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  Pax may refer to:

  • the Latin word for peace
    Peace

    Peace is a term that most commonly refers to an absence of aggression, violence or hostility, but which also represents a larger concept wherein there are healthy or newly-healed interpersonal relationship or international relations, safety in matters of social or economic welfare, the acknowledgment of equality and fairness in political re...
    , used in phrases such as Pax Romana
    Pax Romana

    Pax Romana was the long period of relative peace and minimal expansion by military force experienced by the Roman Empire in the first century and second century Anno Domini....
     (see the latter article and List of periods of regional peace
    List of periods of regional peace

    The word "pax" together with the Latin name of an empire or nation is used to refer to a period of peace or at least stability enforced by power....
     for more); also, its personification, Pax (mythology)
    Pax (mythology)

    In Roman mythology, Pax was recognized as a goddess during the rule of Augustus. On the Campus Martius, she had a temple called the Ara Pacis, and another temple on the Forum Pacis....
    , goddess of peace in Roman mythology


  • Pax, West Virginia
    Pax, West Virginia

    Pax is a town in Fayette County, West Virginia, West Virginia, United States. The population was 174 at the 2000 census....
    , a small town in the USA
  • PAX (film), a 1994 film starring Amanda Plummer and written by Bruno Heller
  • pax (Unix), a Unix command line program to read and write file archives
  • PaX
    Pax

    Pax may refer to:* the Latin language word for peace, used in phrases such as Pax Romana ; also, its personification, Pax , goddess of peace in Roman mythology...
    , the Linux kernel security patch.
  • Pax genes
    Pax genes

    Paired box genes are a family of tissue specific transcription factors containing a paired domain and usually a partial or complete homeodomain....
    , the name for a group of genes and their proteins
  • Pax Hill
    Pax Hill

    File:Pax Hill.jpgPax Hill, near Bentley, Hampshire, England, was the family home of Robert Baden-Powell, founder of the Scouting, and his wife, Olave, for over twenty years during the 20th century....
    , a place in England
  • 679 Pax
    679 Pax

    679 Pax is a minor planet orbiting the Sun. It is named after Pax , a Roman goddess.External links...
    , a minor planet orbiting the Sun
  • PAX Association
    PAX Association

    PAX Association was a pro-communist government secular religious organization, created in 1947 in Poland. It worked to undermine grassroot support for the Roman Catholic Church....
     in Poland
  • PAX Network, a U.S. television network, now known as ION Television
  • Penny Arcade Expo
    Penny Arcade Expo

    The Penny Arcade Expo is an annual gamer festival held in Washington state, USA. PAX was created by Jerry Holkins and Mike Krahulik, the authors of the Penny Arcade webcomic, because they wanted to attend a show that gave equal attention to console gamers, computer gamers, and tabletop gamers....
    , a gamer festival.
  • Passenger
    Passenger

    A passenger is a term broadly used to describe any person who travels in a vehicle, but bears little or no responsibility for the tasks required for that vehicle to arrive at its destination....
    , person or passenger (term used in the travel industry)