Pan or PAN may refer to:

Prefix

* ''Pan-'', a prefix from the

Greek Greek may refer to: Greece Anything of, from, or related to Greece, a country in Southern Europe: *Greeks, an ethnic group. *Greek language, a branch of the Indo-European language family. **Proto-Greek language, the assumed last common ancestor ...

πᾶν, ''pan'', meaning "all", "of everything", or "involving all members" of a group ** , most but not all using the prefix

People

Pan (surname) Pān is the Mandarin pinyin romanization of the East Asian surname . It is listed 43rd in the Song dynasty classic text '' Hundred Family Surnames''. It is romanized as P'an in Wade–Giles; Poon, Phoon, Pon, or Pun in Cantonese; Phua in Hokki ...

, Chinese family name (潘 or 盤) * Pan Ron, Cambodian singer *

Panchan Rina , better known as , is a Japanese professional kickboxer. She is the current Knock Out-Black Female Minimumweight Champion. She is also a former Knock Out-Black Female Atomweight Champion and a Rebels-Black Women's 46 kg Champion. After ...

, Japanese kickboxer

Arts, entertainment, and media

Card games

* Pan (game), a shedding card game of Polish origin *

Panguingue Panguingue (pronounced pan-geen-ee), Tagalog Pangginggí, also known as Pan, is a 19th-century gambling card game probably of Philippine origin similar to rummy, first described in America in 1905. It used to be particularly popular in Las Vegas a ...

or Pan, a gambling card game

Fictional characters

* Pan (''Dragon Ball''), in ''Dragon Ball'' media *

Peter Pan Peter Pan is a fictional character created by Scottish novelist and playwright J. M. Barrie. A free-spirited and mischievous young boy who can fly and never grows up, Peter Pan spends his never-ending childhood having adventures on the mythi ...

, James Barrie's "boy who never grew up"

Films

* ''Pan'' (1922 film), Norwegian * ''Pan'' (1995 film), 1995 Danish/Norwegian/German * ''Pan'' (2015 film), a 2015 American Peter Pan prequel story

Literature and publishing

* ''Pan'' (novel), by Knut Hamsun * ''Pan'' (magazine) an arts and literary review *

Pan Books Pan Books is a publishing imprint that first became active in the 1940s and is now part of the British-based Macmillan Publishers, owned by the Georg von Holtzbrinck Publishing Group of Germany. Pan Books began as an independent publisher, es ...

, a publisher

Music

Musical instruments

* Pan, short for

steelpan The steelpan (also known as a pan, steel drum, and sometimes, collectively with other musicians, as a steelband or steel orchestra) is a musical instrument originating in Trinidad and Tobago. Steelpan musicians are called pannists. Descriptio ...

, an acoustic instrument *

Pan flute A pan flute (also known as panpipes or syrinx) is a musical instrument based on the principle of the closed tube, consisting of multiple pipes of gradually increasing length (and occasionally girth). Multiple varieties of pan flutes have been ...

or pan pipes, a musical instrument

Groups and labels

Pan (band) Pan is a Filipino folk/ punk rock band formed in 2002. The band members were composed of former Yano bandmates Dong Abay on vocals, Onie Badiang on guitar. the duo added session members Milo Duane Cruz and Melvin Leyson who handle the bass an ...

, a Filipino folk/punk rock band * PAN (record label), a record label and art platform * Pan, a Turkish band which performed " Bana Bana" at the 1989 Eurovision Song Contest

Titled works

* ''Pan'' (The Blue Hearts), an album by the Japanese band * ''Pan'', an opera by

Carl Venth Carl Venth (February 16, 1860 – January 29, 1938) was a German-American composer, violinist, conductor, music educator, and scholar. He was a leading classical music figure in Texas in the first half of the twentieth century and was one ...

Sculpture

* ''Pan'' (Riccio), a 1510s bronze sculpture by Andrea Riccio * ''Pan'' (White), a public artwork by Roger White, in Indianapolis, Indiana, U.S.

