Pan

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Common meanings

• Pan (cooking), a piece of cooking equipment
• Pan (god), a Greek deity, often depicted with specific goat features
• Panning (camera), a film and photography technique in which the camera is swivelled horizontally from a fixed spot

Arts, entertainment, and media

Card games

• Pan (game), a shedding card game of Polish origin
• Panguingue or Pan, a gambling card game

Fictional characters

• Pan (Dragon Ball), in Dragon Ball media
• Peter Pan, created by James Barrie

Films

• Pan (1922 film), a Norwegian film
• Pan (1995 film), a Danish/Norwegian/German film
• Pan (2015 film)

Literature and publishing

• Pan (Hamsun novel), by Knut Hamsun. 1894.
• Pan (Clune novel), by Michael Clune. 2025.
• Pan (magazine) an arts and literary review
• Pan Books, a publisher

Music

Musical instruments

• Pan, short for steelpan, an acoustic instrument
• Pan flute or pan pipes, a musical instrument

Groups and labels

• Pan (band), a Filipino folk/punk rock band
• PAN (record label), a record label and art platform
• Pan, a Turkish band which performed "Bana Bana" at the 1989 Eurovision Song Contest

Works

• Pan (The Blue Hearts), an album by the Japanese band
• Pan, an opera by Carl Venth

Sculpture

• Pan (Riccio), a 1510s bronze sculpture by Andrea Riccio
• Pan (White), a public artwork by Roger White, in Indianapolis, Indiana, U.S.

Food

• Harina P.A.N., a pre-cooked corn meal
• Pan or Paan, a North Indian term for betel

Languages

• Proto-Austronesian language, a proto-language commonly abbreviated PAN or PAn
• Punjabi language, ISO 639-3 code "pan"

Organizations

• Banco Pan, a Brazilian midsize commercial bank
• Pan Club Copenhagen, a gay club
• Palo Alto Networks, an American cybersecurity company
• Pesticide Action Network, an international NGO network
• Polish Academy of Sciences (Polska Akademia Nauk)
• Protect Arizona Now, sponsor of 2004 Arizona Proposition 200

People

• Pan (surname), Chinese family name (潘 or 盤)
• Pen Ran (Template:Circa), Cambodian singer and songwriter whose name is sometimes Romanized as Pan Ron

Political parties

• National Action Party (El Salvador) (Partido Acción Nacional) of El Salvador
• National Action Party (Mexico) (Partido Acción Nacional) of Mexico
• National Action Party (Nicaragua) (Partido Acción Nacional) of Nicaragua
• National Advancement Party (Partido de Avanzada Nacional) of Guatemala
• National Autonomist Party (Partido Autonomista Nacional), former Argentine Political Party
• National Mandate Party (Partai Amanat Nasional) of Indonesia
• Party of the Nation's Retirees (Partido dos Aposentados da Nação) of Brazil
• People-Animals-Nature (Pessoas-Animais-Natureza) of Portugal

Science and technology

Astronomy

• Pan (crater), on Jupiter's moon Amalthea
• Pan, a for name for Jupiter XI, now Carme (moon), 1955–1975
• Pan (moon), of Saturn
• 4450 Pan, an asteroid

Biology

• Pan (genus), a genus that includes bonobos and chimpanzees

Chemistry

• Peroxyacyl nitrates
• Phthalic anhydride
• Polyacrylonitrile, a polymer of acrylonitrile
• Protactinium nitride, chemical formula PaN

Computing

• Pan (newsreader), for Usenet
• Pan (programming language)
• Personal area network

Medicine

• Pan, abbreviation for panoramic X-ray
• Pediatric acute-onset neuropsychiatric syndrome (PANS)
• Polyarteritis nodosa, a vasculitic condition
• Positional alcohol nystagmus, eye jerkiness

Multimedia technologies

• Panning (audio), of a signal into a new sound field

Other uses

• pan, a term for a dry lake bed
• Gold panning, a mining technique
• Pan (horse), an early 19th century British thoroughbred racehorse and sire
• Nutrition Assistance for Puerto Rico (Programa de Asistencia Nutricional), a United States Federal assistance program
• Flash pan, a small receptacle for priming powder on muzzle-loading firearms
• Pan, Slavic honorifics in Poland and Ukraine
• Pansexuality, a sexual orientation (often known as "pan")
• PAN, the ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code for Panama
• PAN, the National Rail code for Pangbourne railway station in the county of Berkshire, UK
• USA-207, an American satellite also known as PAN ("Palladium At Night")
• Bedpan
• Permanent account number, for taxpayers in India and Nepal
• Primary account number, another term for the payment card number of a payment card

See also

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• Pan Pan (disambiguation)
• Pan-pan, a radio state of urgency call