Pan or PAN may refer to:

Food

Pan (cooking) Cookware and bakeware is food preparation equipment, such as cooking pots, pans, baking sheets etc. used in kitchens. Cookware is used on a Kitchen stove, stove or range cooktop, while bakeware is used in an oven. Some utensils are considere ...

, a piece of cooking equipment * Harina P.A.N., a pre-cooked corn meal * Pan or Paan, a North Indian term for betel

Prefix

* ''Pan-'', a

prefix A prefix is an affix which is placed before the stem of a word. Particularly in the study of languages, a prefix is also called a preformative, because it alters the form of the word to which it is affixed. Prefixes, like other affixes, can b ...

meaning "all", "of everything", or "involving all members" of a group

People

* Pan (surname), Chinese family name (潘 or 盤) * Pen Ran (), Cambodian singer and songwriter whose name is sometimes Romanized as Pan Ron

Arts, entertainment, and media

Card games

* Pan (game), a shedding card game of Polish origin * Panguingue or Pan, a gambling card game

Fictional characters

* Pan (''Dragon Ball''), in ''Dragon Ball'' media * Peter Pan, created by James Barrie

Films

* ''Pan'' (1922 film), Norwegian film * ''Pan'' (1995 film), a Danish/Norwegian/German film * ''Pan'' (2015 film), film

Literature and publishing

* ''Pan'' (novel), by Knut Hamsun * ''Pan'' (magazine) an arts and literary review *

Pan Books Pan Books is a British publishing imprint that first became active in the 1940s and is now part of the British-based Macmillan Publishers, owned by the Georg von Holtzbrinck Publishing Group of Germany. History Pan Books began as an indepe ...

, a publisher

Music

Musical instruments

* Pan, short for

steelpan The steelpan (also known as a pan or steel drum) is a musical instrument originating in Trinidad and Tobago from Afro–Trinidadians and Tobagonians, Afro-Trinidadians. Steelpan musicians are called pannists. In 1992, the steelpan was declared ...

, an acoustic instrument *

Pan flute A pan flute (also known as panpipes or syrinx) is a musical instrument based on the principle of the closed tube, consisting of multiple pipes of gradually increasing length (and occasionally girth). Multiple varieties of pan flutes have been ...

or pan pipes, a musical instrument

Groups and labels

* Pan (band), a Filipino folk/punk rock band * PAN (record label), a record label and art platform * Pan, a Turkish band which performed " Bana Bana" at the 1989 Eurovision Song Contest

Works

* ''Pan'' (The Blue Hearts), an album by the Japanese band * ''Pan'', an opera by

Carl Venth Carl Venth (February 16, 1860 – January 29, 1938) was a Germany, German-United States, American composer, violinist, conducting, conductor, music education, music educator, and scholar. He was a leading classical music figure in Texas in ...

Sculpture

* ''Pan'' (Riccio), a 1510s bronze sculpture by Andrea Riccio * ''Pan'' (White), a public artwork by Roger White, in Indianapolis, Indiana, U.S.

Religion and mythology

Pan (god) In ancient Greek religion and Greek mythology, mythology, Pan (; ) is the god of the wild, shepherds and flocks, Pastoral#Pastoral music, rustic music and impromptus, and companion of the nymphs. He has the hindquarters, legs, and horns of a goa ...

, a Greek deity, often depicted with goat horns

Science and technology

Astronomy

Pan (crater) Pan is the largest crater on Jupiter's moon The Moon is Earth's only natural satellite. It Orbit of the Moon, orbits around Earth at Lunar distance, an average distance of (; about 30 times Earth diameter, Earth's diameter). The Moon ro ...

, on Jupiter's moon Amalthea *

Pan (moon) Pan is the innermost named moon of Saturn. It is approximately 35 kilometres across and 23 km wide and orbits within the Encke Gap in Saturn's A Ring. Pan is a ring shepherd and is responsible for keeping the Encke Gap free of ring par ...

, of Saturn * Pan, a name for Jupiter XI, now

Carme (moon) Carme is a retrograde irregular satellite of Jupiter. It was discovered by Seth Barnes Nicholson at Mount Wilson Observatory in California in July 1938. It is named after the mythological Carme, mother by Zeus of Britomartis Britomartis ...

, 1955–1975 *

4450 Pan 4450 Pan ('' prov. designation:'' ) is a highly eccentric asteroid and contact binary, classified as a potentially hazardous asteroid and near-Earth object of the Apollo group, approximately 1.1 kilometers in diameter. It was discovered on 2 ...

, an asteroid

Biology and healthcare

* ''Pan'' (genus), the genus including chimpanzees and bonobos * Pan, abbreviation for panoramic X-ray * Pediatric acute-onset neuropsychiatric syndrome (PANS) * Polyarteritis nodosa, a vasculitic condition * Positional alcohol nystagmus, eye jerkiness

Chemistry

* Peroxyacyl nitrates * Phthalic anhydride *

Polyacrylonitrile Polyacrylonitrile (PAN) is a synthetic, semicrystalline organic polymer resin, with the linear formula (CH2CHCN)n. Almost all PAN resins are copolymers with acrylonitrile as the main monomer. PAN is used to produce large variety of products in ...

