Snap or SNAP may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

* ''Snap'' (film), the initial release title for the 2013 film ''Enter the Dangerous Mind'' * '' The Stanly News and Press'', a newspaper in Albemarle, North Carolina, US * "Snap" (''Duty Free''), a 1984 TV episode

Games and sports

Snap (gridiron football) A snap (also called a "hike", "snapback", or "pass from center") is the lateral pass, backward passing of the ball in gridiron football at the start of play from scrimmage. Action The ball begins on the ground with its long axis parallel to t ...

, the start of a play in gridiron football * Scalable Network Application Package, an online gaming platform * ''

Pokémon Snap is a 1999 photography video game developed by HAL Laboratory and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo 64. It was first released in Japan in March 1999 and was later released in July 1999 in North America and in September 2000 for PAL regions. ...

'', a 1999 Japanese video game **'' New Pokémon Snap'', the 2021 sequel * Snap, any putdown used in

the Dozens The Dozens is a game played between two contestants in which the participants insult each other until one of them gives up. Common in African American communities, the Dozens is almost exclusively played in front of an audience, who encourage the ...

Card games

* Snap (card game) * Strong notrump after passing, a contract bridge bidding convention

Music

Snap music Snap music (also known as snap, ringtone rap or snap rap) is a subgenre of hip hop music derived from crunk that originated in southern United States in the 2000s, in Bankhead, West Atlanta, United States. It achieved mainstream popularity t ...

, a hip-hop subgenre *

Snap! SNAP! is a German Eurodance group formed in 1989 by producers Michael Münzing and Luca Anzilotti. The act has undergone several lineup changes over the years, featuring American singers, songwriters, and rappers such as Thea Austin, Turbo ...

, a German dance music group * '' Snap!'' (album), by the Jam, 1983 * "Snap" (song), 2022 * "Snap", a song by Kevin Federline from '' Playing with Fire'', 2006 * "Snap", a song by Nav from '' Bad Habits'', 2019 * "Snap", a song by Slipknot from '' Slipknot'', 2009 reissue * "Snap!", a song from the British preschool TV series '' Boo!''

Fictional entities

* Snap, a character from the Nickelodeon animated television series '' ChalkZone'' * The Snap, a fictional event in the Marvel Cinematic Universe * Snap, a morning food's product mascot, one of

Snap, Crackle and Pop Snap, Crackle and Pop are the cartoon mascots of Rice Krispies, a brand of breakfast cereal marketed by Kellogg's and its successor companies. History The characters were originally designed by illustrator Vernon Grant in the early 1930s. Th ...

Aviation

Dallair Aeronautica FR-100 Snap! The Dallair Aeronautica FR-100 Snap! is a homebuilt aerobatic aircraft that can be certified in multiple categories. Design and development The Snap! is imported to the United States and may be certified as an Experimental-Exhibition model, S-L ...

, an Italian aerobatic aircraft *

Tecnam Snap The Tecnam Snap is an Italian aerobatic ultralight aircraft, designed by Fabio Russo and produced by Tecnam of Casoria, Metropolitan City of Naples, introduced at the AERO Friedrichshafen AERO Friedrichshafen is a trade show dedicated to ...

, an Italian aerobatic aircraft

Computing

Snap (computer graphics) In computer graphics, snapping allows an object to be easily positioned in alignment with grid lines, guide lines or another object, by causing it to automatically jump to an exact position when the user drags it to the proximity of the desired lo ...

, an aid for positioning an object relative to grid lines or another object *

Snap (web framework) Snap is a web framework for developing web applications written in the functional programming language Haskell. Overview The Snap framework consists of the following: * snap-core, a generic Haskell web server API. * snap-server, a fast HTTP ...

, a Web framework written in Haskell *

Snap Server The Snap Server is a network attached storage computer appliance sold since 2008 by Overland Storage. From 2002 to 2004 it was sold by a company called Snap Appliance. Description All modern Snap Servers include an embedded operating system call ...

, a computer storage device *

SNAP Points SNAP is the acronym for "Software Non-functional Assessment Process," a measurement of the size of non-functional software. The SNAP sizing method complements ISO/IEC 20926:2009, which defines a method for the sizing of functional software. SNA ...

(software non-functional assessment process), a measurement of non-functional software size *

Snap! (programming language) Snap''!'' (formerly Build Your Own Blocks) is a free block-based List of educational programming languages, educational graphical programming language and online community. Snap allows students to explore, create, and remix interactive animatio ...

, an educational graphical programming language *

ITK-SNAP ITK-SNAP is an interactive software application that allows users to navigate three-dimensional medical images, manually delineate anatomical regions of interest, and perform automatic image segmentation. The software was designed with the audien ...

, a medical imaging software application *

Sentinel Sentinel may refer to: Places Mountains * Mount Sentinel, a mountain next to the University of Montana in Missoula, Montana * Sentinel Buttress, a volcanic crag on James Ross Island, Antarctica * Sentinel Dome, a naturally occurring granit ...

Application Platform, a common software architecture for analysis of Earth observation data provided by ESA *

Subnetwork Access Protocol The Subnetwork Access Protocol (SNAP) is a mechanism for multiplexing, on networks using IEEE 802.2 LLC, more protocols than can be distinguished by the eight-bit 802.2 Service Access Point (SAP) fields. SNAP supports identifying protocols by Et ...

