Pax Explained

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), or Penny Arcade Expo, a gaming convention
• 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
• Pax (album) by Andrew Hill
• Pax TV, which became Ion Television in 2007

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 manufacturer of vaporizers and the Juul electronic cigarette
• Pax, a Russian manufacturer of Ferris wheels and other amusement rides
• Pax Dei: the European Middle Ages Peace and Truce of God movement, an early movement toward addressing and reducing war crimes

Science and technology

• pax (command), a 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
• Pax (spider), a genus of ant spiders
• auxiliary unit of measurement for the number of passengers in public transportation, shipping and aviation, for guests in the hotel industry and for visitors to events

People

• Ferdinand Albin Pax (1858–1942), German botanist
• Ferdinand Albert Pax (1884–1964), German zoologist, son of the previous

Other uses

• 679 Pax, a minor planet orbiting the Sun
• Winter Storm Pax, a 2014 storm in the US
• Name of one of the months of the ancient Maya calendar

See also

• List of periods of regional peace, enforced by a dominant power:
  • Pax Americana, 1945 onward
  • Pax Assyriaca, Assyrian Empire, 7th century BCE
  • Pax Britannica, 1815–1914
  • Pax Europaea, European Union, 1945–2022
  • 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, 1299–1699
• Pax Hill, a house in England
• Pax Pamir, a board game set in 19th century Afghanistan
  • • Pack (disambiguation)
• Peace (disambiguation)