Pak or PAK may refer to:
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Pakistan
Pakistan ( ur, ), officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan ( ur, , label=none), is a country in South Asia. It is the world's List of countries and dependencies by population, fifth-most populous country, with a population of almost 24 ...
(country code PAK)
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Pak, Afghanistan
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Pak Island
Pak Island is an island of Papua New Guinea. It is in the Admiralty Islands group of the Bismarck Archipelago
The Bismarck Archipelago (, ) is a group of islands off the northeastern coast of New Guinea in the western Pacific Ocean and is pa ...
, in the Admiralty Islands group of Papua New Guinea
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Pak Tea House Pak Tea House is an intellectual tea–café located in Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan known for its association with progressive academics and left-leaning South Asian intelligentsia.
Traditionally frequented by country's notably artistic, cultural and ...
, a café in Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan
Arts and entertainment
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PAK (band), an American band
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Perfect All-Kill, a music chart achievement in South Korea
* Pak,
Nintendo
is a Japanese Multinational corporation, multinational video game company headquartered in Kyoto, Japan. It develops video games and video game consoles.
Nintendo was founded in 1889 as by craftsman Fusajiro Yamauchi and originally produce ...
's sensational spelling of the word "pack" as a name for their game media and accessories:
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Controller Pak
Nintendo 64 accessories are first-party Nintendo hardwareand third-party hardware, licensed and unlicensed. Nintendo's first-party accessories are mainly transformative system expansions: the 64DD Internet multimedia platform, with a floppy dri ...
, the Nintendo 64's memory card
** Expansion Pak, a RAM add-on for
Nintendo 64
The (N64) is a home video game console developed by Nintendo. The successor to the Super Nintendo Entertainment System, it was released on June 23, 1996, in Japan, on September 29, 1996, in North America, and on March 1, 1997, in Europe and Au ...
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Game Pak
Game Pak is the brand name for ROM cartridges designed by Nintendo for some of their earlier video game systems. The "Game Pak" moniker was officially used only in North America, Europe, and Oceania. In Japan, as well as other Asian territories a ...
, game cartridges designed for early Nintendo systems
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Option Pak
This is a list of Nintendo DS accessories.
Accessories for the Nintendo DS often came in two forms: those that worked with Slot 1 as a regular DS cartridge, and those that worked in Slot 2 (for Game Boy Advance cartridges) known as a "DS Option ...
, any of a number of special attachments for the Nintendo DS
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Rumble Pak
The is a removable device from Nintendo which provides force feedback while playing video games. Games that support the Rumble Pak cause it to vibrate in select situations, such as when firing a weapon or receiving damage, to immerse the player ...
, a haptic feedback device
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Transfer Pak
The Transfer Pak is a removable accessory for the Nintendo 64 controller that fits into its expansion port. When connected, it allows for the transfer of data between supported Nintendo 64 (N64) games and Game Boy or Game Boy Color (GBC) games. By ...
, a data-transfer device
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Tremor Pak
Nintendo 64 accessories are first-party Nintendo hardwareand third-party hardware, licensed and unlicensed. Nintendo's first-party accessories are mainly transformative system expansions: the 64DD Internet multimedia platform, with a floppy drive ...
, a third-party Rumble Pak
People
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Pak (Korean surname)
Park or Bak (, ), is the third-most-common surname in Korea, traditionally traced back to 1st century King Hyeokgeose Park () and theoretically inclusive of all of his descendants. ''Park'' or '' Bak'' is usually assumed to come from the Kor ...
, or Park
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Pak (creator), formerly Murat Pak, digital artist, cryptocurrency investor, and programmer
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B. J. Pak
Byung Jin "BJay" Pak (born 1974) is a Korean Americans, Korean-American attorney and politician who served as the United States Attorney, United States attorney for the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia from 2017 t ...
(born 1974), Korean-American attorney and politician
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Bo Hi Pak
Bo Hi Pak (August 18, 1930 – January 12, 2019 in Korea. Korean: 박보희/朴普熙) was a prominent member of the Unification Church. During the 1970s and 1980s, he was a major leader in the church movement, leading projects such as newspapers ...
(1930–2019), prominent member of the Unification Church
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Gary Pak
Gary Pak (born 1952) is a writer, editor and professor of English at University of Hawaii. Pak has been noted as one of the most important Asian Hawaiian writers.
Biography
Gary Pak was born and raised in Hawaii. Pak graduated from Boston Univers ...
(born 1952), Asian Hawaiian writer, editor and professor
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Greg Pak
Greg Pak is an American comic book writer and film director. Pak is best known for his work on books published by Marvel Comics, including ''X-Men'' (most notably '' X-Treme X-Men''), several titles featuring the Hulk (including ''Planet Hulk'', w ...
