Pan

Pan and panning can have many meanings as listed below in various categories.

Prefix

• Pan- as a prefix (Greek πᾶν, pan, "all," "of everything," "involving all members" of a group), e.g.:
  • Pan American
  • Pan-Americanism
  • Pan India, a unique alphanumeric combination to keep track of financial transactions and prevent tax evasion
  • Pan-Africanism
  • Pan-Arabism
  • Pan-Germanism
  • Pan-Iranism
  • Pan-Islamism
  • Pan-Scandinavianism
  • Pan-Slavism
  • Panegyric
  • Pangaea
  • Pantheon / Pantheon
  • Pansexuality, a sexual orientation characterized by potential attraction to people of all sexes/genders or to people regardless of their sex/gender

Religion and mythology

• Pan (god), a god of nature in Greek mythology
  • Pan flute, a wind instrument he is often depicted playing

• Pan- as a prefix in several religious systems, e.g.
  • Pandeism
  • Panentheism
  • Pantheism
  • Theopanism

Science and technology

Astronomy

• 4450 Pan, an asteroid
• Pan (crater), on Jupiter's moon Amalthea
• Pan (moon), a moon of Saturn
• Pan, an informal name for the moon Jupiter XI (now Carme) from 1955 to 1975

Chemistry

• Peroxyacyl nitrates or Acyl peroxy nitrates which are irritants found in smog, and are useful chemical markers for the source of VOCs (as anthropogenic or biogenic)
• Polyacrylonitrile, polymer

Computing

• Pan (newsreader), newsreader software for Usenet
• Personal Area Network, a type of computer network
  • Personal Area Network (PAN), a Bluetooth profile that implements Bluetooth network encapsulation protocol (BNEP) protocol
• P.A.N., a type of linguistic analyzer.
• Pan Configuration Language a declarative language for describing server configurations.

Geology

• Dry lake, or Pan, an ephemeral water body contained in a shallow, flat basin
• Gold panning, a simple placer mining technique
• Salt pan (geology), a shallow depression holding a playa, salt lake or related feature

Geography

• Mount Pan, mountain in Ji County, Tianjin, China
• Pan County, in Guizhou, China
• Pan, Greece, a village in north-west Arcadia

Multimedia Technologies

• Pan and scan, technique for reproducing wide-screen films on narrow TV screens
• Panchromatic black-and-white film
• Panning (audio), the spread of a monaural signal in a stereo or multi-channel sound field
• Panning (camera), a movement of a film or video camera (rotating on a vertical axis)

Medical technology

• In medical jargon, pan may refer to panoramic X-ray photography

Zoology

• Pan, a genus of apes composed of the Common Chimpanzee and the Bonobo

Film

• Pan (film), a 1922 Norwegian film
• Pan's Labyrinth, a film by Guillermo Del Toro

Food and drink

• Pan, a type of cookware and bakeware
  • Frying pan
  • Springform pan
• Pan, also spelled Paan, a North Indian term for Betel, often mixed with tobacco and lime for chewing as a mouth freshener
• Pan (beer), a Croatian lager beer
• Pan-Galactic Gargle Blaster, a fictional cocktail
• Pan-bagnat
• Pancake
• Pan, a type of bread popular in Ireland, especially as "sliced pan"
• Sugar panning, the method for creating the confections called dragées

Fiction

• Pan (Dragon Ball), a fictional character from the anime Dragon Ball Z
• Pan (novel), by Knut Hamsun
• Peter Pan, a character in a novel by James Barrie

Honorifics

• Pan (title), Slavic honorifics in Poland, Ukraine

Music

• Pan, short for steelpan, an acoustic instrument
• Pan (The Blue Hearts), an album by the Japanese band The Blue Hearts
• Pan, a Filipino rock band; see Yano
• Pan, an opera by Carl Venth
• Pan, a Danish prog/psych/blues rock band from the early 1970s
• Pan, a Turkish band that performed Bana Bana at the Eurovision Song Contest 1989
• Pan pipes, a musical instrument
• Panning (audio), placement of a sound source in a stereo field using pan control or pan pot
• Pan's People, a British dance troupe on Top of the pops

Publishing

• Pan (magazine) an arts and literary review magazine
• Pan Books, a publishing imprint of Macmillan Publishers

International ISO Standards

• The ISO 639-3 code for the Punjabi language
• Panama's official ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 abbreviation

Acronym

The acronym PAN can refer to:

• Palladium At Night, an American satellite
• Permanent account number, India's national identification number for taxpayers
• Personal area network, a type of computer network
• Polyarteritis nodosa, a vasculitic condition
• Positional alcohol nystagmus
• PAN Parks (protected area network), a network of national parks in the remaining wilderness areas of Europe
• Primary Account Number, credit or debit card number
• Proto-Austronesian language

Government, politics, and organizations

• National Action Party (El Salvador) (Partido Acción Nacional) of El Salvador
• National Action Party (Mexico) (Partido Acción Nacional) of Mexico
• National Action Party (Nicaragua) (Partido Acción Nacional) of Nicaragua
• National Advancement Party (Partido de Avanzada Nacional) of Guatemala
• National Autonomist Party (Partido Autonomista Nacional), former Argentine Political Party
• National Mandate Party (Partai Amanat Nasional) of Indonesia
• Nutrition Assistance for Puerto Rico (Programa de Asistencia Nutricional), a United States Federal assistance program for the nutritional needs of impoverished families in Puerto Rico
• Pan Pan, an ancient small Hindu Kingdom
• Party of the Nation's Retirees (Partido dos Aposentados da Nação) of Brazil
• Pesticide Action Network (PAN), an international NGO network
• The Polish Academy of Sciences (Polish: Polska Akademia Nauk, abbreviated PAN)
• Protect Arizona Now, a political committee behind Arizona Proposition 200 (2004)

Other

• Pan Club Copenhagen, Club in Copenhagen for homosexual people
• Pan (surname), Chinese family name (潘 or 盤)
• Pan-pan, a radio distress call similar to and weaker than Mayday
• Pan or Panguingue, a gambling card game

See also

• Pain (disambiguation)
• Pane (disambiguation)
• Pin (disambiguation)