Par
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Par or PAR may refer to:
Golf
- Par (golf scoring format), a scoring format in golf
- Par (score), a predetermined number of strokes required to complete a hole
Media
- Parabolic aluminized reflector light (PAR), a stage lighting fixture
- Pixel aspect ratio, the aspect ratio of a single pixel in digital imaging and video
Computing
- Page address register, the physical addresses of pages currently held in memory
- Par (command), command to reformat paragraphs of text
- .par, .par2, and .par3 Parchive file types containing recovery data used to fix other files
- PAR, the Perl Archive Toolkit module for the Perl programming language
- Positive acknowledgment with re-transmission, TCP/IP method of reliable data transmission
Culture
- Par contract, or optimum contract and par contract, a bridge contract
Geography
- Khokhra Par (neighborhood), Malir Town, Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan
- Par, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom
- Par, Iran, a village in West Azerbaijan Province, Iran
- Par, Tibet
- PAR, the IOC and UNDP country code of Paraguay
- Participatory action research, a methodology for community-based development
Organizations
- Haw Par Corporation, producer of Tiger Balm ointment
- Aragonese Party (PAR), or in Spanish Partido Aragonés, a Spanish political party
- Pan Am Railways (PAR), a railway company in the New England region of United States
- Party for the Restructured Antilles (PAR), a Curaçao political party
- Par Pharmaceutical, New Jersey, USA
- Portuguese Association of Ryerson, Portuguese-Canadian Educational group
Medicine
- Parkinson's Association of the Rockies, Parkinson's disease organization
- Post anesthesia care unit, or Post anesthesia recovery
Science and engineering
- PAR the IATA airport code covering all airports in Paris, France
- Participatory action research, research methodology
- Peak-to-average ratio
- Photosynthetically active radiation (light)
- Population attributable risk in epidemiology
- Precision approach radar, aircraft guidance system
- Predictive adaptive response in biology
- Protease-activated receptors PAR1, PAR2, PAR3, PAR4
- Pseudoautosomal regions PAR1, PAR2, PAR3 on chromosomes
Writing and editing
- par., common abbreviation for paragraph
See also
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