Para, or PARA, may refer to:
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Paramount Global
Paramount Global ( doing business as Paramount) is an American multinational mass media and entertainment conglomerate owned and operated by National Amusements (79.4%) and headquartered at One Astor Plaza in Midtown Manhattan, New York. ...
, traded as PARA on the Nasdaq stock exchange
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Para Group, the former name of CT Corp
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Para Rubber, now Skellerup, a New Zealand manufacturer
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Para USA
Para USA (Para) was an American-owned firearms manufacturer. It was the successor to Para-Ordnance, founded in Canada in 1985. It specialized in making M1911-style semi-automatic pistols and components. The company was acquired by Remington Ou ...
, formerly Para-Ordnance, a firearms manufacturer
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Pan American Rugby Association
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Philippine Amateur Radio Association
People
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Pará (footballer, born 1986)
Marcos Rogério Ricci Lopes (born 14 February 1986), commonly known as Pará (), is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays as a right back for Portuguesa.
Pará previously played for Santo André, Santos, Grêmio and Flamengo winnin ...
, Marcos Rogério Ricci Lopes
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Pará (footballer, born 1987), Erinaldo Rabelo Santos
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Pará (footballer, born 1995), Anderson Ferreira da Silva
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Pará (footballer, born 2002), Luis Felipe Rabelo Costa
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André Cordeiro (water polo) (born 1967), nicknamed Pará, Brazilian water polo player
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Para Draine
Para Draine (born December 28, 1972) is an American female boxer who has been a world champion two times. She is a former 112 pounds and current 115 pound champion. Draine stands 5 feet eight inches (68 inches) tall, making her relatively t ...
(born 1972), American female boxer
Places
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Para (Bengali)
Para is a Bengali word () which means a neighbourhood or locality, usually characterised by a strong sense of community. The names of several localities in cities and villages of West Bengal, Bangladesh and Tripura end with the suffix ''para''. H ...
, a Bengali word meaning neighborhood or locality
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Pará
Pará is a state of Brazil, located in northern Brazil and traversed by the lower Amazon River. It borders the Brazilian states of Amapá, Maranhão, Tocantins, Mato Grosso, Amazonas and Roraima. To the northwest are the borders of Guyana ...
, a state of Brazil
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Para (community development block)
Para is a community development block (CD block) that forms an administrative division in the Raghunathpur subdivision of the Purulia district in the Indian state of West Bengal.
History Background
The ''Jaina Bhagavati-Sutra'' of the 5th centu ...
, Purulia district, West Bengal, India
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Para, Purulia
Para is a village, with a police station, in the Para CD block in the Raghunathpur subdivision of the Purulia district in West Bengal, India.
Geography
Location
Para is located at .
Area overview
Purulia district forms the lowest step ...
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Para (Vidhan Sabha constituency)
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Para, Jhabua
Para is a village in Madhya Pradesh
Madhya Pradesh (, ; meaning 'central province') is a state in central India. Its capital is Bhopal, and the largest city is Indore, with Jabalpur, Ujjain, Gwalior, Sagar, and Rewa being the other ma ...
, Madhya Pradesh, India
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Para, Rajasthan, India
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Para, Unnao, Uttar Pradesh, India
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Para, Raebareli, Uttar Pradesh, India
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Para, Ivory Coast
Para is a village is southwestern Ivory Coast. It is in the sub-prefecture of Djouroutou, Tabou Department, San-Pédro Region, Bas-Sassandra District.
Para was a commune
A commune is an alternative term for an intentional community. Commune ...
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Para District
Para is a district of northern Suriname. Para's capital city is Onverwacht, with other towns including Paranam, and Zanderij. Para has a population of 24,700 and an area of 5,393 km2. The district is the mining and forestry centre of Sur ...
, Suriname
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Para River (disambiguation) Para River may refer to:
* Pará River in Brazil
*Pará River (Minas Gerais) in southeastern Brazil
*Para Creek in Suriname. Sometimes called Para River
* Para River in India's Himachal Pradesh that flows through Ladakh and Tibet
*Para (Russia) in ...
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La Para
La Para (also named ''La Pare'' or ''La Tornette'') is a mountain of the western Bernese Alps, overlooking Les Diablerets in the canton of Vaud
Vaud ( ; french: (Canton de) Vaud, ; german: (Kanton) Waadt, or ), more formally the canton of V ...
, a summit in the Swiss Alps
Science and technology
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Parity (biology)
In biology and human medicine, gravidity and parity are the number of times a woman is or has been pregnant (gravidity) and carried the pregnancies to a viable gestational age (parity). These terms are usually coupled, sometimes with additional t ...
