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Detail from Rest (1896). Charles Sprague Pearce, Library of Congress Thomas Jefferson Building, Washington, D.C.

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Rest or REST may refer to:

• To relax or take time off; see leisure or nap
• Rest (album), a 2008 album by Gregor Samsa
• Rest (music), a pause in a piece of music
• Rest (physics), the relation between two observers
• RE1-silencing transcription factor, a human gene
• Representational State Transfer (REST or RESTful), a style of software architecture for distributed hypermedia systems
• Rest (comic), a comic book produced by Milo Ventimiglia, Divide Pictures and Devil's Due Publishing
• Restricted Environmental Stimulation Technique, a sensory deprivation technique
• reStructuredText, a lightweight markup language
• In chemistry, a rest (abbreviated R) is a variable part of a molecule attached to a given core structure; see functional group and side chain
• In cue sports, "rest" is a chiefly British English term for any of a set of mechanical bridges; see Glossary of cue sports terms entry
• In jousting, a rest (from "arrest" meaning to stop) is a cup near the armpit on the side of medieval jousting and cavalry armour
• Bank reserves in the terminology of the Bank of England

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