Pan
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Pan- as a prefix means involving all members of that group (such as Pan-African or Pan-American).
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[edit] Cooking
- Pan, a type of cookware and bakeware, especially a frying pan
- Pan, bread in Spanish and Japanese (by Portuguese influence "pão")
- pan (food), a popular Indian snack
- Pan pivo, a Croatian lager beer
[edit] Music
- Pan, short for steelpan, an acoustic instrument
- pan pipes, a musical instrument
- Pan (group), a Turkish singing group
- PAN (group), an Icelandic rock group
- Pan (music), transition of audio output between left and right channels/speakers in a stereo sound system
- Pan, a Filipino rock band; see Yano
[edit] Biology
- Pan, a genus of apes composed of the Common Chimpanzee and the Bonobo
[edit] Geography
- Pan (geography), one of several types of geographical formations
- Pan, Greece, a village in north-west Arcadia
- Baniyas, a city in northwest Syria
- Banias, an ancient city, spring and river in north Israel / south Syria
[edit] Gay clubs
- PAN is an often used short-hand for Pan Club Copenhagen, a popular gay club in Copenhagen, Denmark.
- PAN is an often used short-hand for Pan Club Aarhus, a popular gay club in Aarhus, Denmark.
- PAN members are often known to perform smotherbox related activities.
[edit] Astronomy
- 4450 Pan, an asteroid
- Pan crater, on Jupiter's moon Amalthea
- Pan (moon), a moon of Saturn
- Pan was the informal name borne by Jupiter XI (now Carme) until 1975
[edit] Software
- Pan (newsreader), newsreader software for Usenet
[edit] Electronics and photography
- Panning (camera), a movement of a film or video camera (rotating on a vertical axis)
- Panning (antenna systems), In antenna systems, successively changing the azimuth of a beam of radio-frequency energy over the elements of a given horizontal region.
- Panning (audio), the spread of a monaural signal in a stereo or multi-channel sound field.
- Panchromatic black-and-white film.
[edit] Religion and Mythology
- Pan-, meaning "all" is incorporated into several religious systems:
- Pan (mythology), in Greek mythology
- Pan (mythical bird), a mythical flying creature
[edit] Literature
- Peter Pan, a character in a novel by James Barrie
- Pan (Dragon Ball), a fictional character from the anime, Dragon Ball Z
- Pan (novel), by Knut Hamsun
- Pan, Art Nouveau review (magazine) by Samuel Bing.
- Pan Books, a publishing imprint of Macmillan Publishers
[edit] Others
- Pan (family name), Chinese family name (潘 or 盤)
- The PAN, a daily vlog
- Pan, a Polish and Ukrainian honorific, roughly equivalent to "Lord", "Sir" or "Mr."; see Polish name
- Panguingue, a gambling card game
- Cold panned process, a process by which one adds a coating or shell to a candy item (such as M&Ms or jellybeans).
the corresponding process in reception. (Source: Federal Standard 1037C)
- Panning for gold, a simple placer mining technique
- Steelpan, a musical instrument and genre
- To pan; to criticize or harshly review something, especially movies and television
- Permanent account number of an Indian taxpayer as their unique identification for income-tax and financial transactions.
- In motion picture production, the verb "to pan" refers to a camera pivot, right to left or left to right, from a stationary tripod position.
- Pan-pan, a radio distress call.
[edit] See also
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