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Par or PAR may refer to:
Games
- Par (golf scoring format), an alternative to Stableford and normal stroke play
- Par (score), the number of strokes a scratch golfer should require to complete a hole, round or tournament
- Par contract, in contract bridge
Places
- Par, Cornwall, England
- Par, Iran
- Par, Vologda Oblast, Russia
- Par, Tibet
- Philippine Area of Responsibility, a weather monitoring area in the northwest Pacific
- Paraguay
- Parkesburg station, Pennsylvania, U.S., station code PAR
- PAR, IATA airport code for the metropolital area of Paris, France
- Par River (disambiguation), the name of several rivers
Businesses and organizations
- Aragonese Party (Partido Aragonés, PAR), a political party in Spain
- Movement For! (Kustība Par!), a political party in Latvia
- Party for the Restructured Antilles (Partido Antiá Restrukturá, PAR), a political party in Curaçao
- Revolutionary Action Party ('Partido Acción Revolucionaria', PAR), a political party in Guatemala
- Pan Am Railways, an American holding company
- Par Pharmaceutical, now part of Endo International
- Parkinson Association of the Rockies, a not-for-profit organization
Science and technology
Computing
- par (command), a text formatting utility for Unix
- Page address register, containing physical addresses
- Perl Archive Toolkit, a deployment tool
- Personal Animation Recorder, video capture for Amiga computers
- Pixel aspect ratio, in digital imaging
.par,.par2,.par3, filename extensions of Parchive
Other uses in science and technology
- Parabolic aluminized reflector, PAR lamp or PAR, a type of electric lamp
- Passive autocatalytic recombiner, that removes hydrogen from a nuclear power plant during an accident
- Par meter, to measure peak-to-average ratio in an electrical circuit
- Photosynthetically active radiation, a range of solar radiation
- Post-anesthesia recovery, part of a hospital
- Precision approach radar, a radar guidance system
- Predictive adaptive response in biology
- Protease-activated receptors PAR1, PAR2, PAR3, PAR4
- Pseudoautosomal regions on sex chromosomes
Other uses
- Par value, stated value or face value in finance and accounting
- Par yield or par rate, in finance
- Participatory action research, an approach to research
- Par (fly), a signal fly in the Platystomatidae family
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gollark: There are tons of non-learning algorithms which are good for logical reasoning. The fuzzier stuff which humans do easily seems to be what's harder to implement.
gollark: Just encode data in otherwise irrelevant details of the text which tokenisers remove/ignore.
gollark: It should randomly use a generated goose or actual goose and see how often people can tell the difference.
gollark: Someone should make the command more efficient by checking the goose's direction for you, automatically.
See also
- All pages with titles beginning with Par
- All pages with titles containing Par
- Parsec (disambiguation)
- Paragraph
- Pull to par, in finance
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