Bar

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The term bar may refer to:

Generally

• Bar (establishment), a retail establishment that serves alcoholic beverages
  • Bar (counter), the counter from which drinks are dispensed

• Bar (diacritic), a line through a letter used as a diacritic
• Walking stick (device)
• Grab bar
• Barbell
• Handlebar, steering mechanism for bicycles and motorcycles
• Rebar
• An ingot or gold bar
• Chocolate bar or candy bar
• Dessert bar, a type of square cookie baked in a pan
• A preposition meaning "wikt:except"
• Bar (music), or measure, is a unit of time in Western music representing a regular grouping of beats
• Bar, a name of Scandinavian origin referring to gates/gatehouses of in towns of northern England such as the gatehouses in the city walls of York, England and North Bar in Beverley
• Medal bar, an addition to a military decoration earned by a subsequent act
• Vertical bar symbol, |
• Bar, Aramaic and Hebrew for "son", as in Bar mitzvah

Maths and science

• Bar (unit), a scientific unit of pressure
• A Vinculum (symbol) over a digit or digits in mathematics used to indicate a repeating decimal
• Bar chart (or graph), a chart with rectangular bars of lengths used for comparing two or more values
• Barred spiral galaxy, a formation of stars found in approximately half of all spiral galaxies
• Bar (computer science), a metasyntactic variable used in computer science

Landforms

• Bar (river morphology), generally long, narrow accumulations of sediment in a river that are visible above water level during normal flows
  • Gravel bar, a deposited accumulation of gravel in a river that typically can be seen above the surface at normal flows
  • Point bar, a bar in a river that is situated on the inside bank of a meander bend
  • Braid bar, formed in times of low discharge, common in braided rivers
• Shoal

Law

• Bar (law)
• Bar examination
• Bar association

Places

• Bar, Montenegro, a city in the southeastern region
• Bar, Ukraine, a fortress and city in the Podolia region of Ukraine that was once a part of Poland
• Barrois (Bar), the territory of the counts and dukes of Bar in France
• Bar (river), a tributary to the Meuse in France
• Bar, Tibet, a village in the Tibet Autonomous Region of China
• Bár, a village in Hungary
• Barbizon, an artist's village in France
• Wairau Bar, New Zealand

Communes of France

• Bar, Corrèze, in the Corrèze département
• Bar-le-Duc, in the Meuse département
• Bar-sur-Aube, in the Aube département
• Bar-sur-Seine, in the Aube département

People

• Bar (Aramaic), a common prefix in New Testament Aramaic names
• Bar Hebraeus, a Syriac Orthodox Church Father
• Bar Refaeli, Israeli model
• Ellen Bar, New York City Ballet soloist
• Yael Bar Zohar, Israeli actress
• Yoseph Bar-Cohen, Israeli-American physicist
• David Bar-Tov, Israeli judge
• Michael Bar-Zohar, Israeli historian
• Micha Bar-Am, Israeli photographer

Acronyms

• Barbie as Rapunzel, an animated film
• Board for Anthropological Research
• Bob Akin Racing, a sportscar racing team that was active until 1987
• Biblical Archaeology Review
• BAR domain (Bin-Amphiphysin-Rvs), a protein domain
• British American Racing, a Formula One racing team which was active between the years of 1999 to 2005
• British Association of Removers
• M1918 Browning Automatic Rifle, a U.S. WWI and WWII military weapon
• Buy-American restrictions, a reference to the Buy American Act
• Beta Adrenergic Receptor

Codemarks

• Bangor and Aroostook Railroad, reporting mark "BAR"
• Barbados, International Olympic Committee country code "BAR"
• Harvey House Railroad Depot, in Barstow, California; station code BAR
• "BAR", the ISO 639-3 code for the Austro-Bavarian language

See also

• Bär
• Barr (disambiguation)
• Barr-
• Barre (disambiguation)
• Barbiturate
• All pages beginning with "bar"

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