Pax

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Pax or PAX may refer to:

Peace

• Peace (Latin: pax)
  • Pax (goddess), the Roman goddess of peace
  • Pax, a truce term
• Pax (liturgy), a salutation in Catholic and Lutheran religious services
• Pax (liturgical object), an object formerly kissed as a substitute for the Kiss of Peace in the Catholic Mass

Entertainment

• Pax (1994 film), a Portuguese comedy
• Pax (2011 film), a Norwegian-Swedish drama
• PAX (event), a gamer festival
• Pax (novel), by Sara Pennypacker
• Pax, a fictional organization in Strange New World and elsewhere by Gene Roddenberry
• PAX, a side project of the German band X Marks the Pedwalk

Organizations

• Pax Christi International, an international Catholic peace movement
• PAX Association, in Poland
• Pax Forlag, a Norwegian publishing house
• PAX Network, a US television network now known as ION Television
• Pax World Funds, a US mutual fund company
• PAX Labs, a US electronic cigarette company
• Pax, a Russian manufacturer of Ferris wheels and other amusement rides
• PAX, Penny Arcade Expo, a convention focused on video games
• VitalPax, a US manufacturer of Dietary Supplements

Science and technology

• pax (Unix), a Unix command line program to read and write file archives
• PaX, a Linux kernel security patch introduced in 2000
• Pax genes, a group of genes and their proteins
• Michelin PAX System, an automotive run-flat tire system
• Pax, a generic brand of diazepam available in South Africa

People

• Ferdinand Albin Pax (1858–1942), German botanist and entomologist

Other uses

• 679 Pax, a minor planet orbiting the Sun
• Passenger, abbreviated as PAX in the travel industry
• Winter Storm Pax, a 2014 storm in the US

See also

• List of periods of regional peace, enforced by a dominant power:
  • Pax Americana, 1945 on, and other periods
  • Pax Assyriaca, Assyrian Empire, 7th century BCE
  • Pax Britannica, 1815–1914
  • Pax Europaea, European Union, 1945–
  • Pax Hispanica, Spanish Empire, 1598–1621
  • Pax Mongolica, Mongol Empire, 13th & 14th centuries
  • Pax Romana Roman Empire, 1st & 2nd centuries
  • Pax Sinica, China, much of the 1st millennium
  • Pax Ottomana, Ottoman Empire, 1299–1923
• Pax Hill, a house in England
• All pages beginning with Pax
• All pages with a title containing Pax
• Pack (disambiguation)
• Peace (disambiguation)