, a polymer of acrylonitrile

Computing

* Pan (newsreader), for Usenet *

Pan (programming language) The pan Configuration file#Configuration languages, configuration language allows the definition of machine configuration information and an associated schema with a simple, human-accessible syntax. A pan language compiler transforms the configura ...

Personal area network A personal area network (PAN) is a computer network for interconnecting electronic devices within an individual person's workspace. A PAN provides data transmission among devices such as computers, smartphones, tablets and personal digital assi ...

Multimedia technologies

Panning (audio) Panning is the distribution of an audio signal (either monaural or stereophonic pairs) into a new stereo or multi-channel sound field determined by a pan control setting. A typical recording console has a pan control for each incoming source chann ...

, of a signal into a new sound field * Panning (camera), swivelling

Languages

Proto-Austronesian language Proto-Austronesian (commonly abbreviated as PAN or PAn) is a proto-language. It is the reconstructed ancestor of the Austronesian languages, one of the world's major language families. Proto-Austronesian is assumed to have begun to diversify ...

, a proto-language commonly abbreviated PAN or PAn *

Punjabi language Punjabi, sometimes spelled Panjabi, is an Indo-Aryan languages, Indo-Aryan language native to the Punjab region of Pakistan and India. It is one of the most widely spoken native languages in the world, with approximately 150 million native sp ...

, ISO 639-3 code "pan"

Organizations

Political parties

National Action Party (El Salvador) The National Action Party () is a political party in El Salvador. It first contested national elections in 1956.Dieter Nohlen, Nohlen, D (2005) ''Elections in the Americas: A data handbook, Volume I'', p279 However, Roberto Edmundo Cannessa, its c ...

(''Partido Acción Nacional'') of El Salvador *

National Action Party (Mexico) The National Action Party (, PAN) is a Conservatism, conservative List of political parties in Mexico, political party in Mexico founded in 1939. It is one of the main political parties in the country, and, since the 1980s, has had success winni ...

(''Partido Acción Nacional'') of Mexico * National Action Party (Nicaragua) (''Partido Acción Nacional'') of Nicaragua * National Advancement Party (''Partido de Avanzada Nacional'') of Guatemala * National Autonomist Party (''Partido Autonomista Nacional''), former Argentine Political Party * National Mandate Party (''Partai Amanat Nasional'') of Indonesia * Party of the Nation's Retirees (''Partido dos Aposentados da Nação'') of Brazil * People-Animals-Nature (''Pessoas-Animais-Natureza'') of Portugal

Other organizations

* Banco Pan, a Brazilian midsize commercial bank * Nutrition Assistance for Puerto Rico (''Programa de Asistencia Nutricional''), a United States Federal assistance program * Pan Club Copenhagen, a gay club * Palo Alto Networks, an American cybersecurity company * Pesticide Action Network, an international NGO network *

Polish Academy of Sciences The Polish Academy of Sciences (, 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 of distinguished scholars a ...

(''Polska Akademia Nauk'') * Protect Arizona Now, sponsor of 2004 Arizona Proposition 200

Other uses

* pan, a term for a

dry lake A dry lake bed, also known as a playa (), is a basin or depression that formerly contained a standing surface water body, which disappears when evaporation processes exceed recharge. If the floor of a dry lake is covered by deposits of alkalin ...

bed *

Gold panning Gold panning, or simply ''panning'', is a form of placer mining and traditional mining that extracts gold from a placer deposit using a pan. The process is one of the simplest ways to extract gold, and is popular with geology enthusiasts espec ...

, a mining technique *

Pan (horse) Pan (1805 – circa 1822) was a British Thoroughbred racehorse and Horse breeding#Terminology, sire. In a career that lasted from June 1808 to July 1814 he had six different owners, ran twenty times and won nine races. His most important s ...

, an early 19th century British thoroughbred racehorse and sire * Flash pan, a small receptacle for priming powder on muzzle-loading firearms * Pan, Slavic honorifics in Poland and Ukraine *

Pansexuality Pansexuality is sexual, romantic, or emotional attraction towards people of all genders, or regardless of their sex or gender identity. Pansexual people may refer to themselves as gender-blind, asserting that gender and sex are not de ...

, a sexual orientation (often known as "pan") * PAN, the ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code for

Panama Panama, officially the Republic of Panama, is a country in Latin America at the southern end of Central America, bordering South America. It is bordered by Costa Rica to the west, Colombia to the southeast, the Caribbean Sea to the north, and ...

* PAN, the National Rail code for Pangbourne railway station in the county of Berkshire, UK * USA-207, US satellite named "Palladium At Night" *

Bedpan A bedpan or bed pan is a device used as a receptacle for the urine and/or Human feces, feces of a person who is confined to a bed and therefore not able to use a toilet or chamber pot. Bedpans can be either reusable or disposable, and include s ...

* Permanent account number, for taxpayers in India and Nepal * Primary account number, another term for the payment card number of a payment card