Pan or PAN may refer to:
Prefix
* ''Pan-'', a
prefix
A prefix is an affix which is placed before the Word stem, stem of a word. Adding it to the beginning of one word changes it into another word. For example, when the prefix ''un-'' is added to the word ''happy'', it creates the word ''unhappy'' ...
from the
Greek
Greek may refer to:
Greece
Anything of, from, or related to Greece, a country in Southern Europe:
*Greeks, an ethnic group.
*Greek language, a branch of the Indo-European language family.
**Proto-Greek language, the assumed last common ancestor ...
πᾶν, ''pan'', meaning "all", "of everything", or "involving all members" of a group
** , most but not all using the prefix
People
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Pan (surname)
Pān is the Mandarin pinyin romanization of the East Asian surname . It is listed 43rd in the Song dynasty classic text ''Hundred Family Surnames''. It is romanized as P'an in Wade–Giles; Poon, Phoon, Pon, or Pun in Cantonese; Phua in Hokkien ...
, Chinese family name (潘 or 盤)
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Pan Ron
Pen Ran ( km, ប៉ែន រ៉ន, ), (c. 1944 – c. 1979) also commonly known as Pan Ron in some Romanized sources intended for English-speaking audiences, was a Cambodian singer and songwriter who was at the height of her popularity in th ...
, Cambodian singer
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Panchan Rina
, better known as , is a Japanese professional kickboxer. She is the current Knock Out-Black Female Minimumweight Champion. She is also a former Knock Out-Black Female Atomweight Champion and a Rebels-Black Women's 46 kg Champion. After m ...
, Japanese kickboxer
Arts, entertainment, and media
Card games
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Pan (game)
Pan is a card game of Poland, Polish origin, using a small French-suited playing cards, French pack (cards from 9 to A are used). Whoever gets rid of their cards first wins the game but one can play only cards of higher or equal value than the one ...
, a shedding card game of Polish origin
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Panguingue
Panguingue (pronounced pan-geen-ee), Tagalog Pangginggí, also known as Pan, is a 19th-century gambling card game probably of Philippine origin similar to rummy, first described in America in 1905. It used to be particularly popular in Las Vegas a ...
or Pan, a gambling card game
Fictional characters
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Pan (''Dragon Ball''), in ''Dragon Ball'' media
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Peter Pan
Peter Pan is a fictional character created by List of Scottish novelists, Scottish novelist and playwright J. M. Barrie. A free-spirited and mischievous young boy who can fly and Puer aeternus, never grows up, Peter Pan spends his never-ending ...
, James Barrie's "boy who never grew up"
Films
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''Pan'' (1922 film), Norwegian
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''Pan'' (1995 film), 1995 Danish/Norwegian/German
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''Pan'' (2015 film), a 2015 American Peter Pan prequel story
Literature and publishing
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''Pan'' (novel), by Knut Hamsun
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''Pan'' (magazine) an arts and literary review
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Pan Books
Pan Books is a publishing imprint that first became active in the 1940s and is now part of the British-based Macmillan Publishers, owned by the Georg von Holtzbrinck Publishing Group of Germany.
Pan Books began as an independent publisher, est ...
, a publisher
Music
Musical instruments
* Pan, short for
steelpan
The steelpan (also known as a pan, steel drum, and sometimes, collectively with other musicians, as a steelband or steel orchestra) is a musical instrument originating in Trinidad and Tobago. Steelpan musicians are called pannists.
Descriptio ...
, an acoustic instrument
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Pan flute
A pan flute (also known as panpipes or syrinx) is a musical instrument based on the principle of the closed tube, consisting of multiple pipes of gradually increasing length (and occasionally girth). Multiple varieties of pan flutes have been ...
or pan pipes, a musical instrument
Groups and labels
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Pan (band)
Pan is a Filipino folk music, folk/punk rock band formed in 2002. The band members were composed of former Yano bandmates Dong Abay on vocals, Onie Badiang on guitar. the duo added session members Milo Duane Cruz and Melvin Leyson who handle t ...
, a Filipino folk/punk rock band
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PAN (record label)
PAN is a Berlin-based record label founded in 2008 by Bill Kouligas. The label is known for its interdisciplinary approach to the fields of contemporary art and music, and has collaborated with institutions such as London's ICA. PAN has signed ...
