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PAS (satellite series)
PAS (PanAmSat) was a geostationary communications satellite series begun with PAS-1 in 1988, the first private challenge to Intelsat, renamed Galaxy or Intelsat in 2007.
Pas de deux
Pas de deux (French, "step for two") is a ballet duet for two dancers, classically structured as entrée, adagio, two variations, and coda; codified by Marius Petipa in 19th-century Imperial Russia, with famous examples from Swan Lake, Don Quixote, and Giselle.
Pas de deux and quadrille (dressage)
Pas de deux and quadrille are group dressage formats: pas de deux is a two-horse, two-rider choreographed freestyle, while a quadrille is ridden by teams of four or more, judged for cohesion.
Pas de la casa
Pas de la casa (El Pas de la Casa), Andorra's highest town at about 2,085-2,100 m in Encamp parish on the French border: a Grandvalira ski sector founded 1956, duty-free shopping hub, and home of FC Pas de la Casa, expelled from the top flight in 2025.
PAS domain
PAS (Per-ARNT-Sim) domain, also called PAS fold, a ~100-residue sensor module in signal transduction proteins of all kingdoms of life; five-stranded antiparallel beta-sheet fold, under 20% sequence identity, binds heme, flavins, carboxylic acids, gases, and light via cofactors.
PAS Technologies (PAS International Holdings, Inc.)
PAS Technologies was an American aerospace and industrial gas turbine component manufacturer and repair company headquartered in Kansas City, Missouri, created in 2006 and acquired by StandardAero in 2017.
PAS trial
PAS trial (NCT06219564): a Turkish retrospective cohort study of 277 women with total placenta previa testing whether placental MRI volumes and cervical measurements predict peripartum hysterectomy and neonatal mortality in placenta accreta spectrum.
Pas-de-Calais
Pas-de-Calais (department 62), a department of northern France in Hauts-de-France created in 1790 with prefecture Arras; about 1.46 million inhabitants, roughly 890 communes (the most in France), a 140 km coastline, and the UNESCO-listed coal-mining basin.
Pasa of Silla
Pasa of Silla (파사 이사금) was the fifth ruler of the Korean kingdom of Silla from 80 to 112, known for building Wolseong and annexing neighboring polities.
Pasadena Playhouse
Pasadena Playhouse, founded by Gilmor Brown in 1917 in Pasadena, California, is the official State Theater of California and a 2023 Regional Theatre Tony Award winner, with over 500 world premieres, a famed College of Theatre Arts, and alumni including Dustin Hoffman and Leonard Nimoy.
Pasadena Refinery
The Pasadena Refinery is a Chevron-owned oil refinery in Pasadena, Texas, on the Houston Ship Channel, built in 1919 with a capacity of 125,000 barrels per day.
Pasadena, California
Pasadena, California: incorporated 1886 city in Los Angeles County, home of the Tournament of Roses (first held 1890), Rose Bowl (1922), Caltech, and JPL; 138,699 residents in 2020, recovering from the January 2025 Eaton Fire.
Pasadena, Texas
Pasadena, Texas is a Harris County city of about 148,500 bordering the Houston Ship Channel, named after Pasadena, California, incorporated in 1928, near the 1836 San Jacinto battle site, and anchored by petrochemical industry.
Pasamalar (பாசமலர்)
Pasamalar (பாசமலர்) is a 1961 Tamil drama directed by A. Bhimsingh, starring Sivaji Ganesan and Savitri as siblings, with Gemini Ganesan. A 26-week silver-jubilee hit, it won a 1962 National Award Certificate of Merit and was remade in Hindi as Rakhi (1962).
Pasang
Pasang is Brunei's traditional abstract strategy board game, regarded as a royal game (Permainan Diraja). Played on an 11x11 grid with black and white tokens worth 1 and 2 points, over 30 named opening patterns, and a single mobile piece called the ka; distinct from the Malaysian word pasang and from Pasang Emas, its computer implementation.
Pasang Dorjee Sona
Pasang Dorjee Sona is an Indian politician from Arunachal Pradesh, a BJP minister holding Education, Tourism, and Rural Works portfolios since June 2024, after serving as state assembly Speaker.
Pasanga
Pasanga (பசங்க, "kids") is a 2009 Tamil children's film, Pandiraj's debut, produced by M. Sasikumar, about schoolboy rivals Anbu and Jeeva; it won three National Film Awards including Best Tamil Film.
Pasanga 2
Pasanga 2 (பசங்க 2), originally titled Haiku, is a 2015 Tamil comedy-drama directed by Pandiraj, produced by Suriya's 2D Entertainment, about two hyperactive children with ADHD; released 24 December 2015, 127 minutes, distinct from the Malaysian TV series Pasanga Season 2.
Pasargadae (پاسارگاد)
Pasargadae (پاسارگاد) was the first dynastic capital of the Achaemenid Empire, founded by Cyrus the Great in the 6th century BC in Fars, southwestern Iran.
Pasarkemis
Pasarkemis (Pasar Kemis), a district (kecamatan) in western Tangerang Regency, Banten, Indonesia; 61.22 km2, created 1948 from Rajeg, nine villages, large residential townships near Jakarta.
Pasay
Pasay, officially the City of Pasay (Lungsod ng Pasay), is a small but densely populated highly urbanized city on Manila Bay in Metro Manila, Philippines, home to SM Mall of Asia and NAIA Terminal 3.
Pasayadan
Pasayadan is the concluding prayer of the Dnyaneshwari, the Marathi commentary on the Bhagavad Gita, written by the thirteenth-century saint Dnyaneshwar as a wish for the welfare of all beings.
Pascack Valley Line
The Pascack Valley Line is an NJ Transit commuter rail line from Spring Valley, New York, to Hoboken Terminal via Hackensack, operated under contract with Metro-North Railroad.
Pascagoula Abduction
The Pascagoula Abduction, also called the Hickson-Parker incident: an alleged alien abduction of two Mississippi shipyard workers fishing on the Pascagoula River on October 11, 1973, notable for a secret police recording of the witnesses and disputed polygraph evidence.
Pascagoula, Mississippi
Pascagoula is a city on the Gulf of Mexico in southeastern Mississippi, the seat of Jackson County, home to Ingalls Shipbuilding and Chevron's largest U.S. refinery.
Pascal (lunar crater)
Pascal is a 108.20-km-diameter impact crater on the Moon at 74.36° N, -70.63°, named for Blaise Pascal, with the 18.47-km satellite crater Pascal L nearby.
Pascal (microarchitecture)
Pascal is a GPU microarchitecture developed by Nvidia, announced in 2016 as Maxwell's successor. Its chips include the datacenter GP100 and the GP104 behind the GeForce GTX 10 series.
Pascal (programming language)
Pascal, also known as the Pascal language, is a strongly typed procedural programming language designed by Niklaus Wirth at ETH Zurich, first implemented in 1970 and standardized as ISO 7185.
Pascal (unit)
The pascal (Pa) is the SI derived unit of pressure and stress, equal to one newton per square meter; it was named for Blaise Pascal in 1971.
Pascal Bachmann
Pascal Bachmann (Bachmann-Senti Pascal), born 1996, Swiss rifle shooter specializing in 300 m rifle; world and European team champion with Dufaux and Greuter, 300 m three-position team world record holder (1770).