Gum

Gum may refer to:

Substances

• Adhesive
• Bubble gum
• Chewing gum
• Gum (botany), a sap or other resinous material associated with certain species of the plant kingdom
• Gum arabic, made from the sap of species Acacia senegal of the acacia tree
• Gum base
• Gum copal, a resin produced from the sap of the forest tree Daniella
• Gum ghatti, made from the sap of Anogeissus latifolia tree
• Gum guaicum, a substance produced from the tree species Guaiacum officinale
• Gum guar, made from the seeds of Cyamopsis tetragonoloba Guar, an annual legume
• Gum karaya, made from the sap of Sterculia urens tree
• Gum metal, a titanium alloy with high elasticity
• Kauri gum, from the fossilized resin of Kauri trees
• Locust bean gum, made from the seeds of Ceratonia siliqua
• Postage stamp gum, sticky stuff
• Spirit gum, used to affix applications to the body
• Spruce gum from the resin of spruce trees
• Xanthan gum, a common food thickener and stabilizer

People

• Gum (footballer) (born 1986), Brazilian footballer
• Gum Mo-jam, military leader
• Allen Gum (born 1969), American college baseball coach
• Jay Watson (born 1991), a.k.a. GUM, Australian musician

Places

• Gum (crater), a lunar impact crater
• Gum-Gum, a township in Malaysia
• Gum Springs, Arkansas
• Gum Wall, a brick wall covered in used chewing gum in Seattle
• White Gum Valley, Western Australia
• The Old Gum Tree in Glenelg North, South Australia

Science

• Gum bichromate, a 19th-century photographic printing process
• Gum depigmentation, a procedure used in cosmetic dentistry
• Gum over platinum, a chemical photographic process
• Gums, or gingiva, the soft tissue partly covering teeth
• Genitourinary medicine, deals with reproductive problems

Entertainment

• The Gum (Seinfeld), episode of the comedy television show
• Glasgow University Magazine, in Scotland
• Mr. Gum, the central character in a series of novels for children by Andy Stanton
• Gum, a character from the Jet Set Radio video game series
• Gum, a character in the British comic Monster Fun
• Great Uncle Matthew, a character in the novel Ballet Shoes by Noel Streatfeild
• Gum, a character from the 2016 adult animated film Sausage Party
• The Gumball Rally (1976 American comedy film)

Other uses

• GUM (department store), in Moscow, Russia
• Global United Media, Indian film company
• Guam International Airport (IATA airport code: GUM)
• Gum Air, a airline in Paramaribo, Suriname
• Gum languages of New Guinea
• Guide to the Expression of Uncertainty in Measurement (ISO), see Measurement uncertainty
• GUM, a business unit of the Sunstar Group which designs and manufactures dental cleaning tools like toothbrushes and gum stimulators

See also

• Gummy (disambiguation)
• Gum-digger, a person who dug for kauri gum in New Zealand
• Gumball (disambiguation)
• Gumshoe (disambiguation)