Religion and mythology

* Pan (god), a Greek god *

Night of Pan Within the system of Thelema, the Night of Pan, or N.O.X., is a mystical state that represents the stage of ego-death in the process of spiritual attainment. The playful and lecherous Pan is the Greek god of nature, lust, and the masculine gener ...

, a mystical state in the philosophy or religion of Thelema

Science and technology

Astronomy

Pan (crater) Pan is the largest crater on Jupiter's moon Amalthea. It is kilometers across and at least 8 kilometers deep, with its center's coordinates being 30°N, 30°W. It is named after Pan, the Greek god The following is a list of gods, goddesses ...

, on Jupiter's moon Amalthea *

Pan (moon) Pan is the innermost named moon of Saturn. It is a small, walnut-shaped moon approximately 35 kilometres across and 23 km wide that orbits within the Encke Gap in Saturn's A Ring. Pan is a ring shepherd and is responsible for keeping th ...

, of Saturn * Pan, a name for Jupiter XI, now

Carme (moon) Carme is a retrograde irregular satellite of Jupiter. It was discovered by Seth Barnes Nicholson at Mount Wilson Observatory in California in July 1938. It is named after the mythological Carme, mother by Zeus of Britomartis, a Cretan god ...

, 1955–1975 *

4450 Pan 4450 Pan ('' prov. designation:'' ) is a highly eccentric asteroid and contact binary, classified as a potentially hazardous asteroid and near-Earth object of the Apollo group, approximately 1.1 kilometers in diameter. It was discovered on 25 S ...

, an asteroid

Biology and healthcare

* ''Pan'' (genus), the genus including chimpanzees and bonobos * Pan, abbreviation for

panoramic X-ray A panoramic radiograph is a panoramic scanning dental X-ray of the upper and lower jaw. It shows a two-dimensional view of a half-circle from ear to ear. Panoramic radiography is a form of focal plane tomography; thus, images of multiple pl ...

* Pediatric acute-onset neuropsychiatric syndrome (PANS) *

Polyarteritis nodosa Polyarteritis nodosa (PAN) is a systemic necrotizing inflammation of blood vessels (vasculitis) affecting medium-sized muscular arteries, typically involving the arteries of the kidneys and other internal organs but generally sparing the lungs' ...

, a vasculitic condition * Positional alcohol nystagmus, eye jerkiness

Chemistry

Peroxyacyl nitrates In organic chemistry, peroxyacyl nitrates (also known as Acyl peroxy nitrates, APN or PANs) are powerful respiratory and eye irritants present in photochemical smog. They are nitrates produced in the thermal equilibrium between organic peroxy ...

Phthalic anhydride Phthalic anhydride is the organic compound with the formula C6H4(CO)2O. It is the anhydride of phthalic acid. Phthalic anhydride is a principal commercial form of phthalic acid. It was the first anhydride of a dicarboxylic acid to be used commer ...

Polyacrylonitrile Polyacrylonitrile (PAN), also known as polyvinyl cyanide and Creslan 61, is a synthetic, semicrystalline organic polymer resin, with the linear formula (C3H3N)n. Though it is thermoplastic, it does not melt under normal conditions. It degrades bef ...

, a polymer of acrylonitrile

Computing

Pan (newsreader) Pan is a news client for multiple operating systems, developed by Charles Kerr and others. It supports offline reading, multiple servers, multiple connections, fast (indexed) article header filtering and mass saving of multi-part attachments encod ...

, for Usenet * Pan (programming language) *

Personal area network A personal area network (PAN) is a computer network for interconnecting electronic devices within an individual person's workspace. A PAN provides data transmission among devices such as computers, smartphones, tablets and personal digital ass ...

** Bluetooth Personal Area Network (PAN), a Bluetooth profile *

Permanent account number A permanent account number (PAN) is a ten-character alphanumeric identifier, issued in the form of a laminated "PAN card", by the Indian Income Tax Department, to any "person" who applies for it or to whom the department allots the number wi ...

