Par may refer to:

Finance

Par value In finance and accounting, par value means stated value or face value of a financial instrument. Expressions derived from this term include at par (at the par value), over par (over par value) and under par (under par value). Bonds A bond selli ...

, stated value or face value in finance and accounting *

Par yield In finance, par yield (or par value yield) is the yield on a fixed income security assuming that its market price is equal to par value (also known as face value or nominal value). Par yield is used to derive the U.S. Treasury’s daily official � ...

or par rate, in finance

Games

Par (score) In golf, par is the predetermined number of strokes that a proficient (scratch, or zero handicap) golfer should require to complete a hole, a round (the sum of the pars of the played holes), or a tournament (the sum of the pars of each round). ...

, the number of strokes a proficient golfer should require to complete a hole, round or tournament. * Par (golf scoring format), an alternative to Stableford and normal stroke play * Par contract, in contract bridge

Organizations

Businesses

Pan Am Railways Pan Am Railways, Inc. (PAR) is a subsidiary of CSX Corporation that operates Class II regional railroads covering northern New England from Mattawamkeag, Maine, to Rotterdam Junction, New York. Pan Am Railways is primarily made up of former C ...

, an American holding company * Par Pharmaceutical, now part of Endo International * PaR Systems, an American automation company

Political parties

* Aragonese Party (''Partido Aragonés'', PAR), Spain * Movement For! (''Kustība Par!''), Latvia *

Party for the Restructured Antilles The Real Alternative Party (; , PAR), formerly the Party for the Restructured Antilles (, ) until 2016, is a political party in Curaçao. With two seats, the party is the third largest party in the Estates of Curaçao, following the 2025 Curaçao ...

(''Partido Antiá Restrukturá'', PAR), Curaçao * Revolutionary Action Party ('Partido Acción Revolucionaria', PAR), Guatemala *

People's Alliance for Reform People's Alliance for Reform (PAR) is a political alliance in Singapore consisting of Peoples Voice (PV), Reform Party (RP) and the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP). It was formed in June 2023. History In June 2023, PV leader Lim Tean an ...

, Singapore

Other organizations

* Parkinson Association of the Rockies, a not-for-profit organization * Pretoria Armoured Regiment, an armour regiment of the South African Army

Places

Par, Cornwall Par (, meaning ''creek'' or ''harbour''Henry Jenner, ''A Handbook of the Cornish Language: Chiefly in Its Latest Stages, with Some Account of its History and Literature'', Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1904 reprinted 2012, ) is a villa ...

, England ** Par railway station * Par, Iran * Par, Vologda Oblast, Russia * Par, Tibet *

Philippine Area of Responsibility The Philippine Area of Responsibility (PAR) is an area in the Northwestern Pacific where PAGASA, the Philippines' national meteorological agency, monitors weather occurrences. Significant weather disturbances, specifically typhoons that enter o ...

, a weather monitoring area in the northwest Pacific *

Paraguay Paraguay, officially the Republic of Paraguay, is a landlocked country in South America. It is bordered by Argentina to the Argentina–Paraguay border, south and southwest, Brazil to the Brazil–Paraguay border, east and northeast, and Boli ...

, IOC country code * Parkesburg station, Pennsylvania, U.S., station code PAR * Parliament railway station, Melbourne * PAR,

IATA airport code An IATA airport code, also known as an IATA location identifier, IATA station code, or simply a location identifier, is a unique three-letter geocode designating many airports, cities (with one or more airports) and metropolitan areas (citie ...

for the metropolitan area of Paris, France * Par River (disambiguation), the name of several rivers

Science and technology

Biology and medicine

* Par (fly), a signal fly in the family Platystomatidae *

Photosynthetically active radiation Photosynthetically active radiation (PAR) designates the spectral range (wave band) of solar radiation from 400 to 700 nanometers that photosynthetic organisms are able to use in the process of photosynthesis. This spectral region corresponds more ...

, a range of solar radiation * Post-anesthesia recovery, part of a hospital * Predictive adaptive response in biology * Protease-activated receptors PAR1, PAR2, PAR3, PAR4 *

Pseudoautosomal region The pseudoautosomal regions or PARs are Homology (biology), homologous sequences of Nucleotide, nucleotides found within the Sex chromosome, sex chromosomes of species with an XY sex-determination system, XY or ZW sex-determination system, ZW mech ...

s on sex chromosomes

Computing

* par (command), a text formatting utility for Unix *

Page address register A page address register (PAR) contains the physical addresses of pages currently held in the main memory of a computer system. PARs are used in order to avoid excessive use of an address table in some operating systems. A PAR may check a page's ...

, containing physical addresses * Perl Archive Toolkit, a deployment tool * Personal Animation Recorder, video capture for Amiga computers *

Pixel aspect ratio A pixel aspect ratio (PAR) is a mathematical ratio that describes how the width of a pixel in a digital image compares to the height of that pixel. Most digital imaging systems display an image as a grid of tiny, square pixels. However, som ...

, in digital imaging * .par, .par2, .par3, filename extensions of

Parchive Parchive (a portmanteau of parity archive, and formally known as Parity Volume Set Specification) is an erasure code system that produces par files for checksum verification of data integrity, with the capability to perform data recovery operatio ...

Other uses in science and technology

* PAR Special, a 1950s American experimental aircraft * Parabolic aluminized reflector, PAR lamp or PAR, a type of electric lamp *

Participatory action research Participatory action research (PAR) is an approach to action research emphasizing participation and action by members of communities affected by that research. It seeks to understand the world by trying to change it, collaboratively and followi ...

, a social sciences research approach * Passive autocatalytic recombiner, device that removes hydrogen from a nuclear power plant during an accident * Par meter, to measure peak-to-average ratio in an electrical circuit * Precision approach radar, a radar aircraft guidance system