Par

Par or PAR may refer to:

Golf

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

Media

• Parabolic aluminized reflector light, a stage lighting fixture
• Pixel aspect ratio, in digital imaging

Computing

• Page address register, containing page addresses
• Par (command), command to reformat paragraphs of text
• .par, .par2, and .par3 Parchive file types
• Perl Archive Toolkit
• Positive acknowledgment with re-transmission, TCP/IP method
• Personal Animation Recorder, video capture for Amiga computers

Culture

• Par contract in the game of contract bridge

Geography

• Par, Cornwall, England
• Par, Iran, a village in West Azerbaijan Province, Iran
• Par, Tibet, a village in Tibet
• Khokhra Par, Karachi, Malir Town, Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan
• Philippine Area of Responsibility re cyclones
• Paraguay, IOC and UNDP country code

Organizations

• Aragonese Party (Partido Aragonés), a Spanish political party
• Pan Am Railways, New England, US
• Party for the Restructured Antilles (PAR), a Curaçao political party
• Par Pharmaceutical, New Jersey, USA
• Partido Acción Revolucionaria, Guatemala

Medicine

• Parkinson Association of the Rockies
• 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 in communities
• Passive autocatalytic recombiner, a device that removes hydrogen from the containment of a nuclear power plant during an accident
• 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 on sex chromosomes

Writing and editing

• par., common abbreviation for paragraph

See also

• Par value
• Par yield
• Pull to par