(PAN card), for taxpayers in India and Nepal * Primary account number, another term for the

payment card number A payment card number, primary account number (PAN), or simply a card number, is the card identifier found on payment cards, such as credit cards and debit cards, as well as stored-value cards, gift cards and other similar cards. In some situat ...

of a payment card

Geology

* Dry lake **

Salt pan (geology) Natural salt pans or salt flats are flat expanses of ground covered with salt and other minerals, usually shining white under the sun. They are found in deserts and are natural formations (unlike salt evaporation ponds, which are artificial). ...

, a salt dry lake *

Gold panning Gold panning, or simply ''panning'', is a form of placer mining and traditional mining that extracts gold from a placer deposit using a pan. The process is one of the simplest ways to extract gold, and is popular with geology enthusiasts especi ...

, a mining technique

Multimedia technologies

Pan and scan Pan and scan is a method of adjusting widescreen film images so that they can be shown in fullscreen proportions of a standard-definition 4:3 aspect ratio television screen, often cropping off the sides of the original widescreen image to focus ...

, to show wide-screen films on narrow screens * Panchromatic black-and-white film * Panning (audio), of a signal into a new sound field *

Panning (camera) In cinematography and photography panning means swivelling a still or video camera horizontally from a fixed position. This motion is similar to the motion of a person when they turn their head on their neck from left to right. In the resulting ...

, swivelling

Food and drink

Pan dulce Pan dulce, literally meaning "sweet bread", is the general name for a variety of Mexican pastries. Bread was introduced in Mexico by Spanish colonists, settlers and immigrants; however, Mexican pan dulce as we know it today rose to popularity ...

* Pan, a type of

cookware Cookware and bakeware is food preparation equipment, such as cooking pots, pans, baking sheets etc. used in kitchens. Cookware is used on a stove or range cooktop, while bakeware is used in an oven. Some utensils are considered both cookware ...

Bread pan A bread pan, also called a loaf pan, is a kitchen utensil in the form of a container in which bread is baked. Its function is to shape bread while it is rising during baking. The most common shape of the bread pan is the loaf, or narrow rect ...

Frying pan A frying pan, frypan, or skillet is a flat-bottomed pan used for frying, searing, and browning foods. It is typically in diameter with relatively low sides that flare outwards, a long handle, and no lid. Larger pans may have a small grab han ...

Sheet pan Sheet or Sheets may refer to: * Bed sheet, a rectangular piece of cloth used as bedding * Sheet of paper, a flat, very thin piece of paper * Sheet metal, a flat thin piece of metal * Sheet (sailing), a line, cable or chain used to control the cle ...

** Springform pan * Pan or

Paan Betel nut chewing, also called betel quid chewing or areca nut chewing, is a practice in which areca nuts (also called "betel nuts") are chewed together with slaked lime and betel leaves for their stimulant and narcotic effects. The practice ...

, a North Indian term for betel * Pan-bagnat * Sliced pan bread, popular in Ireland * Sugar panning, to add a candy shell to, for example, a nut * Harina P.A.N., a pre-cooked corn meal

Languages

Proto-Austronesian language Proto-Austronesian (commonly abbreviated as PAN or PAn) is a proto-language. It is the reconstructed ancestor of the Austronesian languages, one of the world's major language families. Proto-Austronesian is assumed to have begun to diversify ...

Punjabi language Punjabi (; ; , ), sometimes spelled Panjabi, is an Indo-Aryan language of the Punjab region of Pakistan and India. It has approximately 113 million native speakers. Punjabi is the most widely-spoken first language in Pakistan, with 80.5 ...

(ISO 639-3 code "pan")

Organizations

Political parties

National Action Party (El Salvador) The National Action Party () is a political party in El Salvador. It first contested national elections in 1956. Nohlen, D (2005) ''Elections in the Americas: A data handbook, Volume I'', p279 However, Roberto Edmundo Cannessa, its candidate in ...

