PAR

'Par' or 'PAR' may refer to:

Contents

Computing

Economics

Entertainment, sports and games

Geography

Organisations

Science and technology

Miscellaneous

Computing

★ Page address register

★ ".par" and ".par2", Parchive file types containing recovery data used to fix other files

★ ".par", file type associated with Solid Edge document

★ Par (command), UNIX filtering command

★ Positive acknowledgment with re-transmission, TCP/IP method of reliable data transmission

Economics

★ Par value, financial term for the value of a security

★ Pull to par, financial economics concept

Entertainment, sports and games

★ Par contract, a bridge contract which results from optimal bidding by both sides and which neither side could improve by further bidding

★ Par (golf scoring format), scoring format for golf used as an alternative to Stableford and stroke play

★ "Par Lenor", character played by Max Grodénchik in the ''Star Trek: The Next Generation'' episodes "The Perfect Mate" and "Captain's Holiday"

★ Par-T-One, Italian Electroclash band led by Sergione Casu and Andrea Pareo

★ Par (score), classification measure of each hole on a golf course that reflects the distance between the tee and green

Geography

★ Khokhra Par (neighborhood), a neighborhood of Malir Town in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan

★ Par, Cornwall, a village in England, United Kingdom

Organisations

★ Aragonese Party (Spanish: ''Partido Aragonés'' or "PAR"), political party which advocates the interests of Aragon within Spain

★ Par Pharmaceutical, a manufacturer of generic drugs based in Woodcliff Lake, New Jersey, United States

★ Portuguese Association of Ryerson, Portuguese-Canadian Educational group

★ Haw Par Corporation, company responsible for Tiger Balm ointment, based in Singapore

Science and technology

★ Parabolic aluminumized reflector or "PAR light", a type of floodlight

★ Participatory Action Research, research methodology

★ Photosynthetically active radiation, measurement of the amount of photosynthetically active wavelengths in light

★ 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

Miscellaneous

★ Par. (note the dot) is an abbreviation of the Paralipomenon