PAN
Encyclopedia
Pan and panning can have many meanings as listed below in various categories.
Prefix
- Pan- as a prefixPrefixA prefix is an affix which is placed before the root of a word. Particularly in the study of languages,a prefix is also called a preformative, because it alters the form of the words to which it is affixed.Examples of prefixes:...
(GreekGreek languageGreek is an independent branch of the Indo-European family of languages. Native to the southern Balkans, it has the longest documented history of any Indo-European language, spanning 34 centuries of written records. Its writing system has been the Greek alphabet for the majority of its history;...
πᾶν, pan, "all," "of everything," "involving all members" of a group), e.g.:- Pan American
- Pan-AmericanismPan-Americanism-History:The struggle for independence after 1810 by the Latin American nations evoked a sense of unity, especially in South America where, under Simón Bolívar in the north and José de San Martín in the south, there were cooperative efforts. Francisco Morazán briefly headed a Federal Republic of...
- Pan IndiaPermanent account numberPermanent Account Number is unique alphanumeric combination issued to all juristic entities identifiable under the Indian Income Tax Act 1961. It is issued by the Indian Income Tax Department under the supervision of the Central Board for Direct Taxes and is almost equivalent to a national...
, a unique alphanumeric combination to keep track of financial transactions and prevent tax evasion - Pan-AfricanismPan-AfricanismPan-Africanism is a movement that seeks to unify African people or people living in Africa, into a "one African community". Differing types of Pan-Africanism seek different levels of economic, racial, social, or political unity...
- Pan-ArabismPan-ArabismPan-Arabism is an ideology espousing the unification--or, sometimes, close cooperation and solidarity against perceived enemies of the Arabs--of the countries of the Arab world, from the Atlantic Ocean to the Arabian Sea. It is closely connected to Arab nationalism, which asserts that the Arabs...
- Pan-GermanismPan-GermanismPan-Germanism is a pan-nationalist political idea. Pan-Germanists originally sought to unify the German-speaking populations of Europe in a single nation-state known as Großdeutschland , where "German-speaking" was taken to include the Low German, Frisian and Dutch-speaking populations of the Low...
- Pan-IranismPan-IranismPan-Iranism is an ideology that advocates solidarity and reunification of Iranian peoples living in the Iranian plateau and other regions that have significant Iranian cultural influence, including the Talysh, Georgians, North Caucasian peoples, Ossetians, Kurds, Armenians, Persians of Iran,...
- Pan-IslamismPan-IslamismPan-Islamism is a political movement advocating the unity of Muslims under one Islamic state — often a Caliphate. As a form of religious nationalism, Pan-Islamism differentiates itself from other pan-nationalistic ideologies, for example Pan-Arabism, by excluding culture and ethnicity as primary...
- Pan-Scandinavianism
- Pan-SlavismPan-SlavismPan-Slavism was a movement in the mid-19th century aimed at unity of all the Slavic peoples. The main focus was in the Balkans where the South Slavs had been ruled for centuries by other empires, Byzantine Empire, Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire, and Venice...
- PanegyricPanegyricA panegyric is a formal public speech, or written verse, delivered in high praise of a person or thing, a generally highly studied and discriminating eulogy, not expected to be critical. It is derived from the Greek πανηγυρικός meaning "a speech fit for a general assembly"...
- PangaeaPangaeaPangaea, Pangæa, or Pangea is hypothesized as a supercontinent that existed during the Paleozoic and Mesozoic eras about 250 million years ago, before the component continents were separated into their current configuration....
- PantheonPantheon (gods)A pantheon is a set of all the gods of a particular polytheistic religion or mythology.Max Weber's 1922 opus, Economy and Society discusses the link between a...
/ PantheonPantheon, RomeThe Pantheon ,Rarely Pantheum. This appears in Pliny's Natural History in describing this edifice: Agrippae Pantheum decoravit Diogenes Atheniensis; in columnis templi eius Caryatides probantur inter pauca operum, sicut in fastigio posita signa, sed propter altitudinem loci minus celebrata.from ,... - PansexualityPansexualityPansexuality refers to the potential for sexual attractions, sexual desire, romantic love, or emotional attraction, towards people of all gender identities and biological sexes...
