Jam (disambiguation)

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Jam is a type of fruit preserve.

Jam may also refer to:

Places

• 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
• Jamaica (ISO country code)

Iran

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

Entertainment

• 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
• BBC Jam, an online educational service
• Jam!, a Canadian entertainment news site

Radio

• 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

Music

• Jam session, a musical act without preparation or detailed arrangements
• The Jam, an English punk rock/mod revival band active during the late 1970s and early 1980s
• 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)

Groups

• 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
• The JAMs, an alternate name for the British band The KLF

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

Science and technology

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

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

People

• Jam Downs (born 1940), Louisiana district attorney
• Jam Handy (1886–1983), American swimmer, water polo player and film producer
• Kia Jam (born 1970), president and producer at K.Jam Media

Fictional characters

• Jam Kuradoberi, a character in the Guilty Gear game series

Other uses

• Traffic jam or traffic congestion
• Firearm malfunction, failure of a firearm to function properly
• Jamaican Patois (ISO language code)
• Jam (title), the title of the leader of a Jamot tribe, notably the Samma dynasty
• Bakersfield Jam, a team in the NBA Development League
• Slam dunk in basketball
• Epistle of James (Jam.)
• Joint Admission Test for M.Sc., an Indian admission test

See also

• Jam band, a band who plays extensive jams (mostly in live performances)
• Jamming (disambiguation)
• Jamb, part of a doorframe