Rest

Rest or REST may refer to:

Human resting positions

• Kneeling
• Lying (position)
• Sitting
• Squatting position

Structures

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

Science and technology

• Representational state transfer (REST), a software architecture for distributed systems like the World Wide Web
• Restricted Environmental Stimulation Technique, a sensory deprivation technique
• reStructuredText, a lightweight markup language
• REST (gene) or RE1-silencing transcription factor, a human gene

Music

• Rest (music), a pause in a piece of music
• Rest (band), Irish instrumental doom metal band
• Rest (Gregor Samsa album), 2008
• Rest (Charlotte Gainsbourg album), 2017
• "Rest", tune name for a setting of "Dear Lord and Father of Mankind"

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
• Relaxation technique
• 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
• Royal Engineer Search Team (REST), a type of unit of the Royal Engineers

See also

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