Par is a town in Cornwall, England. Par is a village in india, located several miles north of St Austell. ... Cornwall (Cornish: Kernow or occasionally Curnow) is a county of England, the part of Great Britains south-west peninsula that is west of the River Tamar, often known as the Cornish peninsula or plateau. ... Royal motto: Dieu et mon droit (French: God and my right) Englands location within the UK Official language English de facto Capital London de facto Largest city London Area  - Total Ranked 1st UK 130,395 km² Population  - Total (2001)  - Density Ranked 1st UK 49,138,831 377/km² Ethnicity...

Par is a noun that may mean:

• "Par" (see the "Anatomy of a golf course" section of the Golf article), a classification measure of each hole on a golf course that reflects the distance between the tee and green
• Par value, in Finance, the value of a security
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• PAR (Filetype) (designated by .par), a file containing recovery data used to fix other files, typically RAR files

PAR is also a three-letter abbreviation that may refer to: Golfer teeing off at the start of a hole Golf is an outdoor sport where individual players or teams play a small ball into a hole using various clubs. ... Par value has several meanings depending on the context, whether used in the equities market, or in the bond markets, and partially also dependent on where in the world the par value term is used. ... Finance studies and addresses the ways in which individuals, businesses and organizations raise, allocate and use monetary resources over time, taking into account the risks entailed in their projects. ... A security is a type of transferrable interest representing financial value. ... Parchive (or parity volume set archive) is an error-correction system that can be applied to a collection of files to allow recovery when one or more of the files is lost. ... In computing, RAR is a proprietary file format for data compression and archiving. ...

• par (command) (short for "paragraph"), the UNIX filtering command
• "Parabolic aluminum reflector", a type of floodlight (see the "PAR lights" section of the Stage lighting article)
• Photosynthetically active radiation, a measurement of the amount of photosynthetically active wavelengths in light (in the range 400-700 nanometers).
• Positive Acknowledgement with Retransmission, a principle of design of low-level computer communication protocols.
• "Possible Allergic Reaction", a warning accompanying some E number encodings for food additives
• Precision Approach Radar, a military instrument approach system.
• Pro Action Replay, a brand of expansion cartridges for various home video game consoles.
• Protease-activated receptor, a cell receptor that is activated by cleavage
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