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Nap (as a non-acronym) can refer to:
  • A short sleep. See also: power-nap, siesta, catnap, polyphasic sleep, Inemuri
  • A variety of texture concepts: » * The direction in which the strands of hair or fur are oriented on the skin of an animal or human body; or similarly, the direction of the pile in a carpet or other textile such as baize.


       * Strong curl in hair or fur; adjective: "nappy" » * Nap is also a term for the raised (fuzzy) surface of certain kinds of cloth, such as flannel and velvet


       * A measure of the thickness of a paint roller
  • A British horse racing/betting term for the best bet advised by an expert on a given day (from the Napoleon – the most valuable French coin at the time the phrase was first used.)
  • The card game also known as Napoleon
  • An obscure word for a small wooded area of land, for example "down in the nap"
  • An equestrian term for a horse disobeying its rider and refusing to go forward; it hangs back or tries to return to its stable or other horses. The most extreme expression is rearing.
NAP (or nap as an acronym) may stand for:
  • Naples International Airport, IATA airport code
  • National Academies Press of the USA
  • National Action Party of some Latin American and other countries
  • A National Action Plan for Children (UNO)
  • A National Action Plan on the elimination of child labour
  • National Alliance Party, a political party of Papua New Guinea
  • National Allocation Plan, part of the European Union Emission Trading Scheme
  • National Association of Parliamentarians, a non-profit association of professional parliamentarians
  • Neapolitan language (ISO 639 alpha-3 code: nap)
  • Nebraska AIDS Project
  • Network Access Point
  • Network Access Protection
  • Network Against Prohibition
  • Neutral Access Point, more commonly known as Internet Exchange Point
  • New African Poets, a French hip hop/rap group.
  • New Azerbaijan Party, the ruling political party in Azerbaijan.
  • Nocturnal Art Productions, a metal, especially black metal, record label
  • Non-aggression pact, an agreement between two nations that they're not to attack each other regardless of the allegiances of third nations
  • Non-aggression principle, an ethical prohibition against the initiation of force
  • Normaal Amsterdams Peil or Normalnull, a Western European vertical datum for recording flood or sea water level
  • "Not applicable", as used in banking (in other contexts it's more often abbreviated "n/a" or "n.a.")
  • Nutrition Assistance for Puerto Rico (Programa de Asistencia Nutricional), a United States Federal assistance program for nutritional needs of impoverished families in Puerto Rico. Naps or NAPS may refer to:
  • New Abstracts and Papers in Sleep, a website where one can find papers on sleep research, and sign up for notification about new such papers
  • A nickname for the Cleveland Indians, a Major League Baseball team in Ohio
  • Naval Academy Preparatory School for the U.S. Naval Academy and U.S. Coast Guard Academy
  • National Association for the Prevention of Starvation - Student missionary group based at Oakwood College
  • Nishnawbe-Aski Police Service - an Aboriginal Canadian police force in Ontario, Canada.
  • North American Precis Syndicate - feature releases distributorFurther Information

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