(SNAP), a network link protocol *

Snap (software) Snap is a software Package manager, packaging and Software deployment, deployment system developed by Canonical (company), Canonical for operating systems that use the Linux kernel and the systemd init system. The packages, called ''snaps'', and ...

, a software packaging and deployment system for Linux *

Core dump In computing, a core dump, memory dump, crash dump, storage dump, system dump, or ABEND dump consists of the recorded state of the working Computer storage, memory of a computer program at a specific time, generally when the program has crash (com ...

or snap dump, a snapshot of the status of a running program or system at a particular moment

Organizations

* Snap Inc., developer of the Snapchat social media application **

Snapchat Snapchat is an American multimedia social media and instant messaging app and service developed by Snap Inc., originally Snapchat Inc. One of the principal features of the app are that pictures and messages, known as "snaps", are usually availa ...

, the social media application *

Sarawak National Party The Sarawak National Party known by its acronym as "SNAP", is now a defunct List of political parties in Malaysia, political party in Malaysia. It was a member party of the Alliance Party (Malaysia), Alliance Party from 1963 to 1966 and a member ...

(SNAP), a now-defunct, Sarawak-based political party in Malaysia *

Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program In the United States, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), formerly known as the Food Stamp Program, is a federal government program that provides food-purchasing assistance for low- and no-income persons to help them maintai ...

(SNAP), a U.S. food program for low-income persons. *

Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests The Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, known as SNAP, established in 1989, is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization support group of survivors of clergy sexual abuse and their supporters, founded in the United States. Barbara Blaine, a ...

, in the United States

Places

* Snap, Kentucky, United States * Snap, Wiltshire, a deserted village in England

Science

* Snap (physics) or jounce, in physics, the fourth derivative of the position vector with respect to time * ''S''-Nitroso-''N''-acetylpenicillamine, a chemical compound * Schedule for Nonadaptive and Adaptive Personality (SNAP), a questionnaire for personality disorder assessment * Significant New Alternatives Policy, a U.S. EPA ozone-depleting chemicals program * Supernova/Acceleration Probe, a proposed spacecraft *

Systems for Nuclear Auxiliary Power The Systems Nuclear Auxiliary POWER (SNAP) program was a program of experimental radioisotope thermoelectric generators (RTGs) and Nuclear power in space, space nuclear reactors flown during the 1960s by NASA. The SNAP program developed as a resul ...

, experimental electricity generators in the 1960s *

Snap bean Green beans are young, unripe fruits of various cultivars of the common bean (''Phaseolus vulgaris''), although immature or young pods of the runner bean (''Phaseolus coccineus''), yardlong bean ( ''Vigna unguiculata'' subsp. ''sesquipedalis' ...

, the unripe, young fruit and protective pods of various cultivars of the common bean *

Soluble NSF attachment protein Soluble ''N''-ethylmaleimide-Sensitive Factor Attachment Proteins (SNAP, or Sec17p in yeast) are a family of cytosolic adaptor proteins involved in vesicular fusion at membranes during intracellular transport and exocytosis. SNAPs interact with pr ...

, a family of proteins involved in vesicle membrane binding ** Proteins in the SNAP-receptor ( SNARE protein) family, including: ***

SNAP23 Synaptosomal-associated protein 23 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the ''SNAP23'' gene. Two alternative transcript variants encoding different protein isoforms have been described for this gene. Function Specificity of vesicular tran ...

*** SNAP25 *** SNAP29 *** ''

SNAP91 Clathrin coat assembly protein AP180 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the ''SNAP91'' gene In biology, the word gene has two meanings. The Mendelian gene is a basic unit of heredity. The molecular gene is a sequence of nucleotides i ...

'', the genetic that codes for clathrin coat assembly protein AP180 * HT-2157, formerly SNAP-37889, a pharmacological antagonist for galanin receptor 3 * SNAP-94847, a pharmacological antagonist for melanin-concentrating hormone receptor 1

Products

* Snap (Pillow Pal), a stuffed animal reptile from Ty * Snaps, crispy and light starch puffs manufactured under the Smiths brand *

Bang snaps Bang snaps (known as poppers; whipper snappers, Indian English: pop pop crackers) are a type of small novelty firework sold as a trick noisemaker. Composition Bang snaps consist of a small amount of gravel or coarse sand impregnated with a minute q ...

, a novelty firework

Other uses

Finger snapping Snapping (or clicking) one's fingers is the act of creating a snapping or clicking sound with one's fingers. Primarily, this is done by building tension between the thumb and another (Middle finger, middle, Index finger, index, or Ring finger, ...

, a thrusting of the fingers together that makes a sharp sound * Snap (horse), a Thoroughbred racehorse and sire *

Snaps In the Nordic countries, especially Denmark and Sweden, but not in Iceland, snaps ( , ), among many nicknames, is a small shot of a strong alcoholic beverage taken during the course of a meal. In Denmark, a snaps will always be akvavit, althou ...

, a shot of alcoholic beverage *

Snap fastener A snap fastener, also called snap button, press button, press stud, press fastener, dome fastener, popper, snap and tich (or tich button), is a pair of interlocking discs, made out of a metal or plastic, commonly used in place of traditional butt ...

, a clothing fastener *

, a U.S. federal assistance program (formerly the Food Stamp Program)