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Contents 1 Maths and science 1.1 Landforms 2 Law 3 Computing 4 Other 5 Places 5.1 Communes of France 6 People 7 Acronyms 8 Codemarks 9 References 10 See also

Bar may refer to:

• A Standard."to set the bar" or "to raise the bar"
• The Browning Automatic Rifle
• The Aramaic word for "Son" (see People below).
• A rod/stick, pole, or handrail made of structural steel
  • Grab bar
  • Rebar
• An ingot or gold bar
• Bar (diacritic), a line through a letter used as a diacritic
• Bar (establishment), a retail establishment that serves alcoholic beverages
  • Bar (counter), the counter from which drinks are dispensed
• Dessert bar a type of square cookie baked in a pan and served in squares or rectangles

[edit] Maths and science

• Bar (unit), a scientific unit of pressure
• A vinculum over a digit or digits in mathematics used to indicate a repeating decimal
• Bar chart (or graph), a chart with rectangular bars of lengths used for comparing two or more values.
• Bar (astronomy), a formation of stars found in approximately half of all spiral galaxies
• Bar (computer science), a metasyntactic variable used in computer science

[edit] Landforms

• Bar (river), generally long, narrow accumulations of sediment in a river that are visible above water level during normal flows

• Gravel bar, a deposited accumulation of gravel in a river that typically can be seen above the surface at normal flows
• Point bar, a bar in a river that is situated on the inside bank of a meander bend

• Shoal

[edit] Law

• Bar (law)
• Bar examination
• Bar association
• Personal bar, a Scots practice term for estoppel.

[edit] Computing

• Base Address Register, a type of pointer register used in Memory-mapped I/O and Port-mapped I/O. Each PCI device, slotted on a PCI Local Bus, has a Configuration Header comprising Base Address Registers used to determine and allocate the type, amount and location of PCI I/O and PCI memory space that the device can use [1][2].

[edit] Other

• Bar (music), or measure, is a unit of time in Western music representing a regular grouping of beats.
• A name of Scandinavian origin referring to gates/gatehouses of in towns of northern England such as the gatehouses in the city walls of York, England and North Bar ^[1] in Beverley.
• Medal bar, an addition to a military decoration earned by a subsequent act
• Candy bar
• Handlebar, steering mechanism for bicycles and motorcycles
• Vertical bar symbol, |
• Bar (of Xanax)
• Barbell for weightlifting.
• Bar, Aramaic and Hebrew for "son", as in Bar mitzvah and the names listed in People.
• A preposition meaning "except"

[edit] Places

• Bar, Montenegro, a city in the southeastern region
• Bar, Ukraine, a fortress and city in the Podolia region of Ukraine that was once a part of Poland
• Barrois (Bar), the territory of the counts and dukes of Bar in France
• Bar River, a tributary to the Meuse River in France
• Bar, Tibet, a village in the Tibet Autonomous Region of China
• Bár, a village in Hungary
• Barbizon, an artist's village in France
• Wairau Bar, New Zealand
• Bar methodist church, Harrogate, England

[edit] Communes of France

• Bar, Corrèze, in the Corrèze département
• Bar-le-Duc, in the Meuse département
• Bar-sur-Aube, in the Aube département
• Bar-sur-Seine, in the Aube département

[edit] People

• Bar (Aramaic), a common prefix in New Testament Aramaic names
• Bar Hebraeus, a Syriac Orthodox Church Father
• Bar Refaeli, Israeli model
• Ellen Bar, New York City Ballet soloist
• Yael Bar Zohar, Israeli actress
• Yoseph Bar-Cohen, Israeli-American physicist
• David Bar-Tov, Israeli judge
• Michael Bar-Zohar, Israeli historian
• Micha Bar-Am, Israeli photographer

[edit] Acronyms

• Barbie as Rapunzel, an animated film
• Board for Anthropological Research
• Bob Akin Racing, a sportscar racing team that was active until 1987
• Biblical Archaeology Review
• BAR domain (Bin-Amphiphysin-Rvs), a protein domain
• Bit Aspect Ratio, a length (BPI or Bits per inch)-to-width (TPI or Tracks per inch) ratio of a magnetic bit
• British American Racing, a Formula One racing team which was active between the years of 1999 to 2005
• British Association of Removers
• M1918 Browning Automatic Rifle, a U.S. WWI and WWII military weapon
• Buy-American restrictions, a reference to the Buy American Act
• Beta Adrenergic Receptor
• British Archaeological Reports

[edit] Codemarks

• Bangor and Aroostook Railroad, reporting mark "BAR"
• Barbados, International Olympic Committee country code "BAR"
• Harvey House Railroad Depot, in Barstow, California; station code BAR

[edit] References

1. ^ A Brief History of Beverley, Yorkshire

[edit] See also

• Bär
• Barr
• Barr-
• Barre
• Barbiturate
• All pages beginning with "bar"
• Crossbar
• Ben

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