Pax
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The Latin word pax means "peace". It is also the name of the goddess of Peace in Roman mythology. Together with the (Romanized) name of an empire or nation, it refers to a period of peace or at least stability enforced by the power, such as:
- Pax Americana
- Pax Britannica (a colonial empire)
- Pax Romana (a vast centralised empire)
- Pax Sinica
- Pax Mongolica
- Pax Hispanica
By analogy, such terms can be construed in more private spheres of social life, such as business, e.g. 'pax media' among the broadcasting rivals in Flanders.
Other meanings include:
- In the liturgy of the Mass, the 'pax' or 'peace' originally was a moment of solemn greeting before Communion, the kiss of peace); while the younger 'pax brede', shortened as 'pax', is an osculatory used for transferring this holy kiss.
- Ferdinand Albin Pax (1858–1942), German botanist.
- Salam Pax
- In the game of tag, the term "pax" (or sometimes "tax") is called to signify an intermission
- PaX, the Linux kernel security patch
- PAX (Penny Arcade Expo), an annual video game convention held at the Meydenbauer Center in Bellevue, Washington. Run by the creators of the Penny Arcade webcomic.
- i, a U.S. television network (formerly the PAX TV Network)
- pax — an abbreviation for "passengers" used by the travel industry.
- PAX or pax — an American acronym for "Persons At Table" (as in '20pax' = 20 Persons At Table) used by the hospitality industry. Originally written as 'PAT' but through ambiguous written characters (T being mistaken as X), over time became 'PAX'
- portable archive interchange — a format used to archive computer files
- pax — a BSD command line program to read and write file archives
- Pax Imperia Eminent Domain, a Galactic Empire building, 4X style game by THQ.
- Pax is used instead of saying "peace", most often online through instant message programs.
- Pax is the name of a side-project by industrial musicians Sevren Ni-arb and al/x/s. See X Marks the Pedwalk.
- Pax is a group of paired box genes - Pax genes