Jam is a type of fruit preserve.

Jam or Jammed may also refer to:

Other common meanings

  • A firearm malfunction
  • Block signals
  • Radio jamming
  • Radar jamming and deception
  • Mobile phone jammer
  • Echolocation jamming

Arts and entertainment

Music

  • The Jam, an English band, late 1970s-early 1980s
  • JAM Project, a Japanese animation music group
  • Judy and Mary, a Japanese band
  • Jam (album), by Little Angels
  • "Jam" (Michael Jackson song)
  • "Jam" (The Yellow Monkey song)
  • "Jam (Turn It Up)", a song by Kim Kardashian
  • Jam, improvise music in a jam session
  • "Jam", a song by the Human League from Crash
  • "Jjam", a song by Stray Kids from Ate
  • Jammed (album), a 2004 studio album by The Church

Other

  • Jam (film), a 2006 film by Craig E. Serling
  • Jam (novel), a 2010 novel by Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw
  • Jam (TV series), UK
  • Jam Kuradoberi, a character in the Guilty Gear game series
  • The Jam (comics), by Bernie Mireault
  • HBO Kids, formerly known as "Jam" from 2001 until 2016
  • Jam Films, a collection of short films

Codes

  • Jamaica (ISO country code: JAM)
  • Jamaican Patois (SO 639-3: jam), an English-based creole language

Computing

  • JAM (disk compression), DOS disk compression software by JAM Software
  • JAM Message Base Format
  • Perforce Jam, a software building tool
  • .jam, a file type for JAM/STAPL, a Standard Test and Programming Language

Media

  • 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
  • JamRadio, the student radio station of the University of Hull, England

Organisations

  • JAM (trade union), a manufacturing trade union in Japan
  • JAM Creative Productions, a jingle company in Texas, US
  • JAM Productions (company), a short-lived computer game development company
  • Naughty Dog, formerly JAM Software Inc., first-party video game developer in California US
  • Jamaat al Muslimeen, an Islamist terrorist organization in Trinidad and Tobago
  • Jaish al Mahdi or Mahdi Army, an Iraqi military force created by Muqtada al-Sadr

People

  • Jam (title), various rulers in India and Pakistan
  • Jam Handy (1886–1983), American swimmer and film producer
  • Jam Miller (born 2004), American football player

Places

Iran

  • Jam County, Bushehr Province
  • Jam, Iran, a city
  • Jam Rural District
  • Jam, Khuzestan, a village
  • Jam, Semnan, a village

Elsewhere

  • Jamrud or Jam, Khyber Agency, Pakistan
  • Jám or Iam, Berlişte Commune, Caraş-Severin County, Romania
  • Jam River, Madhya Pradesh, India
  • Jam Dam
  • Minaret of Jam, Afghanistan

Sports

  • Jam, a round in a roller derby game
  • Long Beach Jam (2003–2005) and Bakersfield Jam (2006–2016), later Northern Arizona Suns, a basketball team

Other uses

  • Jam., an abbreviation for the Epistle of James
  • Jam or Jamshid, a mythological figure of Greater Iranian culture and tradition
  • JAM Liner, a bus company in the Philippines
  • Joint Admission Test for M.Sc., an Indian admission test
  • Junctional adhesion molecule, a protein that in humans is encoded by the JAM2 gene
  • Jut Art Museum, a museum in Taipei, Taiwan
  • Time in Jamaica, shortened to JAM, official time of Jamaica, UTC−5

See also

  • Traffic jam or traffic congestion
  • Log jam
  • Jams (disambiguation)
  • Jamming (disambiguation)
  • Jamb (disambiguation)