Pause

Pause may refer to

Technology

 * Stop playing audio or video, with the possibility to continue (in the case of video: with a still image)
 * The Pause key or symbol
 * Found on media players (software, digital, portable), remote controls, cassette decks, VCRs and optical disc players (CD, DVD, Blu-ray)

Computing

 * Pause key, the Pause/Break key on computer keyboards
 * pause, a DOS command
 * The Perl Authors Upload Server (PAUSE), an interface for uploading Perl modules to the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network

Video games

 * Pause (video gaming), the option to temporarily suspend play of a video game (first seen in Yar's Revenge 1982)

Film and television

 * Pause (2014 film), a 2014 Swiss film
 * Pause (2018 film), a Cypriot film
 * "Pause" (The Boondocks), a 2010 episode from the third season of The Boondocks

Music

 * Rest (music), a musical pause
 * Fermata, a musical pause of indefinite duration
 * Pause (band), a Thai rock band
 * Pause (musician), American musician and rap artist
 * Pause (Four Tet album), 2001
 * Pause (P-Model album), 1994
 * "Pause" (Run–D.M.C. song), 1990
 * "Pause" (Jay Dee song), 2001
 * "Pause" (Pitbull song), 2011
 * "(Pause)", a 2023 song by the Lottery Winners from Anxiety Replacement Therapy

Other uses

 * Pause (slang), in hip hop culture, a synonym of "no homo"
 * Pause, in linguistics, is a form of interruption to articulatory continuity
 * Pausa, in linguistics, is a hiatus between prosodic units