, a sexual orientationSexual orientationSexual orientation describes a pattern of emotional, romantic, or sexual attractions to the opposite sex, the same sex, both, or neither, and the genders that accompany them. By the convention of organized researchers, these attractions are subsumed under heterosexuality, homosexuality,...
characterized by potential attraction to people of all sexes/genders or to people regardless of their sex/gender
Religion and mythology
- Pan (god), a god of nature in Greek mythology
- Pan flutePan fluteThe pan flute or pan pipe is an ancient musical instrument based on the principle of the closed tube, consisting usually of five or more pipes of gradually increasing length...
, a wind instrument he is often depicted playing
- Pan flute
- Pan- as a prefix in several religious systems, e.g.
- PandeismPandeismPandeism or Pan-Deism , is a term describing beliefs incorporating or mixing logically reconcilable elements of pantheism and deism Pandeism or Pan-Deism (from and meaning "God" in the sense of deism), is a term describing beliefs incorporating or mixing logically reconcilable elements of...
- PanentheismPanentheismPanentheism is a belief system which posits that God exists, interpenetrates every part of nature and timelessly extends beyond it...
- PantheismPantheismPantheism is the view that the Universe and God are identical. Pantheists thus do not believe in a personal, anthropomorphic or creator god. The word derives from the Greek meaning "all" and the Greek meaning "God". As such, Pantheism denotes the idea that "God" is best seen as a process of...
- TheopanismTheopanismTheopanism was first used as a technical term by the Jesuits in elucidating Hinduism. "[O]ne may distinguish pantheism, which imagines the world as an absolute being , from theopanism, which conceives of God as the true spiritual reality from which everything emanates: "God becomes everything",...
- Pandeism
Astronomy
- 4450 Pan4450 Pan4450 Pan is an asteroid that was discovered on September 25, 1987 by Eugene and Carolyn Shoemaker. It is a Venus, Mars, and Earth crosser. Pan approaches nearer than 10 Gm to those three planets, and within 20 Gm of Mercury.-External links:...
, an asteroid - Pan (crater)Pan (crater)Pan is the largest crater on Jupiter's moon Amalthea. It is 100 kilometers across and at least 8 kilometers deep. It is named after Pan, the Greek god of shepherds and the countryside....
, on Jupiter's moon Amalthea - Pan (moon)Pan (moon)Pan is the innermost moon of Saturn. It is a walnut-shaped small moon about 35 kilometres across and 23 km high that orbits within the Encke Gap in Saturn's A Ring. Pan acts as a ring shepherd and is responsible for keeping the Encke Gap free of ring particles.It was discovered by Mark R...
, a moon of Saturn - Pan, an informal name for the moon Jupiter XI (now CarmeCarme (moon)Carme is a retrograde irregular satellite of Jupiter. It was discovered by Seth Barnes Nicholson at Mount Wilson Observatory in California in July 1938. It is named after the mythological Carme, mother by Zeus of Britomartis, a Cretan goddess....
) from 1955 to 1975
Chemistry
- Peroxyacyl nitratesPeroxyacyl nitratesAcyl peroxy nitrates, or Peroxyacyl nitrates , are powerful respiratory and eye irritants present in photochemical smog. They are produced by the gas-phase oxidation of a variety of volatile organic compounds , or by aldehydes and other oxygenated VOCs oxidizing in the presence of NO2...
or Acyl peroxy nitrates which are irritants found in smog, and are useful chemical markers for the source of VOCs (as anthropogenic or biogenic) - PolyacrylonitrilePolyacrylonitrilePolyacrylonitrile is a synthetic, semicrystalline organic polymer resin, with the linear formula n. Though it is thermoplastic, it does not melt under normal conditions. It degrades before melting. It melts above 300 degrees Celsius only if the heating rates are 50 degrees per minute or above...
, polymer
Computing
- Pan (newsreader)Pan (newsreader)Pan is a news client for multiple operating systems, developed by Charles Kerr and others. It supports offline reading, multiple servers, multiple connections, fast article header filtering and mass saving of multi-part attachments encoded in uuencode, yEnc and base64; images in common formats can...
