Snap

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title: "Snap" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public topic_path: "uncategorized" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snap" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

Snap or SNAP may refer to:

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

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), 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

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