Zap

Zap is an onomatopoeic word for an electrostatic discharge, especially one that causes an electric shock.

Zap or ZAP may refer to:

Computing

• .ZAP File, a file extension allowing publishing of an application to users where an MSI file does not exist
• Zero and Add Packed decimal, a machine instruction in the IBM Basic assembly language
• ZAP (Zero And Pack), xBase command to empty database table (dbf file)
• OWASP ZAP, a penetration testing tool for finding vulnerabilities in web applications

Entertainment

Comics

• Zap! (webcomic), a sci-fi webcomic by Chris Layfield and Pascalle C
• Zap Comix, an underground comics series founded by Robert Crumb in 1968
• Zap Zodiac, a fictional character in a comic strip in the UK comic The Beano

Fictional characters

• Zap (G.I. Joe), in the G.I. Joe universe
• Windbreaker (Transformers), also released as Zap
• Zap Rowsdower, from the independent film The Final Sacrifice

Other

• ZAP (satellite television), a digital satellite television operator in Sub-saharan Africa
• "Zap", 1986 instrumental song by Eric Johnson on Tones (album)
• Zap, stage name of female bodybuilder Raye Hollitt on the TV show American Gladiators
• Zap! (computer game), a 2005 top-down shooter video game by GarageGames

Social

• Zap (action), a direct political action favored by early gay Liberation groups
• ZAP, Zenith Applied Philosophy, a breakaway sect of Scientology based in Christchurch, New Zealand
• ZAP, Zero Aggression Principle, a personal philosophy

Transportation

• ZAP (motor company), or Zero Air Pollution, an electric vehicle manufacturer and marketer
• Zap, or Zaporozhets, a long-lived series of small, rear-engined Soviet Ukrainian cars
• Zap flaps, a high lift device used to reduce landing speeds in aircraft
• ZAP, call sign of Titan Airways

Other uses

• Zap, North Dakota, United States, a city
• AGR-14 ZAP, an air-to-surface unguided rocket developed by the United States Navy in the late 1960s
• zap, the ISO 639-3 and 639-2 code for the Zapotec languages, spoken in Mexico
• Zap.com, a 1998-2008 media website run by Zapata Corporation, now known as HRG Group

See also

• ZZZap!, a 1990s British children's television programme for deaf children
• Zapping, a synonym for channel surfing
• Záviš of Zápy or Záviš ze Zap (c. 1350–c. 1411), Bohemian theologian and composer
• Zapp (disambiguation)
• zapper (disambiguation)