Rest
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Rest has several different meanings. See:
- rest (music), a pause in a piece of music.
- rest (object), a support for a musket or billiards or snooker cue.
- rest (physics), the relation between two observers.
- rest as action, to relax, see leisure; compare recreation.
- The reserves of the Bank of England.
- In software engineering, REST is an acronym for Representational State Transfer.
- ReST also refers to the markup language reStructuredText.
- 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.