Pax or PAX may refer to:

Peace

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'') **

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 a ...

* Pax (liturgy), a salutation in Catholic and Lutheran religious services *

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 pres ...

, an object formerly kissed as a substitute for the Kiss of Peace in the Catholic Mass

Entertainment

* ''Pax'' (1994 film), a Portuguese comedy * ''Pax'' (2011 film), a Norwegian-Swedish drama * PAX (event), a gamer festival * ''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 consider ...

* ''Pax'' (album) by Andrew Hill * Pax TV, which became Ion Television in 2007

Organizations

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 ...

, an international Catholic peace movement *

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 *

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 * PAX Network, a US television network now known as ION Television * Pax World Funds, a US mutual fund company *

Pax Labs Pax Labs (formerly Ploom and stylized as PAX Labs) is an American vaporizer (inhalation device), electronic vaporizer company founded in 2007 that markets the Pax vaporizers. The company developed the Juul (pronounced jewel) e-cigarette; Juul L ...

, 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 movement, an early

pacifist Pacifism is the opposition or resistance to war, militarism (including conscription and mandatory military service) or violence. Pacifists generally reject theories of Just War. The word ''pacifism'' was coined by the French peace campaign ...

movement

Science and technology

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 *

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 kiss ...

, a Linux kernel security patch introduced in 2000 * Pax genes, a group of genes and their proteins * Michelin PAX System, an automotive run-flat tire system * Pax, a generic brand of diazepam available in South Africa * ''Pax'' (spider), a genus of ant spiders

People

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 Carpat ...

(1858–1942), German botanist * Ferdinand Albert Pax (1884–1964), German zoologist, son of the previous

Other uses

* 679 Pax, a minor planet orbiting the Sun *

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

passenger A passenger (also abbreviated as pax) is a person who travels in a vehicle, but does not bear any responsibility for the tasks required for that vehicle to arrive at its destination or otherwise operate the vehicle, and is not a steward. The ...