, the number of times a woman has given birth, e.g. para 1 etc.
* Para, common name of fern ''
Ptisana salicina
''Ptisana salicina'', or king fern, is a species of fern native to Norfolk Island, New Zealand and the South Pacific. Large and robust with a distinctive tropical appearance, it has fronds up to 5 metres (16 feet +/-) tall that arise from a sta ...
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* para, symbol for the fruit fly gene ''
paralytic (gene)
''Paralytic'' is a gene in the fruit fly, ''Drosophila melanogaster'', which encodes a voltage gated sodium channel within ''D. melanogaster'' neurons. This gene is essential for locomotive activity in the fly. There are 9 different ''para'' alle ...
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Para- (chemistry)
Arene substitution patterns are part of organic chemistry IUPAC nomenclature and pinpoint the position of substituents other than hydrogen in relation to each other on an aromatic hydrocarbon.
''Ortho'', ''meta'', and ''para'' substitution
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, a position of a substituent on a cyclic hydrocarbon
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Para red, a dye
Other uses
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Para (currency)
The ''para'' ( Turkish , plural: pare . From Persian , 'piece'; Cyrillic: пара) was a former currency of the Ottoman Empire, Turkey, Egypt, Montenegro, Albania and Yugoslavia and is the current subunit, although rarely used, of the Serbian d ...
, a former currency of the Ottoman Empire
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Para language
Para or Para Naga (autonym: Jejara; also called Bara, Parasar), is an unclassified Naga language of India and Burma. It is not close to other Naga languages which it has been compared to, though Para Naga, Long Phuri Naga, and Makuri Naga may ...
, an unclassified Naga language of India and Burma
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Para Handy
Para Handy, the anglicized Gaelic nickname of the fictional character Peter Macfarlane, is a character created by the journalist and writer Neil Munro in a series of stories published in the '' Glasgow Evening News'' between 1905 and 1923 under ...
, a fictional character in the ''Glasgow Evening News''
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Para Loga
According to Ayyavazhi mythology there are Seven Logas (Seven Upper Worlds). The Sanskrit term for Loga is "''loka''." Akilam six and Akilam seven of Akilattirattu Ammanai speaks about it. The Seven logas are;
# Deivaloka (the Sanskrit term f ...
, one among the seven Logas (upper worlds) in Ayyavazhi mythology
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Para Shakti, a Hindu goddess of the Shakti type sometimes concatenated Parashakti
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Brazilian ship ''Pará'', a list of ships
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Juz'
A ''juzʼ'' (Arabic: جُزْءْ, plural: ''ajzāʼ'', literally meaning "part") is one of thirty parts of varying lengths into which the Quran is divided. It is also known as para (پارہ/পারা) in Iran and the Indian subcontinent. The ...
, or para, a division of the Quran
See also
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Paras (disambiguation)
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Param (disambiguation)
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List of commonly used taxonomic affixes
This is a list of common affixes used when scientifically naming species, particularly extinct species for whom only their scientific names are used, along with their derivations.
*a-, an-: ''Pronunciation'': /ə/, /a/, /ən/, /an/. ''Origin'' ...
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Para Para is a synchronized dance that originated in Japan. Unlike most club dancing and rave dancing, there are specific synchronized movements for each song much like line dancing. Para Para has existed since the early 1980s when European countries starte ...
, a popular Japanese solo dance
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Parachute Regiment (disambiguation)
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Paralympic Games, international games for athletes with a disability
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Paramilitary, organisations not part of the armed forces but operate as such
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Paraprofessional
Paraprofessional is a title given to individuals in various occupational fields, such as education, librarianship, healthcare, engineering, and law. Historically, paraprofessionals assisted the master professional of their field. In more recent tim ...
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Paralegal
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Paramedic
A paramedic is a registered healthcare professional who works autonomously across a range of health and care settings and may specialise in clinical practice, as well as in education, leadership, and research.
Not all ambulance personnel are p ...
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Parapsychology
Parapsychology is the study of alleged psychic phenomena (extrasensory perception, telepathy, precognition, clairvoyance, psychokinesis (also called telekinesis), and psychometry) and other paranormal claims, for example, those related to near ...
, the study of alleged psychic phenomena
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Paratrooper
A paratrooper is a military parachutist—someone trained to parachute into a military operation, and usually functioning as part of an airborne force. Military parachutists (troops) and parachutes were first used on a large scale during Worl ...
, a military parachutist
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