# Pan

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'''Pan''' or '''PAN''' may refer to:
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== Common meanings ==
* [Pan (cooking)](/source/Pan_(cooking)), a piece of cooking equipment
** [Frying pan](/source/Frying_pan), a type of cooking pan
** [Saucepan](/source/Saucepan), a type of cooking pan
** [Sauté pan](/source/Saut%C3%A9_pan), a type of cooking pan
* [Pan (god)](/source/Pan_(god)), a Greek deity, often depicted with specific goat features
* [Panning (camera)](/source/Panning_(camera)), (short for panoramic), film and photography technique in which the camera is swivelled horizontally from a fixed spot

== Arts, entertainment, and media ==
=== Card games ===
* [Pan (game)](/source/Pan_(game)), a shedding card game of Polish origin
* [Panguingue](/source/Panguingue) or Pan, a gambling card game

=== Fictional characters ===
* [Pan (''Dragon Ball'')](/source/Pan_(Dragon_Ball)), in ''Dragon Ball'' media
* [Peter Pan](/source/Peter_Pan_(character)), created by James Barrie

=== Films ===
* [''Pan'' (1922 film)](/source/Pan_(1922_film)), a Norwegian film
* [''Pan'' (1995 film)](/source/Pan_(1995_film)), a Danish/Norwegian/German film
* [''Pan'' (2015 film)](/source/Pan_(2015_film))

=== Literature and publishing ===
* [''Pan'' (Hamsun novel)](/source/Pan_(Hamsun_novel)), by Knut Hamsun. 1894.
* [''Pan'' (Clune novel)](/source/Pan_(Clune_novel)), by Michael Clune. 2025.
* [''Pan'' (magazine)](/source/Pan_(magazine)) an arts and literary review
* [Pan Books](/source/Pan_Books), a publisher

=== Music ===

==== Musical instruments ====
* Pan, short for [steelpan](/source/steelpan), an acoustic instrument
* [Pan flute](/source/Pan_flute) or pan pipes, a musical instrument

==== Groups and labels ====
* [Pan (band)](/source/Pan_(band)), a Filipino folk/punk rock band
* [PAN (record label)](/source/PAN_(record_label)), a record label and art platform
* Pan, a Turkish band which performed "[Bana Bana](/source/Bana_Bana)" at the 1989 Eurovision Song Contest

==== Works ====
* [''Pan'' (The Blue Hearts)](/source/Pan_(The_Blue_Hearts)), an album by the Japanese band
* ''Pan'', an opera by [Carl Venth](/source/Carl_Venth)

=== Sculpture ===
* [''Pan'' (Riccio)](/source/Pan_(Riccio)), a 1510s bronze sculpture by Andrea Riccio
* [''Pan'' (White)](/source/Pan_(White)), a public artwork by Roger White, in Indianapolis, Indiana, U.S.

== Food ==
* [Harina P.A.N.](/source/Harina_P.A.N.), a pre-cooked corn meal
* Pan or [Paan](/source/Paan), a North Indian term for betel

== Languages ==
* [Proto-Austronesian language](/source/Proto-Austronesian_language), a proto-language commonly abbreviated PAN or PAn
* [Punjabi language](/source/Punjabi_language), ISO 639-3 code "pan"

== Organizations ==
* [Banco Pan](/source/Banco_Pan), a Brazilian midsize commercial bank
* [Pan Club Copenhagen](/source/Pan_Club_Copenhagen), a gay club
* [Palo Alto Networks](/source/Palo_Alto_Networks), an American cybersecurity company
* [Pesticide Action Network](/source/Pesticide_Action_Network), an international NGO network
* [Polish Academy of Sciences](/source/Polish_Academy_of_Sciences) (''Polska Akademia Nauk'')
* Protect Arizona Now, sponsor of [2004 Arizona Proposition 200](/source/2004_Arizona_Proposition_200)

== People ==
* [Pan (surname)](/source/Pan_(surname)), Chinese family name (潘 or 盤)
* [Pen Ran](/source/Pen_Ran) ({{circa|1944|1979}}), Cambodian singer and songwriter whose name is sometimes Romanized as Pan Ron

