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