Pax or PAX may refer to:
Peace
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Peace
Peace is a concept of societal friendship and harmony in the absence of hostility and violence. In a social sense, peace is commonly used to mean a lack of conflict (such as war) and freedom from fear of violence between individuals or groups. ...
(Latin: ''pax'')
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Pax (goddess)
Pax (Latin for ''Peace''), more commonly known in English as Peace, was the Roman goddess of peace derived and adopted from the ancient Greek equivalent Eirene. Pax was seen as the daughter of the Roman king god Jupiter and the goddess Justice. W ...
, the Roman goddess of peace
** Pax, a
truce term
A truce term is a word or short phrase accepted within a community of children as an effective way of calling for a temporary respite or truce during a game or activity, such as tag or its variants. Common examples in English speaking cultures ...
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Pax (liturgy)
In Christian liturgy, "the ''Pax''" is an abbreviation of the Latin salutations "''pax vobis''" ("peace to you") or "''pax vobiscum''" ("peace with you"), which are used in the Catholic Mass, the Lutheran Divine Service, and the Western Orthodo ...
, a salutation in Catholic and Lutheran religious services
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Pax (liturgical object)
The pax was an object used in the Middle Ages and Renaissance for the Kiss of Peace in the Catholic Mass. Direct kissing among the celebrants and congregation was replaced by each in turn kissing the pax, which was carried around to those pre ...
, an object formerly kissed as a substitute for the Kiss of Peace in the Catholic Mass
Entertainment
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''Pax'' (1994 film), a Portuguese comedy
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''Pax'' (2011 film), a Norwegian-Swedish drama
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PAX (event)
PAX (originally known as Penny Arcade Expo) is a series of gaming culture festivals involving tabletop, arcade, and video gaming. PAX is held annually in Seattle, Boston and Philadelphia in the United States; and Melbourne in Australia. PAX w ...
, a gamer festival
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''Pax'' (novel), by Sara Pennypacker
* Pax, a fictional organization in ''
Strange New World'' and elsewhere by Gene Roddenberry
* PAX, a side project of the German band
X Marks the Pedwalk
X Marks the Pedwalk (sometimes written as X-Marks the Pedwalk) is a German band whose styles range from post-industrial dance to electronic body music. X Marks the Pedwalk’s influence in the industrial and electronic music scenes was consid ...
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''Pax'' (album) by
Andrew Hill
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Pax TV
Ion Television is an American broadcast television network owned by the Katz Broadcasting subsidiary of the E. W. Scripps Company. The network first began broadcasting on August 31, 1998, as Pax TV, focusing primarily on family-oriented ente ...
, which became Ion Television in 2007
Organizations
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Pax Christi International
Pax Christi International is an international Catholic peace movement. The Pax Christi International website declares its mission is "to transform a world shaken by violence, terrorism, deepening inequalities, and global insecurity."
History
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, an international Catholic peace movement
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PAX Association
The PAX Association () was a pro-communist Catholic organization created in 1947 in the People's Republic of Poland at the onset of the Stalinist period. The association published the ''Słowo Powszechne'' daily for almost fifty years between 19 ...
, in Poland
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Pax Forlag
Pax Forlag is a Norwegian publishing house, established in 1964.
The first manager was Tor Bjerkmann, who chaired the company from 1964 to 1972.
Starting with Bjerkmann's new translation of George Orwell's ''Animal Farm'', Pax published 150 qu ...
, a Norwegian publishing house
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PAX Network
Ion Television is an American broadcast television network owned by the Katz Broadcasting subsidiary of the E. W. Scripps Company. The network first began broadcasting on August 31, 1998, as Pax TV, focusing primarily on family-oriented enter ...
, a US television network now known as ION Television
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Pax World Funds, a US mutual fund company
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Pax Labs
Pax Labs (formerly Ploom and stylized as PAX Labs) is an American electronic vaporizer company founded in 2007 that markets the Pax vaporizers. The company developed the Juul (pronounced jewel) e-cigarette; Juul Labs was spun out as a separate ...
, a US manufacturer of vaporizers and the Juul electronic cigarette
* Pax, a Russian manufacturer of
Ferris wheels
A Ferris wheel (also called a Giant Wheel or an observation wheel) is an amusement ride consisting of a rotating upright wheel with multiple passenger-carrying components (commonly referred to as passenger cars, cabins, tubs, gondolas, capsules ...
and other amusement rides
* ''Pax Dei'': the European Middle Ages
Peace and Truce of God
The Peace and Truce of God ( lat, Pax et treuga Dei) was a movement in the Middle Ages led by the Catholic Church and one of the most influential mass peace movements in history. The goal of both the ''Pax Dei'' and the ''Treuga Dei'' was to limit ...
movement, an early
pacifist movement
Science and technology
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pax (command)
pax is an archiving utility available for various operating systems and defined since 1995. Rather than sort out the incompatible options that have crept up between tar and cpio, along with their implementations across various versions of Unix, ...
, a command line program to read and write file archives
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PaX
Pax or PAX may refer to:
Peace
* Peace (Latin: ''pax'')
** Pax (goddess), the Roman goddess of peace
** Pax, a truce term
* Pax (liturgy), a salutation in Catholic and Lutheran religious services
* Pax (liturgical object), an object formerly ki ...
, a Linux kernel security patch introduced in 2000
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Pax genes
Pax or PAX may refer to:
Peace
* Peace (Latin: ''pax'')
** Pax (goddess), the Roman goddess of peace
** Pax, a truce term
* Pax (liturgy), a salutation in Catholic and Lutheran religious services
* Pax (liturgical object), an object formerly ki ...
