Bam

Bam is commonly used as an onomatopoeia for a sound, mostly that of an impact or collision.

Bam or BAM may also refer to:

Places:

• Bam, Iran, a city
• Bam County, an administrative subdivision of Iran
• Bam Province, Burkina Faso
• Bam (neighborhood), Tirana, Albania

Events:

• 2003 Bam earthquake

People:

• Bam Bam Bigelow, former American professional wrestler
• Peter Poulton, a UK radio presenter who is also known as Bam Bam
• Bam Margera, professional skateboarder and television personality
• Bam Childress, a professional American football player

Buildings:

• Battle Mountain Airport (IATA airport code: BAM) in Battle Mountain, Nevada, United States
• Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive in Berkeley, California, United States
• Brooklyn Academy of Music, a cultural center in Brooklyn, New York

Companies and organizations:

• Bière–Apples–Morges Railway, an Railway companie in Switzerland, (frz.): Chemin de fer Bière–Apples–Morges
• Books-A-Million, an American book retailer
• BAM! Entertainment, a dormant software company
• Bell Atlantic Mobile, now Verizon Wireless
• Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung und -prüfung, Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing, Berlin, Germany
• Koninklijke BAM Groep (Royal BAM Group) is a Dutch construction firm.
• Bromma Air Maintenance

Acronyms or codes:

• Entertainment
  • BAM! Volume 1, an album by Sister Hazel
  • BAM (magazine), a defunct San Francisco music magazine
  • Bianca Montgomery and Maggie Stone (BaM), characters on the soap opera All My Children
• ISO codes:
  • Bambara language ISO 639 code
  • Bosnia and Herzegovina convertible mark, the ISO 4217 currency code for the currency of Bosnia and Herzegovina
• Rail transport:
  • Baikal Amur Mainline, a Siberian railway line
  • Bamford railway station, coded BAM.
• Science and technology:
  • BAM (material) a ceramic alloy having exceptional hardness and coefficient of friction of .02 (compared to .05 for teflon).
  • Aluminium magnesium boride (AlMgB₁₄) - a ceramic alloy similar to the BAM (material)
• Sport:
  • BAM Racing, a NASCAR racing team
• Other:
  • Baluchi Autonomist Movement a Baluchi ethnic nationalist group.
  • Bar Mitzvah or Bat Mitzvah
  • Bonnier Amigo Music Group
  • Board-a-match, a form of scoring at duplicate bridge
  • Business activity monitoring, real-time monitoring of business processes

Computers:

• Bidirectional Associative Memory, a type of neural network
• Binary Angular Measurement or Binary Angular Measurement System (BAMS)
• Block allocation map
• Buque de Acción Marítima, offshore patrol vessels of the Spanish Navy
• Burst Activity Management, a CAI Networks product feature
• Business Activity Monitoring

See also

• Bang (disambiguation)
• Boom (disambiguation)
• Emeril Lagasse, known for his catchphrase "BAM!"