(born 1968), American comic book writer and film director
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Igor Pak Igor Pak (russian: link=no, Игорь Пак) (born 1971, Moscow, Soviet Union) is a professor of mathematics at the University of California, Los Angeles, working in combinatorics and discrete probability. He formerly taught at the Massachusetts ...
(born 1971), Russian professor of mathematics at the University of California
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John Pak (born 1998), American professional golfer
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SuChin Pak
SuChin Pak ( ko, 박수진, born August 15, 1976) is a South Korean-born American television news correspondent and podcaster, best known from her early days working for MTV News. She joined MTV News as a correspondent in May 2001.
Life and car ...
(born 1976), South Korean-born American television news correspondent
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Ty Pak
Ty Pak (born Tae-Yong Pak in 1938) is a writer and speaker on Korean/Asian American affairs and literature.
Biography
Born in Korea shortly before World War II, Pak witnessed Japanese colonial rule, Korea's liberation from Japan in 1945, its ...
(born 1938), Korean-born writer and speaker
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Yangjin Pak Yangjin Pak, or Pak Yangjin, is an archaeologist and Professor in the Department of Archaeology at Chungnam National University in Daejeon, South Korea.
Education
Pak received his BA degree in Archaeology and Art History in 1984 from Seoul Nationa ...
, South Korean archaeologist
Science, technology and military
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PAK (file format)
This is a list of file formats used by computers, organized by type. Filename extension it is usually noted in parentheses if they differ from the file format name or abbreviation. Many operating systems do not limit filenames to one extension ...
, used by computers
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Panzerabwehrkanone
''Panzerabwehrkanone'', usually referred to with the acronym Pak, is the German language term for anti-tank gun. Before and during World War II, the German Army produced a series of 13 anti-tank guns which they designated Panzerabwehrkanone, i.e ...
(Pak or PaK), German anti-tank guns
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p21 activated kinase
p21 activated kinases (PAKs) are members of a family of enzymes. They serve as targets for the small GTP binding proteins CDC42 and Rac and have been implicated in a wide range of biological activities.
Members include:
* PAK1, regulating cell ...
, any of a family of enzymes
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9mm P.A.K., a firearm cartridge for a non-lethal gas pistol noisemaking gun
Other uses
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Pak Airways
Pakistan Airways also known as "Pak Air" or "Pak Airways", was an airline from Pakistan[Pak Air](_blank)
Retrieved 3 ...
, a former Pakistan airline
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Pak language (disambiguation) Pak may refer to either of these two languages:
* one of the names (better spelled ''Päk'') given to the Lemerig language
* the Pak-Tong language
See also
* Languages of Pakistan
Pakistan is a multilingual country with dozens of languages ...
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Panhellenic Liberation Movement
The Panhellenic Liberation Movement ( el, Πανελλήνιο Απελευθερωτικό Κίνημα), also known by its acronym PAK (ΠΑΚ), was one of the many anti-dictatorial movement organisations that campaigned against the 1967–197 ...
(''ΠΑΚ''), a Greek organisation that campaigned against the 1967–1974 military regime
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Kurdistan Freedom Party
Kurdistan Freedom Party ( ku, , Parti Azadi Kurdistan, abbreviated as PAK) is a Kurdish nationalist and separatist militant group of Kurds in Iran, based in northern Iraq.
The group has declared creation of an independent Kurdish country as its ...
(''Parti Azadi Kurdistan''), a Kurdish nationalist militant group
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Privatisation Agency of Kosovo The Privatisation Agency of Kosovo (PAK) is a Kosovo government agency. In May 2021, Kosovo MPs voted to dismiss its board.
References
Economy of Kosovo
Privatization in Europe
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, a government agency
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Paak (disambiguation)
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Pack (disambiguation)
Pack or packs may refer to:
Places
* Pack, Austria, a municipality in Styria, Austria
* Pack, Missouri
* Chefornak Airport, Alaska, by ICAO airport code
Groups of animals or people
* Pack (canine), family structure of wild animals of the b ...
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Pak Protector
Pak Breeders and Pak Protectors are two developmental stages of fictional life in Larry Niven's Known Space universe. The Pak first appeared in "The Adults", which appeared in ''Galaxy'' in 1967; this story was expanded into the novel ''Protector ...
, a form of life in the ''Known Space'' fictional universe
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Tetra Pak
Tetra Pak is a Swedish–Swiss multinational food packaging and processing company with head offices in Lund, Sweden, and Pully, Switzerland. The company offers packaging, filling machines and processing for dairy, beverages, cheese, ice cream ...
, a food packaging company
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