PAS or Pas may refer to:

Companies and organizations

Pakistan Administrative Service The Pakistan Administrative Service, or PAS ( ur, ) (previously known as the District Management Group or DMG before 1 June 2012) is an elite cadre of the Civil Services of Pakistan. The Pakistan Administrative Service over the years has emerge ...

* Pan Am Southern, a freight railroad owned by Norfolk Southern and Pan Am Railways * Pan American Silver, a mining company in Canada *

Paradox Access Solutions Paradox Access Solutions is a construction company specializing in customized access solutions for companies who need temporary or permanent roadways built on unstable terrain, such as muskeg, permafrost or mud. The company is located in Aches ...

, a construction company * Percussive Arts Society, percussion organization *

Poetry Association of Scotland The Poetry Association of Scotland (or PAS), formerly known as the Scottish Association for the Speaking of Verse, is a public, membership-based literary society founded in 1924 principally by John Masefield (along with other figures such as Marion ...

Polish Academy of Sciences The Polish Academy of Sciences ( pl, Polska Akademia Nauk, PAN) is a Polish state-sponsored institution of higher learning. Headquartered in Warsaw, it is responsible for spearheading the development of science across the country by a society o ...

* Port Auxiliary Service, formerly the British Admiralty Yard Craft Service * Production Automotive Services, an American specialty vehicle manufacturer

Political parties

Malaysian Islamic Party The Malaysian Islamic Party (PAS; ms, Parti Islam Se-Malaysia; ms, ڤرتي إسلام سمليسيا, label= Jawi, script=arab, italic=unset) is an Islamist political party in Malaysia. As the party focused on Islamic fundamentalism, PAS's ...

, Malaysia * Partido Alianza Social, Mexico *

Party of Action and Solidarity The Party of Action and Solidarity ( ro, Partidul Acțiune și Solidaritate, PAS) is a Liberalism, liberal political party in Moldova. The PAS was founded by Maia Sandu, the former Ministry of Education, Culture and Research (Moldova), Minister ...

, Moldova

Places

The Pas (electoral district) The Pas was a provincial electoral division in the Provinces and territories of Canada, Canadian province of Manitoba. It was created in 1912 following the expansion of the province's northern border, and existed until its dissolution in 2018. ...

, in Manitoba, Canada *

The Pas The Pas ( ; french: Le Pas) is a town in Manitoba, Canada, located at the confluence of the Pasquia River and the Saskatchewan River and surrounded by the unorganized Northern Region of the province. It is approximately northwest of the provinc ...

, town in Canada *

Le Pas Le Pas () is a commune in the Mayenne department in north-western France. Le Pas is a village located in the north of the Department of Mayenne. It is 10 km from Gorron, 42 km from Laval and 18 km from Mayenne Mayenne () ...

, commune in France * Sihanoukville Autonomous Port (Port Autonome de Sihanoukville), Cambodia

Science

* PAS diastase stain *

PAS domain A Per-Arnt-Sim (PAS) domain is a protein domain found in all kingdoms of life. Generally, the PAS domain acts as a molecular sensor, whereby small molecules and other proteins associate via binding of the PAS domain. Due to this sensing capabilit ...

, a protein domain * Panic and Agoraphobia Scale, a psychological rating scale * Para-aminosalicylic acid, a treatment for tuberculosis *

Parental alienation syndrome Parental alienation syndrome (PAS) is a term introduced by child psychiatrist Richard Gardner in 1985 to describe signs and symptoms he believed to be exhibited by children who have been alienated from one parent through manipulation by the othe ...

Periodic acid-Schiff stain Periodicity or periodic may refer to: Mathematics * Bott periodicity theorem, addresses Bott periodicity: a modulo-8 recurrence relation in the homotopy groups of classical groups * Periodic function, a function whose output contains values tha ...

for biological tissues * Post-abortion syndrome * Pascal second (Pa⋅s), SI unit of

viscosity The viscosity of a fluid is a measure of its resistance to deformation at a given rate. For liquids, it corresponds to the informal concept of "thickness": for example, syrup has a higher viscosity than water. Viscosity quantifies the inte ...

* PolyAcenic Semiconductor

Sports

* PAS Giannina, a Greek football club from Ioannina * PAS Hamedan F.C., an Iranian football club from Hamedan * PAS Tehran F.C., a defunct Iranian football club from Tehran * Pan American Stadium (New Orleans) * Pan American Stadium (Winnipeg) * Pan American Stakes, an American Thoroughbred horse race

Technology

Personal Access System The Personal Handy-phone System (PHS), also marketed as the Personal Communication Telephone (PCT) in Thailand, and the Personal Access System (PAS) and commercially branded as ''Xiaolingtong'' () in Mainland China, was a mobile network system o ...

, a wireless telephone standard * Pedal assist system, on an electric bicycle * Positron annihilation spectroscopy * Patient administration system, developed out of the automation of administrative paperwork * Process automation system, for industrial plants * Media Vision Pro AudioSpectrum, computer sound cards * .pas, Pascal programming language file extension * PAS 1, etc. satellites by

PanAmSat The former PanAmSat Corporation founded in 1984 by Reynold (Rene) Anselmo, was a satellite service provider headquartered in Greenwich, Connecticut, United States. It operated a fleet of communications satellites used by the entertainment ind ...

* Power-assisted steering, or power steering, in automobiles

Other uses

* Pacific American School, an international school in Hsinchu City, Taiwan * Pas (river), in Spain * List of positions filled by presidential appointment with Senate confirmation, "Presidential Appointment needing Senate confirmation" *

Ion Pas Ion Pas (born Ioan M. Pascu; October 6, 1895 – May 20, 1974) was a Romanian novelist, translator and left-wing politician. Born in Bucharest, his parents were Marin Pascu, a small-time craftsman, and his wife Maria (''née'' Ispas). He attended ...

(1895-1974), Romanian writer and politician *

Physician-assisted suicide Assisted suicide is suicide undertaken with the aid of another person. The term usually refers to physician-assisted suicide (PAS), which is suicide that is assisted by a physician or other healthcare provider. Once it is determined that the p ...

* Portable Antiquities Scheme, UK record of small archaeological finds *

Publicly Available Specification A Publicly Available Specification or PAS is a standardization document that closely resembles a formal standard in structure and format but which has a different development model. The objective of a Publicly Available Specification is to speed up ...

, UK consultative standards documents