PAP

PAP or Pap may refer to:

Places

 * Ancient Pap, an archaeological site in Uzbekistan
 * Pap, Hungary, a village in northeastern Hungary
 * Paps of Anu, near Killarney, Ireland
 * Paps of Fife in Scotland
 * Paps of Jura, on the western side of the island of Jura, in the Inner Hebrides, Scotland
 * Paps of Lothian in Scotland
 * Maiden Paps, twin hills in Caithness, Scotland
 * Maiden Paps, twin hills in the Kilpatrick Hills, Scotland
 * Maiden Paps, twin hills south of Hawick in the Scottish Borders, Scotland
 * Maiden Paps, another name for the Tunstall Hills near Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, England
 * Maiden's Pap, another name for Schiehallion, Perth and Kinross, Scotland
 * Pap of Glencoe in the Scottish Highlands
 * 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 or teat
 * Pap test 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, 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, 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, a paramilitary police force in China
 * Polish Press Agency (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
 * Policy Administration Point, in the XACML markup language
 * Printer Access Protocol, a network protocol for talking to printers in an AppleTalk 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 or Papiamentu ISO 639-2 and 639-3 language code
 * Pap, a Dutch word for porridge
 * Pap, a colloquial term for some types of baby food, particularly those homemade from soft bread
 * Pap or mieliepap (Afrikaans for maize porridge), a traditional porridge/polenta and staple food in South Africa
 * Pap or Maiden Paps are rounded breast-shaped hills located mostly in Scotland
 * 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
 * Pre-authorized payment, a term sometimes used for Direct debit
 * An internet slang for Post a Picture
 * Paap, a 2003 Indian Hindi-language film
 * Paap (TV series), an Indian Bengali-language web series