Rest

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Rest or REST may refer to:

Relief from activity

• Sleep
  • Bed rest
• Break (work)
• Kneeling
• Lying (position)
• Sitting
• Squatting position

Structural support

• Structural support
  • Rest (cue sports)
  • Armrest
  • Headrest
  • Footrest

Arts and entertainment

Businesses and organizations

• Relief Society of Tigray, an NGO in Ethiopia
• Rest Super, an Australian industry superannuation fund

Places

• Rest, Kansas, U.S.
• Rest, Virginia, U.S.

Science and technology

• Representational State Transfer (REST or RESTful), architectural style for APIs
• Restricted Environmental Stimulation Technique, the deliberate reduction or removal of stimuli from one or more of the senses
• reStructuredText, a lightweight markup language for Python
• RE1-silencing transcription factor, a protein encoded by the REST gene

Other uses

• Rest (finance), a financial terminology
• Rest (physics), related to inertia
• Revised Extended Standard Theory, a theory of linguistic competence developed by Noam Chomsky
• James Rest (died 1999), American psychologist

See also

• All pages with titles beginning with Rest
• All pages with titles containing Rest
• Restaurant (disambiguation)
• Rest stop (disambiguation)
• Death
• Leisure
• Relaxation technique

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