Palm

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Palm usually refers to the central region of the front of the hand. It may also refer to:

Contents 1 Individuals 2 Botany 3 Technology 4 Business 5 Places 6 Other 7 See also

[edit] Individuals

• August Palm, (1849-1922) Swedish socialist activist
• Conrad Palm, (1907-1951), a Swedish electrical engineer and statistician
• Evy Palm (born 1942), a Swedish long-distance runner
• Jan Gerard Palm (1831-1906), a Curaçao born composer
• Jacobo Palm (1887-1982), a Curaçao born composer
• John Palm (1885-1925), a Curaçao born composer
• Rudolph Palm (1880-1950), a Curaçao born composer

[edit] Botany

• Arecaceae or Arecaceae, a family of flowering plants belonging to the monocot order Arecales
• Traveler's palm or Ravenala madagascariensis, a species of banana-like plant from Madagascar

[edit] Technology

• Palm (PDA), the personal digital assistant
  • Palm OS, the operating system of such PDAs

[edit] Business

• Palm, Inc., a hardware manufacturer of personal digital assistants and smartphones
• Palms Casino Resort, a resort and residential tower in Las Vegas, Nevada
• The Palm (restaurant), a restaurant chain originating in New York City
• Palm Breweries, a Belgian company
• Palm Pictures, an arthouse film distribution company
• Palm Records, a Hawaiian company

[edit] Places

• Palms, Los Angeles, California
• Thousand Palms, California
• Twentynine Palms, California
• Palm Islands, three artificial islands off the coast of Dubai

[edit] Other

• Palm branch (symbol)
• Photoactivated Localization Microscopy or PALM
• Palm (length), unit of length
• Palm Sunday

[edit] See also

• Sago
• Palming, a sleight-of-hand technique
• Palmer
• Palmistry

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