforms have been described for this gene. Function Specificity of vesicular tran ...

***

SNAP25 Synaptosomal-Associated Protein, 25kDa (SNAP-25) is a Target Soluble NSF (''N''-ethylmaleimide-sensitive factor) Attachment Protein Receptor (t-SNARE) protein encoded by the ''SNAP25'' gene found on chromosome 20p12.2 in humans. SNAP-25 is a comp ...

***

SNAP29 Synaptosomal-associated protein 29 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the ''SNAP29'' gene. Function This gene, a member of the SNAP25 gene family, encodes a protein involved in multiple membrane trafficking steps. Two other members of t ...

*** ''

SNAP91 Clathrin coat assembly protein AP180 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the ''SNAP91'' gene In biology, the word gene (from , ; "...Wilhelm Johannsen coined the word gene to describe the Mendelian units of heredity..." meaning ''gen ...

'', the gene that codes for clathrin coat assembly protein AP180 *

HT-2157 HT-2157 (former development code SNAP-37889) is a drug which acts as a selective non-peptide antagonist for the receptor GAL-3, which is usually activated by the neuropeptide galanin. Blocking this receptor with HT-2157 produced increased sero ...

, formerly SNAP-37889, a pharmacological antagonist for galanin receptor 3 * SNAP-94847, a pharmacological antagonist for melanin-concentrating hormone receptor 1

Other uses

Snap (horse) Snap (1750 – July 1777) was a Thoroughbred racehorse who won all four of his races. After retiring from racing he became a successful stallion. He was Champion sire four times and his progeny included the undefeated Goldfinder. Background S ...

, a Thoroughbred racehorse and sire *

Snap (Pillow Pal) Pillow Pals were a line of plush toys made by Ty, Inc. during the 1990s. The toys were given their name because they were soft like a pillow, and were made with children in mind. Though many of them resembled certain Beanie Babies, those that did ...

, a plush toy *

Snap fastener A snap fastener, also called snap button, press stud, press fastener, dome fastener, popper, snap and tich (or tich button), is a pair of interlocking discs, made out of a metal or plastic, commonly used in place of traditional buttons to fasten ...

, a clothing fastener *

Snaps Snaps ( ) is a Danish and Swedish word for a small shot of a strong alcoholic beverage taken during the course of a meal. A ritual that is associated with drinking snaps is a tradition in Scandinavia, especially in Denmark and Sweden, where it ...

, a shot of alcoholic beverage *

Bang snaps Bang snaps are a type of small novelty firework sold as a trick noisemaker. Composition Bang snaps consist of a small amount of gravel or coarse sand impregnated with a minute quantity (~0.2 milligrams) of silver fulminate high explosive and twi ...

or "snappers", a novelty firework *

Bolt snap A bolt snap is a type of snap hook with a manually operated bolt action slide gate of medium security used to clip a light load to a ring, eye, loop or bight to temporarily secure or suspend an object. They are used for a wide variety of applica ...

, a hook with a sliding bolt gate *

Finger snapping Snapping (or clicking) one's fingers is the act of creating a snapping or clicking sound with one's fingers. Primarily this is done by building tension between the thumb and another ( middle, index, or ring) finger and then moving the other fin ...

, a thrusting of the fingers together that creates a sharp sound *

Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program In the United States, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), formerly known as the Food Stamp Program, is a federal program that provides food-purchasing assistance for low- and no-income people. It is a federal aid program, ad ...

, an American federal assistance program (formerly the Food Stamp Program) * A product mascot, one of

Snap, Crackle and Pop Snap, Crackle and Pop are the cartoon mascots of Rice Krispies, a brand of breakfast cereal marketed by Kellogg's. History The gnome characters were originally designed by illustrator Vernon Grant in the early 1930s. The names are onomatopoeia ...

* Snaps, crispy and light potato puffs manufactured under the Smiths brand *

The Snap The Blip (also known as the Decimation and the Snap) is a major fictional event depicted in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) franchise in which half of all living things in the universe, chosen at random, were exterminated by Thanos snappin ...

, a fictional event in the Marvel Cinematic Universe *

Snap election A snap election is an election that is called earlier than the one that has been scheduled. Generally, a snap election in a parliamentary system (the dissolution of parliament) is called to capitalize on an unusual electoral opportunity or to ...

, an election that is called prematurely and earlier than it has been scheduled.