, newsreader software for Usenet - Personal Area NetworkPersonal area networkA personal area network is a computer network used for communication among computer devices, including telephones and personal digital assistants, in proximity to an individual's body. The devices may or may not belong to the person in question. The reach of a PAN is typically a few meters...
, a type of computer network- Personal Area Network (PAN), a Bluetooth profile that implements Bluetooth network encapsulation protocol (BNEP) protocol
- P.A.N.P.A.N.P.A.N. is a freeware application that allows you to analyze virtually any sort of text ....
, a type of linguistic analyzer. - Pan Configuration LanguagePan (programming language)The pan configuration language allows the definition of machine configuration information and an associatedschema with a simple, human-accessible syntax...
a declarative language for describing server configurations.
Geology
- Dry lakeDry lakeDry lakes are ephemeral lakebeds, or a remnant of an endorheic lake. Such flats consist of fine-grained sediments infused with alkali salts. Dry lakes are also referred to as alkali flats, sabkhas, playas or mud flats...
, or Pan, an ephemeral water body contained in a shallow, flat basin - Gold panningGold panningGold panning, or simply panning, is a form of placer mining that extracts gold from a placer deposit using a pan. The process is one of the simplest ways to extract gold, and is popular with geology enthusiasts because of its cheap cost and the relatively simple and easy process involved. It is the...
, a simple placer mining technique - Salt pan (geology)Salt pan (geology)Natural salt pans are flat expanses of ground covered with salt and other minerals, usually shining white under the sun. They are found in deserts, and should not be confused with salt evaporation ponds.A salt pan is formed where water pools...
, a shallow depression holding a playa, salt lake or related feature
Geography
- Mount PanMount PanMount Pan is a mountain in Ji County, Tianjin Municipality, People's Republic of China. It is located from Tianjin and from Beijing. It has an area of 20 square kilometers and its highest peak is 858 meters above the sea level....
, mountain in Ji County, Tianjin, China - Pan CountyPan CountyPan County is a county of Guizhou, China. It is under the administration of Liupanshui city....
, in Guizhou, China - Pan, Greece, a village in north-west Arcadia
Multimedia Technologies
- Pan and scanPan and scanPan and scan is a method of adjusting widescreen film images so that they can be shown within the proportions of a standard definition 4:3 aspect ratio television screen, often cropping off the sides of the original widescreen image to focus on the composition's most important aspects...
, technique for reproducing wide-screen films on narrow TV screens - PanchromaticPanchromaticPanchromatic film is a type of black-and-white photographic film that is sensitive to all wavelengths of visible light. A panchromatic film therefore produces a realistic reproduction of a scene as it appears to the human eye. Almost all modern photographic film is panchromatic, but some types are...
black-and-white film - Panning (audio)Panning (audio)Panning is the spread of a sound signal into a new stereo or multi-channel sound field. A typical physical recording console pan control is a knob with a pointer which can be placed from the 8 o'clock dial position fully left to the 4 o'clock position fully right...
, the spread of a monaural signal in a stereo or multi-channel sound field - Panning (camera)Panning (camera)In photography, panning refers to the horizontal movement or rotation of a still or video camera, or the scanning of a subject horizontally on video or a display device...
, 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
- PanChimpanzeeChimpanzee, sometimes colloquially chimp, is the common name for the two extant species of ape in the genus Pan. The Congo River forms the boundary between the native habitat of the two species:...
, a genus of apes composed of the Common Chimpanzee and the Bonobo
Film
- Pan (film), a 1922 Norwegian film
- Pan's LabyrinthPan's LabyrinthPan's Labyrinth is a 2006 Spanish Spanish-language dark fantasy film, written and directed by Mexican film-maker Guillermo del Toro. It was produced and distributed by the Mexican film company Esperanto Films...
, a film by Guillermo Del Toro
Food and drink
- Pan, a type of cookware and bakewareCookware and bakewareCookware and bakeware are types of food preparation containers commonly found in the kitchen. Cookware comprises cooking vessels, such as saucepans and frying pans, intended for use on a stove or range cooktop. Bakeware comprises cooking vessels intended for use inside an oven...
