Pax or PAX may refer to:

Peace

Peace Peace is a state of harmony in the absence of hostility and violence, and everything that discusses achieving human welfare through justice and peaceful conditions. In a societal sense, peace is commonly used to mean a lack of conflict (suc ...

(Latin: ''pax'') **

Pax (goddess) Pax (Latin for ''Peace''), more commonly known in English as Peace, was the Roman goddess of peace derived and adopted from the ancient Greek equivalent Eirene. Pax was seen as the daughter of the Roman king god Jupiter and the goddess Justice. ...

, the Roman goddess of peace ** Pax, a truce term * Pax (liturgy), a salutation in Catholic and Lutheran religious services * Pax (liturgical object), an object formerly kissed as a substitute for the Kiss of Peace in the Catholic Mass

Entertainment

* ''Pax'' (1994 film), a Portuguese comedy * ''Pax'' (2011 film), a Norwegian-Swedish drama *

PAX (event) PAX (originally known as Penny Arcade Expo) is a series of gaming culture festivals involving tabletop, arcade, and video gaming. PAX is held annually in Seattle, Boston, Philadelphia, and Melbourne. Previously, it was also held in San Ant ...

, or Penny Arcade Expo, a gaming convention * ''Pax'' (novel), by Sara Pennypacker * Pax, a fictional organization in '' Strange New World'' and elsewhere by Gene Roddenberry * PAX, a side project of the German band X Marks the Pedwalk * ''Pax'' (album) by Andrew Hill *

Pax TV Ion Television (referred to on-air as simply Ion) is an American terrestrial television, broadcast television network and Free ad-supported streaming television, FAST television channel owned by the Scripps Networks subsidiary of the E. W. Scri ...

, which became Ion Television in 2007

Organizations

* Pax Christi International, an international Catholic peace movement * PAX Association, in Poland * Pax Forlag, a Norwegian publishing house *

PAX Network Ion Television (referred to on-air as simply Ion) is an American broadcast television network and FAST television channel owned by the Scripps Networks subsidiary of the E. W. Scripps Company. The network first began broadcasting on August 3 ...

, a US television network now known as ION Television * Pax World Funds, a US mutual fund company * Pax Labs, a US manufacturer of vaporizers and the Juul electronic cigarette * Pax, a Russian manufacturer of Ferris wheels and other amusement rides * ''Pax Dei'': the European Middle Ages

Peace and Truce of God The Peace and Truce of God () was a movement in the Middle Ages led by the Catholic Church and was one of the most influential mass peace movements in history. The goal of both the ''Pax Dei'' and the ''Treuga Dei'' was to limit the violence o ...

movement, an early movement toward addressing and reducing

war crime A war crime is a violation of the laws of war that gives rise to individual criminal responsibility for actions by combatants in action, such as intentionally killing civilians or intentionally killing prisoners of war, torture, taking hostage ...

Science and technology

pax (command) pax is an File archiver, archiving utility available for various operating systems and defined since 1995. Rather than sort out the incompatible options that have crept up between tar (computing), tar and cpio, along with their implementations a ...

, a command line program to read and write file archives * PaX, a Linux kernel security patch introduced in 2000 *

Pax genes In evolutionary developmental biology, Paired box (Pax) genes are a family of genes coding for tissue specific transcription factors containing an N-terminal paired domain and usually a partial, or in the case of four family members (PAX3, PAX4, P ...

, a group of genes and their proteins * Michelin PAX System, an automotive run-flat tire system * Pax, a generic brand of

diazepam Diazepam, sold under the brand name Valium among others, is a medicine of the benzodiazepine family that acts as an anxiolytic. It is used to treat a range of conditions, including anxiety disorder, anxiety, seizures, alcohol withdrawal syndr ...

available in South Africa * ''Pax'' (spider), a genus of ant spiders * auxiliary unit of measurement for the number of

passenger A passenger is a person who travels in a vehicle, but does not bear any responsibility for the tasks required for that vehicle to arrive at its destination or otherwise operate the vehicle, and is not a steward. The vehicles may be bicycles, ...

s in public transportation, shipping and aviation, for guests in the hotel industry and for visitors to events

People

* Ferdinand Albin Pax (1858–1942), German botanist * Ferdinand Albert Pax (1884–1964), German zoologist, son of the previous

Other uses

* 679 Pax, a minor planet orbiting the Sun * Winter Storm Pax, a 2014 storm in the US * Name of one of the months of the ancient