(''Partido Acción Nacional'') of El Salvador * National Action Party (Mexico) (''Partido Acción Nacional'') of Mexico *

National Action Party (Nicaragua) The National Action Party (Partido Acción Nacional - PAN) is a right-wing Nicaraguan political party founded by Eduardo Rivas Gasteazoro in 1985 as a split from the Social Christian Party (PSC) in 1985. The PAN received legal status on appeal in ...

(''Partido Acción Nacional'') of Nicaragua *

National Advancement Party The National Advancement Party ( es, Partido de Avanzada Nacional) is a conservatism, conservative political party in Guatemala. It was founded in 1989. In the 1990 and 1995 elections its presidential candidate was Álvaro Arzú who won in 1995 ...

(''Partido de Avanzada Nacional'') of Guatemala *

National Autonomist Party The National Autonomist Party ( es, Partido Autonomista Nacional; PAN) was the ruling political party of Argentina from 1874 to 1916. In 1880, Julio Argentino Roca assumed the presidency under the motto "peace and administration". History The ...

(''Partido Autonomista Nacional''), former Argentine Political Party *

National Mandate Party The National Mandate Party ( id, Partai Amanat Nasional), frequently abbreviated to PAN, is an Islam-basedAl-Hamdi, Ridho. (2017). ''Moving towards a Normalised Path: Political Islam in Contemporary Indonesia''. JURNAL STUDI PEMERINTAHAN (JOURNAL ...

(''Partai Amanat Nasional'') of Indonesia * Party of the Nation's Retirees (''Partido dos Aposentados da Nação'') of Brazil *

People-Animals-Nature People–Animals–Nature ( pt, Pessoas-Animais-Natureza, PAN) is an environmentalist, animal rights and animal welfare focused political party in Portugal, founded in 2009. In 2015, they won one seat in the Assembly of the Republic.

(''Pessoas-Animais-Natureza'') of Portugal

Other organizations

Nutrition Assistance for Puerto Rico Nutrition Assistance for Puerto Rico (NAP) es, Programa de Asistencia Nutricional (PAN) popularly known in Puerto Rico as ''Cupones'' ('' en, Food Stamps'') is a federal assistance nutritional program provided by the United States Department o ...

(''Programa de Asistencia Nutricional''), a United States Federal assistance program *

Pan Club Copenhagen Pan Club Copenhagen (often just referred to as Pan) was a gay club in central Copenhagen, Denmark which closed in 1994 after having been in operation on various locations in Copenhagen since 1970. However already in 1996 private owners opened a ...

, a gay club *

Pesticide Action Network Pesticide Action Network (PAN) is "an international coalition of around 600 NGO A non-governmental organization (NGO) or non-governmental organisation (see spelling differences) is an organization that generally is formed independent from go ...

, an international NGO network *

Polish Academy of Sciences The Polish Academy of Sciences ( pl, Polska Akademia Nauk, PAN) is a Polish state-sponsored institution of higher learning. Headquartered in Warsaw, it is responsible for spearheading the development of science across the country by a society o ...

(''Polska Akademia Nauk'') * Protect Arizona Now, sponsor of 2004 Arizona Proposition 200

Other uses

* Pan (horse), an early 19th century British thoroughbred racehorse and sire *

Pan-pan The radiotelephony message PAN-PAN is the international standard urgency signal that someone aboard a boat, ship, aircraft, or other vehicle uses to declare that they have a situation that is urgent, but for the time being, does not pose an immed ...

, a radio state of urgency call * Pan, Slavic honorifics in Poland and Ukraine * Pansexuality, a sexual orientation (often known as "pan") * PAN, the ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code for

Panama Panama ( , ; es, link=no, Panamá ), officially the Republic of Panama ( es, República de Panamá), is a transcontinental country spanning the southern part of North America and the northern part of South America. It is bordered by Co ...

* PAN, the National Rail code for

Pangbourne railway station Pangbourne railway station serves the village of Pangbourne in the county of Berkshire, and across the River Thames the village of Whitchurch-on-Thames, in Oxfordshire. It is down the line from and is situated between to the east and to th ...

in the county of Berkshire, UK * USA-207, US satellite named "Palladium At Night"