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Bar or BAR can refer to several things:
- A pole or stick, often made of wood or metal, sometimes used to mark a height, such as in high jump, or as a handrail, such as in ballet (where the word is usually spelled "barre") or Dance Dance Revolution, or as an obstacle.
- A law or rule preventing something.
- Bar (establishment) - a retail establishment which serves alcoholic beverages (in Britain, a pub; in continental Europe, a café).
- Bar (counter) - the counter from which drinks are dispensed in a Bar (establishment).
- Bar (heraldry) - a fesslike charge sometimes stated to be a diminutive of the fess.
- Bar (unit) - a scientific unit of pressure, roughly the atmosphere pressure on Earth at sea level. A millibar is 0.001 bar.
- Bar (music) - a period of music.
- Bar (law) - the community of persons engaged in the practice of law.
- Bar (landform) - a type of beach behind which lies a lagoon.
- Bar (diacritic) - a line through a letter used as a diacritic.
- Bar (computing) - a visual menu with various icons.
- A macron over a digit or digits in mathematics used to indicated a repeating decimal.
- The second metasyntactic variable, after foo.
- Bar (Aramaic) - a common prefix in New Testament Aramaic names, meaning son of and often indicating that the person is also known by another name.
There are places named Bar:
- Bar, Corrèze - a commune in the département of Corrèze, France.
- Bar, Serbia and Montenegro - a large city in southeastern Montenegro.
- Bar, Ukraine - a fortress in the Podolia region of Ukraine that was once a part of Poland.
- Bar is a former county and duchy of France; see counts and dukes of Bar.
Bar is part of the name of several communes of France:
- Bar-le-Duc, in the Meuse département.
- Bar-sur-Aube, in the Aube département.
- Bar-sur-Seine, in the Aube département.
BAR is an acronym for:
- British American Racing - a Formula One racing team.
- Browning Automatic Rifle - a U.S. WWI and WWII military weapon.
- Buy-American Restrictions - a reference to the Buy American Act.
BAR may also represent:
- The AAR reporting mark for the Bangor and Aroostook railroad.