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 scratch 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 Organizations Businesses Pan Am Railways, an American holding company Par Pharmaceutical, now part of Endo International PaR Systems, an American automation company Politicial 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 Parkesburg station, Pennsylvania, U.S., station code PAR PAR, IATA airport code for the metropolitan area of Paris, France Par River (disambiguation), the name of several rivers Science and technology 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 .par, .par2, .par3, 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 guidance system See also Parsec (disambiguation) Paragraph Pull to par, in finance