Rest

Rest has several 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 or 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.

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