par

noun

(golf, mostly uncountable) The allotted number of strokes to reach the hole.

(golf, countable) A hole in which a player achieves par.

Equal value; equality of nominal and actual value; the value expressed on the face or in the words of a certificate of value, as a bond or other commercial paper.

Equality of condition or circumstances.

(UK) An amount which is taken as an average or mean.

A village and beach in Tywardreath and Par parish, east of St Austell, Cornwall, England (OS grid ref SX0753).

Abbreviation of paragraph. [A passage in text that starts on a new line, the first line sometimes being indented, and usually marks a change of topic.]

Abbreviation of parenthesis. [A clause, phrase or word which is inserted (usually for explanation or amplification) into a passage which is already grammatically complete, and usually marked off with brackets, commas or dashes.]

Abbreviation of parish. [(Roman Catholicism, Anglicanism, Lutheranism, Eastern Orthodoxy) An administrative part of a diocese that has its own church.]

Alternative form of parr (“young salmon”). [Young salmon, at a stage between fry and smolt when they feed chiefly on invertebrates but cannot tolerate saltwater.]

Initialism of periodic automatic replenishment: in inventory control, a fixed quantity of an item that must be kept on hand to support daily operations.

Initialism of photosynthetically-active radiation.

(aviation) Initialism of precision approach radar.

Abbreviation of phased-array radar.

(genetics) Abbreviation of pseudoautosomal region.

Initialism of personnel accountability report.

(Philippines, meteorology) Acronym of Philippine Area of Responsibility.

verb

(transitive, golf) To reach the hole in the allotted number of strokes.

(MLE, MTE) To associate, to chill, to hang.

adjective

Abbreviation of parallel. [Equally distant from one another at all points.]

Initialism of planed all round: of timber, planed on all sides as opposed to rough sawn.

Roots

parpar- · Latin · equal, peer

Synonyms for par

equalityn equivalencen parityn

Words related to par

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