Par or PAR may refer to:

Finance

* Par value, stated value or face value in finance and accounting *

Par yield In finance, par yield (or par value yield) is the yield on a fixed income security assuming that its market price is equal to par value (also known as face value or nominal value). Par yield is used to derive the U.S. Treasury’s daily officia ...

or par rate, in finance

Games

* Par (score), the number of strokes a scratch golfer should require to complete a hole, round or tournament * Par (golf scoring format), an alternative to Stableford and normal stroke play *

Par contract Optimum contract and par contract are two closely related (and sometimes confused) bridge scoring terms in the card game contract bridge. Optimum contract The optimum contract is the one that offers the best chance of gaining the most scoring poi ...

, in contract bridge

Organizations

Businesses

* Pan Am Railways, an American holding company *

Par Pharmaceutical Endo International plc is an American Irish-domiciled generics and specialty branded pharmaceutical company that generated over 93% of its 2017 sales from the U.S. healthcare system. While Endo's management, operations, and customers are almost ...

, now part of Endo International * PaR Systems, an American automation company

Politicial parties

Aragonese Party The Aragonese Party ( es, Partido Aragonés, PAR) is a political party which advocates the interests of Aragon within Spain. The party was founded in 1978 under the name Aragonese Regionalist Party, but changed its name in 1990, keeping the initia ...

(''Partido Aragonés'', PAR), Spain *

Movement For! Movement For! ( lv, Kustība Par!) is a liberal political party in Latvia.

(''Kustība Par!''), Latvia * Party for the Restructured Antilles (''Partido Antiá Restrukturá'', PAR), Curaçao *

Revolutionary Action Party Revolutionary Action Party ( es, Partido Acción Revolucionaria, PAR) was a leftist political party in Guatemala during the ten-year Guatemalan Revolution. Formed in 1945, the party went through a series of mergers and fractures before dissolving ...

('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 Par ( kw, An Porth, meaning ''creek'' or ''harbour''Henry Jenner, ''A Handbook of the Cornish Language: Chiefly in Its Latest Stages, with Some Account of its History and Literature'', Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1904 reprinted 2012 ...

, England **

Par railway station Par railway station serves the villages of Par, Tywardreath and St Blazey, Cornwall, England. The station is from via . It is the junction for the Atlantic Coast Line to . The station is managed by Great Western Railway, which operates the ...

Par, Iran Par ( fa, پر) is a village in Nazlu-e Shomali Rural District, Nazlu District, Urmia County, West Azerbaijan Province, Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called Persia, is a country located in Western A ...

* Par, Vologda Oblast, Russia * Par, Tibet * Philippine Area of Responsibility, a weather monitoring area in the northwest Pacific *

Paraguay Paraguay (; ), officially the Republic of Paraguay ( es, República del Paraguay, links=no; gn, Tavakuairetã Paraguái, links=si), is a landlocked country in South America. It is bordered by Argentina to the south and southwest, Brazil to th ...

* Parkesburg station, Pennsylvania, U.S., station code PAR * PAR,

IATA airport code An IATA airport code, also known as an IATA location identifier, IATA station code, or simply a location identifier, is a three-character alphanumeric geocode designating many airports and metropolitan areas around the world, defined by the ...

for the metropolital 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 A page address register (PAR) contains the physical addresses of pages currently held in the main memory of a computer system. PARs are used in order to avoid excessive use of an address table in some operating systems. A PAR may check a page's nu ...

, containing physical addresses * Perl Archive Toolkit, a deployment tool *

Personal Animation Recorder PAR, the Personal Animation Recorder, is an analog video playback device for Amiga Amiga is a family of personal computers introduced by Commodore in 1985. The original model is one of a number of mid-1980s computers with 16- or 32-bit processo ...

, video capture for Amiga computers *

Pixel aspect ratio Pixel aspect ratio (often abbreviated PAR) is a mathematical ratio that describes how the width of a pixel in a digital image compares to the height of that pixel. Most digital imaging systems display an image as a grid of tiny, square pixe ...

, in digital imaging * .par, .par2, .par3, filename extensions of

Parchive Parchive (a portmanteau of parity archive, and formally known as Parity Volume Set Specification) is an erasure code system that produces par files for checksum verification of data integrity, with the capability to perform data recovery operatio ...

Other uses in science and technology

Parabolic aluminized reflector A parabolic aluminized reflector lamp (PAR lamp or simply PAR) is a type of electric lamp that is widely used in commercial, residential, and transportation illumination. It produces a highly directional beam. Usage includes theatrical lightin ...

, PAR lamp or PAR, a type of electric lamp *

Participatory action research Participatory action research (PAR) is an approach to action research emphasizing participation and action by members of communities affected by that research. It seeks to understand the world by trying to change it, collaboratively and following ...

, a social sciences research approach * Passive autocatalytic recombiner, device that removes hydrogen from a nuclear power plant during an accident *

Par meter 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 scratch golfer should require to complete a hole, round or tourna ...

, to measure peak-to-average ratio in an electrical circuit *

Precision approach radar Precision approach radar (PAR) is a type of radar guidance system designed to provide lateral and vertical guidance to an aircraft pilot for landing, until the landing threshold is reached. Controllers monitoring the PAR displays observe each airc ...

, a radar guidance system