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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-American
- Pan-Americanism
- Pan-Africanism
- Pan-Arabism
- Pan-Asian
- Pan-Celticism
- Pan-European
- Pan-Germanism
- Pan-Iranism
- Pan-Islamism
- Pan-Scandinavianism
- Pan-Somalism
- Pan-Slavism
- Panathinaikos
- Panegyric
- Pangaea
- Pantheism
- Panentheism
- Pantheon, a term in Greek Mythology
- Pantheon, an ancient building in Rome
- Pansexuality, a sexual orientation characterized by potential attraction to people of all sexes/genders or to people regardless of their sex/gender
- Pantonality (disambiguation), the extension of tonality to all keys
- Pan- as a prefix in several religious systems, e.g.
Religion
- Pan (god), a Greek god of nature in ancient and modern mythology and religion
- Pan flute, a wind instrument he is often depicted playing
Science and technology
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
Chemistry
- Peroxyacyl nitrates or Acyl peroxy nitrates which are irritants found in smog, and are useful chemical markers for the source of VOCs (as anthropogenic or biogenic)
- Polyacrylonitrile, a polymer of acrylonitrile
- Phthalic anhydride, an industrial chemical
Computing
- Panning is a multi-touch gesture, done by dragging one's fingers on a touchscreen
- Pan (newsreader), newsreader software for Usenet
- Personal Area Network, a type of computer network
- Personal Area Network (PAN), a Bluetooth profile that implements Bluetooth network encapsulation protocol (BNEP) protocol
- Primary Account Number, a number found on payment cards
- P.A.N., a type of linguistic analyzer
- Pan (programming language) a declarative language for describing server configurations
Geology
- Dry lake, or pan, an ephemeral water body contained in a shallow, flat basin
- Gold panning, a simple placer mining technique
- Salt pan (geology), a shallow depression holding a playa, salt lake or related feature
Geography
- Mount Pan, mountain in Ji County, Tianjin, China
- Pan County, in Guizhou, China
- Pan, Greece, a village in north-west Arcadia
- Pan Pan, an ancient small Hindu Kingdom
Multimedia technologies
- Pan and scan, technique for reproducing wide-screen films on narrow TV screens
- Panchromatic black-and-white film
- Panning (audio), the spread of a monaural signal in a stereo or multi-channel sound field
- Panning (camera), a movement of a film or video camera (rotating on a vertical axis)
Medical technology
- In medical jargon, pan may refer to panoramic X-ray photography
Zoology
- Pan (genus), a genus of apes composed of the Common chimpanzee and the bonobo
Film
- Pan (1922 film), a 1922 Norwegian film
- Pan (1995 film), a 1995 Danish/Norwegian/German film
- Pan's Labyrinth, a film by Guillermo Del Toro
- Pan (2015 film), a film about Peter Pan and Captain Hook
Food and drink
- Pan, a type of cookware and bakeware
- Pan, also spelled Paan, a North Indian term for Betel, often mixed with tobacco and lime for chewing as a mouth freshener
- Pan (beer), a Croatian lager beer
- Pan-Galactic Gargle Blaster, a fictional cocktail
- Pan-bagnat
- Pan dulce (sweet bread)
- Pancake
- Pan, a type of bread popular in Ireland, especially as "sliced pan"
- Sugar panning, the method for creating the confections called dragées
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
Honorifics
- Pan (title), Slavic honorifics in Poland and Ukraine
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
- Pan's People, a British dance troupe on Top of the pops
Publishing
- Pan (magazine) an arts and literary review magazine
- Pan or panning; a negative review
- Pan Books, a publishing imprint of Macmillan Publishers
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:
- USA-207, a secret American military satellite (sometimes called "Palladium At Night" or "Pick A Name")
- Permanent account number, (PAN card) India's national identification number for taxpayers
- Personal area network, a type of computer network
- Polyarteritis nodosa, a vasculitic condition
- Positional alcohol nystagmus
- PAN Parks (protected area network), a network of national parks in the remaining wilderness areas of Europe
- Primary Account Number, credit or debit card number
- Proto-Austronesian language
Government, politics, and organizations
- National Action Party (El Salvador) (Partido Acción Nacional) of El Salvador
- National Action Party (Mexico) (Partido Acción Nacional) of Mexico
- National Action Party (Nicaragua) (Partido Acción Nacional) of Nicaragua
- National Advancement Party (Partido de Avanzada Nacional) of Guatemala
- National Autonomist Party (Partido Autonomista Nacional), former Argentine Political Party
- 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
- People-Animals-Nature (Pessoas-Animais-Natureza), of Portugal
- Party of the Nation's Retirees (Partido dos Aposentados da Nação) of Brazil
- Pesticide Action Network (PAN), an international NGO network
- The Polish Academy of Sciences (Polish: Polska Akademia Nauk, abbreviated PAN)
- Protect Arizona Now, a political committee behind Arizona Proposition 200 (2004)
Other
- Pan Club Copenhagen, Club in Copenhagen for homosexual people
- Pan (surname), Chinese family name (潘 or 盤)
- Fan (surname), Chinese family name (范 or 樊)
- Pan-pan, a radio distress call similar to but weaker than Mayday
- Panguingue or Pan, a gambling card game
- Night of Pan, a state of being reached through ego-death
- Drain pan, also called condensate drain, used in air conditioning.
See also
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