Par
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Par may mean:
- Par, Cornwall, a town in Cornwall, England.
- "Par", a classification measure of each hole on a golf course that reflects the distance between the tee and green.
- Par value, financial term for the value of a security
- Parchive (give the filename .par), a file containing recovery data used to fix other files, typically RAR files
- Par (command) (short for "paragraph"), the UNIX filtering command
- Par file a file extension for QuickPar files
PAR may stand for:
- Parabolic aluminumized reflector, a type of floodlight
- Portuguese Association of Ryerson, located in Toronto, Canada
- Positive_acknowledgment_with_re-transmission, a TCP/IP method of reliable data transmission
- Participatory Action Research, a research methodology
- Partido Aragonés (Aragonese Party)
- Photosynthetically active radiation, a measurement of the amount of photosynthetically active wavelengths in light (in the range 400-700 nm).
- "Possible Allergic Reaction", a warning accompanying some E number encodings for food additives
- Precision Approach Radar, a military instrument approach system.
- Pro Action Replay, a brand of expansion cartridges for various home video game consoles.
- Protease-activated receptor, a cell receptor that is activated by cleavage