For Rest we have terms and definitions in 8 topics. The topics are Athletics, Beer Brewing, Billiards, Classic Yoga, Heraldry, Internet, Law and Legal.

Rest (Athletics)

That period of time allotted to recovering from a period of stress usually spent in rapid walking or slow running.

Rest (Beer Brewing)

See temperature rest.

Rest (Billiards)

(Snooker) The mechanical bridge.

Rest (Classic Yoga)

It has been said often - "Rest can be found not in sleep but in change of labor." True, some may discontinue sleeping and obtain poor results. As a preliminary it is necessary to teach the nerve centers to work in groups, One must disconnect the work of the centers. One must learn to unite the most unexpected groups and then quickly change their combinations. (COM, 167)
Let us agree on the meaning of the concept of rest. Around this concept a multitude of false and harmful interpretations have clustered. People have become accustomed to think that rest is inaction; in this way it has become transformed into psychic enfeeblement. Inaction is most corruptive for psychic energy. Each spiritual immobility will fatigue, not regenerate.
Physicians prescribe rest, quiet, all kinds of inaction, and assume that in a moribund state it is possible to restore strength. But these same physicians understand that weakness and collapse result from violation of equilibrium. Thus, rest is nothing but equilibrium. But equilibrium is a proportionate tension of energy. Only thus is it possible to restore and strengthen one’s
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Let the concept of rest be rightly understood for the manifestation of Brotherhood. Unrest begets aimless bustle. (BR, 44)
The man who knows the cause of fatigue will wisely prescribe rest for himself, summoning to the work completely different centers. (AY, 241)
Rest, like Nirvana, is an effervescence which does not boil away. (BR, 217)
see also Drowsiness, Fatigue

Rest (Heraldry)

A bearing the origin and meaning of which have been disputed. By some it is said to represent a spear rest, and perhaps this is correct. By others it is taken for a musical instrument of some kind. Hence it is sometimes called an organ rest.

Rest (Internet)

(REpresentational State Transfer)
A loosely defined specification for HTTP-based services where all of the information required to process a request is present in the initial request and where each request receives only a single response, and where the response is in a machine-readable form.
An example could be a service that accepts HTTP requests for a search and returns the result as an XML document.
See also: HTTP, Mashup, XML

Rest (Law)

A party is said to rest or rest its case when it has presented all the evidence it intends to offer.

Rest (Legal)

A party is said to "rest" or "rest its case" when it has presented all of the evidence it intends to offer.

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