Snap or SNAP may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

  • Snap (film), the initial release title for the 2013 film Enter the Dangerous Mind
  • Snap (TV series), a TV series broadcast by CITV from 1997 to 1999
  • 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), the start of a play in gridiron football
  • Scalable Network Application Package, an online gaming platform
  • Pokémon Snap, a 1999 Japanese video game
  • New Pokémon Snap, the 2021 sequel
  • Snap, any putdown used in the Dozens

Card games

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

Music

  • Snap music, a hip-hop subgenre
  • Snap!, a German dance music group
  • Snap! (album), by the Jam, 1983
  • "Snap" (song), by Rosa Linn, 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

Aviation

  • Dallair Aeronautica FR-100 Snap!, an Italian aerobatic aircraft
  • Tecnam Snap, an Italian aerobatic aircraft

Computing

  • Snap (computer graphics), an aid for positioning an object relative to grid lines or another object
  • Snap (web framework), a Web framework written in Haskell
  • Snap Server, a computer storage device
  • SNAP Points (software non-functional assessment process), a measurement of non-functional software size
  • Snap! (programming language), an educational graphical programming language
  • ITK-SNAP, a medical imaging software application
  • Sentinel Application Platform, a common software architecture for analysis of Earth observation data provided by ESA
  • Subnetwork Access Protocol (SNAP), a network link protocol
  • Snap (software), a software packaging and deployment system for Linux
  • Core dump or snap dump, a snapshot of the status of a running program or system at a particular moment

Government programs

  • Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), a food program for low-income families administered by the United States Department of Agriculture

Organizations

  • Snap Inc., developer of the Snapchat social media application
  • Snapchat, the social media application
  • Sarawak National Party (SNAP), a now-defunct, Sarawak-based political party in Malaysia
  • Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, 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, experimental electricity generators in the 1960s
  • Snap bean, the unripe, young fruit and protective pods of various cultivars of the common bean
  • Soluble NSF attachment protein, a family of proteins involved in vesicle membrane binding
  • Proteins in the SNAP-receptor (SNARE protein) family, including:
  • SNAP23
  • SNAP25
  • SNAP29
  • SNAP91, 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, a novelty firework

Other uses

  • Finger snapping, a thrusting of the fingers together that makes a sharp sound
  • Snap (horse), a Thoroughbred racehorse and sire
  • Snaps, a shot of alcoholic beverage
  • Snap fastener, a clothing fastener

See also

  • Bolt snap, a hook with a sliding bolt gate
  • Snap election, an election that is called prematurely and earlier than scheduled.
  • Snapper (disambiguation)
  • Snappy (disambiguation)