- Frying panFrying panA frying pan, frypan, or skillet is a flat-bottomed pan used for frying, searing, and browning foods. It is typically in diameter with relatively low sides that flare outwards, a long handle, and no lid. Larger pans may have a small grab handle opposite the main handle...
- Springform panSpringform panA springform pan is a type of bakeware that features sides that can be removed from the base. Springform refers to the construction style of this pan. The base and the sides are separate pieces that are held together when the base is aligned with a groove that rings the bottom of the walls. The pan...
- Frying pan
- Pan, also spelled PaanPaanPaan, from the word pān is an Indian, Pakistani, Uttarvarshi and Southeast Asian tradition of chewing betel leaf with areca nut and slaked lime paste, and katha brown powder paste, with many regional and local variations...
, 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-bagnatPan-bagnatThe Pan-bagnat is a sandwich that is a speciality of the region of Nice, France. The sandwich is composed of a circle formed white bread around the classic Salade Niçoise, a salad composed mainly of raw vegetables, hard boiled eggs, anchovies and/or tuna, and olive oil. The name of the sandwich...
- PancakePancakeA pancake is a thin, flat, round cake prepared from a batter, and cooked on a hot griddle or frying pan. Most pancakes are quick breads; some use a yeast-raised or fermented batter. Most pancakes are cooked one side on a griddle and flipped partway through to cook the other side...
- Pan, a type of bread popular in Ireland, especially as "sliced pan"
- Sugar panningSugar panningSugar panning, or simply panning, is a method for adding a candy "shell" to candy or nuts. Popular candies that employ this process in their manufacture include dragées, M&M's, and jelly beans. Jelly beans use soft panning whilst the other two are examples of hard panning...
, the method for creating the confections called dragées
Fiction
- Pan (Dragon Ball), a fictional character from the anime Dragon Ball Z
- Pan (novel)Pan (novel)Pan is a 1894 novel by the Norwegian author Knut Hamsun. Written while he lived in Paris, France, and in Kristiansand, Norway, Hamsun was directly influenced by the works of Fyodor Dostoevsky...
, by Knut Hamsun - Peter PanPeter PanPeter Pan is a character created by Scottish novelist and playwright J. M. Barrie . A mischievous boy who can fly and magically refuses to grow up, Peter Pan spends his never-ending childhood adventuring on the small island of Neverland as the leader of his gang the Lost Boys, interacting with...
, a character in a novel by James Barrie
Music
- Pan, short for steelpanSteelpanSteelpans is a musical instrument originating from The Republic of Trinidad and Tobago...
, 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 VenthCarl VenthCarl Venth was a German-American composer, violinist, conductor, music educator, and scholar. He was a leading classical music figure in Texas in the first half of the twentieth century and was one of the early music directors of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra.-Early life and education:Venth was...
- Pan, a Danish prog/psych/blues rock band from the early 1970s
- Pan, a Turkish band that performed Bana BanaBana Bana"Bana Bana" was the Turkish entry at the Eurovision Song Contest 1989, performed by the group Pan.Hazan Selçuk, one of the two soloists of Pan, the other being Arzu Ece, is the daughter of Timur Selçuk, who was the composer and lyricist of the song and the conductor for the entry.The song was...
at the Eurovision Song Contest 1989 - Pan pipes, a musical instrument
- Panning (audio)Panning (audio)Panning is the spread of a sound signal into a new stereo or multi-channel sound field. A typical physical recording console pan control is a knob with a pointer which can be placed from the 8 o'clock dial position fully left to the 4 o'clock position fully right...
, placement of a sound source in a stereo field using pan control or pan pot - Pan's PeoplePan's PeoplePan's People were a British TV dance troupe, who are usually associated with the BBC TV music chart show Top of the Pops.In an era before pop videos, they danced to songs whose original artists were not available to perform them live...
