Bam

Template:Sister project 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