Par
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Par or PAR may refer to:
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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
- People's Alliance for Reform, Singapore
=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