== Political parties ==
* [National Action Party (El Salvador)](/source/National_Action_Party_(El_Salvador)) (''Partido Acción Nacional'') of El Salvador
* [National Action Party (Mexico)](/source/National_Action_Party_(Mexico)) (''Partido Acción Nacional'') of Mexico
* [National Action Party (Nicaragua)](/source/National_Action_Party_(Nicaragua)) (''Partido Acción Nacional'') of Nicaragua
* [National Advancement Party](/source/National_Advancement_Party) (''Partido de Avanzada Nacional'') of Guatemala
* [National Autonomist Party](/source/National_Autonomist_Party) (''Partido Autonomista Nacional''), former Argentine Political Party
* [National Mandate Party](/source/National_Mandate_Party) (''Partai Amanat Nasional'') of Indonesia
* [Party of the Nation's Retirees](/source/Party_of_the_Nation's_Retirees) (''Partido dos Aposentados da Nação'') of Brazil
* [People-Animals-Nature](/source/People-Animals-Nature) (''Pessoas-Animais-Natureza'') of Portugal

== Science and technology ==
=== Astronomy ===
* [Pan (crater)](/source/Pan_(crater)), on Jupiter's moon Amalthea
* Pan, a for name for Jupiter XI, now [Carme (moon)](/source/Carme_(moon)), 1955–1975
* [Pan (moon)](/source/Pan_(moon)), of Saturn
* [4450 Pan](/source/4450_Pan), an asteroid

=== Biology ===
* [Pan (genus)](/source/Pan_(genus)), a genus that includes bonobos and chimpanzees

=== Chemistry ===
* [Peroxyacyl nitrates](/source/Peroxyacyl_nitrates)
* [Phthalic anhydride](/source/Phthalic_anhydride)
* [Polyacrylonitrile](/source/Polyacrylonitrile), a polymer of acrylonitrile
* [Protactinium nitride](/source/Protactinium_nitride), chemical formula PaN

=== Computing ===
* [Pan (newsreader)](/source/Pan_(newsreader)), for Usenet
* [Pan (programming language)](/source/Pan_(programming_language))
* [Personal area network](/source/Personal_area_network)

=== Medicine ===
* Pan, abbreviation for [panoramic X-ray](/source/panoramic_X-ray)
* [Pediatric acute-onset neuropsychiatric syndrome (PANS)](/source/Pediatric_acute-onset_neuropsychiatric_syndrome_(PANS))
* [Polyarteritis nodosa](/source/Polyarteritis_nodosa), a vasculitic condition
* [Positional alcohol nystagmus](/source/Positional_alcohol_nystagmus), eye jerkiness

=== Multimedia technologies ===
* [Panning (audio)](/source/Panning_(audio)), of a signal into a new sound field

== Other uses ==
* pan, a term for a [dry lake](/source/dry_lake) bed
* [Gold panning](/source/Gold_panning), a mining technique
* [Pan (horse)](/source/Pan_(horse)), an early 19th century British thoroughbred racehorse and sire
* [Nutrition Assistance for Puerto Rico](/source/Nutrition_Assistance_for_Puerto_Rico) (''Programa de Asistencia Nutricional''), a United States Federal assistance program
* [Flash pan](/source/Flash_pan), a small receptacle for priming powder on muzzle-loading firearms
* Pan, [Slavic honorifics](/source/Slavic_honorifics) in Poland and Ukraine
* [Pansexuality](/source/Pansexuality), a sexual orientation (often known as "pan")
* PAN, the ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code for [Panama](/source/Panama)
* PAN, the National Rail code for [Pangbourne railway station](/source/Pangbourne_railway_station) in the county of Berkshire, UK
* [Pancoran LRT station](/source/Pancoran_LRT_station), a light rail station in Jakarta, Indonesia
* [USA-207](/source/USA-207), an American satellite also known as PAN ("Palladium At Night")
* [Bedpan](/source/Bedpan)
* [Permanent account number](/source/Permanent_account_number), for taxpayers in India and Nepal
* Primary account number, another term for the [payment card number](/source/payment_card_number) of a payment card
* [Pan (chimpanzee)](/source/Pan_(chimpanzee)), a chimp known for his appearance on Japanese variety shows

== See also ==
{{wiktionary|Appendix:Variations of "pan"}}
* {{intitle|pans}}
* {{intitle|pan}}
* [Pan Pan (disambiguation)](/source/Pan_Pan_(disambiguation))
* [Pan-pan](/source/Pan-pan), a radio state of urgency call

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