Rest
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Rest may refer to:
Rest may also refer to:
REST may refer to:
- LeisureLeisureLeisure, or free time, is time spent away from business, work, and domestic chores. It is also the periods of time before or after necessary activities such as eating, sleeping and, where it is compulsory, education....
- Human relaxation
- SleepSleepSleep is a naturally recurring state characterized by reduced or absent consciousness, relatively suspended sensory activity, and inactivity of nearly all voluntary muscles. It is distinguished from quiet wakefulness by a decreased ability to react to stimuli, and is more easily reversible than...
Rest may also refer to:
- Rest (music)Rest (music)A rest is an interval of silence in a piece of music, marked by a sign indicating the length of the pause. Each rest symbol corresponds with a particular note value:The quarter rest may also be found as a form in older music....
, a pause in a piece of music - Rest (physics)Rest (physics)Rest in physics refers to an object being stationary relative to a particular frame of reference or another object. According to the theory of relativity it is said that an object is: at rest relative to another. For example, a train decelerates on approach to a station and eventually stops...
, the relation between two observers - Rest (album)Rest (album)Rest, released April 1, 2008, is the second full-length album by Virginian post-rock band Gregor Samsa. The band posted the tracks online at Imeem before the album was released...
, a 2008 album by Gregor Samsa - Rest (band)Rest (band)Rest are an instrumental rock group from Cork, Ireland. The group's sound has evolved over the course of their existence to incorporate elements of progressive rock, tech-metal, post-rock, doom, black metal and math rock...
, Irish instrumental doom metal band - Rest (cue sports), a device supporting a cue stick on long shots in snooker, billiards and pool games
- Bank reservesBank reservesBank reserves are banks' holdings of deposits in accounts with their central bank , plus currency that is physically held in the bank's vault . The central banks of some nations set minimum reserve requirements...
, holdings in accounts at the Bank of England, plus cash in bank vaults
REST may refer to:
- RE1-silencing transcription factorRE1-silencing transcription factorRE1-Silencing Transcription factor , also known as Neuron-Restrictive Silencer Factor , is a protein which in humans is encoded by the REST gene.- Function :...
, a human gene - Representational state transferRepresentational State TransferRepresentational state transfer is a style of software architecture for distributed hypermedia systems such as the World Wide Web. The term representational state transfer was introduced and defined in 2000 by Roy Fielding in his doctoral dissertation...
, software architecture, including RESTful web services - Restricted Environmental Stimulation Technique, a sensory deprivation technique
- ReStructuredTextReStructuredTextreStructuredText is a lightweight markup language intended to be highly readable in source format. Its formal name indicates that it is a "revised, reworked, and reinterpreted StructuredText."...
, a lightweight markup language - Retail Employees Superannuation TrustRetail Employees Superannuation Trust (REST)REST is an industry superannuation fund established in 1988. With over 1.9 million members, REST is Australia’s largest superannuation fund by membership. Originally set up to cater for workers within the retail industry, REST now accepts members from all occupations and industries...
, Australia's largest superannuation fund by membership - Revised Extended Standard Theory, a theory of linguistic competence developed by Noam Chomsky in the mid-1970s