PAS or Pas may refer to:

Companies and organizations

Pakistan Academy of Sciences The Pakistan Academy of Sciences () (Abbreviations and Acronyms, abbreviated as: PAS), is a learned society of sciences, which described itself as "a repository of the highest scientific talent available in the country." Established in 1953 in ...

Pakistan Administrative Service The Pakistan Administrative Service, or PAS () (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 emerged as ...

Pan Am Southern Pan Am Southern, LLC is a freight railroad jointly owned by Norfolk Southern Railway (NS) and CSX Corporation. PAS is independently operated by the Berkshire and Eastern Railroad, a subsidiary of Genesee & Wyoming. PAS owns trackage known as t ...

, a freight railroad owned by Norfolk Southern and CSX *

Pan American Silver Pan American Silver Corporation is a mining company based in Canada with operations in Latin America. The company has mines and other projects in Mexico, Peru, Bolivia, and Argentina. It is one of the world's biggest silver producers; in 2017 th ...

, a mining company in Canada * Paradox Access Solutions, a construction company *

Percussive Arts Society The Percussive Arts Society (PAS) is a non-profit organization for professional percussionists and percussion educators. It was founded in 1961 in the United States and has over 5,000 members in 40 American chapters, with another 28 chapters abr ...

, percussion organization * Petroleum Air Services, an Egyptian airline operating helicopter services to support the oil industry * Poetry Association of Scotland *

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 ...

* Port Auxiliary Service, formerly the British

Admiralty Yard Craft Service The Admiralty Yard Craft Service was the civilian service which operated auxiliary vessels for the British Admiralty, mainly in HM Dockyards or the vicinity. It was renamed the Port Auxiliary Service (PAS) on 1 October 1958 and the Royal Maritime ...

Production Automotive Services Production Automotive Services, Inc. (commonly referred to as PAS) and formally known as Prototype Automotive Services, was a specialty vehicle manufacturer which produced the 1989 Pontiac Turbo Trans Am, the 1991 GMC Syclone, the 1992 GMC So ...

, an American specialty vehicle manufacturer

Political parties

Malaysian Islamic Party The Malaysian Islamic Party, also known as the Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party (Malay language, Malay: ''Parti Islam Se-Malaysia''; Abbreviation, abbrev: PAS), is an Islamist political party in Malaysia. Ideologically focused on Islamic fundamen ...

, Malaysia * Partido Alianza Social, Mexico *

Party of Action and Solidarity The Party of Action and Solidarity (, PAS) is a liberal political party in Moldova. The PAS was founded by Maia Sandu, the former Minister of Education and the incumbent president of Moldova. A pro-European party, it is an observer of the Eu ...

, Moldova

Places

The Pas (electoral district) The Pas was a List of Manitoba provincial electoral districts, provincial electoral division in Northern Manitoba, north-central Manitoba, Canada. It was created in 1912 following the expansion of the province's northern border, and existed unt ...

, in Manitoba, Canada *

The Pas The Pas ( , ) is a town in Manitoba, Canada, 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 provincial capital, Winn ...

, town in Canada * Le Pas, commune in France *

Sihanoukville Autonomous Port Sihanoukville Autonomous Port (; , PAS) is a government agency and state corporation of Cambodia and Sihanoukville (city), Sihanoukville that operates and governs the country's sole deep water port. In Sihanoukville, on the Bay of Kampong Som ...

(Port Autonome de Sihanoukville), Cambodia

Science

PAS diastase stain Periodic acid–Schiff–diastase (PAS-D, PAS diastase) stain is a periodic acid–Schiff (PAS) stain used in combination with diastase, an enzyme that breaks down glycogen. PAS-D is a stain often used by pathologists as an ancillary study in mak ...

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 4-Aminosalicylic acid, also known as ''para''-aminosalicylic acid (PAS) and sold under the brand name Paser among others, is an antibiotic primarily used to treat tuberculosis. Specifically it is used to treat active drug resistant tuberculos ...

, 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 ot ...

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 Scientific and medical expert bodies have repeatedly concluded that abortion poses no greater mental health risks than carrying an unintended pregnancy to term. Nevertheless, the relationship between induced abortion and mental health is an area o ...

* Pascal second (Pa⋅s), SI unit of

viscosity Viscosity is a measure of a fluid's rate-dependent drag (physics), resistance to a change in shape or to movement of its neighboring portions relative to one another. For liquids, it corresponds to the informal concept of ''thickness''; for e ...

