Bar

A bar is a retail establishment that serves alcoholic beverages; also the counter at which drinks are served.

Bar or BAR may also refer to:

Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics

• Bar (river morphology), a deposit of sediment in a river
• Bar (tropical cyclone)
• Bar (unit), a unit of pressure
• BAR domain, a protein domain
• Shoal, a landform composed of sand, silt, or pebbles
• Arithmetic mean, which is often denoted by a bar

Computing

• Bar (computer science), a placeholder in programming or documentation
• Base Address Register, in computer PCI configuration space
• Bennett acceptance ratio, an algorithm for calculating free energy differences

Law

• Bar (law), the division of a courtroom between working and public areas; the process of qualifying to practice law; or the legal profession
• Bar association, a professional body of lawyers
• Bar examination, a test for lawyers

Media and entertainment

• Bar (dance)
• Bar (music), a segment in musical notation
• The Bar (film), a 2017 Spanish film
• The Bar (painting), by John Brack
• The Bar (radio network)
• The Bar (TV series)
• Bay Area Reporter, a newspaper
• Biblical Archaeology Review, a journal
• The Bar, a 1906 book by Margery Williams

Places

• Bar, Montenegro
  • Bar Municipality, Montenegro
• Bar, Rajasthan, India; See National Highway 162 (India)
• Bar, Rutog County, Tibet, China
• Bar, Vinnytsia Oblast, Ukraine
• Bár, Hungary
• Bar Region in Punjab, Pakistan
• City bars, former entrances to the City of London

France

• Bar (river)
• Bar, Corrèze
• Bar-le-Duc, formerly known as Bar, Meuse
  • Duchy of Bar, part of the Holy Roman Empire

Iran

• Bar, Bushehr
• Bar, Hormozgan
• Bar, Razavi Khorasan

Language

• Bar (diacritic), a line through a letter or other grapheme
• Vertical bar, a punctuation symbol
• Bavarian language (ISO 639-3 code)
• Bar, a notation used in X-bar theory in linguistics

Transportation

• Bangor and Aroostook Railroad, a U.S. rail company
• British American Racing, a Formula One constructor
• California Bureau of Automotive Repair
• Barstow station, (station code)
• Qionghai Bo'ao Airport (IATA code)

Firearms

• M1918 Browning Automatic Rifle, a family of American rifles and guns
• Browning BAR, a rifle produced in Belgium and Japan

People

• Bar, a patronymic prefix in Aramaic

Given name

• Bar Botzer (born 1994), Israeli tennis player
• Bar Refaeli (born 1985), Israeli model
• Bar Timor (born 1992), Israeli basketball player

Surname

• Alon Bar (born 1966), Israeli/American filmmaker
• Amos Bar (1931–2011), Israeli author, teacher, and editor
• Ellen Bar, New York City Ballet soloist
• Haim Bar (born 1954), Israeli footballer
• Israel Bar (1912–1966), convicted of espionage by Israel in 1961
• Jacques Bar (1912–2009), French film producer
• Moshe Bar (investor) (born 1971), Israeli technologist, author, investor and entrepreneur
• Moshe Bar (neuroscientist), neuroscientist, associate professor in psychiatry and radiology, and director of the Cognitive Neuroscience laboratory at Harvard Medical School
• Noma Bar (born 1973), graphic designer
• Sergiu Bar (born 1980), Romanian footballer
• Shirley Temple Bar, drag queen from Dublin, Ireland
• Shlomo Bar (born 1943), Israeli musician, composer, and social activist
• Walter Bar (born 1938), Swiss fencer
• Zvi Bar (born 1935), Israeli politician

Other uses

• Dessert bar, a type of cookie
• British Archaeological Reports, published by BAR Publishing
• Bar (heraldry)
• Bar Confederation, an 18th-century Polish association
• Medal bar
• Bar, a mobile phone form factor
• Bar, a type of gatehouse
• Chin-up bar

See also

• Candy bar
• Barr (disambiguation)
• Barre (disambiguation)
• Bars (disambiguation)
• Bär (disambiguation)