Pan and panning can have many meanings as listed below in various categories. Pan- as a prefix is derived from the Greek πᾶν which means 'of everything', 'all' or 'involving all members' of a group.

Religion and Mythology

• Pan (mythology), a god of nature in Greek mythology
• Panflute, a wind instrument he is often depicted playing.

• Pan-, meaning "all" is incorporated into several religious systems:
• Pantheism
• Pandeism
• Panentheism
• Theopanism

Cooking, food and drink

• Pan, a type of cookware and bakeware
• Frying pan
• Paan, a popular Indian mouth freshener (Betel leaf)
• Pan pivo, a Croatian lager beer
• See also: Pan-bagnat, pancake

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.

Title

• An honorary title of nobles now a customary term of respect in everyday Polish communication as: Pani, Panna, Pan, (Panicz), Państwo . Cognate with Ban. Pan is also a Ukrainian and Czech honorific, roughly equivalent to "Lord", "Sir" or "Mr.".

Music

• Pan, short for steelpan, an acoustic instrument
• Pan (The Blue Hearts), an album by the Japanese band The Blue Hearts
• Pan, a Filipino rock band; see Yano
• Pan, an opera by Carl Venth
• Pan pipes, a musical instrument
• Panning (audio), placement of a sound source in a stereo field
• Pan's People, a British dance troupe on Top of the pops

Sciences

• PAN, an abbreviation of Polish Academy of Science
• Pan, a genus of apes composed of the Common Chimpanzee and the Bonobo
• Pan, or playa, an ephemeral water body contained in a shallow, flat basin
• Salt 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-" (formal) and "pan-" (informal), hyphenated prefixes recommended in the draft PhyloCode for names of total groups
• Pan, an informal name for the moon Jupiter XI (now Carme) from 1955 to 1975
• PAN: Personal area network

Arts

• 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 an arts and literary review (magazine)
• Pan Books, a publishing imprint of Macmillan Publishers
• ''Pan's Labyrinth, a film by Guillermo Del Toro
• Pan (film), a 1922 Norwegian film
• Pan (game), a Jackie Chan originated game

Others

• Pan (newsreader), newsreader software for Usenet
• Pan, Greece, a village in north-west Arcadia
• Pan Club Copenhagen, Club in Copenhagen for homosexual people
• Pan (surname), Chinese family name (潘 or 盤)
• Pan, WC bowl.
• Pan, also spelled Paan, a North Indian term for Betel, often mixed with tobacco and Lime for chewing
• Pan-pan, a radio distress call
• Pan-pan, a young post-war Japanese prostitute during the Allied occupation
• Panning for gold, a simple placer mining technique
• Pan or Panguingue, a gambling card game
• Mount Pan, mountain in Ji County, Tianjin, China

Acronym

The acronym PAN can refer to:

• The ISO 639-3 code for the Punjabi language
• Personal area network, a computer network used close to one person
• Protected Area Network, a network of national parks in the remaining wilderness areas of Europe
• Permanent account number, India's national identification number for taxpayers
• Primary Account Number, another name for a credit card number
• Polyacrylonitrile, polymer
• 1-(2-Pyridylazo)-2-naphthol, a chemical indicator often used for determining manganese
• Peroxyacyl nitrates, irritants found in smog
• Polyarteritis nodosa, a vasculitic condition
• Protect Arizona Now, a political committee behind Arizona Proposition 200 (2004)
• Planning Advice Note, Town Planning guidance, Produced By the Scottish Executive used in conjunction with the Town and Country Planning (Scotland) Act
• Panama's official ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 abbreviation
• The Polish Academy of Sciences (Polish: Polska Akademia Nauk, abbreviated PAN)
• Presbyterians Aiding Nicaraguans
• Proto-Austronesian language
• Unidentified Aerospace Phenomenon in French i.e. Phénomène aérospatial non identifié
• Mexico's and El Salvador's National Action Party

Names of political parties

• National Action Party (El Salvador) (Partido Acción Nacional) of El Salvador
• National Action Party (Mexico) (Partido Acción Nacional) of Mexico
• National Advancement Party (Partido de Avanzada Nacional) of Guatemala
• National Mandate Party (Partai Amanat Nasional) of Indonesia
• Party of the Nation's Retirees (Partido dos Aposentados da Nação) of Brazil

Other uses

• Nutrition Assistance for Puerto Rico (Programa de Asistencia Nutricional), a United States Federal assistance program for nutritional needs of impoverished families in Puerto Rico

See also

• Pan-pan
• Pan Pan