, a record label and art platform
* Pan, a Turkish band which performed "
Bana Bana" at the 1989 Eurovision Song Contest
Titled works
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''Pan'' (The Blue Hearts), an album by the Japanese band
* ''Pan'', an opera by
Carl Venth
Carl Venth (February 16, 1860 – January 29, 1938) was a German-American composer, violinist, conductor, music educator, and scholar. He was a leading classical music figure in Texas in the first half of the twentieth century and was one ...
Sculpture
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''Pan'' (Riccio), a 1510s bronze sculpture by Andrea Riccio
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''Pan'' (White), a public artwork by Roger White, in Indianapolis, Indiana, U.S.
Religion and mythology
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Pan (god)
In ancient Greek religion and Greek mythology, mythology, Pan (; grc, wikt:Πάν, Πάν, Pán) is the god of the wild, shepherds and flocks, Pastoral#Pastoral music, rustic music and impromptus, and companion of the nymphs. He has the hindqu ...
, a Greek god
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Night of Pan
Within the system of Thelema, the Night of Pan, or N.O.X., is a mystical state that represents the stage of ego-death in the process of spiritual attainment.
The playful and lecherous Pan is the Greek god of nature, lust, and the masculine gene ...
, a mystical state in the philosophy or religion of Thelema
Science and technology
Astronomy
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Pan (crater)
Pan is the largest crater on Jupiter's moon Amalthea. It is kilometers across and at least 8 kilometers deep, with its center's coordinates being 30°N, 30°W.
It is named after Pan, the Greek god
The following is a list of gods, goddesses, ...
, on Jupiter's moon Amalthea
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Pan (moon)
Pan is the innermost named Natural satellite, moon of Saturn. It is a small, walnut-shaped moon approximately 35 kilometres across and 23 km wide that orbits within the Encke Gap in Saturn's A Ring. Pan is a Shepherd moon, ring shepherd an ...
, of Saturn
* Pan, a name for Jupiter XI, now
Carme (moon)
Carme is a retrograde irregular satellite of Jupiter. It was discovered by Seth Barnes Nicholson at Mount Wilson Observatory in California in July 1938. It is named after the mythological Carme, mother by Zeus of Britomartis, a Cretan goddess ...
, 1955–1975
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4450 Pan
4450 Pan ('' prov. designation:'' ) is a highly eccentric asteroid and contact binary, classified as a potentially hazardous asteroid and near-Earth object of the Apollo group, approximately 1.1 kilometers in diameter. It was discovered on 25 Se ...
, an asteroid
Biology and healthcare
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''Pan'' (genus), the genus including chimpanzees and bonobos
* Pan, abbreviation for
panoramic X-ray
A panoramic radiograph is a panoramic scanning dental X-ray of the upper and lower jaw. It shows a two-dimensional view of a half-circle from ear to ear. Panoramic radiography is a form of focal plane tomography; thus, images of multiple pl ...
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Pediatric acute-onset neuropsychiatric syndrome (PANS)
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Polyarteritis nodosa
Polyarteritis nodosa (PAN) is a systemic necrotizing inflammation of blood vessels (vasculitis) affecting medium-sized muscular arteries, typically involving the arteries of the kidneys and other internal organs but generally sparing the lungs' c ...
, a vasculitic condition
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Positional alcohol nystagmus Positional alcohol nystagmus (PAN) is nystagmus (visible jerkiness in eye movement) produced when the head is placed in a sideways position. PAN occurs when the specific gravity of the membrane space of the semicircular canals in the ear differs fr ...
, eye jerkiness
Chemistry
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Peroxyacyl nitrates
In organic chemistry, peroxyacyl nitrates (also known as Acyl peroxy nitrates, APN or PANs) are powerful respiratory and eye irritants present in photochemical smog. They are nitrates produced in the thermal equilibrium between organic peroxy r ...
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Phthalic anhydride
Phthalic anhydride is the organic compound with the formula C6H4(CO)2O. It is the anhydride of phthalic acid. Phthalic anhydride is a principal commercial form of phthalic acid. It was the first anhydride of a dicarboxylic acid to be used commerc ...
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Polyacrylonitrile
Polyacrylonitrile (PAN), also known as polyvinyl cyanide and Creslan 61, is a synthetic, semicrystalline organic polymer resin, with the linear formula (C3H3N)n. Though it is thermoplastic, it does not melt under normal conditions. It degrades bef ...
, a polymer of acrylonitrile
Computing
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Pan (newsreader)
Pan is a news client for multiple operating systems, developed by Charles Kerr and others. It supports offline reading, multiple servers, multiple connections, fast (indexed) article header filtering and mass saving of multi-part attachments encod ...
