Pax or PAX may refer to:

Peace

Peace Peace is a concept of societal friendship and harmony in the absence of hostility and violence. In a social sense, peace is commonly used to mean a lack of conflict (such as war) and freedom from fear of violence between individuals or groups. ...

(Latin: ''pax'') ** Pax (goddess), the Roman goddess of peace ** Pax, a

truce term A truce term is a word or short phrase accepted within a community of children as an effective way of calling for a temporary respite or truce during a game or activity, such as tag or its variants. Common examples in English speaking cultures ...

Pax (liturgy) In Christian liturgy, "the ''Pax''" is an abbreviation of the Latin salutations "''pax vobis''" ("peace to you") or "''pax vobiscum''" ("peace with you"), which are used in the Catholic Mass, the Lutheran Divine Service, and the Western Orthodo ...

, a salutation in Catholic and Lutheran religious services * Pax (liturgical object), an object formerly kissed as a substitute for the Kiss of Peace in the Catholic Mass

Entertainment

* ''Pax'' (1994 film), a Portuguese comedy * ''Pax'' (2011 film), a Norwegian-Swedish drama *

PAX (event) PAX (originally known as Penny Arcade Expo) is a series of gaming culture festivals involving tabletop, arcade, and video gaming. PAX is held annually in Seattle, Boston and Philadelphia in the United States; and Melbourne in Australia. PAX w ...

, a gamer festival * ''Pax'' (novel), by Sara Pennypacker * Pax, a fictional organization in '' Strange New World'' and elsewhere by Gene Roddenberry * PAX, a side project of the German band

X Marks the Pedwalk X Marks the Pedwalk (sometimes written as X-Marks the Pedwalk) is a German band whose styles range from post-industrial dance to electronic body music. X Marks the Pedwalk’s influence in the industrial and electronic music scenes was consid ...

* ''Pax'' (album) by Andrew Hill *

Pax TV Ion Television is an American broadcast television network owned by the Katz Broadcasting subsidiary of the E. W. Scripps Company. The network first began broadcasting on August 31, 1998, as Pax TV, focusing primarily on family-oriented ente ...

, which became Ion Television in 2007

Organizations

* Pax Christi International, an international Catholic peace movement *

PAX Association The PAX Association () was a pro-communist Catholic organization created in 1947 in the People's Republic of Poland at the onset of the Stalinist period. The association published the ''Słowo Powszechne'' daily for almost fifty years between 19 ...

, in Poland *

Pax Forlag Pax Forlag is a Norwegian publishing house, established in 1964. The first manager was Tor Bjerkmann, who chaired the company from 1964 to 1972. Starting with Bjerkmann's new translation of George Orwell's ''Animal Farm'', Pax published 150 qua ...

, a Norwegian publishing house *

PAX Network Ion Television is an American broadcast television network owned by the Katz Broadcasting subsidiary of the E. W. Scripps Company. The network first began broadcasting on August 31, 1998, as Pax TV, focusing primarily on family-oriented enter ...

, a US television network now known as ION Television * Pax World Funds, a US mutual fund company * Pax Labs, a US manufacturer of vaporizers and the Juul electronic cigarette * Pax, a Russian manufacturer of

Ferris wheels A Ferris wheel (also called a Giant Wheel or an observation wheel) is an amusement ride consisting of a rotating upright wheel with multiple passenger-carrying components (commonly referred to as passenger cars, cabins, tubs, gondolas, capsules ...

and other amusement rides * ''Pax Dei'': the European Middle Ages

Peace and Truce of God The Peace and Truce of God ( lat, Pax et treuga Dei) was a movement in the Middle Ages led by the Catholic Church and one of the most influential mass peace movements in history. The goal of both the ''Pax Dei'' and the ''Treuga Dei'' was to limit ...

movement, an early

pacifist Pacifism is the opposition or resistance to war, militarism (including conscription and mandatory military service) or violence. Pacifists generally reject theories of Just War. The word ''pacifism'' was coined by the French peace campai ...

movement

Science and technology

* pax (command), a command line program to read and write file archives * PaX, a Linux kernel security patch introduced in 2000 * Pax genes, a group of genes and their proteins *

Michelin PAX System The Michelin PAX is an automobile run-flat tire system that utilizes a special type of rim and tire to allow temporary use of a wheel if its tire is punctured. The core of Michelin's PAX system is the semi-rigid ring installed onto the rim using sp ...

, an automotive run-flat tire system * Pax, a generic brand of

diazepam Diazepam, first marketed as Valium, is a medicine of the benzodiazepine family that acts as an anxiolytic. It is commonly used to treat a range of conditions, including anxiety, seizures, alcohol withdrawal syndrome, muscle spasms, insomnia, ...

available in South Africa * ''Pax'' (spider), a genus of ant spiders

People

* Ferdinand Albin Pax (1858–1942), German botanist *

Ferdinand Albert Pax Ferdinand Albert Pax (30 December 1885 – 11 September 1964) was a German zoologist who worked at the University of Wroclaw. He was the author of a monograph on the Hexacorallia in the series edited by Willy Kükenthal. Pax was born in Breslau to ...

(1884–1964), German zoologist, son of the previous

Other uses

679 Pax 679 Pax is a minor planet orbiting the Sun that was discovered by German astronomer August Kopff on January 28, 1909. It is named after Pax, a Roman goddess. It is orbiting the Sun with a period of 4.16 years and an eccentricity of 0.31. ...

, a minor planet orbiting the Sun * Winter Storm Pax, a 2014 storm in the US * auxiliary unit of measurement for the number of

passenger A passenger (also abbreviated as pax) is a person who travels in a vehicle, but does not bear any responsibility for the tasks required for that vehicle to arrive at its destination or otherwise operate the vehicle, and is not a steward. Th ...

s in shipping and aviation, for guests in the hotel industry and for visitors to events * Name of one of the months of the ancient