PAN

Pan- as a prefix means involving all members of that group (such as Pan-African or Pan-American).

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

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

Biology

• Pan, a genus of apes composed of the Common Chimpanzee and the Bonobo

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

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.

Astronomy

• 4450 Pan, an asteroid
• Pan crater, on Jupiter's moon Amalthea
• Pan (moon), a moon of Saturn

Software

• Pan (newsreader), newsreader software for Usenet

Electronics

• Panning (camera), a movement of a film or video camera (rotating on a vertical axis)
• Panning (audio), the spread of a monaural signal in a stereo or multi-channel sound field.
• 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, or

Mythology

• Pan (mythical bird), a mythical flying creature

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

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.

See also

• PAN
• Panning