Jam (disambiguation)

Jam is a type of fruit preserves.

Jam may also refer to:

Types of obstruction

• Traffic congestion or traffic jam
• Firearm malfunction, failure of a firearm to function properly

Geography

• Jam County, Bushehr Province, Iran
  • Jam, Iran, a city
  • Jam Rural District
• Jam, Kerman, a village in Kerman Province, Iran
• Jam, Khuzestan, a village in Khuzestan Province, Iran
• Jam, Semnan, a village in Semnan Province, Iran
• site of the Minaret of Jam, Afghanistan, a UNESCO World Heritage Site
• Jám, the Hungarian name for Iam village, Berlişte Commune, Caraş-Severin County, Romania
• Jam River, Madhya Pradesh, India
  • Jam Dam

People and titles

• The title of the leader of a Jamot tribe, notably the Samma Dynasty of Sindh
• Jam (title), a rare title in Indian princely states
• Jam Downs (born 1940), Louisiana district attorney
• Jam Handy (1886-1983), American swimmer, water polo player and film producer
• Kia Jam (born 1970), president and producer at K.Jam Media

Film and other entertainment

• Jam (film), a 2006 drama by Craig E. Serling
• Just A Minute, a BBC radio comedy panel game
• Jam (TV series), a British TV series by Chris Morris
• Jam Kuradoberi, a character in the Guilty Gear game series
• Jam, a novel by Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw
• BBC Jam, an online educational service
• Jam!, a Canadian entertainment news site
• Jam 88.3, branding of DWJM, a radio station in Metro Manila
• Jam 96.3, branding of WJAM, a radio station in Selma, Alabama
• Jam Radio, the student radio station of the University of Hull, England

Music

• The Jam (producers), a production duo composed of Michael Mani and Jordan Omley
• JAM Project, a Japanese animation music group which does music for many robot anime series
• Jam, play in a jam session, a musical act without preparation or detailed arrangements
• The Jam, an English punk rock/mod revival band active during the late 1970s and early 1980s
• Judy and Mary, a Japanese band
• The JAMs, an alternate name for The KLF, a British band
• Jam (album), an album by Little Angels
• "Jam" (song), by Michael Jackson
• "Jam (Turn It Up)", a song by Kim Kardashian
• "Jam" (The Yellow Monkey song)

Acronyms and abbreviations

• JAM Junctional adhesion molecule
• JAM Message Base Format
• Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology, formerly Journal of Applied Meteorology, published by the American Meteorological Society
• JAM (disk compression), DOS disk compression software by JAM Software
• Perforce Jam, a software building tool like make
• JAM/STAPL, a Standard Test and Programming Language for JTAG-based programmable logic device programmers. The associated file type is ".jam"
• JAM Creative Productions, a jingle company in Dallas, Texas
• JAM Productions (software), a short-lived computer game development company
• Jamaica's ISO country code
• Jamaican Patois ISO language code
• Jamaat al Muslimeen, an Islamist terrorist organization in Trinidad and Tobago
• Mahdi Army or Jaish al Mahdi, an Iraqi military force created by Muqtada al-Sadr
• Joint Admission Test to M.Sc., an Indian admission test

Other uses

• Bakersfield Jam, a team in the NBA Development League
• Slam dunk in basketball
• Epistle of James (Jam.)
• Jam, a novel by Yahtzee Croshaw

See also

• Jam band, a band who plays extensive jams (mostly in live performances)
• Jamming (disambiguation)
• Jamb, part of a doorframe