Pan

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Pan and panning can have many meanings as listed below in various categories.

Pan- as a prefix is derived from the Greek παν which means 'of everything', 'all' or 'involving all members' of a group.

Contents 1 Title 2 Cooking, food and drink 3 Music 4 Sciences 5 Electronics and photography 6 Religion and Mythology 7 Arts 8 Others 9 Acronym 9.1 Names of political parties 9.2 Other uses

[edit] Title

• An honorary title of nobles now a customary term of respect in everyday Polish communication as: Pani, Panna, Pan, (Panicz), Państwo . Cognate with Ban. Pan is also a Ukrainian and Czech honorific, roughly equivalent to "Lord", "Sir" or "Mr.".

[edit] Cooking, food and drink

• Pan, a type of cookware and bakeware
  • Frying pan
• Pan, a popular Indian snack
• Pan pivo, a Croatian lager beer
• See also: Pan-bagnat, pancake

[edit] 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 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

[edit] Sciences

• PAN, an abbreviation of Polish Academy of Science
• Pan, a genus of apes composed of the Common Chimpanzee and the Bonobo
• Pan (geology), a shallow depression holding a playa, salt lake or related feature
• 4450 Pan, an asteroid
• Pan crater, on Jupiter's moon Amalthea
• Pan (moon), a moon of Saturn
• "Pan-" (formal) and "pan-" (informal), hyphenated prefixes recommended in the draft PhyloCode for names of total groups
• Pan, an informal name for the moon Jupiter XI (now Carme) from 1955 to 1975

[edit] Electronics and photography

• 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 (antenna systems), in antenna systems, successively changing the azimuth of a beam of radio-frequency energy over the elements of a given horizontal region.
• Panning (audio), the spread of a monaural signal in a stereo or multi-channel sound field.
• Panchromatic black-and-white film.

[edit] Religion and Mythology

• Pan-, meaning "all" is incorporated into several religious systems:
  • Pantheism
  • Pandeism
  • Panentheism
  • Theopanism
• Pan (mythology), the god of nature in Greek mythology
  • Panflute

[edit] Arts

• Peter Pan, a character in a novel by James Barrie
• Pan (Dragon Ball), a fictional character from the anime, Dragon Ball Z
• Pan (novel), by Knut Hamsun
• Pan an arts and literary review (magazine)
• Pan Books, a publishing imprint of Macmillan Publishers
• Pan's Labyrinth, a film by Guillermo Del Toro
• Pan (film), a 1922 Norwegian film
• Pan (game), a Jackie Chan originated game

[edit] Others

• Pan (newsreader), newsreader software for Usenet
• Pan, Greece, a village in north-west Arcadia
• Pan Club Copenhagen, Club in Copenhagen for homosexual people
• Pan (surname), Chinese family name (潘 or 盤)
• Pan, WC bowl.
• Pan, also spelled Paan, a North Indian term for Betel, often mixed with tobacco and Lime for chewing
• Pan-pan, a radio distress call
• Panning for gold, a simple placer mining technique
• Pan or Panguingue, a gambling card game

[edit] Acronym

The acronym PAN can refer to:

• The ISO 639-3 code for the Punjabi language
• Personal area network, a computer network used close to one person
• Protected Area Network, a network of national parks in the remaining wilderness areas of Europe
• Permanent account number, India's national identification number for taxpayers
• Primary Account Number, another name for a credit card number
• Polyacrylonitrile, polymer
• 1-(2-Pyridylazo)-2-naphthol, a chemical indicator often used for determining manganese
• Peroxyacyl nitrates, irritants found in smog
• Polyarteritis nodosa, a vasculitic condition
• Protect Arizona Now, a political committee behind Arizona Proposition 200 (2004)
• Planning Advice Note, Town Planning guidance, Produced By the Scottish Executive used in conjunction with the Town and Country Planning (Scotland) Act
• Panama's official ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 abbreviation
• The Polish Academy of Sciences (Polish: Polska Akademia Nauk, abbreviated PAN)
• Presbyterians Aiding Nicaraguans
• Proto-Austronesian language
• Public Address Network, a new media collective with a daily vlog
• Unidentified Aerospace Phenomenon in French i.e. Phénomène aérospatial non identifié

[edit] Names of political parties

• National Action Party (El Salvador) (Partido Acción Nacional) of El Salvador
• 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
• Party of the Nation's Retirees (Partido dos Aposentados da Nação) of Brazil

[edit] Other uses

• Nutrition Assistance for Puerto Rico (Programa de Asistencia Nutricional), a United States Federal assistance program for nutritional needs of impoverished families in Puerto Rico