Var or VAR may refer to:

Places

Var (department) Var (, ) is a department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region of Southeastern France. It takes its name from the river Var, which flowed along its eastern boundary, until the boundary was moved in 1860 and the department is no longer assoc ...

, a department of France *

Var (river) The Var (, ; it, Varo; la, Varus) is a river located in the southeast of France. It is long. Its drainage basin is .Vār, Iran, village in West Azerbaijan Province, Iran *

Var, Iran (disambiguation) Varin ( fa, ورين), also called Var, in Iran, may refer to: * Varin-e Bala * Varin-e Pain See also * Var, Iran Var ( fa, وار, also Romanized as Vār) is a village in Firuraq Rural District, in the Central District of Khoy County, West Az ...

, other places in Iran * Vár, a village in

Obreja Obreja ( hu, Obrézsa) is a commune in Caraș-Severin County, western Romania with a population of 3249. It is composed of four villages: Ciuta (''Csuta''), Iaz (''Jász''), Obreja and Var (''Vár''). It is situated in the historical region of Ban ...

commune, Caraș-Severin County, Romania * Var, a village in

Jibou Jibou (; hu, Zsibó ; german: Siben; yi, זשיבוי) is a town in Sălaj County, Transylvania, Romania. In 2011 it had a population of 10,407. Jibou includes the town proper and other four villages: Rona ( Hungarian: ''Szilágyróna''), Cuceu ( ...

town, Sălaj County, Romania *

Var (Olt) The Var is a right tributary of the river Olt in Romania. It flows into the Olt in Siculeni, Harghita County Harghita (, hu, Hargita megye, ) is a county (județ) in the center of Romania, in eastern Transylvania, with the county seat at Mi ...

, a river in Harghita County, Romania * VAR, the IATA airport code for

Varna Airport Varna Airport () is the airport of Varna, the historical maritime capital of Bulgaria. Varna Airport is the third largest airport in Bulgaria. It is located 10 kilometers from the center of Varna near the town of Aksakovo. The airport serves V ...

, Bulgaria

Mythology, arts and entertainment

Vár In Norse mythology, Vár or Vór (Old Norse, meaning either "pledge"Orchard (1997:173). or "beloved"Byock (2005:178) and Simek (2007:353).) is a goddess associated with oaths and agreements. Vár is attested in the ''Poetic Edda'', compiled in the ...

, a goddess in Norse mythology * Var or vara, an enclosure built by

Jamshid Jamshid () ( fa, جمشید, ''Jamshīd''; Middle- and New Persian: جم, ''Jam'') also known as ''Yima'' (Avestan: 𐬫𐬌𐬨𐬀 ''Yima''; Pashto/Dari: یما ''Yama'') is the fourth Shah of the mythological Pishdadian dynasty of Iran acco ...

(Yima) in Zoroastrian mythology *

Var (poetry) The var, in Punjabi poetry, is a heroic ode or ballad which generally narrates legend such as stories of Punjabi folk heroes or a historical event.''The Encyclopaedia of Indian Literature (Volume One - A to Devo)''. Amaresh Datta, ed. Sahitya Akadem ...

, a type of Punjabi poem * ''

Vår jul ''Vår jul'' ( en, "Our Christmas") is the second joint album by Swedish artists Sanna Nielsen, Shirley Clamp & Sonja Aldén released in Sweden in 2010, physically through Lionheart International and digitally through Universal Music. Although t ...

'', a Swedish Christmas album from 2010 * ''Var the Stick'', part of the

Battle Circle ''Battle Circle'' is a trilogy of science fiction novels by Piers Anthony. Originally published separately, the trilogy was later combined into a single volume. Setting The novels take place on a Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction, post-ap ...

trilogy by Piers Anthony

Science and technology

* , a directory on Unix-like computer systems, see

Filesystem Hierarchy Standard The Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (FHS) is a reference describing the conventions used for the layout of a UNIX system. It has been made popular by its use in Linux distributions, but it is used by other UNIX variants as well. It is maintained b ...

* , an

HTML tag The HyperText Markup Language or HTML is the standard markup language for documents designed to be displayed in a web browser. It can be assisted by technologies such as Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and scripting languages such as JavaScript ...

Vacuum arc remelting Vacuum arc remelting (VAR) is a secondary melting process for production of metal ingots with elevated chemical and mechanical homogeneity for highly demanding applications. The VAR process has revolutionized the specialty traditional metallurgica ...

(VAR), a process for production of steel and special alloys *

Value-added reseller A value-added reseller (VAR) is a company that adds features or services to an existing product, then resells it (usually to end-users) as an integrated product or complete "turn-key" solution. This practice occurs commonly in the electronics or IT ...

(VAR), an economic term primarily used in the technology industry *

Variable (computer science) In computer programming, a variable is an abstract storage location paired with an associated symbol, symbolic name, which contains some known or unknown quantity of information referred to as a ''value (computer science), value''; or in simpler ...

, in programming languages *

Variance In probability theory and statistics, variance is the expectation of the squared deviation of a random variable from its population mean or sample mean. Variance is a measure of dispersion, meaning it is a measure of how far a set of numbers ...

, often represented Var(X), in statistics *

Variety (botany) In botanical nomenclature, variety (abbreviated var.; in la, varietas) is a taxonomic rank below that of species and subspecies, but above that of form. As such, it gets a three-part infraspecific name. It is sometimes recommended that the ...

(var.), a taxonomic rank *

Value at risk Value at risk (VaR) is a measure of the risk of loss for investments. It estimates how much a set of investments might lose (with a given probability), given normal market conditions, in a set time period such as a day. VaR is typically used by ...

(VaR), in economics and finance *

Vector autoregression Vector autoregression (VAR) is a statistical model used to capture the relationship between multiple quantities as they change over time. VAR is a type of stochastic process model. VAR models generalize the single-variable (univariate) autoregres ...

(VAR), an econometric method of analysis *

Visual Aural Radio Range The Visual Aural Radio Range (VAR) was a short range radio navigation aid, used from about 1940 until 1960, that provided four-course visual and aural track guidance signals at a range of about 100 miles. The VAR bridged the technological gap betw ...

(VAR), a radio navigation aid for aircraft *

Volt-ampere reactive A volt-ampere ( SI symbol: V⋅A or V A, simplified as VA) is the unit for the apparent power in an electrical circuit. The apparent power equals the product of root mean square voltage (in volts) and root mean square current (in amperes ...

(var), a unit which is the imaginary counterpart of the watt

Sport

Video assistant referee The video assistant referee (VAR) is a match official in association football who reviews decisions made by the referee. The assistant video assistant referee (AVAR) is a current or former referee appointed to assist the VAR in the video ope ...

(VAR), in association football (soccer) *

Van Amersfoort Racing Van Amersfoort Racing is an auto racing team based in the Netherlands. In 2022 the team competes in the Formula 2 Championship, the Formula 3 Championship, the Formula Regional European Championship, Euroformula Open Championship, Italian F4 Cha ...

, an auto racing team based in the Netherlands

Other uses

* Vara, an old Spanish and Portuguese unit of length; see

Spanish customary units There are a number of Spanish units of measurement of length or area that are virtually obsolete due to metrication. They include the vara, the cordel, the league and the labor. The units of area used to express the area of land are still encounte ...

Free Anti Revolutionary Party The Free Anti Revolutionary Party (in Dutch: ''Vrij-Antirevolutionaire Partij'', VAR) was a Dutch conservative Reformed political party, which existed from 1898 to 1903. The VAR is historically linked to the Christian Democratic Appeal which is c ...

( nl, Vrije Anti Revolutionaire partij), a former political party