* PolyAcenic Semiconductor * PAS, seismological station code for the

Caltech Seismological Laboratory The Caltech Seismological Laboratory is an arm of the Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences of the California Institute of Technology. Known as "the Seismo Lab", it has been a world center for seismology research since the 1920s, and was f ...

Sports

PAS Giannina PAS Giannina Football Club (), or with its full name Panipirotikós Athlitikós Síllogos Giánnina (, ''Panepirotic Athletic Club Giannina'') is a Greek professional Association football, football club based in the city of Ioannina, the capita ...

, a Greek football club from Ioannina *

PAS Hamedan F.C. PAS Hamedan Football Club (, ''Bashgag-e Futbal-e Pas Hemidan'') is an Iranian Football (soccer), football club based in Hamedan, Iran and compete in the Azadegan League. The club was formed after the dissolution of PAS Tehran F.C., Pas Tehran in ...

, an Iranian football club from Hamedan *

PAS Tehran F.C. Pas Tehran Football Club (, ''Bashgah-e Futbal-e Pas Tehran'') was an Iranian football club based in Tehran, Iran. Pas F.C. was the football club of the multisport Pas Cultural and Sports Club. The club has a long and rich history and has alwa ...

, a defunct Iranian football club from Tehran *

Pan American Stadium (New Orleans) Pan American Stadium is a 5,000 seat multi-purpose outdoor stadium, located in City Park (New Orleans), City Park, in New Orleans, Louisiana, New Orleans, Louisiana. It is used for soccer, American football, lacrosse and Rugby union, rugby. It i ...

Pan American Stadium (Winnipeg) University Stadium is a multipurpose stadium located on the campus grounds of the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. It features a 400m 8-lane track, as well as separate areas for long jump/triple jump, high jump, pole vault, ...

Pan American Stakes The Pan American Stakes is a Grade II horserace, Grade II American Thoroughbred horse race for horses that are four years or older held over a distance of one and one-half miles (twelve furlongs) on the turf usually scheduled annually in late March ...

, an American Thoroughbred horse race

Technology

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

, a wireless telephone standard * Pedal assist system, on an

electric bicycle An electric bicycle, e-bike, electrically assisted pedal cycle, or electrically power assisted cycle is a bicycle with an integrated electric motor used to assist propulsion. Many kinds of e-bikes are available worldwide, but they generally fa ...

Positron annihilation spectroscopy The positron or antielectron is the particle with an electric charge of +1''elementary charge, e'', a Spin (physics), spin of 1/2 (the same as the electron), and the same Electron rest mass, mass as an electron. It is the antiparticle (antimatt ...

* Patient administration system, developed out of the automation of administrative paperwork *

Process automation system A process automation or automation system (PAS) is used to automatically control a process such as chemical, oil refineries, paper and pulp factories. The PAS often uses a network to interconnect sensors, controllers, operator terminals and actuato ...

, for industrial plants *

Media Vision Pro AudioSpectrum The Media Vision Pro AudioSpectrum (commonly referred to as "PAS") family of personal computer sound cards included the original 8-bit ''Pro AudioSpectrum'' (1991), the 8-bit ''Pro AudioSpectrum Plus'', 16-bit ''Pro AudioSpectrum 16'', ''Pro Audio ...

, computer sound cards * .pas,

Pascal programming language Pascal is an imperative and procedural programming language, designed by Niklaus Wirth as a small, efficient language intended to encourage good programming practices using structured programming and data structuring. It is named after French ...

file extension * PAS 1, etc. satellites by

PanAmSat PanAmSat Corporation was a satellite service provider headquartered in Greenwich, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1984 by Reynold "Rene" Anselmo, it operated a fleet of communications satellites used by the entertainment industry, news a ...

* Power-assisted steering, or

power steering Power steering is a system for reducing a driver's effort to turn a steering wheel of a motor vehicle, by using a power source to assist steering. Hydraulic or electric actuators add controlled energy to the steering mechanism, so the driver can ...

, 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 This is a list of positions filled by presidential appointment with Senate confirmation. Under the Appointments Clause of the United States Constitution and law of the United States, certain Federal government of the United States, federal posit ...

, "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. He was born in Bucharest in to a family of small craftsman. He attended primary school in the slum where he grew up, but w ...

(1895-1974), Romanian writer and politician *

Physician-assisted suicide Assisted suicide, sometimes restricted to the context of physician-assisted suicide (PAS), is the process by which a person, with the help of others, takes actions to end their life. Once it is determined that the person's situation qualifie ...

Portable Antiquities Scheme The Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS) is a voluntary programme run by the United Kingdom government to record the increasing numbers of small finds of archaeological interest found by members of the public. The scheme began in 1997 and now covers ...

, 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