PAM

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Pam or PAM may refer to:

Geography

• Pam, Iran, a village in Markazi Province
• Piedmont Atlantic Megaregion (PAM), United States
• Pam Islands, Papua New Guinea

People and fictional characters

• Pam (given name), a list of people and fictional characters
• Pam (surname), a list of people
• Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston (1784–1865), nicknamed Pam

Arts and entertainment

• "Pam" (song), by Justin Quiles, Daddy Yankee and El Alfa
• Progressive Art Movement (Australia), a 1970s art movement in Adelaide, South Australia
• Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon, United States
• Performing Arts Museum, former name of the Australian Performing Arts Collection, Melbourne, Australia
• Pam, a name for the jack of clubs in the card game Lanterloo or Loo

Military

• P.A.M. 1 & P.A.M. 2 (Pistola Ametrelladora Modelo), an Argentine submachine gun based on the US M3 "Grease Gun"
• Permanent Active Militia, predecessor of the Canadian Army
• Policy Analysis Market, an abandoned DARPA program
• Precision Attack Munition, an abandoned artillery missile project
• M150 Penetration Augmented Munition, an explosive device developed for the US Air Force
• Tyndall Air Force Base, Panama City, Florida, US (IATA code PAM)

Organizations

Political parties

• Agrarian Party of Moldova, or Partidul Agrar din Moldova
• Authenticity and Modernity Party, or Parti Authenticité et Modernité, a political party in Morocco
• Party of the Vlachs of Macedonia, known in Aromanian as Partia Armãnjilor ditu Machidunie
• People's Action Movement, a political party in Saint Kitts and Nevis

Other organizations

• Pharmaceutical Association of Mauritius
• Service Union United (Finnish: Palvelualojen ammattiliitto), a trade union in Finland
• World Food Programme, also known as Programme alimentaire mondial, a United Nations organization

Science and technology

Biology and healthcare

• PAM (gene), human gene that encodes peptidylglycine alpha-amidating monooxygenase
• Pancreatic acinar metaplasia, in gastroenterology
• Photoacoustic microscopy, a type of photoacoustic imaging in biomedicine
• Pneumatic artificial muscles, used in artificial limbs
• Point accepted mutation, a type of similarity matrix in computational biology
• Positive allosteric modulator, in pharmacology
• Pralidoxime, 2-PAM, or pyridine aldoximine methiodide; an acetylcholinesterase inhibitor
• Pregnancy-associated malaria
• Primary amoebic meningoencephalitis
• Protospacer adjacent motif, a genetic DNA recognition sequence

Computing

• PAM graphics format, used by Netpbm
• PAM library, Parallel Augmented Map, a parallel library for ordered sets and maps using balanced binary trees
• Pluggable authentication modules (also known as X/Open Single Sign-on), a Unix authentication framework
  • OpenPAM
  • Linux PAM

Other uses in science and technology

• Partitioning Around Medoids, in statistics, a data clustering algorithm
• Payload Assist Module, a small rocket engine, also referred to as a PAM-D
• Phone-as-Modem, sharing a phone's internet connection with other devices
• Polyacrylamide, a polymer
• Positive electrode Active Material, the surface layer of the positive electrode of a rechargeable battery
• Pulse-amplitude modulation, a technique for encoding information onto a series of signal pulses

Storms

• Cyclone Pam (1974)
• Cyclone Pam (1997)
• Cyclone Pam, a tropical cyclone from the 2014–15 South Pacific cyclone season

Other uses

• PAM (cooking oil), a brand of cooking spray, acronym of "Product of Arthur Meyerhoff"
• PAM Transport, a trucking company in Arkansas
• Pittsburgh, Allegheny and McKees Rocks Railroad, reporting mark PAM
• Kapampangan language (ISO 639-2 and ISO 639-3 code pam)
• Pam language, a nearly extinct language of northern Cameroon

See also

• All pages with titles beginning with Pam
• All pages with titles beginning with PAM
• PAMS (disambiguation)