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Par or PAR may refer to:

Finance

• Par value, stated value or face value in finance and accounting
• Par yield or par rate, in finance

Games

• Par (score), the number of strokes a proficient golfer should require to complete a hole, round or tournament.
• Par (golf scoring format), an alternative to Stableford and normal stroke play
• Par contract, in contract bridge

Organizations

Businesses

• Pan Am Railways, an American holding company
• Par Pharmaceutical, now part of Endo International
• PaR Systems, an American automation company

Political parties

• Aragonese Party (Partido Aragonés, PAR), Spain
• Movement For! (Kustība Par!), Latvia
• Party for the Restructured Antilles (Partido Antiá Restrukturá, PAR), Curaçao
• Revolutionary Action Party ('Partido Acción Revolucionaria', PAR), Guatemala

Other organizations

• Parkinson Association of the Rockies, a not-for-profit organization
• Pretoria Armoured Regiment, an armour regiment of the South African Army

Places

• Par, Cornwall, England
  • Par railway station
• Par, Iran
• Par, Vologda Oblast, Russia
• Par, Tibet
• Philippine Area of Responsibility, a weather monitoring area in the northwest Pacific
• Paraguay, IOC country code
• Parkesburg station, Pennsylvania, U.S., station code PAR
• Parliament railway station, Melbourne
• PAR, IATA airport code for the metropolitan area of Paris, France
• Par River (disambiguation), the name of several rivers

Science and technology

Biology and medicine

• Par (fly), a signal fly in the family Platystomatidae
• Photosynthetically active radiation, a range of solar radiation
• Post-anesthesia recovery, part of a hospital
• Predictive adaptive response in biology
• Protease-activated receptors PAR1, PAR2, PAR3, PAR4
• Pseudoautosomal regions on sex chromosomes

Computing

• par (command), a text formatting utility for Unix
• Page address register, containing physical addresses
• Perl Archive Toolkit, a deployment tool
• Personal Animation Recorder, video capture for Amiga computers
• Pixel aspect ratio, in digital imaging
• .par, .par2, .par3, filename extensions of Parchive

Other uses in science and technology

• Parabolic aluminized reflector, PAR lamp or PAR, a type of electric lamp
• Participatory action research, a social sciences research approach
• Passive autocatalytic recombiner, device that removes hydrogen from a nuclear power plant during an accident
• Par meter, to measure peak-to-average ratio in an electrical circuit
• Precision approach radar, a radar aircraft guidance system

See also

• All pages with titles beginning with Par
• All pages with titles containing Par
• Parsec (disambiguation)
• Paragraph
• Pull to par, in finance

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