Rest

Rest or REST may refer to:

Structures

• Support (structure)
  • Rest (cue sports) or mechanical bridge, a device supporting a cue stick on long shots in snooker, billiards and pool games
  • Arm rest
  • Head rest
  • Footrest
  • Leg rest

Science and technology

• Representational state transfer, a software architecture for distributed systems, including RESTful API web services
• Restricted Environmental Stimulation Technique, a sensory deprivation technique
• ReStructuredText, a lightweight markup language
• RE1-silencing transcription factor, a human gene

Music

• Rest (music), a pause in a piece of music
• Rest (album), a 2008 album by Gregor Samsa
• Rest (band), Irish instrumental doom metal band

Finance

• Rest (finance), a financial terminology
• Bank reserves, holdings in accounts at the Bank of England, plus cash in bank vaults
• Retail Employees Superannuation Trust, an Australian superannuation fund

Other uses

• Leisure
• Human relaxation
• Sleep
• Rest (physics), the relation between two observers
• Rest, Kansas, a community in the United States
• Revised Extended Standard Theory, a theory of linguistic competence developed by Noam Chomsky

See also

• Bed rest
• All pages beginning with "Rest"
• All pages with titles containing Rest