Pan
Pan and panning can have many meanings as listed below in various categories.
Prefix
Pan- as a prefix (Greek πᾶν, pan, "all," "of everything," "involving all members" of a group), e.g.:
Pan-Germanism
Pan-Slavism
Pan-Arabism
Pan-Africanism
panegyric
pantheon / Pantheon
Pangaea
Religion and mythology
Pan (god), a god of nature in Greek mythology
Pan flute, a wind instrument he is often depicted playing.
Pan- as a prefix in several religious systems, e.g.
Pantheism
Pandeism
Panentheism
Theopanism
Science
Astronomy
4450 Pan, an asteroid
Pan (crater), on Jupiter's moon Amalthea
Pan (moon), a moon of Saturn
Pan, an informal name for the moon Jupiter XI (now Carme) from 1955 to 1975
Zoology
Pan, a genus of apes composed of the Common Chimpanzee and the Bonobo
Chemistry
Polyacrylonitrile, polymer
Peroxyacyl nitrates, irritants found in smog
Computing
Pan (newsreader), newsreader software for Usenet
Personal Area Network, a type of computer network
Geography
Mount Pan, mountain in Ji County, Tianjin, China
Pan, Greece, a village in north-west Arcadia
Pan County, in Guizhou, China
Geology
Panning for gold, a simple placer mining technique
Pan, (or playa), an ephemeral water body contained in a shallow, flat basin
Salt pan (geology), a shallow depression holding a playa, salt lake or related feature
Multimedia Technologies
Panning (camera), a movement of a film or video camera (rotating on a vertical axis)
Pan and scan, technique for reproducing wide-screen films on narrow TV screens.
Panning (audio), the spread of a monaural signal in a stereo or multi-channel sound field.
Panchromatic black-and-white film.
Food and drink
Pan, a type of cookware and bakeware
Frying pan
Pan, also spelled Paan, a North Indian term for Betel, often mixed with tobacco and lime for chewing as a mouth freshener
Pan pivo, a Croatian lager beer
See also: Pan-bagnat, pancake
Pan, the Spanish word for bread
Sugar panning, the method for creating the confections called dragées
Arts
"to pan", to give a negative review or criticism, the opposite of "to rave"
Film
''Pan'' (film), a 1922 Norwegian film
''Pan's Labyrinth, a film by Guillermo Del Toro
''Pan'' (magazine) an arts and literary review (magazine)
Pan Books, a publishing imprint of Macmillan Publishers
Fiction
Pan (Dragon Ball), a fictional character from the anime Dragon Ball Z
Pan (novel), by Knut Hamsun
Peter Pan, a character in a novel by James Barrie
Music
Pan, short for steelpan, 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 Venth
Pan, a Turkish band that performed Bana Bana at the Eurovision Song Contest 1989
Pan pipes, a musical instrument
Panning (audio), placement of a sound source in a stereo field
Pan's People, a British dance troupe on Top of the pops
International ISO Standards
The ISO 639-3 code for the Punjabi language
Panama's official ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 abbreviation
Acronym
The acronym PAN can refer to:
Palladium At Night, an American satellite
Phénomène Aérospatial Non identifié, French for Unidentified Aerospace Phenomenon
Protected Area Network, a network of national parks in the remaining wilderness areas of Europe
Personal Area Network, a type of computer network
Permanent Account Number, India's national identification number for taxpayers
Primary Account Number, another name for a credit card number
Polyarteritis nodosa, a vasculitic condition
Positional Alcohol Nystagmus
Presbyterians Aiding Nicaraguans
Proto-Austronesian language
(Non-)government and politics
National Action Party (El Salvador) (Partido Acción Nacional) of El Salvador
National Action Party (Nicaragua) (Partido Acción Nacional) of Nicaragua
National Action Party (Mexico) (Partido Acción Nacional) of Mexico
National Advancement Party (Partido de Avanzada Nacional) of Guatemala
National Mandate Party (Partai Amanat Nasional) of Indonesia
Nutrition Assistance for Puerto Rico (Programa de Asistencia Nutricional), a United States Federal assistance program for the nutritional needs of impoverished families in Puerto Rico
Pan Pan, an ancient small Hindu Kingdom
Party of the Nation's Retirees (Partido dos Aposentados da Nação) of Brazil
Protect Arizona Now, a political committee behind Arizona Proposition 200 (2004)
Pesticide Action Network (PAN), an international NGO network
The Polish Academy of Sciences (Polish: Polska Akademia Nauk, abbreviated PAN)
Other
Pan Club Copenhagen, Club in Copenhagen for homosexual people
Pan or Panguingue, a gambling card game
Pan-pan, a radio distress call similar to and weaker than Mayday.
Pan (surname), Chinese family name (潘 or 盤)
Translation
The word "Pan" occurs as such in the following languages: English, Alemannic, Min Nan, Czech, German, French, Croatian, Latin, Luxembourgish, Dutch, Norwegian (Bokmål), Low Saxon, Polish, Portuguese, Simple English, Turkish.
Translation(s) in other languages: Belarusian (Taraškievica): Пан, Welsh: Pan (gwahaniaethu), Danish: Pan (flertydig), Spanish: Pan (desambiguación), Korean: 빵 (동음이의), Lithuanian: Panas, Japanese: パン (曖昧さ回避), Norwegian (Nynorsk): Pan (fleirtyding), Romanian: Pan (dezambiguizare), Russian: Пан, Swedish: Pan (olika betydelser), Thai: แพน, Finnish: Pan (täsmennyssivu), Ukrainian: Пан.
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