PAP

PAP

1. (Singaporean politics) Initialism of People's Action Party.
   • Paragraph 4, Public Prosecutor v Yue Mun Yew Gary [2012] SGHC 188

     @Gary, are you a PAP agent? ... =) trying to incite rebellion and revolution on this site so that the govt will have an excuse to take down this site?

2. (Singaporean politics, Singlish, derogatory) Pay And Pay (nickname for the People's Action Party)
3. Initialism of People's Armed Police.

PAP (plural PAPs)

1. (organic chemistry) polyfluoroalkyl phosphate ester
2. (networking) Initialism of password authentication protocol.
3. (grammar) Abbreviation of past active participle.
4. (grammar) Abbreviation of present active participle.
5. (philosophy) Initialism of principle of alternate possibilities.
6. (medicine) Initialism of prostatic acid phosphatase.
7. (cosmology, epistemology) Initialism of participatory anthropic principle.
8. (medicine) Acronym of positive airway pressure.
   1. (by extension) A positive airway pressure machine, a PAP device.

(positive airway pressure):

• NIV (“non-invasive ventilation”)
• NPPV (“non-invasive positive pressure ventilation”)
• NIPPV (“non-invasive positive pressure ventilation”)
• PPV (“positive pressure ventilation”)

(positive airway pressure):

• CPAP (“continuous positive airway pressure”)
• BiPAP (“bilevel positive airway pressure”)
• IPAP (“inhalation positive airway pressure”)
• EPAP (“exhalation positive airway pressure”)

(positive airway pressure):

• CPAP (“continuous positive airway pressure”)
• BiPAP (“bilevel positive airway pressure”)
• IPAP (“inhalation positive airway pressure”)
• EPAP (“exhalation positive airway pressure”)

PAP

1. (acronym, Internet slang, text messaging) Post a picture.

• pap

• APP, App, PPA, app, app.

PAP

1. (slang) alternative letter-case form of pap