Pax
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Pax or PAX may refer to:
Peace
- Peace, (Latin: pax)
- Pax (mythology), the Roman goddess of peace, and Roman equivalent of Eirene/Irene
- Pax, a truce term
- Pax (liturgy), a salutation in Catholic and Lutheran religious services
- Pax (liturgical object), a object formerly kissed as a substitute for the Kiss of Peace in the Catholic Mass
- A period of political peace enforced by a dominant power:
- Pax Americana, 1945 - ?, and other periods
- Pax Assyriaca, Assyrian Empire, 7th century BCE
- Pax Britannica, 1815–1914
- Pax Europaea, European Union, 1945-
- Pax Hispanica, Spanish Empire, 1598–1621
- Pax Mongolica, Mongol Empire, 13th & 14th centuries
- Pax Romana Roman Empire, 1st & 2nd centuries
- Pax Sinica, China, much of the 1st millennium
- Pax Ottomana, Ottoman Empire, 1299 - 1923
Entertainment
- PAX (event), a gamer festival
- Pax (film), a 1994 movie
- Pax (2010 film), 2010 Swedish film
- PAX, a side project of the German band X Marks the Pedwalk
- Pax was the name of PAX217 before switching
Organizations
- Pax Christi International, an international Catholic peace movement
- PAX Association, in Poland
- Pax Forlag, a Norwegian publishing house
- PAX Network, a U.S. television network now known as ION Television
- Pax World Funds, a U.S. mutual fund company
- Pax, a Russian manufacturer of Ferris wheels and other amusement rides
- PAX Labs, a U.S. vaporization company
Science and technology
- pax (Unix), a Unix command line program to read and write file archives
- PaX, a Linux kernel security patch introduced in 2000
- Pax genes, a group of genes and their proteins
- Michelin PAX System, an automotive run-flat tire system
- Pax, a generic brand of diazepam available in South Africa
People
- Ferdinand Albin Pax (1858–1942), German botanist and entomologist
Other uses
- 679 Pax, a minor planet orbiting the Sun
- Passenger, sometimes abbreviated as pax
- Winter Storm Pax, a 2014 storm in the United States
See also
- Pax Hill, a house in England
- List of periods of regional peace
- Pack (disambiguation)
- All pages beginning with "Pax"
- All pages with titles containing Pax
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