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:

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

Companies and organizations

• Build America Bonds issued or insured by Build America Mutual, from April 2009, through the end of 2010, as part of the Federal Stimulus program.
• BAM! Entertainment, a dormant software company
• Bell Atlantic Mobile, now Verizon Wireless
• Books-A-Million, an American book retailer
• Bromma Air Maintenance
• Brooklyn Academy of Music, a performing arts center in Brooklyn, New York
• 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.
• BAM Architecture Studio is a New York City based architectural firm with offices in Los Angeles and Durham, NC

Computing

• Bidirectional Associative Memory, a type of neural network
• Binary Angular Measurement or Binary Angular Measurement System (BAMS)
• Block availability map, a computer file system of Commodore DOS
• Burst Activity Management, a CAI Networks product feature
• Business activity monitoring, real-time monitoring of business processes
• BOINC Account Manager (BAM!), part of the Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing

Entertainment and media

• 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
• Bonnier Amigo Music Group

Geography

• Bam County, an administrative subdivision of Iran
  • Bam, Iran, a city
  • 2003 Bam earthquake
• Bam Anguri, a village in Fars Province, Iran
• Bam-e Badami Qarqani, a village in Fars Province, Iran
• Bam-e Gurinja, a village in Fars Province, Iran
• Bam Qaleh Sharif Khani, a village in Fars Province, Iran
• Bam, Gilan, a village in Gilan Province, Iran
• Bam, Esfarayen, a village in Esfarayen County, North Khorasan Province, Iran
• Bam, Jajrom, a village in Jajrom County, North Khorasan Province, Iran
• Bam, South Khorasan, a village in South Khorasan Province, Iran
• Bam Rural District, an administrative subdivision of Iran
• Bam (neighborhood), Tirana, Albania
• Bam Province, Burkina Faso

ISO codes

• Bambara language ISO 639 code
• Bosnia and Herzegovina convertible mark, the ISO 4217 currency code for the currency of Bosnia and Herzegovina

People

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

Rail transport

• Baikal Amur Mainline, a Siberian railway line
• Bamford railway station, coded BAM
• Bière–Apples–Morges Railway, a railway company in Switzerland

Other

• Brain Activity Map Project, an attempt to record from every neuron in the human brain.
• Baluchi Autonomist Movement a Baluchi ethnic nationalist group.
• BAM (material) a ceramic alloy, Aluminium magnesium boride
• BAM Racing, a NASCAR racing team
• Bar Mitzvah or Bat Mitzvah
• Board-a-match, a form of scoring at duplicate bridge
• Buque de Acción Marítima, offshore patrol vessels of the Spanish Navy
• Populus balsamifera, the balsam poplar
• Business Activity Monitoring
• Beta Attenuation Monitoring, a common analytic technique for measurement of particle content in gas flow.

See also

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