Bam

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Bam or BAM may refer to:

Places

Extraterrestrial

  • Bam (crater), a crater on Mars
  • 2031 BAM, an asteroid

Terrestrial

  • Bam (neighborhood), Tirana, Albania
  • Bam, Amur Oblast, a rural locality in Amur Oblast, Russia
  • Bam, Esfarayen, a village in Esfarayen County, North Khorasan Province, Iran
  • Bam, Iran, a city in Kerman Province, Iran
  • Arg-e Bam, an ancient citadel destroyed by an earthquake in 2003 in Kerman Province, Iran
  • Bam, Jajrom, a village in Jajrom County, North Khorasan Province, Iran
  • Bam County, an administrative subdivision of Iran
  • Bam Province, Burkina Faso
  • Bam Rural District, an administrative subdivision of Iran
  • Lake Bam, Burkina Faso
  • Bam Island (Papua New Guinea), in the Schouten Islands

People

  • Bam (nickname)
  • Bam (surname)

Arts, entertainment, and media

Music

  • BAM, an alternative name for the British duo Bars and Melody
  • BAM! Volume 1, an album by Sister Hazel
  • Bam (song), a song by Jay-Z featuring Damian Marley
  • "Bam", a song by Atmosphere from the album You Can't Imagine How Much Fun We're Having
  • "BAM", a song by Miranda Cosgrove from the album Sparks Fly

Other arts, entertainment, and media

  • BAM (film), a 2015 animated short by Howie Shia
  • BAM (magazine) (Bay Area Music), a defunct San Francisco music magazine (1976–1999)
  • BAM, a form of scoring in duplicate contract bridge; see Glossary of contract bridge terms#board-a-match
  • Bianca Montgomery and Maggie Stone (BaM), characters on the soap opera All My Children
  • Big Ass Monster, used to describe tougher than normal computer-controlled video game opponents, notably in TERA
  • Black Arts Movement in America, 1970s
  • Black American music, an umbrella term for music developed by African-Americans, especially jazz
  • MLB Advanced Media (MLBAM), a streaming service of Major League Baseball
  • Radio Bam, a Sirius radio station from 2004 to 2013

Brands and enterprises

  • BAM! Entertainment, a dormant video game publisher founded in 1999
  • Banca Agricola Mantovana, a defunct Italian bank
  • Books-A-Million or BAM!, an American book retailer
  • Bromma Air Maintenance, a Swedish aerospace services company
  • Brookfield Asset Management, a Canadian financial services company
  • Royal BAM Group, a Dutch-based construction corporation
  • BAM Nuttall, a British construction subsidiary of Royal BAM Group

Languages

  • bam, ISO 639-2 and 630-3 code for the Bambara language, spoken in Mali
  • Bam or Biem language, spoken in New Guinea
  • Bam, a dialect of the Wantoat language, spoken in Papua New Guinea

Organizations

Arts and entertainment

  • Baluchi Autonomist Movement, a Baluchi ethnic nationalist group
  • BAM Racing, a NASCAR racing team
  • Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAM/PFA), Berkeley, California, United States
  • Boise Art Museum in Boise, Idaho
  • Brooklyn Academy of Music, a performing arts venue in New York City
  • Brotherhood of Auckland Magicians (BAM), a New Zealand-based non-for-profit organisation and magic club

Other organizations

  • Bishop Abraham Memorial College, Thurithicadu, Kerala, India
  • Born Again Movement, or Zhongshengpai, a Chinese Christian religious movement
  • Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung und -prüfung, Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing, Berlin

Sports federation

  • Badminton Association of Malaysia, governing body of badminton in Malaysia

Science and technology

Biology

  • Populus balsamifera, also known as Bam, the balsam poplar

Computing

  • Bidirectional associative memory, a type of neural network
  • Block availability map, a computer file system of Commodore DOS
  • Business activity monitoring, real-time monitoring of business processes
  • BOINC Account Manager (BAM!) for Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing software
  • Binary angular measurement, a digital representation of angles used by computers

Medicine

  • Bile acid malabsorption, a gut-related problem
  • Bosma arhinia microphthalmia, an extremely rare genetic disorder in which both arhinia and microphthalmia are present
  • Bamlanivimab, an experimental antibody treatment for COVID-19

Other science and technology

  • BAM, a ceramic alloy, aluminium magnesium boride
  • Beta attenuation monitoring, for measurement of particle content in gas flow
  • Binary Alignment Map, the comprehensive raw data from genome sequencing (includes BAM files and the BAM file format)
  • Brewster angle microscope, for studying thin films on liquid surfaces.

Transport

  • BAM, station code for Bamford railway station, Bamford, Derbyshire, England
  • BAM, IATA and FAA LID codes for Battle Mountain Airport, Nevada, US
  • Baikal–Amur Mainline, a Siberian railway line
  • Bière–Apples–Morges railway, a railway company in Switzerland
  • Buque de Acción Marítima, offshore patrol vessels of the Spanish Navy

Other uses

  • BAM, Bosnia and Herzegovina convertible mark by ISO 4217 currency code

See also

  • Bam Bam (disambiguation)
  • Bang (disambiguation)
  • Boom (disambiguation)
  • Emeril Lagasse, known for his catchphrase "BAM!"
  • "Baam", a song by Momoland
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