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) Par, or bogey, is a scoring system used mostly in amateur and club golf. It is a stroke play format played against the course, with match play scoring based on the number of strokes taken on each hole compared to a fixed score, usually the par o ...

, 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 PAR Systems, Inc, is a systems engineering firm headquartered in Shoreview, Minnesota, specializing in automated manufacturing and material handling equipment. Subsidiaries include Jered LLC, specializing in marine equipment and cargo handling sys ...

, an American automation company

Political parties

Aragonese Party The Aragonese Party (, PAR) is a political party which advocates the interests of Aragon within Spain. The party was founded in 1978 under the name Aragonese Regionalist Party, but changed its name in 1990, keeping the initials ''PAR''. The founde ...

(''Partido Aragonés'', PAR), Spain *

Movement For! Movement For! () is a liberal political party in 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 The Revolutionary Action Party (, PAR) was a leftist political party in Guatemala during the ten-year Guatemalan Revolution. Formed in 1945, the party went through a series of mergers and fractures before dissolving in 1954 after the United Stat ...

('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 {{Infobox organization , name = Parkinson Association of the Rockies , logo = , type = NPO , founded = 1981 , location = Colorado , staff = Jodi Brown, Cari F ...

, a not-for-profit organization *

Pretoria Armoured Regiment The Pretoria Armour Regiment (formerly the Pretoria Regiment) is a reserve armoured regiment of the South African Army. History Origin The Pretoria Regiment was formed on 1 July 1913 as the 12th Infantry Battalion (The Pretoria 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 () is a village in Nazlu-e Shomali Rural District, Nazlu District, Urmia County, West Azerbaijan Province, Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI) and also known as Persia, is a country in West Asia. It borders Ira ...

* 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 Parkesburg station is an Amtrak train station located at West First Avenue and South Culvert Street in Parkesburg, Pennsylvania. It is served by most Amtrak ''Keystone Service'' trains. A station building exists at the stop, but is not currentl ...

, Pennsylvania, U.S., station code PAR *

Parliament railway station Parliament railway station is a commuter railway station in the Melbourne central business district, serving the Melbourne suburb of East Melbourne in Victoria, Australia. Parliament is an underground premium station, featuring four platforms ...

, 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) Par River may refer to several rivers: * Par River, Cornwall, England * Par River (Gujarat), India * Par River (Arunachal Pradesh) The Par River is a river of Arunachal Pradesh in the northeast of the Republic of India. It has a basin of , of whi ...

, the name of several rivers

Science and technology

Biology and medicine

Par (fly) Par may refer to: Finance * Par value, stated value or face value in finance and accounting * Par yield or par rate, in finance Games * Par (score), the number of strokes a proficient golfer should require to complete a hole, round or tournament ...

, 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 A post-anesthesia care unit (PACU) and sometimes referred to as post-anesthesia recovery or PAR, or simply recovery, is a part of hospitals, ambulatory care centers, and other medical facilities. Patients who received general anesthesia, regional ...

, part of a hospital *

Predictive adaptive response A predictive adaptive response (PAR) is a developmental trajectory taken by an organism during a period of developmental plasticity in response to perceived environmental cues. This PAR does not confer an immediate advantage to the developing organ ...

in biology *

Protease-activated receptor Protease-activated receptors (PAR) are a subfamily of related G protein-coupled receptors that are activated by cleavage of part of their extracellular domain. They are highly expressed in platelets, and also on endothelial cells, fibroblasts ...

s 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 Perl Archive Toolkit (PAR) is a cross-platform packaging and deployment tool for computer applications and libraries written in the Perl programming language. Its name is inspired by Java's JAR (file format) technology. It was originally developed ...

, a deployment tool *

Personal Animation Recorder PAR, the Personal Animation Recorder, is an analog video playback device for Amiga computers built by DPS (Digital Processing Systems, Canada) in 1993. It fits into an Amiga's Zorro II/III slot available in the Amiga 2000/3000/4000 models. It's capa ...

, 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 Precision approach radar or PAR is a type of radar guidance system designed to provide lateral and vertical guidance to an aircraft pilot for landing, until the landing threshold is reached. Controllers monitoring the PAR displays observe each air ...

, a radar aircraft guidance system