Bar

Encyclopedia

Bar or BAR may refer to:

Food

  • Bar (establishment), a retail establishment that serves alcoholic beverages; also the counter at which drinks are served.
  • Candy bar, a type of candy that is in the shape of a bar
  • Chocolate bar, a bar-shaped piece of chocolate, which may also contain other ingredients

Science and technology

  • Bar (river morphology), a deposit of sediment in a river
  • Bar (tropical cyclone), a very dark gray-black layer of cloud that appears in a mature tropical cyclone
  • Bar (unit), a unit of pressure
  • BAR domain, a protein domain
  • Shoal, a landform composed of sand, silt, or pebbles, often known as a bar
  • Bar stock, a form of raw purified metal

Computing

  • Bar (computer science), a placeholder
  • Base Address Register, address mapping of a Peripheral Component Interconnect
  • Bennett acceptance ratio method to estimate free energy differences
  • Bar, a mobile phone form factor
  • Bar, a type of graphical control element

Law

  • Bar (law), term for the legal profession
  • Bar association, a professional body of lawyers
  • Bar examination, for lawyer candidates

Media and entertainment

  • Bar (Croatian TV series)
  • Bar (Czech TV series)
  • Bar (dance), a form of folk dance of Eastern Turkey
  • Bar (music), a segment in musical notation
  • Bar (Polish TV series)
  • Bar (Slovenian TV series)

As an abbreviation

  • Bay Area Reporter, a newspaper
  • Biblical Archaeology Review, a journal

Places

  • Bar, Republic of Buryatia
  • Bar, Corrèze, France, a commune
  • Bar-le-Duc, France, a commune formerly known as Bar, Meuse
  • Bar (river), France, a tributary of the river Meuse
  • Duchy of Bar, part of the Holy Roman Empire
  • Bár, Hungary, a village
  • Bar, Bushehr, Iran, a village
  • Bar, Hormozgan, Iran, a village
  • Bar, Razavi Khorasan, Iran, a city
  • Bar Municipality, Montenegro
    • Bar, Montenegro, a coastal town and capital of the municipality
  • Bar Region, Punjab, Pakistan
  • Bar, Rutog County, Tibet, China
  • Bar, Vinnytsia Oblast, Ukraine, a town
  • Bar (Martian crater), an impact crater on Mars

Language

  • Bar (diacritic), a line through a letter
  • Vertical bar, a punctuation symbol
  • Bavarian language, ISO 639-3 code
  • Bar, notation representing part of syntactic structure in X-bar theory in linguistics

Transportation

  • Bangor and Aroostook Railroad, US reporting mark
  • California Bureau of Automotive Repair, a consumer protection agency
  • Barstow station, US station code
  • Qionghai Bo’ao Airport, IATA code

Firearms

  • M1918 Browning Automatic Rifle, a family of American automatic rifles
  • Browning BAR, a Belgian semi-automatic rifle

People

  • Bar (name), a list of people with either the surname or given name

Other uses

  • Bar (Aramaic), a patronymic prefix in Aramaic
  • Bar (heraldry), a horizontal band across a shield
  • Bar Confederation, an 18th-century Polish association
  • Bar Mitzvah, Jewish coming-of-age ceremony
  • Blaauwberg Armoured Regiment, and armoured regiment of the South African Army
  • British Archaeological Reports, a book series
  • British American Racing, a Formula One constructor
  • Chin-up bar, playground equipment
  • Medal bar, a thin metal bar attached to the ribbon of a military decoration; it can indicate an additional awarding of a medal
  • Bar, a type of gatehouse
  • Space bar, on a keyboard