, a group of genes and their proteins
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Michelin PAX System
The Michelin PAX is an automobile run-flat tire system that utilizes a special type of rim and tire to allow temporary use of a wheel if its tire is punctured. The core of Michelin's PAX system is the semi-rigid ring installed onto the rim using sp ...
, an automotive run-flat tire system
* Pax, a generic brand of
diazepam
Diazepam, first marketed as Valium, is a medicine of the benzodiazepine family that acts as an anxiolytic. It is commonly used to treat a range of conditions, including anxiety, seizures, alcohol withdrawal syndrome, muscle spasms, insomnia, ...
available in South Africa
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''Pax'' (spider), a genus of ant spiders
People
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Ferdinand Albin Pax
Ferdinand Albin Pax (26 July 1858 – 1 March 1942) was a German botanist specializing in spermatophytes. A collaborator of Adolf Engler, he wrote several monographs and described several species of plants and animals from Silesia and the Carpa ...
(1858–1942), German botanist
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Ferdinand Albert Pax
Ferdinand Albert Pax (30 December 1885 – 11 September 1964) was a German zoologist who worked at the University of Wroclaw. He was the author of a monograph on the Hexacorallia in the series edited by Willy Kükenthal.
Pax was born in Breslau to ...
(1884–1964), German zoologist, son of the previous
Other uses
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679 Pax
679 Pax is a minor planet orbiting the Sun that was discovered by German astronomer August Kopff on January 28, 1909. It is named after Pax, a Roman goddess. It is orbiting the Sun with a period of 4.16 years and an eccentricity of 0.31.
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, a minor planet orbiting the Sun
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Winter Storm Pax
The February 2014 nor'easter was a major nor'easter that produced a damaging snow and ice storm that affected the Southern United States and East Coast of the United States, bringing with it up to a foot of snow and crippling ice across parts of ...
, a 2014 storm in the US
* auxiliary unit of measurement for the number of
passengers in shipping and aviation, for guests in the hotel industry and for visitors to events
* Name of one of the months of the ancient
Maya calendar
The Maya calendar is a system of calendars used in pre-Columbian Mesoamerica and in many modern communities in the Guatemalan highlands, Veracruz, Oaxaca and Chiapas, Mexico.
The essentials of the Maya calendar are based upon a system which had ...
See also
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List of periods of regional peace
A ''list'' is any set of items in a row. List or lists may also refer to:
People
* List (surname)
Organizations
* List College, an undergraduate division of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America
* SC Germania List, German rugby unio ...
, enforced by a dominant power:
** ''
Pax Americana
''Pax Americana'' (Latin for "American Peace", modeled after ''Pax Romana'' and ''Pax Britannica''; also called the Long Peace) is a term applied to the concept of relative peace in the Western Hemisphere and later in the world after the end o ...
'', 1945 onward
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Pax Assyriaca
The ''Pax Assyriaca'' (Latin for "Assyrian peace") was a relatively long period of peace in the Neo-Assyrian Empire during the 7th century (c. 700–630/620 BC).Craig M. White, ''In Search of…the Great German Nation: Origins and Destiny'' (Sydne ...
'', Assyrian Empire, 7th century BCE
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Pax Britannica
''Pax Britannica'' (Latin for "British Peace", modelled after '' Pax Romana'') was the period of relative peace between the great powers during which the British Empire became the global hegemonic power and adopted the role of a " global pol ...
'', 1815–1914
** ''
Pax Europaea'', European Union, 1945–2022
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Pax Hispanica'', Spanish Empire, 1598–1621
** ''
Pax Mongolica
The ''Pax Mongolica'' (Latin for "Mongol Peace"), less often known as ''Pax Tatarica'' ("Tatar Peace"), is a historiographical term modelled after the original phrase ''Pax Romana'' which describes the stabilizing effects of the conquests of the ...
'', Mongol Empire, 13th & 14th centuries
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Pax Romana
The Pax Romana (Latin for 'Roman peace') is a roughly 200-year-long timespan of Roman history which is identified as a period and as a golden age of increased as well as sustained Roman imperialism, relative peace and order, prosperous stabilit ...
'', Roman Empire, 1st & 2nd centuries
** ''
Pax Sinica
''Pax Sinica'' (Latin for "Chinese peace"; ) is a historiographical term referring to periods of peace and stability in East Asia, Northeast Asia, Southeast Asia, and Central Asia led by China. A study on the Sinocentric world system reveals ...
'', China, much of the 1st millennium
** ''
Pax Ottomana'', Ottoman Empire, 1299–1699
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Pax Hill
Pax Hill (Peace Hill), near Bentley, Hampshire, England, was the family home of Robert Baden-Powell, founder of the Scout movement, and his wife, Olave, for over twenty years during the 20th century. It is located at the end of a half-mile dr ...
, a house in England
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Pax Pamir
''Pax Pamir'' is a boardgame designed by Cole Wehrle, originally released in 2015 with a second edition published in 2019. It concerns the Russian, British, and Durrani empires struggling for dominance in Afghanistan, with players assuming the r ...
, a board game set in 19th century Afghanistan
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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 ...
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Peace (disambiguation)
Peace may refer to:
* Peace: a generic term for a state of tranquility or harmony
** Peace (law), various legal protections offered to people in a specific area, by a court, head of state or legislature
** World peace
** Inner peace
Peace may als ...
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