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 Betel nut chewing, also called betel quid chewing or areca nut chewing, is a practice in which areca nuts (also called "betel nuts") are chewed together with slaked lime and betel leaves for their stimulant and narcotic effects, the prima ...

, 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) Pān is the Mandarin pinyin romanization of the East Asian surname . It is listed 43rd in the Song dynasty classic text ''Hundred Family Surnames''. It is romanized as P'an in Wade–Giles; Poon, Phoon, Pon, or Pun in Cantonese; Phua in Hokkien ...

, Chinese family name (潘 or 盤) *

Pen Ran Pen Ran (, ), (c. 1944 – c. 1979) also commonly known as Pan Ron in some Romanized sources intended for English-speaking audiences, was a Cambodian singer and songwriter who was at the height of her popularity in the 1960s and early 1970s. Kn ...

(), 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 Peter Pan is a fictional character created by Scottish novelist and playwright J. M. Barrie. A free-spirited and mischievous young boy who can fly and never grows up, Peter Pan spends his never-ending childhood having adventures on the mythical ...

, 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) Pan is a Filipino folk/punk rock band formed in 2002. The band was formed as a duo composed of former Yano bandmates Dong Abay on vocals and Onie Badiang on bass; the duo later added Duane Cruz and Melvin Leyson to play the bass and drums li ...

, a Filipino folk/punk rock band *

PAN (record label) PAN is a Berlin-based record label founded in 2008 by Bill Kouligas. The label is known for its interdisciplinary approach to the fields of contemporary art and music, and has collaborated with institutions such as London's ICA. PAN has signed ...

, 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 Polyarteritis nodosa (PAN) is a systemic necrotizing inflammation of blood vessels (vasculitis) affecting medium-sized muscular arteries, typically involving the arteries of the kidneys and other internal organs but generally sparing the lungs' ...

, a vasculitic condition * Positional alcohol nystagmus, eye jerkiness

Chemistry

* Peroxyacyl nitrates *

Phthalic anhydride Phthalic anhydride is the organic compound with the formula C6H4(CO)2O. It is the anhydride of phthalic acid. Phthalic anhydride is a principal commercial form of phthalic acid. It was the first anhydride of a dicarboxylic acid to be used commer ...

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) Pan is a news client for multiple operating systems, developed by Charles Kerr and others. It supports offline reading, multiple servers, multiple connections, fast (indexed) article header filtering and mass saving of multi-part attachments encod ...

, 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) In cinematography and photography, panning means swivelling a still or video camera horizontally from a fixed position. This motion is similar to the motion of a person when they turn their head on their neck from left to right. In the resulting ...

, 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) The National Action Party (Partido Acción Nacional - PAN) is a right-wing Nicaraguan political party founded by Eduardo Rivas Gasteazoro in 1985 as a split from the Nicaraguan Social Christian Party, Social Christian Party (PSC) in 1985. The PAN r ...

(''Partido Acción Nacional'') of Nicaragua *

National Advancement Party The National Advancement Party () was a conservative political party in Guatemala. It was founded in 1989. In the 1990 and 1995 elections its presidential candidate was Álvaro Arzú who won in 1995, becoming Guatemala's 32nd president (1996– ...

(''Partido de Avanzada Nacional'') of Guatemala *

National Autonomist Party The National Autonomist Party (; PAN) was the ruling political party of Argentina from 1874 to 1916. In 1880, Julio Argentino Roca assumed the presidency under the motto "peace and administration". History The PAN was created on March 15, 187 ...

(''Partido Autonomista Nacional''), former Argentine Political Party *

National Mandate Party The National Mandate Party (), frequently abbreviated to PAN, is a non-sectarian, religion-basedAl-Hamdi, Ridho (2017). ''Moving towards a Normalised Path: Political Islam in Contemporary Indonesia''. Jurnal Studi Pemerintahan (Journal of Governme ...

(''Partai Amanat Nasional'') of Indonesia * Party of the Nation's Retirees (''Partido dos Aposentados da Nação'') of Brazil *

People-Animals-Nature People-Animals-Nature (, PAN) is an environmentalist, animal rights, and animal welfare-focused political party in Portugal, which was founded in 2009. In the 2011 Madeiran regional election, it had 2.13% of the votes, with a total of 3,135 vo ...

(''Pessoas-Animais-Natureza'') of Portugal

Other organizations

* Banco Pan, a Brazilian midsize commercial bank *

Nutrition Assistance for Puerto Rico Nutrition Assistance for Puerto Rico (NAP) (PAN) popularly known in Puerto Rico as ''Cupones'' (') is a federal assistance nutritional program provided by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) solely to Puerto Rico. In 2021, over ...

(''Programa de Asistencia Nutricional''), a United States Federal assistance program * Pan Club Copenhagen, a gay club *

Palo Alto Networks Palo Alto Networks, Inc. is an American multinational cybersecurity company with headquarters in Santa Clara, California. The core product is a platform that includes advanced firewalls and cloud-based offerings that extend those firewalls to ...

, 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 Proposition 200, the "Arizona Taxpayer and Citizen Protection Act", was an Arizona state Popular initiative, initiative passed in 2004 that requires: (a) persons to provide Citizenship in the United States, proof of citizenship to register to vo ...

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 The flash pan or priming pan is a small receptacle for priming powder, found next to the touch hole on muzzle-loading guns. Flash pans are found on gonnes, matchlocks, wheellocks, snaplocks, snaphances, and flintlocks. Development The flash ...

, a small receptacle for priming powder on muzzle-loading firearms * Pan,

Slavic honorifics Speakers of Slavic languages and Lithuanians (Baltic languages) use two main sets of honorifics. West Slavs and Ukrainians use the title ''Pan'', South Slavs and Russians use ''Gospodin'', while Belarusians use either ''Pan'' or ''Spadar'', and Li ...

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 A permanent account number (PAN) is a ten-character alphanumeric identifier, issued in the form of a polycarbonate card, by the Indian Income Tax Department, to any person who applies for it or to whom the department allots the number without ...

, for taxpayers in India and Nepal * Primary account number, another term for the

payment card number A payment card number, primary account number (PAN), or simply a card number, is the card identifier found on payment cards, such as credit cards and debit cards, as well as stored-value cards, gift cards and other similar cards. In some situat ...

of a payment card