Par

Paré is a family name of French origin. Some of the people who bear this name are: * Ambroise Paré (c. 1510–1590), French surgeon * Élise Paré-Tousignant (1937–2018), Canadian music administrator and pedagogue * Emmett Paré (1907–1973), American tennis player * François Paré (born 1949), Quebecois author and academic * Jean Paré (1927–2022), Canadian cookbook author * Jean Paré (journalist) (born 1935), Canadian journalist * Jean-Guy Paré (born 1947), Canadian politician * Jessica Paré (born 1980), Canadian actress * Mark Paré (born 1957), Canadian NHL official * Michael Paré (born 1958), American actor * Pargui Emile Paré, Burkinabé politician * Philippe Paré (born 1935), Canadian educator and politician * Sammy Paré, Marvel Comics character

Par may refer to: ==Finance== Par value, stated value or face value in finance and accounting Par yield or par rate, in finance ==Games== Par (score), the number of strokes a proficient golfer should require to complete a hole, round or tournament. Par (golf scoring format), an alternative to Stableford and normal stroke play Par contract, in contract bridge ==Organizations== ===Businesses=== Pan Am Railways, an American holding company Par Pharmaceutical, now part of Endo International PaR Systems, an American automation company ===Political parties=== Aragonese Party (Partido Aragonés, PAR), Spain Movement For! (Kustība Par!), Latvia Party for the Restructured Antilles (Partido Antiá Restrukturá, PAR), Curaçao Revolutionary Action Party ('Partido Acción Revolucionaria', PAR), Guatemala People's Alliance for Reform, Singapore ===Other organizations=== Parkinson Association of the Rockies, a not-for-profit organization Pretoria Armoured Regiment, an armour regiment of the South African Army ==Places== Par, Cornwall, England Par railway station Par, Iran Par, Vologda Oblast, Russia Par, Tibet Philippine Area of Responsibility, a weather monitoring area in the northwest Pacific Paraguay, IOC country code Parkesburg station, Pennsylvania, U.S., station code PAR Parliament railway station, Melbourne PAR, IATA airport code for the metropolitan area of Paris, France Par River (disambiguation), the name of several rivers ==Science and technology== ===Biology and medicine=== Par (fly), a signal fly in the family Platystomatidae Photosynthetically active radiation, a range of solar radiation Post-anesthesia recovery, part of a hospital Predictive adaptive response in biology Protease-activated receptors PAR1, PAR2, PAR3, PAR4 Pseudoautosomal regions on sex chromosomes ===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=== PAR Special, a 1950s American experimental aircraft Parabolic aluminized reflector, PAR lamp or PAR, a type of electric lamp Participatory action research, a social sciences research approach Passive autocatalytic recombiner, device that removes hydrogen from a nuclear power plant during an accident Par meter, to measure peak-to-average ratio in an electrical circuit Precision approach radar, a radar aircraft guidance system ==See also== Parsec (disambiguation) Paragraph Pull to par, in finance

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