Pacer
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Pacer, PACER or Pacers can refer to:
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- PACER (law)PACER (law)PACER is an electronic public access service of United States federal court documents. The system is managed by the Administrative Office of the United States Courts...
, a United States government legal documentation system standing for Public Access to Court Electronic Records - PACER (fusion), 1970s nuclear power project at Los Alamos National Laboratory in the United States
- Pacific Agreement on Closer Economic RelationsPacific Agreement on Closer Economic RelationsThe Pacific Agreement on Closer Economic Relations is an umbrella agreement between members of the Pacific Islands Forum which provides a framework for the future development of trade cooperation.It was first signed at Nauru on 18 August, 2001 and entered into force on the 3rd October 2002...
, international trade cooperation agreement
Transport
- AMC PacerAMC PacerThe AMC Pacer is a two-door compact automobile produced in the United States by the American Motors Corporation between 1975 and 1980.Its initial design idea was started in 1971. The car's unusual rounded shape with massive glass area greatly contrasted with the three-box architecture with "square,...
, an American car produced by the American Motors Corporation - Edsel PacerEdsel PacerThe Edsel Pacer is an automobile produced by the former Mercury-Edsel-Lincoln Division of the Ford Motor Company of Dearborn, Michigan and sold through its Edsel marque in 1958. The Pacer was built off the shorter Edsel wheelbase, shared with the Ford Fairlane, as was the Edsel Ranger...
, an American car produced by Ford - Piper PA-20 PacerPiper PA-20 PacerThe PA-20 Pacer and PA-22 Tri-Pacer are a family of four-place, strut braced, high-wing light aircraft that were built by Piper Aircraft in the post-World War II period....
, a light aircraft - Pacer (train)Pacer (train)Pacer is the operational name of the British Rail Classes 140, 141, 142, 143 and 144 diesel multiple unit railbuses, built between 1984 and 1987...
, a type of passenger railbus, used in the United Kingdom and the Middle East - Pacer StacktrainPacer StacktrainPacer Stacktrain is a provider of wholesale intermodal transportation services in North America. Pacer Stacktrain's parent company, Pacer International, is a member of the Fortune 1000....
, a United States intermodal (container) freight transportation services company- Pacer InternationalPacer InternationalPacer International is a leading asset-light based transportation and logistics services provider. Within North America, Pacer manages one of the most comprehensive double-stack intermodal networks with more than 100,000 route miles of double-stack rail operations, integrated with a nationwide...
, parent company of Pacer Stracktrain
- Pacer International
Sport
- Indiana PacersIndiana PacersThe Indiana Pacers are a professional basketball team based in Indianapolis, Indiana. They are members of the Central Division of the Eastern Conference of the National Basketball Association...
, a basketball team in the United States - Multi-stage fitness testMulti-stage fitness testThe multi-stage fitness test, also known as the bleep test, beep test, pacer test, Leger-test or 20-m shuttle run test, is used by sports coaches and trainers to estimate an athlete's VO2 max...
, a personal endurance test involving running progressively faster: Progressive Aerobic Cardiovascular Endurance Run or "bleep test" - Pacer, any horse that uses the pace gait, including:
- Narragansett PacerNarragansett PacerThe Narragansett Pacer was the first horse breed developed in the United States, but is now extinct. It was developed in the United States during the 18th century and associated closely with the state of Rhode Island, and it had become extinct by the late 19th century...
- Canadian PacerCanadian PacerThe Canadian Pacer is a horse breed of which only small numbers remain.-History:In the Canadian Provinces, French mares were crossed with Dutch and English stock. The bloodlines of the Canadian Pacer are not exactly known, but are thought to be descended from the French Norman horse and a strain of...
- Narragansett Pacer
- A Fast bowlerFast bowlingFast bowling, sometimes known as pace bowling, is one of the two main approaches to bowling in the sport of cricket. The other is spin bowling...
in CricketCricketCricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the... - Pacer (dinghy)Pacer (dinghy)The Pacer class of sailing dinghy, formerly known as the Puffin Pacer, was designed in the United Kingdom by Jack Holt. It was commissioned by Puffin Paints and Glues to be designed as yacht for use by families. It has since become a popular learning and racing dinghy in Australia, Canada, Holland,...
, a type of small sail powered racing boat, formerly called Puffin Pacer - Pacer's Auto drag racing teamPacer's Auto drag racing team' was a popular, record-setting drag racing team in the early 1950s and 1960s.Based in Oceanside, New York on Long Island, The Pacers' "Snizek & Dodge Racing Team" made up of co-owners,George Snizek, as driver, and as tuner, were favored by fans and feared by competitors...
, automobile competitors - Safety carSafety carIn motorsport, a safety car or pace car is a car which limits the speed of competing cars on a racetrack in the case of a caution period such as an obstruction on the track. During a caution period the safety car enters the track ahead of the leader...
, used to maintain control in autosport racing - Pacemaker (running), athlete setting the pace for first section of a race
Other
- Kramer PacerKramer PacerThe Kramer Pacer is a guitar series made by Kramer Guitars from the beginning of the Kramer wooden neck period to the company’s bankruptcy in 1990. -The types:...
, a series of kramer guitars made in the 1980s. - The PacerThe PacerFounded in 1928, The Pacer is the name of the student newspaper of the University of Tennessee at Martin. The Office of Student Publications at UT Martin publishes The Pacer every Tuesday morning throughout the semester except for holidays and exam periods. As of 2006, the newspaper has a...
, a student newspaper circulated at the University of Tennessee - Pacer, a brand of mechanical pencilMechanical pencilA mechanical pencil or a propelling pencil is a pencil with a replaceable and mechanically extendable solid pigment core called a lead . It is designed such that the lead can be extended as its point is worn away...
- Pacer (album)Pacer (album)Pacer was The Amps' only LP. It was released on October 31, 1995. The album is titled after the first track. The song "I Am Decided" was a combination of two songs written by Robert Pollard, which were given to Kim Deal as a gift after she produced some songs for Guided by Voices...
, an album by The Amps - Pacers (confection)Pacers (confection)Pacers is a discontinued brand of popular mint flavoured confection.Opal Mints were plain white coloured chewy spearmint flavoured sweets, launched as a sister product to Opal Fruits . The product was then relaunched as Pacers. Later, three green stripes were added to the sweet. The brand was...
, brand of mint-flavored confection - Pacer (band), punk rock band on Chunksaah Records