Jam (disambiguation)

Jam is a type of fruit preserve.

Jam may also refer to:

Other common meanings

• A firearm malfunction
• Improvise music – see Jam session
• Block signals – see:
  • Radio jamming
  • Radar jamming and deception
  • Mobile phone jammer
  • Echolocation jamming

Places

Iran

• Jam County, Bushehr Province
  • Jam, Iran, a city
  • Jam Rural District
• Jam, Kerman, a village in Kerman Province
• Jam, Khuzestan, a village in Khuzestan Province
• Jam, Semnan, a village in Semnan Province

Elsewhere

• Jamrud, a town in Khyber Agency, Pakistan, known as "Jam" in the local Pashto language
• Jám, the Hungarian name for Iam village, Berlişte Commune, Caraş-Severin County, Romania
• Jam River, Madhya Pradesh, India
  • Jam Dam
• Minaret of Jam, Afghanistan, a UNESCO World Heritage Site

People

• Jam (title), the title of various rulers in India and Pakistan
• Jam Downs (born 1940), Louisiana district attorney
• Jam Handy (1886–1983), American swimmer, water polo player and film producer

Arts and entertainment

Music

• The Jam, an English punk rock/mod revival band active during the late 1970s and early 1980s
• The Jam (production team), a production duo composed of Michael Mani and Jordan Omley
• JAM Project, a Japanese animation music group which does music for many robot anime series
• Judy and Mary, a Japanese band
• half of the German electronic music duo Jam & Spoon, real name Rolf Ellmer
• Jam, improvise music without extensive preparation or predefined arrangements – see Jam session
• Jam (album), an album by Little Angels
• "Jam" (song), by Michael Jackson
• "Jam (Turn It Up)", a song by Kim Kardashian
• "Jam" (The Yellow Monkey song)

Other

• Jam (film), a 2006 drama by Craig E. Serling
• Jam (TV series), a British TV series by Chris Morris
• Jam (novel), a novel by Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw
• Jam Kuradoberi, a character in the Guilty Gear game series
• The Jam (comics), a superhero created by Bernie Mireault

Media

• BBC Jam, an online educational service
• Jam!, a Canadian entertainment news site
• Jam 88.3, branding of DWJM, a radio station in Metro Manila
• Jam 96.3, branding of WJAM, a radio station in Selma, Alabama
• JamRadio, the student radio station of the University of Hull, England

Organisations

• JAM Creative Productions, a jingle company in Texas, US
• JAM Productions (software), a short-lived computer game development company
• Jamaat al Muslimeen, an Islamist terrorist organization in Trinidad and Tobago
• Jaish al Mahdi or Mahdi Army, an Iraqi military force created by Muqtada al-Sadr

Computing

• JAM Message Base Format
• JAM (disk compression), DOS disk compression software by JAM Software
• Perforce Jam, a software building tool
• .jam, a file type for JAM/STAPL, a Standard Test and Programming Language

Science

• Junctional adhesion molecule, a protein that in humans is encoded by the JAM2 gene
• Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology, a scientific journal

Sports

• Slang for a slam dunk in basketball
• Jam, a round in a roller derby game
• Long Island Jam (2003–2005) and Bakersfield Jam (2006–2016), former names of the Northern Arizona Suns, a team in the NBA Development League

Codes

• JAM, ISO country code of Jamaica
• jam, ISO 639-3 code for Jamaican Patois, an English-based creole language

Other uses

• Jam., an abbreviation for the Epistle of James
• Jam or Jamshid, a mythological figure of Greater Iranian culture and tradition
• Joint Admission Test for M.Sc., an Indian admission test
• JAM Liner, a bus company in the Philippines
• Jut Art Museum, a museum in Taipei, Taiwan
• Time in Jamaica, shortened to JAM, official time of Jamaica, UTC−5

See also

• Traffic jam or traffic congestion
• Jams (disambiguation)
• Jamming (disambiguation)
• Jamb (disambiguation)