{{wiktionary}} '''Bam''' or '''BAM''' may refer to: {{TOC right}}
==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 * 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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