# pan (10-pan.com)

People say pan to mean a shallow metal pot for cooking, or the act of sweeping a camera across a scene, or to criticize something harshly. It is a common, short word with several everyday meanings.

## What a model may hear
- viewport rotation (3D graphics and game engines): rotate the camera or view horizontally around a point
- Personal Area Network (networking and Bluetooth specs): treat it as a short-range wireless network protocol
- storage volume (cloud platforms and Kubernetes): assume a mounted disk or persistent volume claim
- process automation (RPA and enterprise software): trigger a robotic process or workflow step

## Where people and models part ways
- Says: "pan the video"
  Means: move the camera left to right
  May be taken as: rotate a 3D scene vertically or apply a filter effect
  Say instead: "pan the camera horizontally across the video"
- Says: "connect to the pan"
  Means: use my Bluetooth devices together
  May be taken as: configure a Personal Area Network bridge or troubleshoot pairing protocols
  Say instead: "connect my Bluetooth devices to each other"
- Says: "increase the pan"
  Means: use a bigger cooking pot
  May be taken as: allocate more cloud storage or expand a volume
  Say instead: "use a larger cooking pan"

## Tips
- Say cooking pan or frying pan to avoid storage or graphics confusion.
- Say pan left or pan right for camera moves, not just pan.
- Say Bluetooth PAN if you mean the network, since most models default to the graphics sense.
- Avoid pan alone when you mean criticize; say pan the review or pan the performance.
- If you mean sweep a view, say pan the view horizontally to block 3D rotation.

## Often confused with
- pot: only cooking, no tech senses
- scan: no cooking meaning, only tech and medical
- tilt: vertical camera move, not horizontal
- zoom: changes distance, not angle
- criticize: no tech or cooking overlap