Pan
Pan and panning can have many meanings as listed below in various categories.
Prefix
- Pan- as a prefix (Greek πᾶν, pan, "all," "of everything," "involving all members" of a group), e.g.:
Religion and mythology
- Pan (god), a god of nature in Greek mythology
- Pan flute, a wind instrument he is often depicted playing
- Pan- as a prefix in several religious systems, e.g.
Science and technology
Astronomy
Chemistry
Computing
Geology
- Dry lake, or Pan, an ephemeral water body contained in a shallow, flat basin
- Gold panning, a simple placer mining technique
- Salt pan (geology), a shallow depression holding a playa, salt lake or related feature
Geography
Multimedia Technologies
- Pan and scan, technique for reproducing wide-screen films on narrow TV screens
- Panchromatic black-and-white film
- Panning (audio), the spread of a monaural signal in a stereo or multi-channel sound field
- Panning (camera), a movement of a film or video camera (rotating on a vertical axis)
Medical technology
Zoology
- Pan, a genus of apes composed of the Common Chimpanzee and the Bonobo
Film
Food and drink
Fiction
Honorifics
Music
- Pan, short for steelpan, an acoustic instrument
- Pan (The Blue Hearts), an album by the Japanese band The Blue Hearts
- Pan, a Filipino rock band; see Yano
- Pan, an opera by Carl Venth
- Pan, a Danish prog/psych/blues rock band from the early 1970s
- Pan, a Turkish band that performed Bana Bana at the Eurovision Song Contest 1989
- Pan pipes, a musical instrument
- Panning (audio), placement of a sound source in a stereo field using pan control or pan pot
- Pan's People, a British dance troupe on Top of the pops
Publishing
International ISO Standards
Acronym
The acronym PAN can refer to:
Government, politics, and organizations
Other
See also