, a British dance troupe on Top of the pops
Publishing
- Pan (magazine)Pan (magazine)Pan was an arts and literary magazine, published from 1895 to 1900 in Berlin by Julius Otto Bierbaum and Julius Meier-Graefe. The magazine was revived by Paul Cassirer in 1910, published by his Pan-Presse....
an arts and literary reviewReviewA review is an evaluation of a publication, a product or a service, such as a movie , video game, musical composition , book ; a piece of hardware like a car, home appliance, or computer; or an event or performance, such as a live music concert, a play, musical theater show or dance show...
magazine - Pan BooksPan BooksPan Books is an imprint which first became active in the 1940s and is now part of the British-based Macmillan Publishers owned by German publishers, Georg von Holtzbrinck Publishing Group....
, a publishing imprint of Macmillan Publishers
International ISO Standards
- The ISO 639-3 code for the Punjabi languagePunjabi languagePunjabi is an Indo-Aryan language spoken by inhabitants of the historical Punjab region . For Sikhs, the Punjabi language stands as the official language in which all ceremonies take place. In Pakistan, Punjabi is the most widely spoken language...
- PanamaPanamaPanama , officially the Republic of Panama , is the southernmost country of Central America. Situated on the isthmus connecting North and South America, it is bordered by Costa Rica to the northwest, Colombia to the southeast, the Caribbean Sea to the north and the Pacific Ocean to the south. The...
's official ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 abbreviation
Acronym
The acronym PAN can refer to:- Palladium At Night, an American satellite
- Permanent account numberPermanent account numberPermanent Account Number is unique alphanumeric combination issued to all juristic entities identifiable under the Indian Income Tax Act 1961. It is issued by the Indian Income Tax Department under the supervision of the Central Board for Direct Taxes and is almost equivalent to a national...
, India's national identification number for taxpayers - Personal area networkPersonal area networkA personal area network is a computer network used for communication among computer devices, including telephones and personal digital assistants, in proximity to an individual's body. The devices may or may not belong to the person in question. The reach of a PAN is typically a few meters...
, a type of computer network - Polyarteritis nodosaPolyarteritis nodosaPolyarteritis nodosa is a vasculitis of medium & small-sized arteries, which become swollen and damaged from attack by rogue immune cells. Polyarteritis nodosa is also called Kussmaul disease or Kussmaul-Maier disease...
, a vasculitic condition - Positional alcohol nystagmusPositional alcohol nystagmusPositional alcohol nystagmus is nystagmus produced when the head is placed in a sideways position. PAN occurs when the specific gravity of the membrane space of the semicircular canals in the ear differs from the specific gravity of the fluid in the canals because of the presence of alcohol.-...
- PAN ParksPAN ParksPAN Parks works to protect Europe's wilderness, the continent's most undisturbed areas of nature.PAN Parks, the only European-wide organisation focusing on the protection of wilderness areas, applies an approach combining wilderness protection and sustainable tourism development.The organisation...
(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 languageProto-Austronesian languageThe Proto-Austronesian language is the reconstructed ancestor of the Austronesian languages, one of the world's major language families. However, Ross notes that what may be the most divergent languages, Tsou, Rukai, and Puyuma, are not addressed by the reconstructions, which therefore cannot...
Government, politics, and organizations
- National Action Party (El Salvador)National Action Party (El Salvador)The National Action Party is a political party in El Salvador. It first contested national elections in 1956. However, Roberto Edmundo Cannessa, its candidate in the presidential election was disqualified, whilst in the legislative elections it failed to win a seat, despite being the only party to...
(Partido Acción Nacional) of El Salvador - National Action Party (Mexico)National Action Party (Mexico)The National Action Party , is one of the three main political parties in Mexico. The party's political platform is generally considered Centre-Right in the Mexican political spectrum. Since 2000, the President of Mexico has been a member of this party; both houses have PAN pluralities, but the...
(Partido Acción Nacional) of Mexico - National Action Party (Nicaragua)National Action Party (Nicaragua)The National Action Party is a right-wing Nicaraguan political party founded by Eduardo Rivas Gasteazoro in 1985 as a split from the Social Christian Party in 1985. The PAN received legal status on appeal in 1989. PAN was part of the National Opposition Union coalition and won 3 seats in the...
