Pan
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This article is about the word or name. For the acronym, see PAN.
Pan and panning can have many meanings as listed below in various categories.
Pan- as a prefix is derived from the Greek παν which means 'of everything', 'all' or 'involving all members' of a group (such as Pan-African Pan-sexual or Pan-American or panorama).
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[edit] Cooking, food and drink
- Pan, a type of cookware and bakeware, especially a frying pan
- Pan, bread in Spanish and Japanese (by Portuguese influence "pão")
- Pan, a popular Indian snack
- Pan pivo, a Croatian lager beer
- See also: Pan-bagnat, pancake
[edit] Music
- Pan, short for steelpan, an acoustic instrument
- Pan, a Filipino rock band; see Yano
- Pan (group), a Turkish singing group
- PAN (group), an Icelandic rock group
- Pan, an opera by Carl Venth
- pan pipes, a musical instrument
- Panning (audio), transition of audio output between left and right channels/speakers in a stereo sound system
- Pans Motive, A progressive indie rock band.
[edit] Sciences
- Pan, a genus of apes composed of the Common Chimpanzee and the Bonobo
- Pan (geology), a shallow depression holding a playa, salt lake or related feature
- 4450 Pan, an asteroid
- Pan crater, on Jupiter's moon Amalthea
- Pan (moon), a moon of Saturn
- Pan was the informal name borne by Jupiter XI (now Carme) until 1975
[edit] Electronics and photography
- Panning (camera), a movement of a film or video camera (rotating on a vertical axis)
- pan and scan, technique for reproducing wide-screen films on narrow TV screens.
- 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.
- Panning (audio), the spread of a monaural signal in a stereo or multi-channel sound field.
- Panchromatic black-and-white film.
[edit] Religion and Mythology
- Pan-, meaning "all" is incorporated into several religious systems:
- Pan (mythology), the god of nature in Greek mythology
[edit] 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
[edit] Others
- Pan (newsreader), newsreader software for Usenet
- Pan, Greece, a village in north-west Arcadia
- Pan (family name), Chinese family name (潘 or 盤)
- Pan, WC bowl.
- The PAN, a daily vlog
- Pan, a Polish and Ukrainian honorific, roughly equivalent to "Lord", "Sir" or "Mr."; see Polish name
- Pan, a Hindu term for Betel, often mixed with tobacco and Lime for chewing
- Pan-pan, a radio distress call
- Panning for gold, a simple placer mining technique
- to pan; to criticize or harshly review something, especially movies and television
- Pan or Panguingue, a gambling card game
[edit] See also
- PAN (acronym disambiguation page)