, for Usenet
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Pan (programming language)
The pan configuration language allows the definition of machine configuration information and an associated
schema with a simple, human-accessible syntax. A pan language compiler transforms the configuration
information contained within a set of p ...
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Personal area network
A personal area network (PAN) is a computer network for interconnecting electronic devices within an individual person's workspace. A PAN provides data transmission among devices such as computers, smartphones, tablets and personal digital assi ...
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Bluetooth Personal Area Network (PAN), a Bluetooth profile
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Permanent account number
A permanent account number (PAN) is a ten-character alphanumeric identifier, issued in the form of a laminated "PAN card", by the Indian Income Tax Department, to any "person" who applies for it or to whom the department allots the number wit ...
(PAN card), for taxpayers in India and Nepal
* Primary account number, another term for the
payment card number
A payment card number, primary account number (PAN), or simply a card number, is the card identifier found on payment cards, such as credit cards and debit cards, as well as stored-value cards, gift cards and other similar cards. In some situati ...
of a payment card
Geology
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Dry lake
A dry lake bed, also known as a playa, is a basin or depression that formerly contained a standing surface water body, which disappears when evaporation processes exceeds recharge. If the floor of a dry lake is covered by deposits of alkaline c ...
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Salt pan (geology)
Natural salt pans or salt flats are flat expanses of ground covered with salt and other minerals, usually shining white under the sun. They are found in deserts and are natural formations (unlike salt evaporation ponds, which are artificial).
...
, a salt dry lake
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Gold panning
Gold panning, or simply ''panning'', is a form of placer mining and traditional mining that extracts gold from a placer deposit using a pan. The process is one of the simplest ways to extract gold, and is popular with geology enthusiasts especi ...
, a mining technique
Multimedia technologies
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Pan and scan
Pan and scan is a method of adjusting widescreen film images so that they can be shown in fullscreen proportions of a standard-definition 4:3 aspect ratio television screen, often cropping off the sides of the original widescreen image to focus ...
, to show wide-screen films on narrow screens
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Panchromatic
Panchromatic emulsion is a type of black-and-white photographic emulsion that is sensitive to all wavelengths of visible light.
Description
A panchromatic emulsion renders a realistic reproduction of a scene as it appears to the human eye, altho ...
black-and-white film
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Panning (audio)
Panning is the distribution of an audio signal (either monaural or stereophonic pairs) into a new stereo or multi-channel sound field determined by a pan control setting. A typical physical recording console has a pan control for each incoming so ...
, of a signal into a new sound field
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Panning (camera)
In cinematography and photography panning means swivelling a still or video camera horizontally from a fixed position.
This motion is similar to the motion of a person when they turn their head on their neck from left to right. In the resulting ...
, swivelling
Food and drink
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Pan dulce
Pan dulce, literally meaning "sweet bread", is the general name for a variety of Mexican pastries. Bread was introduced in Mexico by Spanish colonists, settlers and immigrants; however, Mexican pan dulce as we know it today rose to popularity ...
* Pan, a type of
cookware
Cookware and bakeware is food preparation equipment, such as cooking pots, pans, baking sheets etc. used in kitchens. Cookware is used on a stove or range cooktop, while bakeware is used in an oven. Some utensils are considered both cookware ...
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Bread pan
A bread pan, also called a loaf pan, is a kitchen utensil in the form of a container in which bread is baked. Its function is to shape bread while it is rising during baking. The most common shape of the bread pan is the loaf, or narrow rectang ...
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Frying pan
A frying pan, frypan, or skillet is a flat-bottomed pan used for frying, searing, and browning foods. It is typically in diameter with relatively low sides that flare outwards, a long handle, and no lid. Larger pans may have a small grab han ...
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Sheet pan
Sheet or Sheets may refer to:
* Bed sheet, a rectangular piece of cloth used as bedding
* Sheet of paper, a flat, very thin piece of paper
* Sheet metal, a flat thin piece of metal
* Sheet (sailing), a line, cable or chain used to control the cle ...
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Springform pan
A springform pan is a type of bakeware that features sides that can be removed from the base. Springform refers to the construction style of this pan. The base and the sides are separate pieces that are held together when the base is aligned w ...
* Pan or
Paan
Betel nut chewing, also called betel quid chewing or areca nut chewing, is a practice in which areca nuts (also called "betel nuts") are chewed together with slaked lime and betel leaves for their stimulant and narcotic effects. The practice ...
