Zap
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Zap is an onomatopoeic word for an electrostatic discharge, especially one that causes an electric shock.
Zap or ZAP may refer to:
Computing
- .ZAP File, a file extension allowing publishing of an application to users where an MSI file does not exist
- Zero and Add Packed decimal, a machine instruction in the IBM Basic assembly language
- ZAP (Zero And Pack), xBase command to empty database table (dbf file)
- OWASP ZAP, a penetration testing tool for finding vulnerabilities in web applications
- ZAP, Transparent Checkpoint-Restart and Migration Using Operating System Virtualization (Developed in Colombia University)
Entertainment
Comics
- Zap! (webcomic), a sci-fi webcomic by Chris Layfield and Pascalle C
- Zap Comix, an underground comics series founded by Robert Crumb in 1968
- Zap Zodiac, a fictional character in a comic strip in the UK comic The Beano
Fictional characters
- Zap (G.I. Joe), in the G.I. Joe universe
- Windbreaker (Transformers), also released as Zap
- Zap Rowsdower, from the independent film The Final Sacrifice
Other
- ZAP (satellite television), a digital satellite television operator in Sub-saharan Africa
- "Zap", 1986 instrumental song by Eric Johnson on Tones (album)
- Zap, stage name of female bodybuilder Raye Hollitt on the TV show American Gladiators
- Zap! (computer game), a 2005 top-down shooter video game by GarageGames
Social
- Zap (action), a direct political action favored by early gay Liberation groups
- ZAP, Zenith Applied Philosophy, a breakaway sect of Scientology based in Christchurch, New Zealand
- ZAP, Zero Aggression Principle, a personal philosophy
Transportation
- ZAP (motor company), or Zero Air Pollution, an electric vehicle manufacturer and marketer
- Zap, or Zaporozhets, a long-lived series of small, rear-engined Soviet Ukrainian cars
- Zap flaps, a high lift device used to reduce landing speeds in aircraft
- ZAP, call sign of Titan Airways
Other uses
- Zap, North Dakota, United States, a city
- AGR-14 ZAP, an air-to-surface unguided rocket developed by the United States Navy in the late 1960s
- zap, the ISO 639-3 and 639-2 code for the Zapotec languages, spoken in Mexico
See also
- ZZZap!, a 1990s British children's television programme for deaf children
- Zapping, a synonym for channel surfing
- Záviš of Zápy or Záviš ze Zap (c. 1350–c. 1411), Bohemian theologian and composer
- Zapp (disambiguation)
- zapper (disambiguation)
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