Para, or PARA, may refer to:
Businesses and organizations
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Paramount Global, traded as PARA on the Nasdaq stock exchange
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Para Group
CT Corp (formerly known as Para Group) is one of Indonesia's largest diversified group of companies. The group was founded by Chairul Tanjung in 1987. CT Corp operates consumer-centric businesses nationwide across four key divisions: financial s ...
, the former name of CT Corp
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Para Rubber
Skellerup is a New Zealand-based manufacturer of industrial and agricultural rubber products. The company, then called Para Rubber Company, was founded by George Skellerup in 1910 when he opened his first retail shop in Christchurch and now empl ...
, now Skellerup, a New Zealand manufacturer
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Para USA, formerly Para-Ordnance, a firearms manufacturer
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Pan American Rugby Association
The Pan American Championship ( es, Torneo Panamericano de Rugby) was the major international rugby tournament held in the Americas, hosted irregularly on five occasions from 1995 to 2003. The tournament was organized by the Pan American Rugby Asso ...
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Philippine Amateur Radio Association
People
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Pará (footballer, born 1986), Marcos Rogério Ricci Lopes
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Pará (footballer, born 1987)
Erinaldo Rabelo Santos, better known as Pará (born September 19, 1987 in Rio Maria, Pará, Rio Maria), is a Brazilian footballer who acts as left back. Currently playing for São Bernardo Futebol Clube, São Bernardo.
Career
Pará began his care ...
, Erinaldo Rabelo Santos
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Pará (footballer, born 1995)
Anderson Ferreira da Silva (born 23 August 1995), commonly known as Pará, is a Brazilian association football, footballer who plays for Vegalta Sendai as a Defender (association football)#Full-back, left back.
Club career
Born in Capanema, Par ...
, Anderson Ferreira da Silva
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Pará (footballer, born 2002)
Luis Felipe Rabelo Costa (born 18 February 2002), commonly known as Pará, is a Brazilian Association football, footballer who plays as a midfielder for Esporte Clube Juventude, Juventude.
Club career
Pará was born in Marituba, Pará, and join ...
, Luis Felipe Rabelo Costa
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André Cordeiro (water polo)
André Luiz Pessanha Cordeiro (born August 9, 1967) is a water polo goalkeeper from Brazil. Nicknamed Pará, he competed in three consecutive Pan American Games
The Pan American Games (also known colloquially as the Pan Am Games) is a co ...
(born 1967), nicknamed Pará, Brazilian water polo player
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Para Draine (born 1972), American female boxer
Places
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Para (Bengali), a Bengali word meaning neighborhood or locality
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Pará, a state of Brazil
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Para (community development block), Purulia district, West Bengal, India
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Para, Purulia
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Para (Vidhan Sabha constituency)
Para Assembly constituency is an assembly constituency in Purulia district in the Indian state of West Bengal. It is reserved for scheduled castes.
Overview
As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 245 Para Assembly constituency (SC) i ...
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Para, Jhabua, Madhya Pradesh, India
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Para, Rajasthan
Para is a village in Kekri tehsil of Ajmer district, in Rajasthan state of India. As of 2011 census of India, its population is 3752. , India
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Para, Unnao
Para is a village in Hilauli block of Unnao district, Uttar Pradesh, India. As of 2011, its population is 7,701, in 1,262 households, and it has 6 primary schools and no healthcare facilities. It hosts a regular market and has a sub post office.
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, Uttar Pradesh, India
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Para, Raebareli
Para is a village in Harchandpur block of Rae Bareli district, Uttar Pradesh, India. As of 2011, its population is 2,142, in 408 households. It has two primary schools and no healthcare facilities.
The 1961 Census of India, 1961 census recorded P ...
, Uttar Pradesh, India
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Para, Ivory Coast
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Para District, Suriname
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Para River (disambiguation)
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La Para, a summit in the Swiss Alps
Science and technology
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Parity (biology), the number of times a woman has given birth, e.g. para 1 etc.
* Para, common name of fern ''
Ptisana salicina''
* para, symbol for the fruit fly gene ''
paralytic (gene)''
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Para- (chemistry), a position of a substituent on a cyclic hydrocarbon
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Para red, a dye
Other uses
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Para (currency), a former currency of the Ottoman Empire
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Para language, an unclassified Naga language of India and Burma
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Para Handy, a fictional character in the ''Glasgow Evening News''
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Para Loga, one among the seven Logas (upper worlds) in Ayyavazhi mythology
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Para Shakti, a Hindu goddess of the Shakti type sometimes concatenated Parashakti
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Brazilian ship ''Pará'', a list of ships
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Juz', or para, a division of the Quran
See also
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Paras (disambiguation) Paras may refer to:
People
* Parshvanatha, 23rd Tirthankara of Jainism
* Paras Shah, former Crown Prince of Nepal
* Andre Paras, Filipino actor and son of Benjie Paras
* Benjie Paras, Filipino actor and former professional basketball player
* Para ...
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Param (disambiguation)
Param may refer to:
*PARAM, a series of Indian supercomputers
*Param (company), a video game developer
*Param, Iran, a village in East Azerbaijan Province, Iran
*Param, Mazandaran, a village in Mazandaran Province, Iran
*Param, Chuuk, Micronesia, ...
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List of commonly used taxonomic affixes
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Para Para, a popular Japanese solo dance
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Parachute Regiment (disambiguation) A Parachute regiment is an airborne infantry military unit of paratroopers, trained in parachuting into a combat zone.
Parachute Regiment may refer to:
*Parachute Regiment (United Kingdom), an elite airborne infantry regiment of the British Army
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Paralympic Games
The Paralympic Games or Paralympics, also known as the ''Games of the Paralympiad'', is a periodic series of international multisport events involving athletes with a range of physical disabilities, including impaired muscle power and impaire ...
, international games for athletes with a disability
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Paramilitary
A paramilitary is an organization whose structure, tactics, training, subculture, and (often) function are similar to those of a professional military, but is not part of a country's official or legitimate armed forces. Paramilitary units carr ...
, organisations not part of the armed forces but operate as such
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Paraprofessional
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Paralegal
A paralegal, also known as a legal assistant, or paralegal specialist is a professional who performs tasks that require knowledge of legal concepts but not the full expertise of a lawyer with a license to practice law. The market for paralegals i ...
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Paramedic
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Parapsychology, the study of alleged psychic phenomena
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Paratrooper, a military parachutist
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