, a North Indian term for betel
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Pan-bagnat
The pan bagnat (pronounced ɑ̃ baˈɲa (pan bagna, and alternatively in French as pain bagnat) is a sandwich that is a specialty of Nice, France. The sandwich is composed of pain de campagne, a whole wheat bread, enclosing the classic salade ...
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Sliced pan bread, popular in Ireland
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Sugar panning
Sugar panning, or simply panning, is a method for adding a sugar-based "shell" to confectionery or nuts. Popular products that employ this process in their manufacture include dragées, chocolate buttons, gobstoppers, konpeitō and jelly beans ...
, to add a candy shell to, for example, a nut
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Harina P.A.N.
The Harina P.A.N. (abbreviation for Producto Alimenticio Nacional. English: ''National Food Product''), is the first brand of boiled maize flour in Venezuela. The brand itself became a synecdoche, as even with other large competitors in the mar ...
, a pre-cooked corn meal
Languages
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Proto-Austronesian language
Proto-Austronesian (commonly abbreviated as PAN or PAn) is a proto-language. It is the reconstructed ancestor of the Austronesian languages, one of the world's major language families. Proto-Austronesian is assumed to have begun to diversify ...
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Punjabi language
Punjabi (; ; , ), sometimes spelled Panjabi, is an Indo-Aryan language of the Punjab region of Pakistan and India. It has approximately 113 million native speakers.
Punjabi is the most widely-spoken first language in Pakistan, with 80.5 m ...
(ISO 639-3 code "pan")
Organizations
Political parties
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National Action Party (El Salvador)
The National Action Party () is a political party in El Salvador. It first contested national elections in 1956. Nohlen, D (2005) ''Elections in the Americas: A data handbook, Volume I'', p279 However, Roberto Edmundo Cannessa, its candidate in ...
(''Partido Acción Nacional'') of El Salvador
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National Action Party (Mexico)
The National Action Party ( es, Partido Acción Nacional, PAN) is a conservative political party in Mexico founded in 1939. The party is one of the four main List of political parties in Mexico, political parties in Mexico, and, since the 1980s, ...
(''Partido Acción Nacional'') of Mexico
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National Action Party (Nicaragua)
The National Action Party (Partido Acción Nacional - PAN) is a right-wing Nicaraguan political party founded by Eduardo Rivas Gasteazoro in 1985 as a split from the Social Christian Party (PSC) in 1985. The PAN received legal status on appeal in ...
(''Partido Acción Nacional'') of Nicaragua
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National Advancement Party
The National Advancement Party ( es, Partido de Avanzada Nacional) is a conservative political party in Guatemala. It was founded in 1989.
In the 1990 and 1995 elections its presidential candidate was Álvaro Arzú who won in 1995, becoming Gu ...
(''Partido de Avanzada Nacional'') of Guatemala
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National Autonomist Party
The National Autonomist Party ( es, Partido Autonomista Nacional; PAN) was the ruling political party of Argentina from 1874 to 1916.
In 1880, Julio Argentino Roca assumed the presidency under the motto "peace and administration".
History
The ...
(''Partido Autonomista Nacional''), former Argentine Political Party
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National Mandate Party
The National Mandate Party ( id, Partai Amanat Nasional), frequently abbreviated to PAN, is an Islam-basedAl-Hamdi, Ridho. (2017). ''Moving towards a Normalised Path: Political Islam in Contemporary Indonesia''. JURNAL STUDI PEMERINTAHAN (JOURNAL ...
(''Partai Amanat Nasional'') of Indonesia
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Party of the Nation's Retirees
The Party of the Nation's Retirees ( pt, Partido dos Aposentados da Nação, PAN) was a Brazilian political party
A political party is an organization that coordinates candidates to compete in a particular country's elections. It is commo ...
(''Partido dos Aposentados da Nação'') of Brazil
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People-Animals-Nature
People–Animals–Nature ( pt, Pessoas-Animais-Natureza, PAN) is an environmentalist, animal rights and animal welfare focused political party in Portugal, founded in 2009. In 2015, they won one seat in the Assembly of the Republic. (''Pessoas-Animais-Natureza'') of Portugal
Other organizations
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Nutrition Assistance for Puerto Rico
Nutrition Assistance for Puerto Rico (NAP) es, Programa de Asistencia Nutricional (PAN) popularly known in Puerto Rico as ''Cupones'' ('' en, Food Stamps'') is a federal assistance nutritional program provided by the United States Department o ...
