Pan

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Pan and panning can have many meanings as listed below in various categories.

Prefix

• Pan- as a prefix (Greek πᾶν, pan, "all," "of everything," "involving all members" of a group), e.g.:
  • Pan-Germanism
  • Pan-Slavism
  • Pan-Arabism
  • Pan-Africanism
  • panegyric
  • pantheon / Pantheon
  • Pangaea

Religion and mythology

• Pan (god), a god of nature in Greek mythology
  • Pan flute, a wind instrument he is often depicted playing.

• Pan- as a prefix in several religious systems, e.g.
  • Pantheism
  • Pandeism
  • Panentheism
  • Theopanism

Science

Astronomy

• 4450 Pan, an asteroid
• Pan (crater), on Jupiter's moon Amalthea
• Pan (moon), a moon of Saturn
• Pan, an informal name for the moon Jupiter XI (now Carme) from 1955 to 1975

Zoology

• Pan, a genus of apes composed of the Common Chimpanzee and the Bonobo

Chemistry

• Polyacrylonitrile, polymer
• Peroxyacyl nitrates, irritants found in smog

Computing

• Pan (newsreader), newsreader software for Usenet
• Personal Area Network, a type of computer network

Geography

• Mount Pan, mountain in Ji County, Tianjin, China
• Pan, Greece, a village in north-west Arcadia
• Pan County, in Guizhou, China

Geology

• Panning for gold, a simple placer mining technique
• Dry lake, or Pan, an ephemeral water body contained in a shallow, flat basin
• Salt pan (geology), a shallow depression holding a playa, salt lake or related feature

Multimedia Technologies

• Panning (camera), a movement of a film or video camera (rotating on a vertical axis)
• Pan and scan, technique for reproducing wide-screen films on narrow TV screens.
• Panning (audio), the spread of a monaural signal in a stereo or multi-channel sound field.
• Panchromatic black-and-white film.

Food and drink

• Pan, a type of cookware and bakeware
  • Frying pan
  • Springform pan
• Pan, also spelled Paan, a North Indian term for Betel, often mixed with tobacco and lime for chewing as a mouth freshener
• Pan pivo, a Croatian lager beer
• See also: Pan-bagnat, pancake
• Pan, the Spanish word for bread
• Sugar panning, the method for creating the confections called dragées

Arts

• "to pan", to give a negative review or criticism, the opposite of "to rave"

Film

• Pan (film), a 1922 Norwegian film
• Pan's Labyrinth, a film by Guillermo Del Toro
• Pan (magazine) an arts and literary review (magazine)
• Pan Books, a publishing imprint of Macmillan Publishers

Fiction

• Pan (Dragon Ball), a fictional character from the anime Dragon Ball Z
• Pan (novel), by Knut Hamsun
• Peter Pan, a character in a novel by James Barrie

Music

• Pan, short for steelpan, an acoustic instrument
• Pan (The Blue Hearts), an album by the Japanese band The Blue Hearts
• Pan, a Filipino rock band; see Yano
• Pan, an opera by Carl Venth
• Pan, a Turkish band that performed Bana Bana at the Eurovision Song Contest 1989
• Pan pipes, a musical instrument
• Panning (audio), placement of a sound source in a stereo field
• Pan's People, a British dance troupe on Top of the pops

International ISO Standards

• The ISO 639-3 code for the Punjabi language
• Panama's official ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 abbreviation

Acronym

The acronym PAN can refer to:

• Palladium At Night, an American satellite
• Phénomène Aérospatial Non identifié, French for Unidentified Aerospace Phenomenon
• Protected Area Network, a network of national parks in the remaining wilderness areas of Europe
• Personal Area Network, a type of computer network
• Processing Area Network, a type of system architecture
• Permanent Account Number, India's national identification number for taxpayers
• Primary Account Number, another name for a credit card number
• Polyarteritis nodosa, a vasculitic condition
• Positional Alcohol Nystagmus
• Presbyterians Aiding Nicaraguans
• Proto-Austronesian language

(Non-)government and politics

• National Action Party (El Salvador) (Partido Acción Nacional) of El Salvador
• National Action Party (Nicaragua) (Partido Acción Nacional) of Nicaragua
• National Action Party (Mexico) (Partido Acción Nacional) of Mexico
• National Advancement Party (Partido de Avanzada Nacional) of Guatemala
• National Mandate Party (Partai Amanat Nasional) of Indonesia
• Nutrition Assistance for Puerto Rico (Programa de Asistencia Nutricional), a United States Federal assistance program for the nutritional needs of impoverished families in Puerto Rico
• Pan Pan, an ancient small Hindu Kingdom
• Party of the Nation's Retirees (Partido dos Aposentados da Nação) of Brazil
• Protect Arizona Now, a political committee behind Arizona Proposition 200 (2004)
• Pesticide Action Network (PAN), an international NGO network
• The Polish Academy of Sciences (Polish: Polska Akademia Nauk, abbreviated PAN)

Other

• Pan Club Copenhagen, Club in Copenhagen for homosexual people
• Pan or Panguingue, a gambling card game
• Pan-pan, a radio distress call similar to and weaker than Mayday.
• Pan (surname), Chinese family name (潘 or 盤)

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