Bar

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Bar may mean:

• A Rod^{[disambiguation needed]}, Pole, Stick, or Handrail (see also Barre, Rebar and Structural steel)
• Bar (establishment), a retail establishment which serves alcoholic beverages
• Bar (counter), the counter from which drinks are dispensed
• Bar (unit), a scientific unit of pressure
• Bar (computer science) A Metasyntactic variable used in computer science
• Bar (music), a period of music
• Bar association, the community of persons engaged in the practice of law
• Bar (landform), a type of beach behind which lies a lagoon
• Bar (diacritic), a line through a letter used as a diacritic
• Bar (Aramaic), a common prefix in New Testament Aramaic names
• Candy bar
• A gatehouse in the York city walls
• A macron over a digit or digits in mathematics used to indicate a repeating decimal
• A placeholder word akin to foo
• An addition to a military decoration earned by a subsequent act
• The Bar examination, a lengthy examination conducted at regular intervals to determine whether a candidate is qualified to practice law in a given jurisdiction
• Vertical bar symbol, |

Places:

• Bar, Montenegro, a large city in the southeastern region
• Bar, Ukraine, a fortress in the Podolia region of Ukraine that was once a part of Poland
• Barrois, the territory of the counts and dukes of Bar
• Bar River, a tributary to the Meuse River in France
• Bar, Tibet, a village in the Tibet Autonomous Region of China.

Communes of France:

• Bar, Corrèze, in the Corrèze, département
• Bar-le-Duc, in the Meuse département
• Bar-sur-Aube, in the Aube département
• Bar-sur-Seine, in the Aube département

BAR is used as an acronym for:

• Biblical Archaeology Review
• Bin-Amphiphysin-Rvs which is a protein domain- BAR domain
• Bit Aspect Ratio, a Length (BPI) to Width (TPI) ratio of a magnetic bit
• Bolt-action rifle
• British American Racing, a Formula One racing team which was active between 1999 to 2005.
• M1918 Browning Automatic Rifle, a U.S. WWI and WWII military weapon
• Buy-American restrictions, a reference to the Buy American Act
• Base Address Register, a type of pointer register used in Memory-mapped I/O and Port-mapped I/O

BAR may also represent:

• Bangor and Aroostook railroad, Association of American Railroads reporting mark "BAR"
• Barbados, International Olympic Committee country code "BAR"