(''Programa de Asistencia Nutricional''), a United States Federal assistance program
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Pan Club Copenhagen
Pan Club Copenhagen (often just referred to as Pan) was a gay club in central Copenhagen, Denmark which closed in 1994 after having been in operation on various locations in Copenhagen since 1970. However already in 1996 private owners opened a ...
, a gay club
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Pesticide Action Network
Pesticide Action Network (PAN) is "an international coalition of around 600 NGO
A non-governmental organization (NGO) or non-governmental organisation (see spelling differences) is an organization that generally is formed independent from go ...
, an international NGO network
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Polish Academy of Sciences
The Polish Academy of Sciences ( pl, Polska Akademia Nauk, PAN) is a Polish state-sponsored institution of higher learning. Headquartered in Warsaw, it is responsible for spearheading the development of science across the country by a society of ...
(''Polska Akademia Nauk'')
* Protect Arizona Now, sponsor of
2004 Arizona Proposition 200
Proposition 200, the "Arizona Taxpayer and Citizen Protection Act", was an Arizona state initiative passed in 2004 that basically requires: (a) persons to provide proof of citizenship to register to vote; (b) voters to present a photo identificat ...
Other uses
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Pan (horse)
Pan (1805 – circa 1822) was a British Thoroughbred racehorse and sire. In a career that lasted from June 1808 to July 1814 he had six different owners, ran twenty times and won nine races. His most important success came on his only appe ...
, an early 19th century British thoroughbred racehorse and sire
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Pan-pan
The radiotelephony message PAN-PAN is the international standard urgency signal that someone aboard a boat, ship, aircraft, or other vehicle uses to declare that they have a situation that is urgent, but for the time being, does not pose an immed ...
, a radio state of urgency call
* Pan,
Slavic honorifics
Speakers of Slavic languages and Lithuanians (Baltic languages) use two main sets of honorifics. West Slavs and Ukrainians use the title ''Pan'', South Slavs and Russians use ''Gospodin'', while Belarusians use either ''Pan'' or ''Spadar'', and Li ...
in Poland and Ukraine
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Pansexuality
, meaning "all"
, definition = Sexual or romantic attraction to people regardless of gender
, classification = Sexual identity
, parent = Bisexuality
, synonyms =
, associated_terms = Polysexual, queer, heteroflex ...
, a sexual orientation (often known as "pan")
* PAN, the ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code for
Panama
Panama ( , ; es, link=no, Panamá ), officially the Republic of Panama ( es, República de Panamá), is a transcontinental country spanning the southern part of North America and the northern part of South America. It is bordered by Cos ...
* PAN, the National Rail code for
Pangbourne railway station
Pangbourne railway station serves the village of Pangbourne in the county of Berkshire, and across the River Thames the village of Whitchurch-on-Thames, in Oxfordshire. It is down the line from and is situated between to the east and to the ...
in the county of Berkshire, UK
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USA-207
USA-207, international COSPAR code 2009-047A, also known as PAN, officially meaning ''Palladium At Night'', NEMESIS I, or P360 is a classified American SIGINT satellite, which was launched in September 2009. The US government has not confirmed whi ...
, US satellite named "Palladium At Night"
See also
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Pantheism
Pantheism is the belief that reality, the universe and the cosmos are identical with divinity and a supreme supernatural being or entity, pointing to the universe as being an immanent creator deity still expanding and creating, which has ex ...
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Pain (disambiguation)
Pain is a distressing feeling often caused by intense or damaging stimuli.
Pain may also refer to:
Arts
* "Pain", a season one episode of ''Stargate Universe''
* "Pain", an episode of ''The Good Doctor''
* ''Pain'' (film), a 1953 Mexican-Span ...
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Pan Pan (disambiguation)
Pan Pan may refer to:
* Pan Pan (kingdom), an ancient Hindu kingdom
* Pan-pan, an urgency call
* Pan Pan (giant panda), 1985–2016
* Pan Pan (badminton) (born 1986), Chinese badminton player
* Panhard 178, a French armoured car nick-named Pan-Pan ...
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Panas (disambiguation)
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Pancake
A pancake (or hotcake, griddlecake, or flapjack) is a flat cake, often thin and round, prepared from a Starch, starch-based batter (cooking), batter that may contain eggs, milk and butter and cooked on a hot surface such as a griddle or fryi ...
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Pane (disambiguation)
Pane or Panes may refer to:
* Paned window (architecture), a window that is divided into sections known as "panes"
* Paned window (computing), elements of a graphical display
* Pane (mythology), a type of satyr-like creature from Greek mythology ...
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