Par

Par or PAR may refer to:

Finance

 * Par value, stated value or face value in finance and accounting
 * Par yield or par rate, in finance

Games

 * Par (score), the number of strokes a proficient golfer should require to complete a hole, round or tournament.
 * Par (golf scoring format), an alternative to Stableford and normal stroke play
 * Par contract, in contract bridge

Businesses

 * Pan Am Railways, an American holding company
 * Par Pharmaceutical, now part of Endo International
 * PaR Systems, an American automation company

Political parties

 * Aragonese Party (Partido Aragonés, PAR), Spain
 * Movement For! (Kustība Par!), Latvia
 * Party for the Restructured Antilles (Partido Antiá Restrukturá, PAR), Curaçao
 * Revolutionary Action Party ('Partido Acción Revolucionaria', PAR), Guatemala

Other organizations

 * Parkinson Association of the Rockies, a not-for-profit organization
 * Pretoria Armoured Regiment, an armour regiment of the South African Army

Places

 * Par, Cornwall, England
 * Par railway station
 * Par, Iran
 * Par, Vologda Oblast, Russia
 * Par, Tibet
 * Philippine Area of Responsibility, a weather monitoring area in the northwest Pacific
 * Paraguay, IOC country code
 * Parkesburg station, Pennsylvania, U.S., station code PAR
 * Parliament railway station, Melbourne
 * PAR, IATA airport code for the metropolitan area of Paris, France
 * Par River (disambiguation), the name of several rivers

Biology and medicine

 * Par (fly), a signal fly in the family Platystomatidae
 * Photosynthetically active radiation, a range of solar radiation
 * Post-anesthesia recovery, part of a hospital
 * Predictive adaptive response in biology
 * Protease-activated receptors PAR1, PAR2, PAR3, PAR4
 * Pseudoautosomal regions on sex chromosomes

Computing

 * par (command), a text formatting utility for Unix
 * Page address register, containing physical addresses
 * Perl Archive Toolkit, a deployment tool
 * Personal Animation Recorder, video capture for Amiga computers
 * Pixel aspect ratio, in digital imaging
 * ,,  , filename extensions of Parchive

Other uses in science and technology

 * Parabolic aluminized reflector, PAR lamp or PAR, a type of electric lamp
 * Participatory action research, a social sciences research approach
 * Passive autocatalytic recombiner, device that removes hydrogen from a nuclear power plant during an accident
 * Par meter, to measure peak-to-average ratio in an electrical circuit
 * Precision approach radar, a radar aircraft guidance system