pax

(păks)
n.

1. Ecclesiastical.
   1. A small flat tablet adorned with a sacred image that worshipers kiss when offered the kiss of peace.
   2. The kiss of peace.
2. Pax A time of wide-ranging stability when there is only a single dominant power. Used with a Latinized name: "Editorials lauding the civilizing influence of Pax Britannica were met with ... a crushing disinterest from most of the public" (Nisid Hajari).

[Medieval Latin pāx, from Latin, peace. Sense 2, on the model of Late Latin pāx (Rōmāna), the Roman peace, state of security obtaining under Roman rule, alteration of Latin (Rōmāna) pāx.]

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On drawings, abbr. for “private automatic (telephone) exchange.”

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noun
noun

A schoolchildren's truce-word. (1843 —) .
R. Kipling Pax, Turkey. I'm the ass (1899).

[Latin 'peace'.]

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abbr. for paired box; one of a family of transcriptional regulators that contain a paired-box domain and are specifically expressed during the development of a wide range of structures and organs. There are nine Pax genes in mouse and in human. They are expressed primarily in the neural tube and brain in the early embryo. Pax1 and Pax9 are closed related, as are the groups Pax3 and Pax7, and Pax2, Pax5, and Pax8. PAX2 protein (392 amino acids) is also expressed in the eye and kidney; mutations cause the renal-coloboma syndrome. PAX3 (836 amino acids) controls MyoD expression in limb buds; numerous mutations cause Waardenburg syndrome. PAX6 (422 amino acids) is identical in sequence in mouse and in human, and contains a homeobox domain and a C-terminal region rich in proline, serine, and threonine. It is also expressed in eye and pancreatic islet cells. Numerous mutations cause aniridia. PAX8 is implicated in embryonic development of the thyroid gland; mutations cause thyroid dysgenesis and congenital hypothyroidism.

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Dansk (Danish)
n. - kyssetavle

Français (French)
n. - (Relig) baiser de paix, (GB) pouce (excl) (arch)

Deutsch (German)
n. - Friedenskuß, (ugs.) Aufruf zum Waffenstillstand

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - ειρήνη
int. - Ανακωχή!

Italiano (Italian)
pace, passeggero

Português (Portuguese)
n. - porta-paz (m) (Ecles.)
int. - paz

Русский (Russian)
мир, поцелуй примирения

Español (Spanish)
n. - paz

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - korsfästningsbild (katolsk)
int. - peace! fred!

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
圣像牌, 和平女神, 接吻礼

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 聖像牌, 和平女神, 接吻禮

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 성패, 우정, 평화의 여신

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 聖像牌, 親睦の接吻, 平和, パークス

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮שלום, קריאה להפסקת-אש (בריטניה), נשיקת השלום‬

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