(Partido Acción Nacional) of Nicaragua - National Advancement PartyNational Advancement PartyThe National Advancement Party is a political party in Guatemala. It was founded in 1989.In the 1990 and 1995 elections its presidential candidate was Álvaro Arzú who won in 1995, becoming Guatemala's 32nd president ....
(Partido de Avanzada Nacional) of Guatemala - National Autonomist PartyNational Autonomist PartyThe National Autonomist Party was an Argentine political party during the 1874-1916 period. Created on March 15, 1874 by the union of the Autonomist Party of Adolfo Alsina and the National Party of Nicolás Avellaneda...
(Partido Autonomista Nacional), former Argentine Political Party - National Mandate PartyNational Mandate PartyThe National Mandate Party is a moderate Islamist political party in Indonesia. It was founded by reformists, including Amien Rais, chairman of the Muhammadiyah organization, during the Indonesian reformation...
(Partai Amanat Nasional) of Indonesia - Nutrition Assistance for Puerto RicoNutrition Assistance for Puerto RicoNutrition Assistance for Puerto Rico or NAP is a federal assistance nutritional program provided by the US Department of Agriculture solely to the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, a self-governing dependency of the United States. It provides over $1.5 billion in supplemental economic resources to help...
(Programa de Asistencia Nutricional), a United States Federal assistance program for the nutritional needs of impoverished families in Puerto Rico - Pan PanPan PanPan Pan is a lost small Hindu Kingdom believed to have existed around 3rd-7th Century CE., somewhere in Kelantan or Terengganu, Malaysia. Little is known about this kingdom. The kingdom was later conquered by Srivijaya under the leadership of Dharmasetu before 775 CE...
, an ancient small Hindu Kingdom - Party of the Nation's RetireesParty of the Nation's RetireesThe PAN or Partido dos Aposentados da Nação is a centrist Brazilian political party founded on November 22, 1995...
(Partido dos Aposentados da Nação) of Brazil - Pesticide Action NetworkPesticide Action NetworkPesticide Action Network is "an international coaltion of around 600 NGOs, citizens' groups, and individuals in about 60 countries."PAN is involved in fighting problems caused by pesticide use, and advocates ecologically sound alternatives. Branches include PAN North America, U...
(PAN), an international NGO network - The Polish Academy of SciencesPolish Academy of SciencesThe Polish Academy of Sciences, headquartered in Warsaw, is one of two Polish institutions having the nature of an academy of sciences.-History:...
(Polish: Polska Akademia Nauk, abbreviated PAN) - Protect Arizona Now, a political committee behind Arizona Proposition 200 (2004)
Other
- Pan Club CopenhagenPan Club CopenhagenPan Club Copenhagen was a gay club in central Copenhagen, Denmark which closed in 2007 after having been in operation on various locations in Copenhagen since 1970. Pan was one of Europe's biggest gay clubs and the biggest in Copenhagen. It attracted a large number of people, particularly in the...
, Club in Copenhagen for homosexual people - Pan (surname)Pan (surname)Pan is a family name originated from China. Pan also is often romanized as Poon or Pun. The surname is spelled as Poon or Pun in Hong Kong and Macau, Ban in South Korea and Phan in Vietnam....
, Chinese family name (潘 or 盤) - Pan-panPan-panIn radiotelephone communications, a call of three repetitions of pan-pan is used to signify that there is an urgency on board a boat, ship, aircraft or other vehicle but that, for the time being at least, there is no immediate danger to anyone's life or to the vessel itself. This is referred to as...
, a radio distress call similar to and weaker than Mayday - Pan or PanguinguePanguinguePanguingue , Tagalog Pangginggí, also known as Pan, is a 19th century gambling card game probably of Philippine origin similar to rummy, first described in America in 1905. It used to be particularly popular in Las Vegas and other casinos in the American southwest...
, a gambling card game
See also
- Pain (disambiguation)Pain (disambiguation)-Experience:*Pain, an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage.*Suffering, an individual's basic affective experience of unpleasantness and aversion associated with harm or threat of harm-People:...
- Pane (disambiguation)
- Pin (disambiguation)