Par

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Par or PAR may refer to:

Finance

Par value, stated value or face value in finance and accounting
Par yield or par rate, in finance

Games

Par (score), the number of strokes a proficient golfer should require to complete a hole, round or tournament.
Par (golf scoring format), an alternative to Stableford and normal stroke play
Par contract, in contract bridge

Organizations

Businesses

Pan Am Railways, an American holding company
Par Pharmaceutical, now part of Endo International
PaR Systems, an American automation company

Political parties

Aragonese Party (Partido Aragonés, PAR), Spain
Movement For! (Kustība Par!), Latvia
Party for the Restructured Antilles (Partido Antiá Restrukturá, PAR), Curaçao
Revolutionary Action Party ('Partido Acción Revolucionaria', PAR), Guatemala

Other organizations

Parkinson Association of the Rockies, a not-for-profit organization
Pretoria Armoured Regiment, an armour regiment of the South African Army

Places

Par, Cornwall, England
- Par railway station
Par, Iran
Par, Vologda Oblast, Russia
Par, Tibet
Philippine Area of Responsibility, a weather monitoring area in the northwest Pacific
Paraguay, IOC country code
Parkesburg station, Pennsylvania, U.S., station code PAR
Parliament railway station, Melbourne
PAR, IATA airport code for the metropolitan area of Paris, France
Par River (disambiguation), the name of several rivers

Science and technology

Biology and medicine

Par (fly), a signal fly in the family Platystomatidae
Photosynthetically active radiation, a range of solar radiation
Post-anesthesia recovery, part of a hospital
Predictive adaptive response in biology
Protease-activated receptors PAR1, PAR2, PAR3, PAR4
Pseudoautosomal regions on sex chromosomes

Computing

par (command), a text formatting utility for Unix
Page address register, containing physical addresses
Perl Archive Toolkit, a deployment tool
Personal Animation Recorder, video capture for Amiga computers
Pixel aspect ratio, in digital imaging
.par, .par2, .par3, filename extensions of Parchive

Other uses in science and technology

Parabolic aluminized reflector, PAR lamp or PAR, a type of electric lamp
Participatory action research, a social sciences research approach
Passive autocatalytic recombiner, device that removes hydrogen from a nuclear power plant during an accident
Par meter, to measure peak-to-average ratio in an electrical circuit
Precision approach radar, a radar aircraft guidance system