Bar
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Bar may refer to:
- A rod/stick, pole, or handrail made of structural steel
- Grab bar
- Rebar
- Bar (diacritic), a line through a letter used as a diacritic
- Bar (establishment), a retail establishment which serves alcoholic beverages
- Bar (counter), the counter from which drinks are dispensed
Math and science
- Bar (unit), a scientific unit of pressure
- Bar (computer science), a metasyntactic variable used in computer science
- A vinculum over a digit or digits in mathematics used to indicate a repeating decimal
- Gravel bar, a hydrologically sediment accumulation
- Bar chart (or graph), a chart with rectangular bars of lengths used for comparing two or more values.
[edit] Law
- Bar association, the community of persons engaged in the practice of law
- Bar examination, a lengthy law examination conducted at regular intervals to determine whether a candidate is qualified to practice law in a given jurisdiction
[edit] Other
- Bar (landform) (commonly called a "shoal"), a type of beach behind which lies a lagoon
- A gatehouse in the city walls of York, England
- Medal bar, an addition to a military decoration earned by a subsequent act
- Bar (music), a period of music
- Candy bar
- Handlebar, steering mechanism for bicycles and motorcycles
- Vertical bar symbol, |
- Bar (of Xanax)
- Barbell for weightlifting.
[edit] Places
- Bar, Montenegro, a large city in the southeastern region
- Bar, Ukraine, a fortress in the Podolia region of Ukraine that was once a part of Poland
- Barrois (Bar), the territory of the counts and dukes of Bar in France
- Bar River, a tributary to the Meuse River in France
- Bar, Tibet, a village in the Tibet Autonomous Region of China
- Bár, a village in Hungary
Communes of France
- Bar, Corrèze, in the Corrèze département
- Bar-le-Duc, in the Meuse département
- Bar-sur-Aube, in the Aube département
- Bar-sur-Seine, in the Aube département
[edit] People
- Bar (Aramaic), a common prefix in New Testament Aramaic names
- Bar Refaeli, Israeli model
- Yael Bar Zohar, Israeli actress
- Yoseph Bar-Cohen, Israeli-American physicist
- David Bar-Tov, Israeli judge
- Michael Bar-Zohar, Israeli historian
- Micha Bar-Am, Israeli photographer
BAR is an acronym for:
- Board for Anthropological Research
- Biblical Archaeology Review
- BAR domain (Bin-Amphiphysin-Rvs), a protein domain
- Bit Aspect Ratio, a length (BPI)-to-width (TPI) ratio of a magnetic bit
- British American Racing, a Formula One racing team which was active between 1999 to 2005
- British Association of Removers
- M1918 Browning Automatic Rifle, a U.S. WWI and WWII military weapon
- Buy-American restrictions, a reference to the Buy American Act
- Base Address Register, a type of pointer register used in Memory-mapped I/O and Port-mapped I/O
BAR may also refer to:
- Bangor and Aroostook railroad, AAR reporting mark "BAR"
- Barbados, International Olympic Committee country code "BAR"
- Harvey House Railroad Depot, in Barstow, California; station code BAR