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rest, in music: see note note, in musical notation , symbol placed on or between the lines of a staff to indicate the pitch and the relative duration of the tone to be produced by voice or instrument.
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REST

(REpresentational State Transfer) An XML-based protocol for invoking Web services over HTTP. REST is a lighter version of SOAP, which evolved into a more complex protocol. See SOAP.


rest
1. a mark in a musical score indicating a pause of specific duration
2. Prosody a pause in or at the end of a line; caesura
3. Billiards Snooker any of various special poles used as supports for the cue in shots that cannot be made using the hand as a support


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It then crashed into a streetlight, a fire hydrant and a building before coming to rest on its roof at Glenoaks and Palm Avenue, police said.
The aircraft landed on the runway, but was unable to stop before departing the runway and coming to rest in a ravine.
Suddenly, her grandmother, Mildred Vickers, lost control of her Chevy Blazer, and the vehicle skidded off the mountain road and rolled over seven or eight times, tumbling down a hill before coming to rest on an old strip-mine site.
 
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