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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

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", a 1990 song by Green Day from 39/Smooth
  • "Rest", a 2014 song by Kutless from Glory
  • "Rest", a 2015 song by Matt Maher from Saints and Sinners
  • "Rest", a 2012 song by Michael Kiwanuka from Home Again
  • "Rest", a 2000 song by Skillet from Invincible
  • "Rest", a 2009 song by The Temper Trap from Conditions
  • "Rest", tune name for a setting of "Dear Lord and Father of Mankind"

Organisations

  • Relief Society of Tigray, an NGO in Tigray Region in Ethiopia founded in 1978

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 industry 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 beginning with Rest
  • All pages with titles containing "Rest"
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