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pas


noun, plural pas.

  1. a step or series of steps in ballet.
  2. right of precedence.

noun Informal.

  1. father.

noun plural pas (pɑːz, French )

  1. a dance step or movement, esp in ballet
  2. rare the right to precede; precedence

abbreviation for

  1. physician-assisted suicide: a practice in which a terminally-ill person requests a medical practitioner to administer a lethal dose of medication

noun

  1. an informal word for father

noun NZ

  1. a Māori village or settlement
  2. history a Māori defensive position and settlement on a hilltop
  3. go back to the pa to abandon city life in favour of rural life

the internet domain name for

  1. Panama

the chemical symbol for

  1. protactinium

symbol for

  1. pascal

abbreviation for

  1. Pennsylvania
  2. personal appearance
  3. personal assistant
  4. military Post Adjutant
  5. power of attorney
  6. press agent
  7. Press Association
  8. banking private account
  9. public-address system
  10. publicity agent
  11. Publishers Association
  12. purchasing agent
  13. insurance particular average
  14. (in New Zealand) probationary assistant
  15. Panama (international car registration)

n.“a step in dancing,” 1775, from French pas; see pass (n.). Used in forming names for types of dances, e.g. pas de deux (1762). 1804, colloquial shortening of papa (q.v.). abbr.

  1. para-aminosalicylic acid
  2. periodic acid-Schiff

  1. The symbol for the elementprotactinium

abbr.

  1. physician’s assistant
  2. posteroanterior
  3. pulmonary artery

  1. Abbreviation of pascal
  2. The symbol for protactinium.
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