acronyms
Fortunately someone's set up
www.acronymfinder.com (of course). It gives the following:
PAX Patuxent River Naval Air Station (Maryland)
PAX Paxon (Network)
PAX Penny-Arcade Exposition (video game convention)
PAX Personnel
PAX Portable Archive Exchange
PAX Private Automatic Exchange
PAX Profiling Agent for Exchange
PAX Programming, Administration and Execution System (US Army)
Didn't know PABX was shortened to PAX, obvious when you know...