Par

Par or PAR may refer to:

In golf:

• Par (score), a predetermined number of strokes required to complete a hole
• Par (golf scoring format), a scoring format in golf

In media:

• Parabolic aluminized reflector light (PAR), a stage lighting fixture
• Parks and Recreation, a Television comedy series
• Picture Aspect Ratio (PAR), or Aspect ratio (image), the aspect ratio of an image as displayed on screen
• Pixel aspect ratio, the aspect ratio of a single pixel in digital imaging and video

In computing:

• .par and .par2, Parchive file types containing recovery data used to fix other files
• .par, file type associated with Solid Edge document
• .par, platform archive files for Eclipse Virgo
• Page address register, the physical addresses of pages currently held in memory
• PAR, the Perl Archive Toolkit module for the Perl programming language
• Par (command), command to reformat paragraphs of text
• Positive acknowledgment with re-transmission, TCP/IP method of reliable data transmission

In culture:

• Par contract, or optimum contract and par contract, a bridge contract
• "Par Lenor", character in the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "The Perfect Mate"
• Par-T-One, Italian electroclash band
• Par., or Paralipomenon, the Books of Chronicles

In geography:

• Khokhra Par (neighborhood), Malir Town, Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan
• Par, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom
• Par, Tibet
• PAR, the IOC and UNDP country code of Paraguay
• Participatory action research, a methodology for community-based development

In organizations:

• Aragonese Party (PAR), or in spanish Partido Aragonés, a Spanish political party
• Haw Par Corporation, producer of Tiger Balm ointment
• Pan Am Railways (PAR), a railway company in the New England region of United States
• Par Pharmaceutical, a manufacturer of generic drugs based in Woodcliff Lake, New Jersey, United States
• Portuguese Association of Ryerson, Portuguese-Canadian Educational group
• Parkinson's Association of the Rockies, care and research not-for-profit organization

In medicine:

• Post anesthesia care unit, or Post anesthesia recovery, a hospital area where patients recover from anesthesia
• Parkinson's Association of the Rockies, care and research not-for-profit organization

In science:

• Parabolic aluminized reflector light, or Parabolic aluminized reflector or "PAR light", a type of floodlight
• Participatory Action Research, research methodology
• Phased array radar
• Photosynthetically active radiation, measurement of the amount of photosynthetically active wavelengths in light
• Population attributable risk, the difference in rate of a condition between an exposed population and an unexposed population
• Possible Allergic Reaction, warning accompanying some E number encodings for food additives
• Precision Approach Radar, military instrument approach system
• Pro Action Replay, brand of expansion cartridges for various home video game consoles
• Protease-activated receptor, cell receptor that is activated by cleavage
• Peak-to-average ratio
• Pseudoautosomal region, Homologous DNA sequences on X and Y chromosmes
• PAR the IATA airport code covering all airports in Paris, France
• PolyADP ribosylation, the addition of one or more ADP-ribose moieties to a protein

See also

• Par value
• Pull to par