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 A truce term is a word or short phrase accepted within a community of children as an effective way of calling for a temporary respite or truce during a game or activity, such as tag or its variants. Common examples in English speaking cultures ...

Pax (liturgy) In Christian liturgy, "the ''Pax''" is an abbreviation of the Latin salutations "''pax vobis''" ("peace to you") or "''pax vobiscum''" ("peace with you"), which are used in the Catholic Mass, the Lutheran Divine Service, and the Western Orthodo ...

, a salutation in Catholic and Lutheran religious services *

Pax (liturgical object) Pax or PAX may refer to: Peace * Peace (Latin: ''pax'') ** Pax (goddess), 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 k ...

, 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 X Marks the Pedwalk (sometimes written as X-Marks the Pedwalk) is a German band whose styles range from post-industrial dance to electronic body music. X Marks the Pedwalk’s influence in the industrial and electronic music scenes was consider ...

* ''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 The PAX Association () was a pro-Communist Catholic organization created in 1947, in the People's Republic of Poland, at the onset of the Stalinist period. The association published the ''Słowo Powszechne'' daily for almost fifty years between ...

, in Poland *

Pax Forlag Pax Forlag is a Norwegian publishing house, established in 1964. The first manager was Tor Bjerkmann, who chaired the company from 1964 to 1972. Starting with Bjerkmann's new translation of George Orwell's ''Animal Farm'', Pax published 150 qu ...

, 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 Pax World Funds ("Pax World") are advised by Impax Asset Management LLC, formerly Pax World Management LLC, a sustainable investment firm. It sells mutual funds, as well as separately managed accounts. History Pax World launched the first social ...

, a US mutual fund company *

Pax Labs Pax Labs (stylized as PAX Labs) is an American vaporizer (inhalation device), electronic vaporizer company founded in 2007 that markets the Pax vaporizers. The company developed the Juul (pronounced jewel) e-cigarette. Juul Labs was spun out as a ...

, a US manufacturer of vaporizers and the Juul electronic cigarette * Pax, a Russian manufacturer of

Ferris wheels Ferris may refer to: __NOTOC__ People and fictional characters * Ferris (name), a list of people and fictional characters with either the given name or surname * Ferris MC, stage name of German rapper Sascha Reimann (born 1973) * Ferris Bueller, s ...

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 Ferdinand Albin Pax (26 July 1858 – 1 March 1942) was a German botanist specializing in spermatophytes. A collaborator of Adolf Engler, he wrote several monographs and described several species of plants and animals from Silesia and the Carpat ...

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

Other uses

679 Pax 679 Pax is a minor planet orbiting the Sun that was discovered by German astronomer August Kopff on January 28, 1909. It is named after Pax, a Roman goddess. It is orbiting the Sun with a period of 4.16 years and an eccentricity of 0.31 ...

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